Study Here, Belong Everywhere
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Why Study Spanish?
Take a walk with professor Anna Torres-Cacoullos to learn why studying Spanish is important today
Greater Mexico and Migration On Screen
This course studies the representation of Mexican migrants and their descendants in the cinemas of the US and Mexico.
Advanced Introduction to Latin American Cinema
This course provides an advanced, panoramic introduction to the cinemas of Latin America.
Melodrama in Latin American Culture
This course explores the social and political history of melodrama in Latin America.
Theory and Literary Criticism. Latin American & Iberian Arguments
This graduate course provides an advanced introduction to a wide range of critical theories and schools of thought for the analysis of literary and cultural objects.
Scary stories: The strange, the monstrous, and the supernatural in Spanish and Latin American texts
Discussion of scary stories and films from a variety of historical periods and Spanish-speaking regions
Rethinking Mexico: Cultural Representations of Mexico in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
This course explores how Mexican literature and culture have been conceived, experienced, and represented during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Strange Worlds
This course explores “strange worlds” through fiction from Spain featuring otherworldly, speculative experiences—from encounters with robots and ghosts to madness, war, and post-apocalyptic survival.
Approaches to Culture
This course focuses on the rich and diverse cultural expressions found throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
Applied Sociolinguistics
This interdisciplinary graduate seminar explores the connections between linguistic variation, language perception, and applied settings, such as healthcare, law, business, risk communication, and more.
Women Travelers to/from Latin America
This course explores different forms of travel writing written by women from 1820 to the present time to understand mobility as a complex, gendered, and racialized experience.
Feminisms in the Americas
This course examines questions of gender, sexuality, and identity in contemporary Latina/Latino culture through a discussion of novels, performance pieces, essays, and films.
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Rodrigo Delgado
Rodrigo Delgado is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, who specializes in bilingualism, code-switches, heritage speakers, and Spanish in the U.S.
Committement to Graduate Professional Development
The award recognizes faculty mentors who show sustained excellence in graduate student mentoring; innovative approaches to graduate advising; demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; and positive impact on graduate student scholarship and professional development. There are just two of these awards made at the campus level each year. Congratulations, Mariselle!