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Welcoming our new faculty
Yamile Ferreira: I’m in my first year as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and I’m thrilled to be here! I teach classes on Latin American social movements, women writers and educators, travel literature, print culture, and nation-building. My research examines Latin American women of letters in the history of education, focusing on their intellectual networks in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and their key role in expanding female education as a pathway into the public sphere. Learn more
Rodrigo Viqueira: I am a scholar of modern and contemporary Latin American literature and culture, with a focus on the cultural production of the Southern Cone and Brazil. My primary research interests include sound studies, media theory, Latin American cultural theory, and Afro-Latin American studies. My current project examines the political life of sound and listening across literature, cinema, and radio in twentieth-century Argentina and Brazil. Learn more
Angelica Waner: I joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese this year after being a postdoc in American Indian Studies last year. I’m looking forward to getting to know the students and broader community here. My research, situated between Latin American Studies and Indigenous Studies, explores the role of literature for Indigenous autonomy and futurities. I was a first-generation student and am more than happy to talk to students about navigating the university. Learn more
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Urban Modernities in Spanish Literary Culture and Film
This course examines the centrality of urban space and the leisure culture and gendered spaces of city life in Spanish high and low brow literature and silent-era cinema.
Spanish<>English Translation
In this class, we’ll apply current translation theories to the analysis and practice of translation between Spanish and English.
Imaging Mexico
This course explores how visual culture has shaped Mexican national identity.
Latin American Cinema: Screening the People
This course explores how Latin American cinema has represented the region’s people on film through a range of styles, modes, and genres for nearly a century.
Storytelling in Latin America: An Introduction to the Latin American Short Story
This course focuses on the modern Latin American short story, highlighting the development of its literary and cultural traditions throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Queering the Borders: Gender, Sexuality, and Migration in Latin American and Latinx Culture
This course focuses on the analysis of gender, sexuality, migration, and borders in Latin American and Latinx cultures.
Beyond Bracero, Narcos and Latin Lovers: Latin American and Latinx Film
This course studies the relationships between Latinx and Latin American culture through film.
Unwritten Textualities: Indigenous Literatures and Beyond
This course will introduce students to various forms of Indigenous textualities and the connections between them.
Abya Yalan Literatures: Indigenous Knowledges and the Written Word
This course examines contemporary Indigenous literatures of Abya Yala (or Latin America) and its relationship to Indigenous autonomy.
The Acquisition of Spanish
Examination of the acquisition of Spanish in multilingual learning contexts (by second language learners, heritage bilinguals, and L3 learners). We focus on the acquisition of phonetics/phonology, morphosyntax, semantics, lexicon, and pragmatics, with particular emphasis on the role of context of acquisition (naturalistic, classroom, and study abroad).
The Politics of Melodrama in Latin American and Latinx Cultures
This course explores the social and political history of melodrama in Latin American and Latinx cultures.
Race and Nation in Argentine Popular Culture
This course explores Argentine popular culture by focusing on the interplay between race and nation.
Desired and Policed: Paradigms of Spanish Womanhood
This course examines ideologies of Spanish womanhood in Spanish culture (literature, essay, visual art) produced between 1800-1936.
Print and Power in 19th-Century Latin America
This course examines the long nineteenth century in Latin America (1790–1910), focusing on the interplay between literature and politics.
Travel Writing in Colonial Latin America
This course explores different forms of travel writing from 1492 until 1820 to understand mobility as a complex gendered and racialized experience.