2018 News
December
Listening to Latinx Cultures: From Salsa to Latinadad - Celebrating the Career of Frances Aparicio
December 6, 2018
To mark Professor Aparicio;s upcoming retirement, her colleagues along with her past and current advisees will honor her pioneering scholarship and activism in the field of Latinx Studies.
November
November 12, 2018
November 1, 2018
November 1, 2018
September
September 26, 2018
September 21, 2018
July
Alex Karahalis wins the Corbin Prize
July 2, 2018
Graduating Spanish Senior Alex Karahalis won the Frank N. & Lee L. Corbin Prize, which is presented to an outstanding senior attending graduate or professional school. She will be attending law school in the Fall.
June
Congratulations to the 2017-2018 Student Award Winners
June 22, 2018
June 1, 2018
May
Carlos Halaburda receives both the Sexualities Project at Northwestern Summer Research Grant and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship
May 28, 2018
Carlos will spend the summer of 2018 conducting research at the Ibero-Amerikanische Institut (IAI) in Berlin, Germany. His investigation studies Argentine dramaturgies concerned with the problem of human reproduction in the context of transatlantic migrations, the appearance of the cosmopolitan masses, and the emergence of ethnic nationalisms in Latin America’s long fin de siècle, 1880-1920.
Cintia Vezzani receives Fellowship for Paris Program in Critical Theory
May 23, 2018
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is happy to announce that graduate student, Cintia Vezzani,has received the Paris Program in Critical Theory Fellowship. Cintia will spend the 2018-2019 academic year in Paris at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle to conduct theoretical research.
Congratulations Ana Thomé Williams
May 21, 2018
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is proud to announce that our Professor Ana Thomé Williams is the winner of the 2018 “Portuguese University Professor” from the American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese. The award acknowledges excellence in the teaching of Portuguese in the United States.
Afro-Latinidades: Blackness, Identity, & Space
May 15, 2018
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April
Truth Altered, Verified, Challenged.
April 1, 2018
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March
Seminar on Cultures of the Lusosphere
March 13, 2018
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On Debt
March 6, 2018
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Indigeneity and Gender in Latin America
March 5, 2018
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February
Cyborgs, Zombies, & Planets for Rent: Sci Fi in Contemporary Caribbean Literature
February 14, 2018
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January
A Talk with Associate Provost and Chief Diversity Officer
January 23, 2018
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Writing / Photographing the Void: Time and Image in the Work of Eduardo Lalo
January 17, 2018
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January 15, 2018
Graduate Student Verónica Dávila has shared a letter of thanks from her family. The Spanish & Portuguese Department helped organize a fundraising campaign for the family after their housing was damaged or destroyed during the hurricanes in Puerto Rico.
Comparative Modernisms Workshop
January 10, 2018
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Watch Professor Cook's "Language and Cultural Studies" Video
January 9, 2018
Professor Cook explains her research on the Judeo-Spanish language (the language of the Sephardim [the Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492] ) in the video below:
