Northwestern University's Department of Spanish & Portuguese 2020-2022 Newsletter

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In this issue…

A Note of Farewell from César Braga-Pinto, Department Chair ............................................4

Welcome New Faculty .........................................................................................................6

Spotlight on Professor Caroline Egan ..................................................................................8

Council on Language Instruction Excellence in Language Teaching Award to Elena Lanza ...9

Faculty Awards and Highlights

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Investiture.......................................................................................................................... 12

Faculty Publications

Updates from the Outgoing and Incoming Postdoctoral Fellows

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion............................................................................................ 22

Graduate Program Highlights 24

Graduate Student Conference 27

Spanish Language Program Highlights 28

Spotlight on Samuel Primis '22 31

Portuguese Language Program Highlights 32

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Events

Upcoming Department of Spanish and Portuguese Events

Emeritus Faculty

Alumni Updates

News from the Library

Who’s Who in the Department in 2022-23

Congratulations to All Spanish Ph.D. Graduates

Congratulations to All Spanish & Portuguese Language Program Graduates

2022 NU Festival of Languages and Cultures

A Note from Emily Maguire, Incoming Department Chair

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Dearcolleagues and friends of the Spanish Department, Because last year we were not able to release one, this issue of the departmental newsletter aims to cover the period ranging from Fall 2020 to Spring 2022, although it might not be an easy task to summarize, even in a double issue like this, all range of achievements of the Spanish and Portuguese faculty and students during these last years – indeed, two most challenging years.

In spite of all the constraints resulting from the COVID-19 epidemic, the Department has accumulated many success stories, which this newsletter attempts to account for, at least partially: changes in the curriculum, honors and prizes, faculty publication and research, undergrad uate and graduate student’s lives and achievements, new and departing friends and colleagues, lectures and events, and more.

As I conclude my appointment as Chair of the Department to join the Dean’s Office as Associ ate Dean for Graduate Studies, I can’t help looking back at, not only the last five years when I served as Chair, but also at all the transformations which I have had the pleasure to witness since I came to Northwestern over ten years ago, under Jorge Coronado’s chairship.

Indeed, this is the 10 th anniversary of the Ph.D. Program in Spanish and Portuguese. At a time when many academics and administrators were skeptical about the future of doctoral programs, or concerned about job placement for graduate students, our own program has proved to be one of the most successful in the country, with a nearly 100% yield in student re cruitment, and a most impressive record of placing students in postdoctoral or tenure-track positions in prestigious institutions, such as U. of Toronto and Washington University.

In the Spanish Language Program, some of the milestones that mark its recent transforma tion include: assigning individual offices to teaching-track faculty who, until not too long ago, shared their work spaces; the long overdue change in titles of the faculty from Lecturer to Professor; the 2019 Spanish Language Program Review, which has guided the curriculum innovations in the last 3-4 years and will continue to inform it in the next years; and the reduc tion of the course load for teaching-track faculty from 9 to 6 courses a year. I feel privileged to have worked with such a hard-working and committed group of colleagues, and I partic ularly want to acknowledge the leadership of Chyi Chung and María Barros, as Directors of the Spanish Language Program, as well as Shannon Millikin as Assistant Director, and Elena Lanza, who has served as both Assistant and Interim Director.

The success of both graduate and undergraduate programs is the result of the efforts of a number of most committed colleagues. I cannot imagine the Department without the tire less work of Nathalie Bouzaglo, who has been Director of Undergraduate Studies for nearly six years, and an active colleague throughout the years. In her capacity as Director of the Graduate Program, Alejandra Uslenghi’s dedication to graduate students and her ability to

deal with emergencies and unpredictability are most impressive. Lucille Kerr’s experience and attention to details have guided us and provided a healthy balance to faculty gover nance. Emily Maguire has been, and continues to be, an exemplary colleague in all capac ities, but particularly now, as she accepts the invitation to serve as chair at least one year before predicted. As you will see in the next pages, in spite of such a heavy load of service administration that falls under the responsibility of the Associate Professors, they remain active with an impressive research agenda and publication record.

Spanish and Portuguese together continue to enroll an average of 2,500 students yearly, in courses that serve beyond Weinberg college, from the language requirement to minors and majors. Last year, among our graduating students, 5 majored, and 25 minored in Span ish, whereas other five minored in Portuguese. As the Spanish Language and the Literature course sequences have been completely revamped and streamlined, making it easier for the students to fulfill their requirements by senior year, this consistent, but relatively small number of graduating majors is now poised to increase. Among our graduating majors, we are highlighting the trajectory of Samuel Primis, as he embodies all that which the Depart ment can offer on the undergraduate level, from the minor in Portuguese to the Major and Honor’s Program in Spanish.

I would like to send my warmest gratitude to our colleagues who retired last year. Sue Pech ter, who has a Master’s in Spanish from Northwestern, has taught in the Spanish Language Program since 1999, and I cannot imagine the first-year courses without her. Patricia Nichols has been with us for nearly 40 years, and among her numerous contributions, I want to stress her commitment to first-year seminars and advising. Under their newly granted status as Emerita, Penny and Sue will always be welcome to teach courses in the department. I also want to make a special mention to Dario Fernandez-Morera, who retired and has received the status of Professor Emeritus in 2021. His research and teaching included, among other subjects, Golden Age and Medieval Spanish literature, culture and history. Among his most recent publications is The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain, published in French as Chrétiens, Juifs et Musulmans dans al-Andalus: Mythes et Réalités de l’Espagne Islamique.

Our administrative staff is the moving force between at the front of and behind the depart ment. After several years of dedicated service, Raluca Rustandi has left our team to pursue new opportunities at the Bienen School of Music. We are delighted to have Amanda Barto siak join us as our new Business Coordinator after several years as Program Assistant in the Plant Biology and Conservation Program. We are also luck to have Michelle Farra as our new Program Assistant dedicated primarily to the undergraduate programs. And of course, we could not have endured the last two years without the dedication and good spirits of our Program Assistant Zhenya Tsanev.

Finally, I want to welcome the colleagues who joined us the last two years or will start in the next two: Caroline Egan, Miguel Caballero, Jeffrey Coleman, Eider Etxebarría, Irene Finestrat, Julia Oliver Rajan, Estilita Cassiani Obeso, Nancy Dominguez Fret, José Delpino, Leonardo Gil Gomez, Mirella Gomes da Silva, Jacob Brown, Naira Corzon Cortez, René Carrassco, and Jacob Wilkenfeld.

Thank you so much to all of you who have supported and trust me in this journey.

-César Braga-Pinto, George F. Appel Professor in the Humanities

WELCOME NEW FACULTY

JEFFREY K. COLEMAN joined the department an Associate Profes sor of Spanish, and has been the Director of Undergraduate Studies during the 2021-2022 academic year. He holds a PhD in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies from the University of Chicago (2014). He is the author of The Necropolitical Theater: Race and Immigra tion on the Contemporary Spanish Stage (Northwestern University Press, 2020), which explores how the intersections of race and immigration manifest in Spanish theatre from 1991-2016. He is also working on his next book project tentatively titled, España Negra: The Consumption & Rejection of Blackness in Contemporary Spain, which explores the ways in which Spanish media, popular culture, and literature have portrayed and appropriated Blackness from the early 20 th century to the present. In addition, he is the co-founder of TRECE (Taller de Raza, Etnicidad y Ciudadanía en España), a research group that actively theorizes and conceptualizes race in contemporary Spain and is the host of a weekly foun tain pen and stationery podcast in Spanish called Tinterías.

MIGUEL CABALLERO joined the Department as Assistant Profes sor in the Fall of 2020. Previously, he completed his PhD at Princ eton and was Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. He is currently finishing his book manuscript The Monument of Tomorrow. Conservation and the Avant-Garde in the Spanish Civil War, and is also preparing for his second book project, which will be on AIDS after the devel opment of effective anti-retroviral medication (1996-present). He works on the intersections of literature, art, and philosophy with a focus on 20th -21st century Spain, and is particularly interested in modernism, psychoanalysis, archives, curatorial work (has curated exhibitions in Moscow and Valencia), and the collaborations of ac ademia and activism.

EIDER ETXEBARRÍA graduated from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with a PhD in Spanish Linguistics and two concentrations: Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Translation Studies. Her doctoral studies focus on language acquisition and de velopment, bilingualism, and contact linguistics. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, among other in stitutions. In 2021, her first book translation was published: Basque for English speakers, a book that reflects upon the linguistic and cultural (dis)similarities of Basque and English for a broader audi ence without necessary academic grounding in linguistics. During 2021-2022, she served as a Spanish lecturer in the Spanish and Por tuguese Department, and she will join the department as an Assis tant Professor of Instruction in Fall 2022.

IRENE FINESTRAT joined the department in Fall 2021. She re ceived her PhD in Hispanic Linguistics, with a focus on Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism, from the University of Il linois at Chicago (UIC). Irene is interested in understanding the unique cognitive-linguistic, cultural, and affective backgrounds learners bring into the classroom. With this aim, her research ex amines the language skills that contribute to second language development when acquisition occurs in the learners’ home country as well as in the study abroad setting. This research in forms inclusive language teaching pedagogies that leverage stu dents’ strengths for effective teaching and learning. At UIC, she has taught Spanish for non-native speakers at different levels of proficiency, as well as for bilingual speakers. She also has experience teaching courses in Spanish Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. In the classroom, her goal is that learners develop a curiosity for languages, cultures, and the dif ferent worldviews they express. Her dedication to students in and outside of the classroom has been recognized in the form of the 2021 UIC Teaching and Mentoring Award. She will join the department as an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Fall 2022.

MIRELLA GOMES DA SILVA is a Portuguese lecturer in the depart ment, and she currently teaches Portuguese 115 - Portuguese for Spanish Speakers, Portuguese 201 - Portuguese Reading and Speaking, Portuguese 210 – Icons, Legends, and Myths in Brazil. Her research interests lie in foreign and second language acqui sition, technology in and language learning and teaching, bilin gualism, and pronunciation. She holds an MA in British Literature and a PhD in Applied Linguistics. In her Ph.D. research, she analyzed the use of wikis in academic environments, focusing on students’ and instructors’ perceptions of such tools to improve their writing skills.  Mirella has been teaching languages for over 21 years, and has taught all over the world, including: Brazil, the USA, the UAE and China. She is passionate about language teaching and learning, as well as teacher training.

SPOTLIGHT ON PROFESSOR CAROLINE EGAN

Ijoinedthe Spanish and Portuguese Department in 2020. My first year was entirely virtual, and it has been a pleasure to return to in-person teaching and activities. I am originally from Pennsylvania, where I completed my B.A. and M.A. in Comparative Literature at Penn State. I then completed my doctorate at Stanford and subsequently lectured at Cambridge Universi ty before joining Northwestern.

My research and writing currently revolve around early modern theorizations of language and corporeality and their impact on processes of translation, grammaticalization, and conversion in a transatlantic context, with a comparative emphasis on Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. I am especially interested in studying grammars, dictionar ies, doctrines, devotional poetry, and similar works written in and about Indigenous languag es in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

More broadly, I am interested in opportunities to bring colonial Latin American studies into conversation with related fields, like contemporary film and early modern Spanish studies. In this vein, I recently completed co-editing the Routledge Companion to Early Modern Span ish Literature and Culture (2022).

Here in the Spanish and Portuguese Department, I have taught courses on topics like colonial Latin American literature, Don Quixote, and the early modern Transatlantic. In my class es, I emphasize close reading, material culture, and creative and collaborative work. In my class on Latin American Literature before 1888, for instance, I invite students to recreate and adapt colonial-era works and then write critically on the significance of their recreations. This has led to final projects including self-portraits, screenplays, and interpretive dance.

During the Spring 2022 quarter, I organized a joint graduate seminar with a colleague at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Dr. Sarissa Carneiro. Through an International Rela tions/Buffett Institute International Classroom Partnering Grant, we designed a four-week program on the topic of “Corporalidades y poéticas coloniales,” featuring invited speakers from Mexico, Peru, Spain, and the US.

Summer 2022, I conducted archival research in Lima, Arequipa, and Cusco.

I am delighted to be a part of the Spanish and Portu guese Department and the Center for Native Ameri can and Indigenous Research here at Northwestern.

Please feel free to send me an email (caroline. egan@northwestern.edu) or stop by my office (3121)—it has been lovely getting to know everyone in the department.

COUNCIL ON

LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION FOR EXCELLENCE IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AWARD TO ELENA LANZA

By Deborah S. Rosenberg and Reyes Moran

Elena Lanza, Associate Professor of Instruction, is this year’s recipient of the Council on Language Instruction Excellence in Language Teaching Award, a well-deserved recog nition of her achievements in teaching, curricular development, and leadership in the Spanish Language Program (SLP) and at Northwestern. The CLI awards this honor to one language instructor each year, and Elena is the first Spanish language professor to win it since the award’s inception in 2013.

Elena is from Santander, in northern Spain, and received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Salamanca in 1998 in English Philology with a minor in Spanish Philology. She re ceived her master’s degree in Hispanic Studies (Linguistics) at University of Illinois at Chica go in 2001 and joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern in 2003. She has held many leadership positions in the Department over the years, such as SLP As sistant Director, course coordinator, and most recently SLP Interim Director in Fall and Winter quarters.

Elena pursues an active agenda of curricular development for the Spanish Language Program supported by training and research in pedagogic practice. She redeveloped Spanish 199 in 2013, co-authoring the first accessible digital textbook in the language programs. This aca demic year she has been actively collaborating with the rehaul of the third-year sequence, including co-authoring a new digital textbook for Spanish 201. Elena’s teaching and research interests include curricular development, assessment, and technology to improve student learning outcomes.

FACULTY HONORS AND AWARDS

ELISA BAENA has been promoted to Professor of Instruction.

CÉSAR BRAGA-PINTO won the distinguished title of George F. Appel Professor in the Humanities at the Weinberg College Investiture Ceremony in November 2021. In Fall 2022, César will take his leadership acumen to serve as the WCAS Associate Dean for Graduate Studies. Thank you, Dr. Braga-Pinto for your many years of service to the department as a professor, director of graduate studies, and most recently, chair.

NATHALIE BOUZAGLO was named a Sexualities Project of Northwestern (SPAN) Curricular Fellow, and was awarded Best Paper in the Humanities by the Latin American Studies As sociation in the section on Venezuelan Studies (2021).

JORGE CORONADO was recently awarded the highly coveted 2023-24 Berlin Prize by the American Academy of Berlin, as well as a chance to be a guest researcher at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut in Berlin (summer 2022). He was also a finalist for the Fletcher Prize for Excellence in Research Mentorship, in addition to being awarded a Fellowship with the Northwestern University Cen ter for Native American and Indigenous Research. Professor Coronado also became the new editor for the University of Pittsburgh Press Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas! series, which features cutting-edge books on Lat in American and inter-American societies, histories, and cul tures that offer new perspectives from postcolonial, subaltern, feminist, and cultural stud ies.

ELENA LANZA became a member of the 2019-2020 Faculty Honor Roll for Associated Stu dent Government, and won the 2021-2022 Excellence in Teaching Award by the Northwest ern University Council on Language Instruction.

ELENA LANZA AND REYES MORÁN were the recipients of the 2022 Hewlett Grant for Cur ricular Innovation and OER Faculty Grant for “Current Topics Through Media: An OER Text book for Advanced Spanish.”

SHANNON MILLIKIN was the recipients of the WCAS Teaching-Track Summer 2021 Cur ricular Funding Grant for “A Seat at the Table for Afro-Latinx Voices,” and won the WCAS Hewlett Grant for Curricular Innovation: Colombian Partnerships for Spanish Language and Cultural Competence.

TASHA SEAGO-RAMALY was presented with the 2020 T. William Heyck Award from Residential Services, and named Northwestern Assoc. Chair of College of Cultural and Community Studies (2021).

ANA THOMÉ WILLIAMS received an Open Educational Resource Grant from the Affordable Instructional Resources Initiative - Office of the Provost and University Libraries - for Portuguese 201: Portuguese Reading and Speaking. She was also awarded a 2-year Northwest ern University Buffet Institute research grant for her project on Language Curricula and Gender (2022-2024).

ALEJANDRA USLENGHI was granted the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Fellowship for 2021-2022 academic year to work on her second book project provisionally titled “Modernism’s Blind Spots. Exiled Women Photographers in Latin America, 1930s-1960s.” This past year she was also the recipient of the Provost Grant for Research in Humanities and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program’s faculty subvention award for her forthcoming translation of Frederick Douglass’ writings on early photogra phy.

WEINBERG COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INVESTITURE

TheWeinberg College of Arts and Sciences honored three distinguished members of the Northwestern faculty at its Investiture ceremony in November 2021. Department of Spanish and Portuguese Chair, César Braga-Pinto, along with Chris Kuzawa from the Department of Anthropology, and James A. Sauls, from the Department of Physics and As tronomy, were the esteemed honorees of the ceremony.

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese wishes our chair, Dr. César Braga-Pinto, con gratulations on being named the inaugural George F. Appel Professor in the Humanities at this Investiture ceremony. George F. Appel studied English in the College of Arts and Sciences and graduated in 1951. He was a Corporal in the United States Army and served in the Korean War. Mr. Appel’s gift reminds us of the impact Northwestern has on its community of learners, and ensures that Dr. Braga-Pinto, and future colleagues, are recognized for the excellence of their work.

Faculty Publications (2020-2022)

Barros García, María

Associate Professor of Instruction

Publications:

• 2022. Laura Villa and María J. Barros García. Telecollaboration as a Resource to Enhance Critical Peda gogy in Spanish Heritage Language Instruction. Spanish as a Heritage Language Vol. 2, No. 1, 2022, pp. 91–124.

• 2020. Barros García, María J. La competencia pragmática del estudiante de español como lengua ex tranjera: ¿se aprende a ser (des)cortés en la cultura meta? In M. González Sanz, C. Fuentes Rodriguez & E. Brenes Peña (eds.), (Des)cortesía, actividades de imagen e identidad (pp. 51-62). Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla.

Bouzaglo, Nathalie

Associate Professor

Edited Books and Volumes:

• Debora de Tomás Michelena, co-curated with Carlos Halaburda. Himapar, 2020.

• Malentendidos del siglo XIX, co-edited with Catalina Rodriguez. Santiago de Chile: Taller de letras 66, 2021.

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The Legacy of Oscar Wilde in Latin American Literature and Culture, co-edited with Ana Rodriguez Navas, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2020.

Articles and Book Chapters:

• “Sylvia Molloy, venezolana” in CHUY. Revista de estudios literarios latinoamericanos, Vol 7, May 2021, Universidad Tres de Febrero.

• “Tomás Michelena: Atrevimientos y desagravios del fin de siglo”, co-authored with Carlos Halaburda, Himpar Editores 2020.

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“Los irreverentes plagios de Rafael Bolivar Coronado,” Taller de Letras 66, 2020: 116-124.

• “Plagiarism and Authorship in Turn of the Century Venezuela.” Journal of Comparative Literature 24.4, 2020: 405-417 (awarded Best Paper in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association, Section on Venezuelan Studies, 2021).

• “Oscar Wilde’s Forgotten Legacy” [Introduction] (co-authored with Ana Rodriguez Navas.) Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2020: 321-329.

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“Scathing Translations: Guillermo Valencia, Bernardo Arias Trujilllo, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2020: 341-353.

“Traducciones Lapidarias.” Perífrasis, Vol 13.25, 2022: 159–172.

Braga-Pinto, César

George F. Appel Professor in the Humanities

Edited books special issues:

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Guest editor: Revista Brasileira de História 42 (89). Special issue on Modernismos, May 2022.

Dissidências de gênero e sexualidade na literatura brasileira (1850-1930) Vol. 1: Desejos. Vol/ 2: Perfor mances. Index ebook: Lisbon, 2021. Print: Devires: Salvador, 2021.

• Navegar Chicago (fiction) Co-org. with Leonardo Tonus. Ed. Nós. 2021.

Articles and Book Chapters:

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“O imaginário intersexual de Coelho Neto”. Revista Novos Estudos, CEBRAP, v. 122, May, 2022.

• “A sexualidade de Mário de Andrade: a prova dos nove”. Modernismo 1922-2022. Ed. Gênese Andrade. Companhia das Letras, 2021, 35 manuscr. pp.

• “A sexualidade de Mário de Andrade: ‘ninguém o saberá jamais’. Special issue: “O Modernismo e a críti ca: 100 anos de debate e polêmica”. Ed. Ivan Marques.”. Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies v. 7, 2022. May 2022.

• “Nestor Vítor: um escritor anfíbio”. Foreword to: Vítor, Nestor, Sapo. Uberlândia: O Sexo da Palavra, 2021, pp. 17-32.

• “Recifessexualizando José Lins: um roteiro para Moleque Ricardo”. Tributo a José Lins do Rego. CEPE, 2021.

• “Literatura e suicídio.” Dissidências de gênero e sexualidade: percepções da crítica literária brasileira Ed. Helder Thiago Maia and Samuel Lima da Silva. Ed. Devires, 2021, pp. 213-236.

• “What’s all the fuzz about? Masculinities, Women and the Paraguayan War in Joaquim Manuel de Mace do’s fiction.” Drag King. Ed. Javier Guerrero and Nathalie Bouzaglo. Accepted.

• “Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Brazil.” Latin American Literature in Transition. Ed. Ana Peluffo and Ronald Briggs. Cambridge U.P. Forhtcoming 2021. 21 manuscr. pp.

• “El sapo homosexual de Nestor Vitor.” Taller de Letras 66, 2020, pp. 159-165.

• “Eccentrics, Extravagants, and Deviants in the Brazilian Belle Epoque; or, how João do Rio emulated Oscar Wilde.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 28.3, 2019 (published Jan 2020), pp. 353-376.

• “O imaginário intersexual de Coelho Netto e as categorias de gênero no fin-de-siècle carioca”. Revista Novos Estudos, CEBRAP (submitted).

Caballero, Miguel

Assistant Professor

Book Chapters:

• “The Valley of the Fallen: From Francoist Environmentalism to Democratic Eco-Memorials.” Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies. Ed. Luis I. Prádanos. Suffolk: Tamesis, 2022. (Submitted)

• “Una arquitectura amanerada. Danza, homosexualidad y literatura en las Escuelas Nacionales de Arte de La Habana.” Arquitectura moderna en Cuba. Ed. Rubén Gallo, Beatriz Colomina. Mexico City: Arquine, upcoming 2022. (Submitted)

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“On Neutrality’s Commitment. Luis Quintanilla’s 1938 Exhibition at the MoMA.” Fabulous Leviathan: Vi sions of New York City in Iberian Cultures, 1875-1975. Publishing houses not confirmed. (Submitted and accepted)

Proceedings:

• Estrategias, riesgos e insufienciencias para una monumentalidad colectiva.” Arte en colectivo, autoría y agrupación, promoción y relato de la creación contemporánea. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas: Editorial CSIC, upcoming. (Submitted and accepted)

Book Reviews:

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“La propaganda, los bombardeos, los rascacielos.” On: Barea-Kulcsar, Ilsa. Telefónica. Xixón, Spain: Hoja de Lata, 2019. In: Revista de Letras (31 January 2020).

Book Reviews: (Caballero cont.)

• “Al pie de la letra.” On the Spanish edition of Erich Hackel’s Auroras Anlaß. Los motivos de aurora, José Ovejero (tr.). Xixón, Spain: Hoja de Lata, 2020. In: Revista de Letras (1 July 2020).

In Press:

• “History and Intimacy. Reading the Lincoln’s Letters in a College Classroom Today.” The Volunteer, 5/2/2020.

Contributions to Art Books:

• “Ethics and Physics.” Cristina Lucas: Maschine Im Stillstand / Immobile Engine. Chemnitz: Kunstsam mlungen Chemnitz, 2021.

• “Elegy for Cruising” exhibition text for Bartolomé Limón solo exhibition Elegy for Cruising. Carrasquer 6, Valencia, Spain, 6/28-7/2/2021.

Coleman, Jeffrey K.

Associate Professor

Book in Print:

• The Necropolitical Theatre: Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage. (Northwestern University Press, Performance Works Series, May 2020).

Reviewed by:

• Guerrero, Isabel. “Jeffrey K. Coleman (2020). The Necropolitical Theater. Race and Immigration on the Con temporary Spanish Stage. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.” ACOTACIONES. Investigación y Creación Teatral 1.46 (2021).

Book Chapters in Print:

• “Polemic Collision: Race, Immigration, and Gender Violence in Olimpita.” Spanish Graphic Narratives: Recent Developments in Sequential Art, edited by Collin McKinney and David Richter. (Palgrave Macmil lan, Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels, 2020), pp. 119-37.

Forthcoming Book Chapters:

• “Borders, Race, and Immigration in Ozkar Galán’s Castigat ridendo mores.” Migrant Frontiers: Race and Mobility in the Luso-Hispanic World, edited by Lamonte Aidoo and Anna Tybinko. (under contract with Liverpool University Press).

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“The Pursuit of Liberty in Santiago Rusiñol’s Llibertat.” Fabulous Leviathan: Visions of New York in Iberian Cultures, 1875-1975, edited by Evelyn Scaramella and Antonio Córdoba. (under contract with SUNY Press).

• “Racial Contaminants and Spain’s Ecological Future” A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies, edited by Luis I. Prádanos. (under contract with Tamesis Books).

Coronado, Jorge Professor

Special Dossier:

• “Configurations of Lo Andino.” Dossier for Revista de Estudios Hispánicos LV.3 (October 2021): 497-674. Organized by Jorge Coronado and Juan G. Ramos.

Edited books:

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Anarquismos y marxismos en los Andes: Textos esenciales. Co-edited with Stephen McNabb. La Paz: Plural Editores. Forthcoming, 2022.

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Archaeology and Its Avatars in Cultural Theory. Co-edited with Alexander Herrera Wassilowski. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. Forthcoming.

Arqueología y sus avatares en la teoría cultural. Co-edited with Alexander Herrera Wassilowski. Bogotá: Editorial UniAndes. Forthcoming.

Articles, Essays, Podcasts:

• “Introducción. Discursos críticos anarquistas y marxistas en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú, 1900-1980.” Anarquismos y marxismos en los Andes: Textos esenciales. La Paz: Plural Editores. Forthcoming, 2022.

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“Vender lo andino: Arqueología, diseño y mercado en la obra de Elena Izcue,” Revista de Estudios His pánicos LV.3 (October 2021): 537-559. Dossier “Configurations of Lo Andino”.

• “Introduction,” co-authored with Juan Ramos, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos LV.3 (October 2021): 497505. Dossier “Configurations of Lo Andino”.

• “Photography in Latin America.” A Companion to Latin American Literature. Ed. Sara Castro-Klarén. Lon don: Blackwell Publishing, in press.

• “Sara Castro Klarén y la formación de los estudios literarios latinoamericanistas.” MLN 137.2 (2022):1-5. Dossier “Sara Castro-Klarén y su legado crítico.”

• “”The Ultimate Legislative Body of the Faculty.”” The Daily Northwestern, January 27, 2022.

• “Revolutions in Visual Communication.” Communication Revolutions Podcast, September 30, 2021.

• “On Entrenched Inequalities in the Research University: Activism and Teaching for Tenured Faculty Members.” PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 136.3 (May 2021). Cam bridge University Press: 441–46.

• “Indigenismos.” Cambridge Transitions in Latin American Literature, Vol III: 1870-1930. Ed. Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte. New York: Cambridge University Press, in press.

• “Gamaliel Churata y las prácticas letradas indígenas,” Gamaliel Churata. Interpelaciones al excepcional ismo de los saberes universales desde una concepción ambiciosamente crítica del pensamiento humano. Ed. Elizabeth Monasterios. Cagliari: UNICApress, 2020. 45-56.

Egan, Caroline

Assistant Professor

Article:

• Egan, Caroline, “Variations on Martyrdom by José de Anchieta,” Latin American Theatre Review 54.1 (2020): 5-29.

Book Chapter:

• Kogut Lessa-de-Sá, Vivien, and Caroline Egan, “Translation and Prolepsis: The Jesuit Origins of a Tupi Christian Doctrine,” in Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America, ed. Linda A. Newson (Lon don: University of London Press, 2020).

Book Reviews:

• Review of Ramírez Santacruz, Francisco, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. La resistencia del deseo, Chasqui 49.2 (2020): R33-R34.

• Review of Rodríguez Mansilla, Fernando, El Inca Garcilaso en su Siglo de Oro, Hispanófila 89 (2020): 161163.

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Forthcoming (these pieces have been accepted and submitted to the presses in their final form; they are scheduled for production in 2022)

• Cacho, Rodrigo, and Caroline Egan (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture (London/New York: Routledge).

Book Chapters:

• Egan, Caroline, “A Baroque Arte: Horacio Carochi and the Tradition of Nahuatl Grammars,” in Colonial Latin American Literature in Transition, eds. Rocío Quispe-Agnoli and Amber Brian (Cambridge: Cam bridge University Press).

• Egan, Caroline, “The Grammatical, the Vernacular, and the Corporeal,” in The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture, eds. Rodrigo Cacho and Caroline Egan (London/New York: Routledge).

Finestrat Martinez, Irene

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Publications:

• Faretta-Stutenberg, M., Finestrat, I., Morgan-Short, K. (under review). Technology in cognitive research: Methods to examine second language processing. Chapter in Sanz, C & Perez-Vidal, C., Methods in Study Abroad Research: Past, Present and Future. John Benjamins Series Research Methods in Applied Linguistics.

• Morgan-Short, K., Finestrat, I., Abugaber, D., Luque, A. (in press). Exploring new insights into explicit and implicit second language processing: Event-related potentials analyzed by source attribution. Language Learning.

Maguire, Emily

Associate Professor

Publications:

• “From Technological Realism to the Science Fictional Turn in Latin American Literature (1985-2017).” Peter Lang Companion to Latin American Science Fiction. Eds. Ezequiel De Rosso and Silvia Kurlat Ares. New York/Bern/Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021. 169-181.

• “Ficciones científicas para un país emergente: los ‘eslabones perdidos’ de la ciencia ficción cubana.” Historia de la ciencia ficción en la literatura latinoamericana I: desde los orígenes hasta la modernidad. Eds. Teresa López-Pellisa and Silvia G. Kurlat Ares. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2020. 211-32.

• “New Points of the Rhizome: Rethinking Caribbean Relation in U.S. Latinx Poetry.” Caribbean Migrations: The Legacies of Colonialism. Ed. Anke Birkenmaier. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 239-58.

• Review of Working Juju: Representations of the Caribbean Fantastic by Andrea Shaw Nevins. New West Indian Guide, 95.1-2 (2021): 57-58.

McDonald, Charles Sava Ranisavljevic Postdoctoral Fellow

Publications:

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“Rancor: Sephardic Jews, Spanish Citizenship, and the Politics of Sentimentv,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 63, no. 3 (2021): 722-751.

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“Marking Time and Being Remade,” In “Pandemic Diaries,” Gabriela Manley, Bryan M. Dougan, and Carole McGranahan, eds., American Ethnologist, May 16, 2020.

Forthcoming:

• “Sefarad Tira Mucho, Pero No Tanto’: Sephardic Citizenship and the Ethics of Refusal,” In Reparative Citizenship in Spain and Portugal: Sephardi Jews, Reconciliation, and Return, Dalia Kandiyoti and Rina Benmayor, eds. (New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming).

Seago-Ramaly, Tasha

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Publications:

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Quick Grammar Guide with accompanying grammar drill activities for Gran Hotel (2020-2021).

Uslenghi, Alejandra

Associate Professor

Edited Volume:

• La cámara como método. La fotografía moderna de Grete Stern y Horacio Coppola, co-edited, Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia, 2021. (Includes essay “Grete Stern. Un modernismo migrante” pages 193-248).

Articles and Essays:

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“Thought Image. Photography and Memory” in Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia, Vanessa Davidson (curator) exhi bition catalog, Phoenix Art Museum and Hirmer Publishers, 2021. pages 250-271.

• “Marisol’s Pocahontas” position essay in Who says, Who Shows, What counts: Thinking about History with the Block’s Collection (Essi Rönkkö and Kate Hadley Toffness, eds.) Northwestern University Press, 2021.

• “El París de Molloy: literatura, experiencia, afecto” in CHUY. No. 7 “Todo sobre Molloy. Un homenaje irreverente.” Revista de estudios literarios latinoamericanos, May 2021, Universidad Tres de Febrero. Pages 190-204.

• “Introducción” co-written with Natalia Brizuela, in La cámara como método. La fotografía moderna de Grete Stern y Horacio Coppola, Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia, 2021. pages 11-32.

Williams, Ana C Thome Professor of Instruction

Book Chapters:

• Thomé Williams, Ana Clotilde. “Aprendizagem do Português através de Projetos: Buscando a Proficiên cia na Língua por meio de Ações Interculturais.” Microgeopolítica da língua portuguesa: ações, desafios e perspectivas, organized by Nilma Dominique and Maurício Souza Neto, Boa Vista Press, 2021, pp-61-84.

Accepted for publication:

• Thomé Williams, Ana Clotilde and Christiane Moisés, eds. Práticas de Português Língua Estrangeira em Tempo de Isolamento Social:Provocações para uma Era Pós-Covid. Pontes, Campinas, (in press).

• Thomé-Williams, Ana C. “Developing Writing Skills in an Intercultural Communicative Approach in Portu guese”. In Portuguese as an Additional Language (PAL): research-informed pedagogical approaches edit ed by Cristina Perna, Michele Saraiva Carilo (chapter 4). Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books (in press).

UPDATES FROM THE SAVA RANISAVLJEVIC POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

CHARLES A. MCDONALD, OUTGOING FELLOW

The

two years I have spent as the Sava Ranisavljevic Post doctoral Fellow at Northwestern have been enormously productive and rewarding. Despite beginning this position at the height of the COVID pandemic (and therefore working remotely for the first year), I have been fortunate to have been welcomed by colleagues and students alike into Northwest ern’s vibrant intellectual community.

The Sava Ranisavljevic Postdoctoral Fellowship furnished both the time and the funding necessary to make progress on my first book and to begin my next project. In the fall of 2020, I submit ted the final revised version of my article, “Rancor: Sephardic Jews, Spanish Citizenship, and the Politics of Sentiment ,” to the journal Comparative Studies in Society and History, where it was published in the summer of 2021. Shortly thereafter, I submitted the first draft of my chapter, “Sephardic Citizenship and the Ethics of Refusal,” the finished version of which will appear later this year in Dalia Kandiyoti’s and Rina Benmayor’s expansive and timely edited volume, Reparative Citizenship in Spain and Portugal: Sephardi Jews, Reconciliation, and Return, eds. (Berghahn Books). Several colleagues graciously offered to look over parts of my book man uscript and proposal, which are in far better shape now thanks to their kind, but unsparing, interventions. Thanks to them and the significant research time that the postdoc allowed, I will finish my book manuscript and a much-revised proposal during the final months of my tenure this summer.

My experience with the students at Northwestern has been nothing short of inspiring. At a moment of such deep uncertainty, turmoil, sickness, and death, they continued to show up, to think together, to support each other, and to critically appraise and create scholarship. In 2021, I launched a new course, “Jews and Muslims in Contemporary Spain,” which has proven attractive to students both during its first year on Zoom and again this year, when a packed class of talented, inventive, and deeply funny students took its second iteration in-person. I offered students the option to submit a wide range of final projects, which have included several podcasts about race, religion, and tourism; design projects that ask how typefaces might facilitate a politics of convivencia; video documentaries about the place of Arabs and Muslims fighting with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and several sophisticat ed research papers spanning multiple disciplines. In both years, I also taught “Global Im/Mo bilities: Borders, Migration, and Citizenship,” which I first developed in my previous position at Rice University and extensively reconfigured for my NU students. Together, we considered the politics of mobility and im/mobility across a range of geographic and historical contexts.

A final, completely unexpected, development at Northwestern was the relationship I devel oped with SPAN (The Sexualities Project at Northwestern). After participating in their popu lar Faculty Reading Groups as a reader in 2021, I applied for and received a Faculty Research Grant to conduct pilot research for my second book, Queer Nightlife Ecologies: Arts of the Underground in the Era of COVID. In 2022, this research became the basis for my own

Faculty Reading Group on “Queer Nightlife.” Like my work on the return of Jews and Judaism in Spain, this project is concerned with political subjectivity, ethics, kinship, and the forms of care that marginalized communities develop.

I am filled with immense gratitude for what this postdoc has given me, and I hope that I have been able to repay that gift in some small part through my teaching and research. Particular ly in the time of COVID and Zoom, intellectual community is so crucial, and I was lucky to have found it in spades at Northwestern. This summer, I will be returning to my home in New York, where I will be a Scholar-in-Residence at NYU’s King Juan Carlos Center in 2022-2023 and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish in Spring 2023. I’m thrilled about this next step, and I know that it would not have been possible without the many kinds of support that I received from colleagues in Spanish and Portuguese, Jewish Studies, and Anthropology, as well as the incredible students that we are all privileged to teach. Thank you to everyone for this special time with you.

RODRIGO GARCÍA-VELASCO, INCOMING FELLOW

Iamhonored and thrilled about joining the Department of Span ish & Portuguese this coming Fall as the Sava Ranisavljevic Postdoctoral Fellow in Judaeo-Spanish Studies. I will be cross ing the pond from the United Kingdom, where I have spent more than a decade researching and teaching medieval Spanish and Mediterranean history at Cambridge, Oxford, and the School of Oriental & African Studies in London. I am originally from Madrid, Spain, where I grew up with family ties to Valencia and Galicia. In more recent times, however, my research has taken me to many unexpected regions of the Peninsula: from Coimbra or Alcobaça in Portugal, and Tortosa or Lleida in Catalonia, to Tudela and Pam plona in the historic Basque regions of Navarre. In each of these places, I have investigated the presence of Jews and Muslims in local ecclesiastical and municipal archives, following their trail in a variety of Latin Christian legal documents. My first book, which I will work towards completion at Northwestern, is entitled Jews and Muslims Before the Law in Chris tian Iberia. It seeks to reframe how scholars approach the issue of Jewish-Muslim-Chris tian convivencia. Instead of questioning the extent to which these groups were tolerated or not on the basis of our own preconceptions of what “tolerance” is, I examine how peaceful and violent inter-religious interactions were mediated through the law and archival prac tices. Specifically, I query how legal texts and archives re-defined the place of Jewish and Muslim groups in Christian society, and how these new legal definitions of religious differ ence were then used as tools of Christian hegemony and political legitimation. At North western, I will be designing courses on the Jews of Spain, convivencia, and cultural contact in medieval Iberia. I look forward to teaching students from a wide range of disciplines, and to be able to share my intellectual curiosities and experiences with them, as with the rest of my colleagues in the Department.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

In the Spring of 2021, faculty and staff members participated in a workshop led by Associate Dean Mónica Russell y Rodríguez to create our Department’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) statement. A DEI Committee was created afterwards, being active for the first time during the 2021-2022 academic year. It is currently composed of Ana C. Thomé Williams, Rifka Cook, Jeffrey Coleman, Asha Nagaraj, and Miguel Caballero (chair). The committee members met and collaborated with different DEI-related offices in the university, including the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and the Office of the Ombudsperson, to define its roles and learn from other experiences. DEI committee member Asha Nagaraj generously presented about our committee at the Council on Language Instruction Winter Workshop, with an audience of instructors from other language departments that in most cases do not have their own DEI committee but were interested in engaging in a dialogue about the benefits of having one. The DEI committee has also revised protocols of disability and religious accommodations, informed the department about DEI training in the university, facilitated resources to think about class environment and use of preferred pronouns, and shared DEI news in the Evanston area. Moreover, it has been a particularly useful resource as an advisory committee for DEI representatives in hiring processes. The DEI Committee has also hosted a talk on race and gender identity, specifically on the experience of trans people of color, by U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Assistant Professor Xiomara-Verenice Cervantes-Gómez on April 13, 2022, co-sponsored with the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion. Several members of the current committee have expressed their desire to remain in the committee next year, and we will also welcome our colleague María Teresa Villanueva, who has volunteered to join. The Committee is open to all in the department to consult or to join. For 2022/2023, the Committee plans to consolidate its roles, including its advisory functions and the organization of an annual event, and to explore new ones.

The DEI Committee, with generous funding from the Council on Language Instruction, has been able to enrich the department’s library on topics related to diversity, equity and inclusion with the addition of the following books:

1. Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom: Notes from a White Professor (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

2. Difficult Subjects: Insights and Strategies for Teaching About Race, Sexuality, and Gender by Badia Ahad-Legardy and OiYan A. Poon

3. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

4. How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

5. Las que se atrevieron by Lucía Asué Mbombío Rubio

6. Hija del camino by Lucía Asué Mbombío Rubio

7. Ser mujer negra en España by Desirée Bela-Lobedde

8. Minorías: Historias de desigualdad y valentía by Desirée Be la-Lobedde

9. Qué hace un negro como tú en un sitio como este by Moha Gerehou

10. El lunes nos querrán by Najat El Hachmi

11. Gazpacho agridulce by Quan Zhou Wu

12. Andaluchinas por el mundo by Quan Zhou Wu

13. Gente de aquí, gente de allí by Quan Zhou Wu

14. Arroz tres delicias by Chenta Tsai Tseng

GRADUATE PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

BY ALEJANDRA USLENGHI

Inthe past year and half, four of our graduate students participated in the Kaplan Institute Public Humanities Programs, organizing events and building projects that bring our scholarship on literature and culture beyond academia and into the community. Deisi Cuate, Eduardo Bello and Heloisa Imada showcased their projects for Kaplan Public Hu manities Workshop at the Graduate research Symposium this past May. Deisi presented on the event she organized on May 6 th in her hometown New York City, «Mexican Voices in NYC. Community and Networking Event» which featured a vibrant group of Mexican-American poets, writ ers and visual artists. Eduardo and Heloisa presented on their on-going collaboration for a Podcast Series “Machado de Gêmeos” in which they discuss Latin American writers and artists for a wide audience around the pretext of zodiac sign commonalities.

We were very proud to announce that Catalina Rodriguez and Alicia V. Nuñez won the Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship in 2020 and 2021, respectively. The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious fellowship offered by the university, and Catalina and Ali cia have taken on leadership roles in the Society of Fellows and have enhanced the interdis ciplinary vibrancy of the university.

In 2022 our graduate program reached its 10th year in recruitment of fantastic graduate stu dents. We are very proud of all the program's faculty and our alumni remarkable achievements. We have established our innovative and interdisciplinary curriculum at the top of the graduate programs of the country competing with our peer institutions for the best prospective candi dates, who have chosen to come to Northwestern for our faculty expertise, our incredible resources and for a collegial, supportive and intellectual challenging experience. We are partic ularly glad to have recruited our first cohort on Iberian Studies this past year and look forward to continuing building more Trans-Atlantic expertise. Also, in this first decade we have seen our first two Presidential Fellows join the ranks of this most prestigious Society of Fellows! In this 10th year we look back and reflect on the amazing trajectories of our students and alumni as they hold tenure-track and visiting positions, post-doctoral positions, or follow a diverse path in the Humanities as publishers, editors, cultural agents and activists. We are also proud of the budding group of fiction-writers and poets that have published their nov els and poetry in parallel to their literary and cultural criticism! In the following pages, we highlight several events on the past two years in the vibrant intellectual life of our program.

2020

• Marco Carvajal was the 2020 Paris Program in Critical Theory Fellow.

• Deise Cuate received the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Travel Grant.

• Carlos Halaburda was accepted to attend the Summer Institute of Psychoanalysis and Pol itics at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris.

• Yasmín S. Portales Machado  was awarded the SSRC’ Sum mer Dissertation Proposal Development (DPD) Program Fellow ship.

• Catalina Rodriguez was awarded the 2020 Northwestern Presidential Fellowship--the most prestigious fellowship in the univer sity.

• Jesse Rothbard  was awarded the Brazil Initiation Scholarship from BRASA to conduct exploratory research in Salvador de Bahia and Sao Paulo to explore portrayals of queerness in contemporary Brazilian crime narratives and he will participate in the Middlebury Summer Language Institute for Portuguese.

2021

• Deise Cuate participated in the 2021-2022 Alice Kaplan Public Humanities Graduate Research Workshop and successfully led and created “Mexican Voices in NYC,” a community and networking event. She was also named a 2021-2022 Office of Diversity and In clusion Peer Mentor, and was part of the 2021-2022 Searle Teach ing Certification Program.

• Carlos Halaburda was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada

• Christian Vázquez Infante was selected as part of the Northwestern Public Humanities Initiative in the Center for Civic En gagement Program. Christian estab lished a collaboration, exploring public-facing scholarship and careers beyond the tenure-track through an 8-week internship with Guild Literary Complex. Christian was in charge of curating Palabra Pura series, for which he has organized two events — first one in February 2022 featured Colombian author Velia Vidal and Dominican author Kianny Antigua in conversation on af ro-representation in children literature; the second one in April featured Colombian poets Carolina Sánchez, Johanna Barraza Tafur, María Paz Guerrero y Tania Garitsky with Silvia Goldman as moderator. Two more events took place in May and June 2022 around the New Latino Literature Boom.

• Eduardo Bello has been granted a LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Fellowship from the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collection of the University of Texas at Austin, where he will be working on a critical index of the Mexican 19th century periodical, Violetas del Anáhuac.

• Deise Cuate is the recipient of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Program Research Grant for both 2020 & 2021 academic years, as well as the 2022-2023 Latina and Latino Studies Program Graduate Assistantship.

• Felipe Gutiérrez has been selected for the 2022-2023 Block Museum Graduate Interdis ciplinary Fellowship. Felipe is our first graduate student granted this fellowship and in this position he will be both deepening his research skills and project as well as working beyond those areas to support the museum’s inclusive artistic program.

• Heloísa Imada has been awarded a fellowship from Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD) and Direçcao-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas (DGLAB) in Portugal to conduct research at the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo

• Mauricio Oportus Preller was awarded both a Buffet Global Impacts and a Kaplan Institute of Humanities Fellowship and has chosen to be the Frank Graduate Fellow at Kaplan Insti tute, pursuing his project “Juridical Fictions: Literary Representations of the Law in Latin American Modern Fiction (1882–1929).”

• María Camila Palacio has been granted to Buffett Institute Global Impacts Fellowship for the coming 2022-2023 academic year. She will be Buffett Institute Fellow pursuing her project on the narratives and aftermath of violence in Colombian internal conflict.

• Yasmin S. Portales-Machado was awarded The Graduate School Summer Graduate Re search Grant to access the University of South Florida’s Science Fiction & Fantasy Collection in Tampa (FL) to conduct research for her dissertation, entitled “Queer People in Strange Times: Families and Sexualities in Contemporary Cuban Science Fiction.”

• Jesse Rothbard was awarded a summer research grant from the Sexualities Project at Northwestern to travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina to conduct research for a dissertation chapter entitled “Homosexuales con gusto y placer: Miguel de Molina, the San Martín Ca dets, and the Pleasures of the Pose.”

• Christian Vázquez Infante is the recipient of the Buffett Institute Graduate Dissertation Research Travel Award, for his project: “Building a Country: Cultural Initiatives and the Role of Literature in Colombia’s State Formation.” Christian conducted his research in Colombia.

GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

The6 th annual Chicago Graduate Conference in Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latinx Studies, hosted by the University of Chicago, in collaboration with Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, took place April 14th-16 th, virtually. The theme for the conference, in the remote format at the University of Chicago, was  “The Human on the Margins,”  with keynote speakers Patricia Vieira, Marisol de la Cadena, and Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos.

Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian societies were constituted by the collision of worlds, perspectives, bodies, objects, species, and subjectivities. The frameworks of these processes range from the so-called “Columbian exchange” in the 15th century, the global spread of diseases, to contemporary migration flows—a long history of circulation, contacts, and displacements. This conference invited participants to rethink human and non-human re lationships in the Hispanic and Lusophone context, broadening perspectives on the agents of cultural transformation and bringing various periods and lines of thought into conversa tion. Discussions revolved around questions like “How are the margins between the human and the non-human built?” “How do different imaginaries approach these junctions?” “In what ways does this perspective help us rethink different categories, such as race, gender, and class?” The many possibilities include the effects of the encounters between objects, living organisms, languages, and knowledge; the epistemological differences between the traditions of the global North and South; the conceptualizations of subject, space, land scape, and territory; the post-human and ecocritical perspectives of the transoceanic, in sular, and peninsular worlds; the cultural productions born on the margins.

SPANISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

BY MARÍA J. BARROS AND ELENA LANZA

Startingin Fall 2020, María J. Barros and Elena Lanza assumed the roles of Director and Assistant Director of the Spanish Language Program, amid the COVID-19 pan demic, which meant that we were all working remotely for the entire AY 2020-2021. In AY 2021-2022 we were back on campus, except for a couple of weeks in winter, when course coordinators and team members displayed once again their dedication to our students, their resiliency, and their ability to effectively adapt to the changes brought on by the pan demic. Despite all the challenges, adjustments, and concerns of the past two academic years, the Spanish Language Program (SLP) pulled through together and offered a total of 268 sections of 14 different courses, with an enrollment of 3,864 students. In addition, several events for professional development were organized, including: three workshops lead by Dr. Fernando Rubio (The University of Utah), titled “Moving through the intermediate level of proficiency, tar geting advanced I,” “Moving through the intermediate level of proficiency, targeting advanced II,” and “Assessment in the proficiency-based classroom;” one workshop by Dr. Kevin Gaugler, from Marist College, titled “Modeling Performance-based L2 Instruction;” and a presentation titled “Practices to Promote the Responsible Use of Online Trans lators, Dictionaries, and Other Tools in Language Classrooms,” by Dr. Errol O’Neill, from The University of Memphis. Moreover, in Fall 2020 the SLP Talks Series was reinstated, allowing teaching-track faculty the opportunity to share their pedagogical and/or research projects. These talks are opened to other language programs and Departments at NU, with the aim of disseminating our work and networking. In the last two years, the following nine talks have been presented:

• “Rising from the Ashes: The Brave Tale of the Crypto-Jews,” Rifka Cook

• “Moving Past the Monolingual Norm in the Language Classroom: Lessons from Research on Bilingual Phonology,” Sara Stefanich

• “Negotiations of Language: An Analysis of Learn er-Learner and Learner-Native Speaker Online Interactions,” Lauren Hetrovicz

• “Creating Community through Cross-Cultural Conver sations,” Rifka Cook

• “Integrating Civic Learning and Engaged Citizenship in our Spanish Courses,” Eider Etxebarría Zuluaga

• “Students’ language perceptions and learning goals and their effect on post-secondary language program retention: bridging theory and practice,” Irene Finestrat-Martínez

• “Exploring and Expressing identity through poetry in the Spanish Heritage Language class room,” Sara Stefanich

• “An Inner Connection: Intertwined Secrets of the Notable Historical Figures of Spain,” Rifka Cook

• “OERS and Possibilities,” Elena Lanza and Reyes Morán

A crucial endeavor for the past two academic years has been the redesign of the SLP curric ulum, as recommended by the Program Review performed in 2019. Since then, the Spanish Language Curriculum Committee, together with the department chair, the DUS and course

coordinators, have been working on an in-depth revision of the first-, second- and third-year courses, and designed a curricular map following ACTFL guidelines and performance indica tors for novice to advanced-low levels of proficiency.

In 2021 the SLP spearheaded the departmental State ment on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), as well as the creation of the DEI Committee. Two more committees created in Fall 2021 are the Teaching-Track Mentorship Committee, which assists SLP faculty who seek mentorship in matters related to reappointment and promotion processes, and the SLP Professional Development and Extracurricular Activities Committee, charged with organizing professional development events for faculty and extracurricular activities for students, such as Tacita de Café, Círculo de Lectores, Study Break, Té con Té, and the Spanish Table. These activities were offered via Zoom during the height of the pandemic and resumed mostly in-person in AY 2021-2022.

In Spring 2022 SLP faculty participated in the NU Fes tival of Languages and Cultures, with a full program of activities during a week in May, which included the collaboration of Alianza and Mariachi Northwestern. In addition, an interactive workshop led by the re nown cartoonist Ricardo Liniers took place on May 25, with the title “Drawn to Resist: The Creation of Latin American Comics.”

Finally, a new SLP Library has been created, consisting of a collection of relevant publications for the profes sion, housed in the Department’s Main Office. To pay tribute to our colleagues who are retiring, this sem inal library will be named “The SLP Emeriti Library.” The plan is to continue acquiring new materials in the upcoming years, as well as to embrace any donations from retired and active faculty members.

COMING AND GOING

Five new colleagues will be joining the SLP next academic year as continuing faculty: Estilita Cassiani Obeso, Nancy Dominguez-Fret, Eider Etxeberría Zuluaga, Irene Finestrat Martinez and Julia Oliver-Rajan. We look forward to welcoming you in Fall 2022! It was such a pleasure to have Lauren Hetrovicz (2019-2021), Sarah Stefanich (2019-2022) and Julio Ariza (20212022) as part of the SLP team, and we wish you the best of luck with your future endeavors. And after stellar 30+ years careers at NU, Penny Nichols and Sue Pechter retired in Spring 2022. We will always be grateful for their dedication to the SLP and to our students, as well as their collegiality, insightfulness, mentorship, and excellence in teaching and service.

As we conclude our first two years as DSLP and ADSLP, we would like to thank all our col leagues for their support and commitment to the program and the department, as shown in the many contributions and work listed above. Also, the DSLP would also like to give special thanks to Elena Lanza and Denise Bouras, who served as Interim DSLP and ADSLP during Fall 2021 and Winter 2022.

SPANISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM AWARDS

2019-2020

• Best Essay for Spanish 200-level Literature and Culture Classes Prize: Ellen Howard – Win ner, Brian Sui - Honorable Mention

• Best Essay for Spanish 300-level Literature and Culture Classes Prize: Adrian LaFont-Muel ler - Winner, Chloe Roberts - Honorable Mention

2020-2021

• Best Essay for Spanish 200-level Literature and Culture Classes Prize Josh Sanford – Win ner

• The Fernández-Morera Prize for the Best 300-level Essay in Hispanic or Latin American Literature and Culture: Samuel Primis and Hannah Oelschlager - Winners

• The Vera R. Teixeira Prize: Samuel Primis - Winner

2021-2022

• Best Essay for Spanish 200-level Literature and Culture Classes Prize: Phoebe Cahill and Russell Leung – Winners, Rachel Assaf, Catherine Heming, and Christina Barclay – Honor able Mentions

• Best Paper for Spanish 200-level Language Course Lily Browdy - Winner

• The Darío Fernández-Morera Prize for the Best 300-level Essay in Hispanic or Latin American Literature and Culture: Samuel Primis - Winner

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The Vera R. Teixeira Prize: Carolina Stutz - Winner

• The Humberto E. Robles Prize for the Best Honor Thesis in Spanish: Samuel Primis - Winner

SPOTLIGHT ON SAMUEL PRIMIS ‘22

TheDepartment of Spanish and Portuguese recognizes Samuel Primis for his many accomplishments during his years at Northwestern. From winning the Vera R. Teixeira Prize in 2021, to receiving the Darío Fernández-Morera Prize in 2021 and 2022, as well as the Humberto E. Robles Prize the same year, Sam has shown exemplary dedication to his education and the language of his family. Sam graduated with WCAS Honors in Spanish with a double major of International Studies and Spanish, with a minor in Portuguese. He will be continuing his education at Georgetown University in Fall 2022, where he will pursue a master’s degree in Latin American Studies. Congratulations, Sam!

PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS

BY ANA THOMÉ WILLIAMS

Thepandemic did not stop our Portuguese Language Program to continuously offer a plurality of academic-cultural events, and to grow. Thanks to technology and Zoom meetings, we received guests, native speakers of Portuguese from different countries, including Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique, to give talks and stir conversations in Portuguese with our stu dents. When we could not celebrate cultural festivi ties or accomplishments together, we could still keep the rhythm and interact. We had the privilege to count on writers and activists, visual artists, musicians, language professors, college students from differ ent countries, and even, a 2020 Tokyo Olympian. Our students in Port 201 (Reading and Speaking) partici pated in intercultural dialogues with Brazilian college students in Brazil. Students in Port 202 (Reading and Writing) wrote blogs and, for the first time, transformed their family stories into a book illustrated by many Portuguese native children across the globe.

In 2021, Ana T. Williams was the mentor of 2 under graduate students in a single project, Georgia Dutra from NU and Pietra N. de Carvalho from Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Both students observed interactions between students of Portuguese and native speakers in Bra zil during the pandemic, the main focus was the symbolic exchanges among them in Portu guese. Georgie presented her poster at the URAO Fair: Symbolic Exchanges in Portuguese in conversations about travels. As Georgia’s mentor, Ana was one of the finalists for the Fletch er Prize for Excellence in Research Mentorship.

We had a book release in the winter of 2022 at the library. Students in Port 303 deepened their knowledge of the Lusophone Culture and Literature, they published online booklets and wrote meaningful awarded papers. In 2022, we counted on an extra instructor, Profa. Mirella Silva.

DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE EVENTS

UPCOMING DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE EVENTS

September:

Race in Space Symposium

October:

Luz Marina Becerra, “Conversation with Luz Marina Becerra”

Guillermina De Ferrari, Halls Bascom Prof. of Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, “Wildly Seduced and Wounded”

Drs. Berenice Alcántara and Mario A. Sánchez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). “Sermones en lengua náhuatl del México del siglo XVI: retos para su studio / Ser mons in the Nahuatl language of 16th century Mexico: challenges for study”

November:

Paloma Duong, MIT Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, “Alternative and Apocalypse in/ and Latin America: From the Pink Tide to the Green Deluge with Paloma Duong, Assoc. Prof of Latin and Media Studies MIT Comparative Media Studies and Writing”

January:

Maria Cristina Volpi, Universidade federal do Rio de Janeiro, “The Exotic West: The Circuit of Carioca Featherwork in the Nineteenth Century”

Eugenia Afinoguénova, Marquette University, “The Prado: Spanish Culture and Leisure (1819-1939)”

February:

Juan Darío Restrepo Figueroa, curator, Centro de Museos Instituto Caro y Cuervo “La Hacienda Yerbabuena del Instituto Caro y Cuervo y el Museo Literario del siglo XIX”

April:

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, “Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage”

More 2022-23 events to come.

EMERITUS FACULTY

DARIO FERNÁNDEZ-MORERA

BY CHAIR EMILY MCGUIRE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

ProfessorDarío Fernández-Morera retired in 2021 after 43 years of dedicated and active service as a member of the Department of Spanish and Portu guese. He arrived at Northwestern in 1977, fresh from the completion of his PhD in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and held the position of Assistant Professor of Spanish from 1977 until his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in 1982, position he held until his retirement.

A specialist on medieval and Golden Age Spanish Lit erature, Prof. Fernández-Morera is the author of three single-author monographs and three edited volumes, in addition to numerous articles, book chapters, and review articles. His first book, which helped earn him promotion with tenure, was The Lyre and the Oaten Flute: Garcilaso and the Pastoral (Tamesis 1982), on the poetry of the Golden Age poet Garcilaso de la Vega. His most recent book, The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain (2016), is currently on its third printing, and reviews of it have appeared in more than a dozen newspapers and jour nals. It has been published in French and Spanish translation, and it was listed by the London Financial Times among their “Best Books on History” for 2016. Alongside his own scholarly production, Prof. Fernández-Morera has maintained an active profile of academic service. He has been a regular reviewer for such respected academic journals as Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Hispanic Review, Hispanófila, and the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, and he is an active member of a several scholarly associations, the International Cervantes Society, and the International Society of Hispanists among them. He also served on the National Council of the Humanities from 2002 until 2008, a national honor and a recognition of his standing in the field.

In addition to his active scholarly profile, Prof. Fernández-Morera was devoted to teaching and mentoring students throughout his long career at Northwestern. From 1980 to 1995, he served as a Faculty Associate for both Willard and Shepherd Halls (from 1980 to 1995). His course on Cervantes, taught in English for non-majors, has consistently been among our most popular undergraduate courses. In 2008, his dedication to teaching received official recognition when he was awarded the Best Teacher Award from the Graduate School of Con tinuing Studies. It is thus no exaggeration to say that Prof. Fernández-Morera gave a lifetime of service to Northwestern as an institution and to the Department of Spanish and Portu guese in particular. His colleagues and the students he served and mentored thank him for his dedication.

SUE PECHTER

BY DENISE BOURAS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF INSTRUCTION

SuePechter, Associate Professor of Instruction, is retiring in 2022, after 23 years of dedication and service to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Profes sor Pechter earned her BA in Russian Education and Span ish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then came to Northwestern University to complete her MA in Spanish literature. Later, she returned to NU in 1999 to teach in the Spanish Language Program (SLP), where she co ordinated and taught the first-year Spanish sequence, with a focus on digital curriculum development.

Year after year, Professor Pechter designed and organized all aspects of the Spanish 101 course curriculum and led large teams of SLP faculty and numerous sections of students to successful outcomes. Throughout her time at Northwest ern, she was an exemplary role model for her colleagues in both her leadership and teach ing, always prioritizing personal connections and meaningful interactions. In the classroom, Professor Pechter encouraged her students daily and aimed to foster critical thinking skills while integrating Spanish language and cultures. Time and time again, Professor Pechter’s students commented on her patience, her empathy, and her innate capacity to create a com fortable yet productive learning environment. They described her classes as fun, engaging and well-organized, qualities that are the cornerstones of successful language teaching and learning.

In addition to her essential work in the Introductory Spanish sequence, Professor Pechter spearheaded various program-level initiatives and was an outspoken proponent of more representation, agency, and voice for teaching-track faculty in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She served as the department’s Faculty Senator from 2017-2020, on the Weinberg Lecturer Promotion and Reappointment Committee from 2014-2016, the University Hearing and Appeals System from 2006-2014 and as a member of the Council on Language Instruction (CLI) from 1999-2022. Additionally, Professor Pechter successfully mentored many SLP faculty candidates for promotion and served on numerous departmental com mittees throughout the years, including several key teach ing-track search committees.

This year, we pause to honor Professor Pechter and extend our gratitude not only for her professionalism and vision for the SLP but also for her ability to direct our attention to the lighter side of work life, her sense of humor, her finesse, and her kindness. Finally, we congratulate Professor Pechter on her retirement after the incredible years of hard work and acknowledge her unfaltering commitment to building a sol id foundation for the SLP during her tenure at Northwestern University.

PENNY NICHOLS

BY HEATHER COLBURN, PROFESSOR OF INSTRUCTION

Afteralmost four decades at Northwestern, Penny Nichols, Associate Professor of Instruction, is retiring in 2022. With both an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a specialization in Golden Age Prose, Professor Nichols has spent her career at Northwestern compassionately guiding students in their intellectual and personal development through her teaching and service to the Spanish Language Program (SLP), the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, WCAS and the University.

Throughout her career in Northwestern’s Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Prof. Nichols has focused on teaching both 200-level courses and first-year semi nars, and her service work has largely focused on stu dent well-being as a WCAS first-year adviser. In the Department, her consistent work on behalf of, and dedication to, the liberal arts mission has been evident in her development and coordination of SLP courses that counted towards the major/minor. For decades, Prof. Nichols has balanced level-appropriate linguistic learning objectives with the level of intel lectual inquiry required of majors/minors. Her careful focus on examining films, literary and other texts to gain understanding of various Spanish-speaking cultures while developing linguistic proficiency is most recently evident in her decade of work as Spanish 201 Course Coordinator. Prof. Nichols’ daily work in the classroom has consistently created a supportive community of learners that help each other push beyond their comfort zones and broaden their understanding of the world. This expertise in combining intellectual inquiry with com munication is also reflected in her decades of teaching a first-year seminar and serving as a first-year adviser. Serving both the Department and College, as a first-year professor and adviser Prof. Nichols has guided students academically and supportively through their initial quarter(s) at Northwestern. Moreover, for many years Professor Nichols continued this focus on student well-being through her service on both the University Hearing and Appeals Sys tem (UHAS) and Sexual Assault Hearing and Appeals System (SAHAS).

Prof. Nichols’ extraordinary ability to supportively and compassionately teach and mentor students was one of the reasons she was awarded the WCAS Community Building Award in 2007-08 and the WCAS Freshman Seminar Award in 2011-12. Indeed, her focus on commu nity building is also keenly evident in the constant mentoring of colleagues during her time at Northwestern both in the Department as well as in her work with the Council of Language Instruction, of which she was a member for decades.

Despite this quite incomplete summary of the many ways that Professor Nichols has positively impacted colleagues and students in the SLP, the Department, WCAS and the Univer sity, we recognize and thank her for the decades she has dedicated to ensuring that North western students, faculty and staff have both the opportunity to learn and the freedom to advocate for a more just world. We congratulate Professor Nichols on her retirement and thank her for all the ways—both great and small—that she has made Northwestern a better place for everyone, particularly for her undergraduates and her colleagues.

ALUMNI UPDATES

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL ALUMNI

JACK MARTINEZ ARIAS '17 has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in the His panic Studies Department at Hamilton College beginning July 1, 2022. In terms of scholarly publications, his article “Ante el realismo cíclico en los Andes: la narrativa especulativa de Edmundo Paz Soldán” is forthcoming in Confluencia, a journal of Colorado State University. His third novel will be released in fall 2022.

LILY FRUSCIANTE ’19 served as the Department of Spanish and Portu guese’s visiting assistant professor for two years. She now continues to work on her children’s books and recently put a new fantasy novel on sub mission to publishers. At the start of 2022, she accepted a position as a freelance copy editor, proofreader, and fact-checker for the independent publisher, Chronicle Books.

CINTIA KOZONOI VEZZANI '21 has been completing her translation of Júlia Lopes de Almeida’s 1901 novel, A Falência (The Bankruptcy), for which she received the English PEN Translates Award in 2021. The book is forthcoming with UCL Press. Cintia has also submitted the essay “Querida amiga, querido amante, cara leitora: Mulheres e Cartas em O Marido da Adúltera (1882) e Correio da Roça (1913)” to the collection Uma história feminista da literatura brasileira, forthcoming with Papéis Selvagens. Cin tia also served as co-organizer for the event “Indigenous Struggles to Preserve Their Land in Brazil ,” which was sponsored by Northwestern’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. The event was a roundtable featuring indigenous leaders and scholars of Brazilian history and culture.

SPANISH LANGUAGE UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI

MEREDITH FALK ’19 received a Fulbright ETA (English Teaching Assistant) grant in Guadalajara, Mexico to teach university students at Universidad Tecnológica de Jalisco. After receiving her Illinois teaching license, she took a position teaching 7th and 8th grade Spanish at Washburne Middle School in Winnetka, her middle school alma mater. She loves telling her students about her adventures in Mexico, and sharing tidbits from her NU Spanish classes.

BECCA SMITH ’17 double majored in Communication Studies and Spanish, and has continued to use her language skills in both professional and personal contexts. After graduating from Northwestern, she worked in Me dellín, Colombia for four years. In 2021, she was awarded a Fulbright grant to pursue a master’s degree in Human Resources at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. She credits her degree in Spanish and her study abroad experiences while at Northwestern for greatly prepared her for her international career.

NEWS FROM THE LIBRARY 2020-2022

BY MICHELLE GUITTAR

Asthe librarian for Latin American Studies and liaison to the department of Spanish and Portuguese, one of my main duties continues to be purchasing books to support the re search of faculty and graduate students. In addition to those purchased by my librarian colleagues to support specific disciplines, I purchased more than 300 titles in the past two years, including 50 e-books, based on requests from faculty and graduate students in the department of Spanish and Portuguese or from the Latin American Studies Program. When the financial austerity measures that began in 2018-2019 continued through the Covid-19 pandemic, the library instituted a demand-driven acquisitions program through JSTOR for e-books published by academic presses. Discoverable in NUSearch, if a title is viewed and read a specific number of times, it is purchased and added to the library’s permanent col lection of e-books. I continue to purchase titles from Latin America and the Caribbean as requests come in, so please send me any collection requests you may have. In addition to purchasing books and films for the library’s collections, I also have met with many of you via Zoom over the past two years to either provide research assistance or answer questions about collections or instruction support materials. There is much about library research that is actually easier to demonstrate via Zoom, so if you or your students have any questions about navigating the library’s website or resources, please let me know.

One additional campus-wide faculty initiative that Northwestern Libraries supports is the ongoing Teaching Practicum series for instructors. First, following up on the success of the Foundations of Online Teaching Practicum (2020-2021) and the Inclusive Teaching Practicum (2021-2022), in 2022-2023 the next practicum in the series will be Addressing Evolving Needs with Universal Design for Learning. This practicum will explore practical applications of Uni versal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to create more supportive, inclusive, flexible, and accessible learning environments for all students. More information about registration will be coming soon.

WHO’S WHO IN THE DEPARTMENT IN 2022-2023 FACULTY

Raquel Amorese, Assistant Professor of Instruction

Elisa Baena, Professor of Instruction

María Jesús Barros García, Associate Professor of Instruction

Denise Bouras, Associate Professor of Instruction

Nathalie Bouzaglo, Associate Professor

César Braga-Pinto, WCAS Associate Dean for Graduate Studies & George F. Appel Professor in the Humanities

Jacob Brown, Lecturer

Miguel Caballero, Assistant Professor

René Carrasco, Lecturer

Estilita Cassiani Obeso, Assistant Professor of Instruction

Chyi Chung, Professor of Instruction

Heather Colburn, Professor of Instruction

Jeffrey Coleman, Associate Professor

Rifka Cook, Associate Professor of Instruction

Jorge Coronado, Professor

Naira Corzon Cortez, Lecturer

José Delpino, Visiting Assistant Professor

Anna Diakow, Assistant Professor of Instruction

Caroline Egan, Assistant Professor

Eider Etxebarria, Assistant Professor of Instruction

Irene Finestrat, Assistant Professor of Instruction

Rodrigo García-Velasco, Sava Ranisavljevic Postdoctoral Fellow

Leonardo Gil Gómez, Visiting Assistant Professor

Mirella Gomes da Silva, Lecturer

Lucille Kerr, Professor

Elena Lanza, Associate Professor of Instruction

Emily Maguire, Chair/Associate Professor

Shannon Milliken, Associate Professor of Instruction

Reyes Morán, Associate Professor of Instruction

Asha Nagaraj, Assistant Professor of Instruction

Julia Oliver Rajan, Associate Professor of Instruction

Deborah Rosenberg, Assistant Professor of Instruction

Sue Pechter, Associate Professor Emeritus

Tasha Seago-Ramaly, Assistant Professor of Instruction

Benay Stein, Assistant Professor of Instruction

Ana Thomé Williams, Professor of Instruction

Alejandra Uslenghi, Associate Professor

María Teresa Villanueva, Associate Professor of Instruction

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Lina Britto – History

Geraldo Cadava – History

Harris Feinsod – English

Marcela A. Fuentes – Performance Studies

Doris Garraway – French & Italian

Reginald Gibbons – English

Paul Gillingham – History

José Medina – Philosophy

J. Michelle Molina – Religious Studies

Mary Weismantel – Anthropology

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Amanda Bartosiak, Business Coordinator

Michelle Farra, Undergraduate Program Assistant

Zhenya Tsanev, Graduate Program Assistant

Inka Rzezinowska, Work Study Assistant

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL PH.D. GRADUATES

Lily Catherine Frusciante, Ph.D.

December 20, 2019

“Beyond Memory’s Limits: Resistance, Justice, and Truth in Contemporary Bra zilian, Chilean, and Argentine Culture”

Walther Maradiegue, Ph.D. September 04, 2020

“Geographies of Indigeneity: Space, Race, and Power in the Andes, 18801930”

Veronica Enid DaVila, Ph.D. September 04, 2020

“Uttering Sonic Dominicanidad: Women and Queer Performers of Musica Urbana”

Carlos Gustavo Halaburda, Ph.D.

September 03, 2021

“La fragilidad de la piel: el melodrama y los futuros reproductivos de la blanqui tud en América Latina, 1880-1910”

Cintia Kozonoi Vezzani, Ph.D.

September 03, 2021

“Prohibited Pleasures: Female Literacy, Sex and Adultery in Turn-of-the-Century Brazilian Fiction”

Leonardo Gil Gomez, Ph.D.

December 17, 2021

“La conspiración de las gramíneas. Es trategias de la literatura y cultura visual latinoamericanas para una crítica de la plantación”

Zorimar Rivera Montes, Ph.D. March 25, 2022

“¿Quién le debe a quién?: Debt and Co loniality in Contemporary Puerto Rican Culture”

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL SPANISH & PORTUGESE LANGUAGE PROGRAM GRADUATES

Spanish Majors

2020

Bianchi, Griffin Leo Bibby, Margaret Marshall Fishman, Jennifer Hanna Harpel, Carli C

Hernandez Caballero, Estefa nia

Horowitz, Rachel Bella Kluever, Mary Emma McGannon, Ryan Thomas Roberts, Chloe M

2021 Alexander, Calvin Spenser Bloom, Christasia Charlene Dominique Krantz, Tara Megan Nyabingi, Olufemi Folasade Yazhari, Mark Vahid

2022 Beerswing, Anthony Luis Primis, Samuel Joseph Reid, Maya L. Svoboda, Braden Michael Wetoska, Nina Marie

Spanish Minors

2020

Barber, Isabella Sarah Barnett, Jane Emma David son

Boulos, Jolie Ann Burakoff, Madeline Kim Calba, Dorothy Ann Chwa, Emily Shin David, Daphne Briones Dierksheide, Kathryn Julia Doyle, Solis Alexandra Duner, Emily Bess Ellingson, Melana JoLee Everhart, Olivia Anne Fanning, Norah Claire Farish, Stephanie E Gleisner, David Andrew Goodman, Sarah Luissa Vega Hua, Mulan Jadhav, Priyanka Sujay Katzman, Lily S Kim, Joon Sang Krolik, Hayley Jacqueline Kula, Anthony David Lampe, Anna Lending, Jacob I Maeso, Allegra Katherine May, Jacob Alexander McKone, Lindsey Moreno Morales, Javier Ale jandro Munoz, Isamar Neubert, Sarah Walsh Poindexter, Kaitlyn Nicole Postolowicz, Kamila

Richards, Alexandra Rae Roemer, Alissa Rutstein, Sarah Ashley Sanderson, Katharine Virginia Sands, Natalie Olivia Stoa, Mary Morgan Struik, Gabrielle Marie Tannebaum, Alexander Galant Vollero, Alexandra Maria Wanberg, William Lloyd West, Haley Sarah Wholihan, Laurel Christine Zornosa, Laura Isabel 2021 Baas, Jared Daniel Bowen, Myles K Boyle, Colin Aelred Carroll, Alec Cerf, Emily Kathleen Christian, Shea Marie Chun, Natalie Czochara, Gabriela Anna Dein, Abigail Claire Detweiler, Zoe Grace Emmons, Hannah Gail, Kendall Rose Gilbert, Lauren Olivia Herman, Cameron Marie Ingram, Kara E Jasnoch, Kinsey Linnae Johnson, Alyssa Michele Joosse, Gemma Clare Juarez, Monica Raquel Kent, Amy Caroline Kosover, Danielle Leya

Leavitt, Alexandra Sabater

Lemon, Grace McVay Lesus II, Raymond Joseph Leupold, Grace Marianne Lubowitz, Lindsey Rachel Martinez, Marissa L. McKessy, John FitzGerald Millan, Danielle Miller, Lauren Lee Murray, Grace Elizabeth Quintana, Bryana Farmer Ramsay, Mary Grace Roeder, Judith Marjory Scofield, Melina Sexton-Holtmeier, Tyler Sherman, Joanna Meredith Taft, Elizabeth Catherine Williams, Mikayla Danielle

2022

Benjamin, Omari Hernandez Capoot, Ashley Lynn Chase, Colin Winkler Christopherson, John Wil liams

Cushman, Celine Gabrielle Dasso, Eleanor Hart Fortin, Andrew Steven Gold, Alexandra Callie Gonzalez, Hannah Bella Jackson, Alana Tomia Jong, Sarah Diane Kalishman, Amanda Jordan Kemp, Susanna Rose Leggett, Emmeline Rose Levin, Sophia Elizabeth Liu, Lucy T Lobo, Kendall Elizabeth Marks, Nicholas Austin McGruder, Leah Rene Murray, Joseph Sullivan Obstler, Andrew C Oelschlager, Hannah Esther Ogbuefi, Nkiru Persaud, Shane Prakash Rabon, Gabrielle Jun Rackley, Cristina Marie Rawitscher, Courtney Hannah Romansky, Joseph Caleb Rubin, Sofia Dyer Sanchez, Tamara Shah, Richa Bhavesh Singh, Karaj P Taitano, Eric Wicko, Aleksandra Zoeller, McCaffery (Mac) An drew

Portuguese Minors 2020

Badion, Joseph Solomon

2021

Bridgemohan, Abigael Sarita Hernandez, Irazu

2022 Kissoon, Tamara S Primis, Samuel Joseph Ruiz, Jonathan Francisco Gonzalez, Hannah Bella

AND CULTURES

A NOTE FROM EMILY MAGUIRE, INCOMING DEPARTMENT CHAIR

Itis an honor to have been asked to serve as chair of the De partment of Spanish and Portuguese for a three-year term beginning in September 2022. Being entrusted with the leader ship of the department is a responsibility that I don’t take lightly. Weinberg College solicits the feedback of department members in selecting a new chair, and I am grateful for the trust that is being placed in me by colleagues.

I firmly believe, however, that the spirit of a department is shaped not just by its leadership, but by everyone who contrib utes to it. As many of you know, I served as interim chair for the 2020 calendar year. It was a challenging experience, as I chaired the department through the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic. I could not have faced the demands of that moment without the help, support, and unfailing dedication of numerous members of the department: the department administrator and program assistant, Raluca Rustandi and Zhenya Tsanev; the Directors of the SLP, Chyi Chung and María Barros García; the DUS and DGS, Nathalie Bouzaglo and Alejandra Uslenghi, and the many colleagues who showed up despite various difficult circumstances of their own. It offered me a crucial lesson in the importance of connection and community, even (especially) when the natural conditions for forming those connections are not in place.

I’m happy to say that I begin this new chairship at a vastly different moment. The arrival of new colleagues over these past two years, with more to come on board this year, has brought new energy and enthusiasm to our programs, in particular the Spanish Language Program and the area of Peninsular Studies. Our graduate program continues to be strong and vibrant, and I am confident that the changes we’re making to our undergraduate cur ricula will help us continue to attract talented undergraduates as majors and minors. Some of the credit undoubtedly goes to the outgoing chair, César Braga-Pinto, who has deftly steered the department’s ship safely through the storms of the pandemic. But credit goes to all my colleagues, who have given – and continue to give – their energy to the project of building a vibrant department we can all be proud to call our home here at Northwestern. I am so happy to be working with all of you and am so excited to see what the next three years bring.

Saludos cordiales, Emily

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Northwestern University

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