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LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

Aswepassthemid-pointofourverybusyfirst quarter of return to in-person teaching and activities at the University, I am delighted to share some of the extraordinary accomplishments from the 2020-21 academic year.

The past pandemic year did not dampen the dynamism of RLL, and we are thrilled with the results of a very busy recruiting season that is bringingaburstofnewtalentanddistinctionto our department. While we fêted the accomplishments of our internationally renowned faculty members joining the emeriti ranks (Arnold Davidson [co-terminous appointment from Philosophy], Philippe Desan, and Thomas Pavel), we also looked to future renewal. In a tremendous step forward for our ongoing faculty growth in Hispanic and LusoBrazilian Studies (HLBS), Sergio Delgado Moya has accepted an appointment as tenured Associate Professor in Latin American/Latinx Studies;welookforwardtowelcominghimon

campus when his appointment begins this comingJuly!

Meanwhile, this Fall’s return to campus has beenenrichedbyahostofgiftednewfull-time Instructional Professors in Spanish (James Óscar León Weber and Celia Bravo Díaz), Basque and Spanish (Irati de Nicolás Saiz), CatalanandSpanish(PauCañigueralBatllosera), PortugueseandSpanish(AlanParma),and,ina first for our program, in Haitian Kreyol and French(GerdineUlysse).

As the following pages illustrate, the 2020-21 year saw our faculty awarded a stunning number of prestigious honors — including top awards for books and articles, prestigious fellowships/grants, and teaching awards — while also producing a cornucopia of publications in a range of languages from the leading presses and most prestigious venues in theUS,Europe,andLatinAmerica.

Turning to our graduate program, we are particularly proud of the department’s stunning successes in the placement of recent PhDs. Amongour2020classofPhDsalone,ouralumni garnered this year tenure-track faculty positions attopdepartmentsintheirfieldattheUniversity of Cambridge (Isaias Fanlo, HLBS), Florida International University (Medardo Rosario, HLBS), and LSU (Bastien Craipain, French & Francophone Studies), as well as prestigious multi-year post-doctoral appointments at Harvard(MicheleKenfack,French&Francophone Studies) and Brown (Cosette Bruhns, Italian Studies).

In addition, our current graduate students were awarded important honors, including a recordbreaking five Dissertation Completion Fellowships.Acohortoffourgraduatestudents(3 in HLBS, and 1 in Italian Studies) completed and defended their doctoral dissertations. In view of these successes, we are excited to confirm that, after a one-year pause in graduate student admission due to the pandemic crisis, we are returning to robust graduate recruitment this Winterfora2022enteringclass.

Starring in the vibrant undergraduate class of 2020 were 13 RLL majors (5 in French & Francophone Studies, 5 in HLBS, 1 in Italian Studiesand2incombinedRomanceLanguages& Literatures)alongwith31minors(10inFrench,16 inHLBS,and5Italian).Specialcongratulationsgo to our four graduating students awarded BA Honors (one each in French, HLBS, Italian, and RLL).TheirBAHonorthesisprojectsrangedfrom a study of women activists in the Brazilian Amazon to the Italian-American diaspora, and their papers were awarded a dazzling host of prizes from within as well as from outside the University.

Finally, I urge you to enjoy the heart-warming imagesyou’llfindherefromthewinnersofthe RLLphotocontests.Duringayearofpandemicrelated stay-at-home work that prohibited our usual globetrotting, the department turned its gaze this year to some of the domestic scenes that enriched our lives during the Zoom year. With the return of our study-abroad programs this current year, we look forward to sending you in our next installment photographs that willonceagainillustratethebroadinternational range and cultural diversity that define the missionofourdepartment!

Happyreading!

Larry Norman Chair and Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures

CeliaBravoDíaz

Celia Bravo Díaz received her MA in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, & Linguistics from the University of Minnesota, where she is currently a PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition). She has taught a variety of undergraduate Spanish courses both in the United StatesandinSpain.ShealsoholdsaBAinLegalTranslationand InterpretationfromtheUniversityofGrenada,Spain,andsheisa Sworn Translator certified by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,EuropeanUnionandCooperation.

Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish

PauCañigueralBatllosera,anativeSpanishandCatalanspeaker fromGirona,Spain,startedteachingatthecollegelevelin2013, when he began his PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Since his graduation, he has taught a wide array of subjects, from language to literature and from culture to translation,attheCollegeoftheHolyCrossandBostonCollege. His research focuses on the literary relationships among the Mediterraneanliterarytraditionsinthefifteenthcentury.Hehas published articles on the influence of Dante and Boccaccio in Catalan Medieval literature in La corónica and Modern Language Notes. As a translator, he has published Catalan translations of OscarWilde's TheDecayofLying and TheCriticasArtist.

IratideNicolásSaiz

PauCañigueralBatllosera

Assistant Instructional Professor in Catalan & Spanish

Irati de Nicolás Saiz earned her MA and PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her dissertation and research focus on bilingualism and codeswitchingwithintheDeterminerPhrase.DuringhertimeatUIC, she taught a wide variety of courses both in the Spanish Basic Language Program and advanced topics for Spanish majors and minors.

Assistant Instructional Professor in Basque & Spanish

James Óscar León Weber was born in Quito, Ecuador and raisedintheUnitedStates.HehasanMAinEuropeanStudies from Aarhus University, in Denmark, as well as a master's degree in Translation Studies from Pompeu Fabra University.

James has taught Spanish at the University of Chicago since 2016 and was hired as full-time Assistant Instructional ProfessorinSeptember2021.

JamesÓscarLeónWeber

Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish

AlanParma wasborninasmalltowninthestateofSãoPaulo, Brazil.HeearnedhisPhDinHispanicLinguisticsfromFlorida State University in 2020. Alan studies Second Language Acquisition, and his other interests include volleyball, biking, performingandartsandcrafts.

GerdineUlysse

AlanParma

Assistant Instructional Professor in Portuguese & Spanish

Gerdine Ulysse was born in Haiti and taught Haitian Creole and French at various institutions in the United States. Her researchfocusesonlanguagevariationandfactorsinfluencing multilingualism and literacy development in Creolophone communities. She earned a PhD in Second language AcquisitionatCarnegieMellonUniversity.

Assistant Instructional Professor in French & Haitian Kreyol

Larissa Brewer-García received the Flora Tristán Award for the Best Book on Peru for Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada and the Award fortheBestArticlebyJuniorFacultyinColonial Studies for “Hierarchy and Holiness in the EarliestColonialBlackHagiographies:Alonsode Sandoval and his Sources.” Professor BrewerGarcía was also renewed for a second term at therankofAssistantProfessor.

Larissa Brewer-García, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Danielle Roper (in collaboration with Allyson Nadia Field and Chris Taylor) were awarded a NeubauerCollegiumFellowshipfortheirproject on the "Visual Regimes of Enslavement and TheirAfterlives."

Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of Commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes académiquesforhisexceptionalcontributionto teaching and promotion of French thought and culture.

Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. AndersonDistinguishedServiceProfessor.

Daisy Delogu was elected to serve on the Council of the University Senate for a threeyearterm.

Hoda El Shakry won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for The LiteraryQurʾan:NarrativeEthicsintheMaghreb.

MarthaFeldman hasbeennamedtheFerdinand SchevillDistinguishedServiceProfessor.

Alison James was awarded a 2021-22 Franke Faculty Fellowship for her research project, "FragileFictionsinContemporaryFrance"anda 2021-22 Neubauer Collegium Fellowship, with Françoise Lavocat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) and Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei GakuinUniversity),for"PossibleandImpossible Fictions." Professor James, along with Dan Bertsche (France Chicago Center), was also named Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes AcadémiquebytheFrenchConsulGeneral.

Fromleft:DanBertsche,AlisonJames, andGuillaumeLacroix.

FrançoiseLavocat receivedanHonoraryDegree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the UniversityofChicago.

Céline Legrand and Rebecca Petrush were promotedtoAssociateInstructionalProfessorin French.

AgnesLugo-Ortiz wasnameda2021-22Franke Faculty Fellow for her research project, "The Plantation Gaze: Slavery and Visual Culture in ColonialCuba(1727-1886)."

ClaudiaQuevedo-Webb and JulianoSaccomani were awarded a grant from the College Curricular Innovation Fund to collect and develop virtual reality materials for two new advanced-levelcoursestobetaughtin2023.

VictoriaSaramago receivedhonorablemention for the Antonio Candido Prize by the Latin American Studies Association Brazil section for her book, Fictional Environments: Mimesis and DeforestationinLatinAmerica.

Veronica Vegna received the 2021 Janel M. MuellerAwardforExcellenceinPedagogy.This award recognizes outstanding pedagogical contributions from Lecturers and Instructional ProfessorsintheDivisionoftheHumanities.

Ignoranza ed erudizione: L'Italia dei dogmi di fronte all'Europa scettica e critica (1500-1750)

Paolo Cherchi. Libreriauniversitaria.it, 2020

Gli esercizi spirituali della musica: Improvvisazione e creazione

Arnold I. Davidson. Mimesis, 2020

The Necropolitical Theater: Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage

Jeffrey K. Coleman (PhD'14). Northwestern University Press, 2020

Cuba y Cataluña en la segunda mitad del Siglo XIX: Teatro popular e identidades (proto)nacionales

Tànit Fernández de la Reguera (PhD'13). Madrid: Pliegos, 2021

Rousseau et le matérialisme

Clovis Gladstone (PhD'15).

Liverpool University Press, 2020

The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature

Alison James. Oxford University Press, 2020

Global Montaigne: Mélanges en l’honneur de Philippe Desan

Amy Graves (PhD'04; co-editor with Jean Balsamo). Classiques Garnier, 2021

Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Culture in the Maghreb and Beyond

Khalid Lyamlahy (co-editor with Jane Hiddleston).

Liverpool University Press, 2020

Catalina de Erauso: Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez

Miguel Martínez, editor. Castalia Ediciones, 2021

La breve luz de nuestros días

Pablo Ottonello. Neural, 2020

Comuneros: El rayo y la semilla (1520-1521)

Miguel Martínez. Hoja de Lata Editorial, 2021

Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America

Victoria Saramago. Northwestern University Press, 2020

Scrittura d’immagini: Pirandello e la visualità tra arte, filosofia e psicoanalisi

Michael Subialka (PhD’12; co-editor with Carlo Di Lieto and Lisa Sarti). Rubbettino, 2021

Arcangela Tarabotti. Antisatire: In Defense of Women, against Francesco Buoninsegni

Elissa B. Weaver, editor and translator. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, 2020

GRADUATE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

Beatrice Fazio was awarded a 2020–21 Arts, Science + Culture Initiative Graduate CollaborationGrantforherproject“Danteinthe Lab” with Tanvi Gandhi, PhD Candidate in Physics.

Isabela Fraga received a 2021-22 Franke Institute for the Humanities Residential DissertationCompletionFellowship.

Daniela Gutiérrez Flores received the Culinary HistoriansofNewYork2020Scholar'sGrant,the 2020-21 Joseph Gulsoy Short-Term Dissertation Grant, a 2021-22 Humanities Division Travel Grant,a2021-22MellonFoundationDissertation Completion Fellowship, and a 2021-22 Stuart TaveTeachingFellowship.

VivianaHong receivedtenureasSpanishfaculty atPasadenaCityCollege.

Thomaz Amâncio, Lizette Arellano, Darren Kusar, Loriane Lafont, Paulina León, Kirsten Lopez, PabloOttonello, LuisMadrigal, Norman Mora Quintero, Meriam Pacheco Salazar, Matías Spector, and Fara Taddei reached PhD candidacy.

Loriane Lafont will be an Academic Visitor at Oxford’sUniversityCollegeandguestatMaison Françaised’Oxfordin2021-22.

Enrique Macari was awarded a 2021-22 Mellon FoundationDissertationCompletionFellowship.

Juan Diego Mariátegui will be a 2021-22 Humanities Teaching Fellow in RLL and the College.

MiriamMuccione receivedthe2020-21Rebecca WestDissertationGrant.

Maximilien Novak was awarded a 2021-22 Hanna Holborn Gray Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

Filippo Petricca received a 2021-22 Mellon HumanitiesDissertationCompletionFellowship.

BenjaminRansom receivedthe2020-21Thomas PavelEndowmentFundAward.

Noelani Bernal (Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Studies major), Honors Thesis: "Mulheres que erguem barreiras: ativismo liderado por mulheres na Amazônia brasileira em reação ao desenvolvimento de barrage hidrelétrica" (Adviser: Victoria Saramago). Winner of the James L. Hevia Global Studies Thesis Prize and Fulbright U.S. Student Program award. Cowinner of the David L. Boren Undergraduate ScholarshipforStudyAbroad.

Peter Bound (French & Francophone Studies major), co-winner of the David L. Boren UndergraduateScholarshipforStudyAbroad.

Victor Cui (French minor), co-winner of the OlgaandPaulMennFoundationPrize.

Genevieve De Gange (French & Francophone Studies major), Honors Thesis: "Sous un voile obscur (traduction d’un extrait de roman)" (Adviser: Khalid Lyamlahy). Winner of the Theodore Lee Neff Prize for Excellence in the Study of French Literature and Culture, and Winner of the Les River Fellowship for Young Novelists.

Emily Harper (HLBS major), winner of the MillardPierceBinyonMemorialPrize.

Abby Henkin (Spanish minor), winner of the Theater and Performance Studies Award and co-winner of the Olga and Paul Menn FoundationPrize.

VeronicaKarlin (French,Francophone&Italian Studies major), winner of the Charles M. Gray ScholarshipforFundamentals.

Jake La Fronz (Italian minor), winner of the RuthMurrayEssayPrize.

Matteo Laspro (Romance Languages, Literatures & Cultures major, Italian and Portuguese), Honors Thesis: "O limbo matrimonial: Poder, gênero, e barganho na tradição oitocentista neolatina" (Adviser: Victoria Saramago). Winner of the award for Best Honors Thesis or Essay in Hispanic and Luso-BrazilianStudies.

Kadia Lissit (French & Francophone Studies major), will be in Poitiers and Dominique Janvier (French&FrancophoneStudiesminor), will be in Versailles as part of the Teaching AssistantPrograminFrance(TAPIF).

Benjamin Meyer (Italian minor), winner of the SamuelT.FleckPrizeinItalianforhispaper,"La miaricercadelleradici."

Claire Shackleford (Spanish minor), winner of theCollege'sHumanitarianAward.

DonnaSon (French minor),winner of a Mellon MaysUndergraduateFellowship.

Luna Splendori (Italian Studies major), Honors Thesis: "Italianità o italoamericanità: la cultura fraintesa di una comunità" (Adviser: Sara Dallavalle).

CLASS OF 2020-2021: GRADUATE STUDENTS

MadisonHendren,Dissertation:"Playingan EpicGame:GamesandGenreinBoccaccio's Teseida delle nozze d'Emilia" (Director: Justin Steinberg).

Viviana Hong, Dissertation: "Child’s Play and Foul Play: Childhood Narratives from the HIJOS Generation in Post-Dictatorial Argentina"(Director:AgnesLugo-Ortiz).

Hilda Larrazabal Cárdenas, Dissertation: "SorJuanaInésdelaCruzolaconstrucción de un ícono nacional (circa 1870-1970)" (Director:MauricioTenorio).

Juan Diego Mariátegui, Dissertation: "To Reach the Isle: Poetics of the Island in Puerto Rican Literature of the Twentieth Century"(Director:AgnesLugo-Ortiz).

MajorsinRomanceLanguages, Literatures,&Cultures

VeronicaKarlin:French&Francophone StudiesandItalianStudies

MatteoLaspro:ItalianStudiesand PortugueseStudies(honors)

French&FrancophoneStudiesMajors

CarlaAbreu

GenevieveDeGange(honors)

AmayaHill

KadiaLissit

ElizabethOmbrellaro

French&FrancophoneStudiesMinors

AnnabelleCanestraight

VictorCui

ZoëCullison-Shimada

DominiqueJanvier

LiaJueng

LouisLevin

PaulaMartinezGarcia

GaëllePinault

CameronWitbeck

EgeYalcindag

Hispanic&Luso-Brazilian StudiesMajors

NoelaniBernal(honors)

EmilyHarper

KiaraMieles

JankoStojadinovic

RosalieWakely

Italian Studies Majors

Luna Splendori (honors)

Italian Studies Minors

Josef Otavio Horwath

Jake La Fronz

Benjamin Meyer

Andrea Ochoa

Jade Yan

Spanish Minors

Jacob Benge

Maryam Bolouri

Daniel Ducic

Audrey Fromson

Abby Henkin

Nina Levine

Charlie Keys McKay

Marcus McClendon

Freddie Paulson

Poppy Perez Reyes

Sophia Ridgner

Samantha Zeglis CLASS

Alexandra Salazar

Rebecca Thompson

Pamela Velazquez

Alison White

Cosette Bruhns (PhD'20) was named Diversity in Digital Publishing Postdoctoral ResearchAssociateatBrownUniversity.

JeffreyColeman (PhD'14)acceptedaposition asAssociateProfessorofPeninsularStudies intheDepartmentofSpanish&Portuguese atNorthwesternUniversity.

EbenezerConcepción (PhD‘19)acceptedthe position of Assistant Professor of Black StudieswithafocusontheBlackAtlanticat ClevelandStateUniversity.

Bastien Craipain (PhD'20) accepted a position as Assistant Professor in French StudiesatLouisianaStateUniversity.

Isaias Fanlo (PhD'20) accepted an appointment as Lecturer in Modern Iberian Literary&CulturalStudiesattheUniversity ofCambridge.

Michele Kenfack (PhD'20) was awarded a 2021 American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowship. She will be Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Humanities andOnlineEducationatHarvardUniversity.

Carmela Mattza (PhD'09), Associate Professor of Spanish at Louisiana State University, received a 2020 MLA BibliographyHonorsFellowshipAwardfrom theMLAInternationalBibliography.

James Nemiroff (PhD'16) joined the Department of Spanish Language & Literature at Kalamazoo College as Visiting AssistantProfessor.

Medardo Rosario (PhD'20) accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Florida InternationalUniversity.

Ewa (Sroka) Zeoli (AM'96) received a 2021 National Intelligence Professional AwardExcellence in Intelligence Community Education and Training for "Intelligence Community Mobile Training Team of the Year."Thisawardrecognizesindividualsand groups who support the education and training mission of the United States IntelligenceCommunity.

ArnoldI.Davidson,RobertO.Anderson

DistinguishedServiceProfessorEmeritus

PhilippeDesan,HowardL.Willett ProfessorEmeritus

PaulaMotrico, AssistantInstructionalProfessor inBasque&Spanish

ThomasPavel,GordonJ.Laing

DistinguishedServiceProfessorEmeritus

ElizabethPorretto, AssistantInstructionalProfessorinItalian

KatherineThompson, SpanishLanguageLecturer

1st Place

Runner-Up

Mushroom Bûche de Noël

Isabela Fraga

Gingerbread House

Laura Colaneri

Animals: Pets & Wildlife

"Portrait of a Sheep"

ElizabethIssert "Shy"

LizetteArellano

"Piloncillo"

DanielaGutiérrezFlores

Humanities Day 2020 | Oct. 17 & 18

Veronica Vegna discussed "Women and the Mafia in Italian Cinema," while Larry Norman and Richard Neer presented "ArtsandtheAcademy,ThenandNow."

Champs-Elysées Film Festival | Oct. 23

Thevirtualfestivalfeaturedscreeningsofandconversations withdirectorsofvariousshortfilmsandamasterclasswith festivaldirectorJustineLévêque.

Pan de Muerto | Oct. 29

The Spanish Language Program teamed up with Panadería Nuevo León to teach students the cultural significance of DíadelosMuertosbread.

Beyond Babel Book Launch | Oct. 30

Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon), Cécile Fromont (Yale University) and Anna More (Universidade de Brasília) discussed Larissa Brewer-García's book, Beyond Babel: TranslationsofBlacknessinColonialPeruandNewGranada.

Música Brasileira & Política | Nov. 18

Elizabeth Issert and Juliano Saccomani presented different approaches Brazilian popular musicians have taken to discuss political issues at different points in the country's history.

Fictional Environments Book Launch | Nov. 20

This event celebrating the publication of Victoria Saramago’s book, Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America, featured commentary from Gisela Heffes (Rice University), Héctor Hoyos (Stanford University) and Benjamin Morgan (DepartmentofEnglish).

The Documentary Imagination Book Discussion | Nov. 20

Alison James discussed her recent publication, The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature.

Women & the Mafia in Italian Cinema | Oct. 17

Música Brasileira & Política | Nov. 18

Pan de Muerto | Oct. 29

Sobre Los países invisibles | Dec. 3

Puerto Rican writer Eduardo Lalo, winner of the 2013 RómuloGallegosPrizeinLiterature,discussedhis novel Los países invisibles.

Chef Carlos Gaytán | Jan. 28

Carlos Gaytán spoke about his experiences as the first Mexican-borncheftoearnaMichelinstar.

La afroespaña contemporánea | Feb. 4

RLLalumnus JeffreyColeman(PhD'14)spokeabouthisnext bookproject, España Negra: The Consumption & Rejection of Blackness in Contemporary Spain.

Conversation with Jaume Miró | Feb. 10

Mallorcan researcher and playwright discussed his play, Diari d'una miliciana.

Black Lives Matter in Italy & the Legacy of Colonialism | Feb. 11

Afro-Italian filmmaker, activist, and educator Fred Kudjo Kuwornu spoke about the structural and statistical differences between American and Italian racism and offered a cultural and semantic framework to interpret current racism in Italy within the context of past Italian colonialism.

Portuguese Cooking Class | Feb. 11

Studentsandfacultymemberslearnedhowtomakebolinho dechuva,traditionalBraziliantreats.

French Cook-Along | Feb. 14

Rebecca Petrush hosted a cook-along where participants learnedhowtomakegâteauauyaourt.

Cava's Place | Feb. 26

Robert Davidson, Professor of Spanish and Catalan at the University of Toronto and Director of the Northrop Frye Centre, gave a presentation on the most popular sparkling wineinCataloniaandSpain.

Conversation with Jaume Miró | Feb. 10

Black Lives Matter in Italy | Feb. 11

Finding, Choosing & Writing Grants | March 1

InthisworkshophostedbyACLSFellowJessicaMarroquín, graduate students learned about platforms for finding grants and best practices for applying for funding in the humanities.

Brazilian Street Art | March 4

Participants discussed the racial, economic, and social division within Brazil and how it manifests itself in street art.

Abdelkébir Khatibi Book Launch | March 16

This event featured Khalid Lyamlahy, co-editor of Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Culture in the Maghreb and Beyond, in conversation with Matt Brauer (University of Tennessee), yasser elhariry (Dartmouth College) and Nasrin Qader (Northwestern University).

Bintou Dembélé | April 14

A speaker featured on Court Theatre's Black Baroque lecture series, hip hop dancer and choreographer Bintou Dembélé commented on her choreography for Opéra Bastille'slandmarkproductionof Les Indes Galantes andher work dismantling oppressive structures as a Queer Black artistintheworldofopera.

Conversation with Daylet Domínguez | April 27

Daylet Domínguez (University of California, Berkeley) discussed her new book, Ficciones etnográficas: Literatura, ciencias sociales y proyectos nacionales en el Caribe hispano del siglo XIX.

Brazilian Street Art | March 4

Bintou Dembélé | April 14

Daylet Domínguez | April 14

HLBS Literature and Capital Series

Guest scholars and graduate students from RLL's Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian (HLBS) section discussed the speakers’ recent work, the state of their respective fields and interdisciplinaryissues: April 16:AlejandroGarcíaReidy(UniversidaddeSalamanca) inconversationwithLizetteArellanoandMatíasSpector; April 30: Allison Bigelow (University of Virginia) in conversationwithAnnaDonkoandPaulinaLeón; May 14: Denilson Lopes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) in conversation with Miriam Borrero and Thomaz Amâncio; May 28: Jerome Branche (University of Pittsburgh) in conversationwithEduardoLeãoandIsabelaFraga.

Tim Parks | April 29

Tim Parks, author of Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal, joined the Italian Language Program in conversation.

Colombia in Crisis | May 14

ThiseventmoderatedbyViannyAnayaAmadoaddressedthe originsandnatureoftheproblemssurroundingthenational strike in Colombia and featured a conversation about possiblesolutions.PanelistsincludedMaríaAngélicaBautista (Harris School of Public Policy), Carlos Andrés Manrique (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá), and Erin McFee (DepartmentofAnthropology).

Marcel Proust: Contested Legacies | May 14

This online conference explored various aspects of Proust's legacies in 20th- and 21st-century literature, art and philosophy.

Religion in Brazil | May 28

Students explored the diverse religions of Brazil and how religion has been used historically for both social and politicalpurposes.