Karina Zelaya is a Lecturer in the Dept. of Central American and Transborder Studies at CSUN, where she specializes in Salvadoran and Central American literature and culture. She is the author of a critical edition of the novel Roca-Celis, originally published in 1908 by politician and intellectual Manuel Delgado, and recently republished by Editorial...
Tabea Linhard is a Professor of Spanish, Global Studies, and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on displacement and asylum experiences in the 1930s and 1940s, and she has published extensively on Spanish and Mexican literature and film, Memory Studies, Jewish Studies, and Mediterranean Studies.
Dr. Jennifer Gómez Menjívar (Ph.D. Ohio State U) is Professor in the Department of Media Arts and director of the MA in Media Industries and Critical Cultural Studies at University of North Texas. Her research interests include Indigenous Sovereignty Media, Latin American and Latinx Media, Grassroots and Participatory Media Practices, Cinematic Adaptation, Digital Culture, Critical...
Djamila Ribeiro is a philosopher, essayist, editor, and one of the most influential leaders in the Afro-Brazilian women's rights movement. She is the 2024-2025 Andres Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations at New York University.
Please join us this Tuesday to learn more about our Spain study abroad programs happening this Summer! Open to undergraduates seeking to fulfill language requirements or advance their major lower division requirements.
Lecture in the Talk Series "Mapping Dry Land: Valparaíso and Late-Sixteenth-Century Morisco Ecologies", by María Lumbreras, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The event will take place on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, at 4:00 PM in Lydeen Library (Rolfe 4302).
Please join us in Lydeen Library (Rolfe 4302) on Wednesday, November 20 at 12:00 pm for an information session about the 2025 Mérida Summer Travel Study Abroad program!
Ricardo Padrón studies the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world, particularly questions of empire, space, and cartography. His recently book, The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (Chicago 2020) examines the place of Pacific and Asia in the Spanish concept of...
Roberto Ignacio Díaz is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He researches Latin American literary and cultural history with a focus on transatlantic relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has previously written on multilingualism in Spanish American literature and on the prose of Jorge Luis Borges.
Chloe Ireton is a Lecturer in the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500-1800 at University College London and is currently also a British Academy Wolfson Fellow (2023-2026). Ireton's first monograph, Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge University Press, 2025) is an intellectual history exploring how free and...
Amanda Wunder will speak about her latest book, Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV, which reconstructs the life and work of Mateo Aguado, a court tailor who dressed many of Diego Velázquez's most famous portrait sitters. None of the garments that Aguado made survive today, but...
Note: This event is RSVP only Please join us in honoring the 2025 UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award recipient Dr. Jason Rothman, Professor at Lancaster University, U.K.. The 2025 Distinguished Alumni Lecture topic is “Behavioral and Brain Evidence for the Systematicity of Individual Differences in Heritage Language Bilingualism." Heritage Language (HL) bilinguals—native...