Academe’s Shameful Neglect of Spanish, By Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Researchers and students engaging with the U.S.’s second-largest language are ignored in our universities — and in ‘The Chronicle’
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Changing Narratives: WU Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado Named Library of Congress Kluge Chair
Sitting down in his office lined with thousands of books and a new Keurig, Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado, who teaches Mexican cinema, literature and culture at Washington University, divulged his life’s story, his work over the years which culminated in his appointment to the Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress.
Prof. Rebecca Messbarger's New Course Explores Seven Centuries of Dealing With Death in Italy
In her course “Disease, Madness, and Death Italian Style,” Rebecca Messbarger, professor of ltalian and founding director of the Medical Humanities Program at Washington University, takes students through seven centuries of Italian culture, beginning with The Decameron and the plague of 1348.
Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities Ignacio Sánchez Prado responds to 'American Dirt' in Washington Post article
‘American Dirt’ gets Mexico very wrong. It’s the latest in a long trend.
A War With Words: How Spain’s Women Lobbied Against Slavery in Cuba
Interview with Faculty Fellow Akiko Tsuchiya
Professor Harriet Stone publishes new book, Crowning Glories: Netherlandish Realism and the French Imagination during the Reign of Louis XIV
Please join us in congratulating Professor of French Harriet Stone on the publication of her new book, Crowning Glories: Netherlandish Realism and the French Imagination during the Reign of Louis XIV.
Book published by Rodrigo Viqueira, PhD student at our Hispanic Studies program
Prof. Sánchez Prado Installed as Jarvis Thurston & Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures congratulates Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado on his recent installation as the Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities.
Publication of Staging Frontiers by Professor William Acree.
Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century bestsellers. But when these stories jumped from the page to the circus stage and beyond, their cultural, economic, and political influence revolutionized popular culture and daily life.
New book from Almenara Press co-edited by Professor Elzbieta Sklodowska
Elzbieta Sklodowska has co-edited with Mabel Cuesta (University of Houston) Lecturas atentas. Una visita desde la ficción y la crítica a veinte narradoras cubanas contemporáneas, which showcases narrative works of contemporary Cuban women authors, both on the island and in the diaspora, accompanied by in-depth critical readings of these texts.
Professor Rebecca Messbarger’s The Lady Anatomist Goes International!
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures congratulates Professor of Italian Rebecca Messbarger on the upcoming film based on her book, The Lady Anatomist, which will premiere in Germany on November 3, 2019. The Lady Anatomist details the life of Anna Morandi, one of the most acclaimed anatomical sculptors of the Enlightenment.
Faculty publication: Unsettling Colonialism: Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World, by Akiko Tsuchiya
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures congratulates Professor of Spanish Akiko Tsuchiya on the publication of her new book, Unsettling Colonialism: Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World, by SUNY Press.