Assistant Professor of Spanish| Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 20th-21st -C Peninsular literature, film, culture
In our newest 940 Feet video, Spanish professor Anna Torres-Cacoullos joins Caitlin (teaching of Spanish) to talk about language, learning, & life—from classes she loves to teach to advice she'd give her 18-year-old self.
Watch the full convo on YouTube: https://t.co/grHGC7Jpu2
Happening next week, with @BritlandJoanne and @occosentino ! Looking forward to talking about Spain’s fan culture and movie magazines of the 1920s 🤩. In other news, I’ve joined Bluesky @ https://t.co/awqM6Zhl32 💫
TODAY at 4pm CT via zoom - Please share with Spanish majors or or Spanish speakers interested in learning about language education and acquisition or Spanish/Latin American literature and cultural studies
Heading to #msachicago to discuss film scripts, fiction tie-ins, and film novelizations as new cultures of writing and reading in Spain’s silver age. Looking forward to talking about the intersections of film & modernism! Program: https://t.co/FTKYsucbad
I am pleased to announce that my translation Morbidities and “The Concept of the New Literature” by Ramón Gómez de la Serna is now available. Many, many thanks to Clemson UP and all those who helped me along the way!
https://t.co/TUG6dpqAyo
From zajals to hip hop, from Aljamiado to macaronic Latin... We’re calling on all polyglots to participate in “The Multilingual Mediterranean" workshop at @UofIllinois on Feb 28 and March 1, 2025. Please help spread the word and the CFP: https://t.co/LcS6IVKBIV
Fellow Iberianists: I’m looking for any sources on the Catalan literary collections La Novela Nova (1917) and/or La Novel-la d’Ara (1923). I’m having trouble finding anything beyond editorial information and dates of publication 😅
Happening soon at @UofIllinois: We’re so excited to host Bécquer Seguín (@bcqer) for a talk about his book “The Op-Ed Novel” (@Harvard_Press) on 9/5 at 4 PM. If you’re in Urbana (or nearby), please join us!
CFP Special Issue:'Cultural Responses to Overtourism in Spain (2010 onwards)'
Spain is seeing a summer of discontent due to tourism's impacts on local communities, and Anna Casas and I are seeking abstracts for a Special Issue on cultural representations of overtourism in Spain.
I'm excited to share Susan Miller's review of my book, "Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture" (@Harvard_Press). It appears in the latest issue of @AmHistReview:
https://t.co/0vreLCaigJ