Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures

The Culture/Literature track focuses on cultural and literary practices in historical and ideological contexts and with their circulation along national as well as Latin American, Iberian, and Latino cultural transatlantic and hemispheric networks. Critical theories relevant to the field are a significant part of all courses and seminars. The track encompasses a variety of fields including LGBT studies, media, philology and textual criticism, translation, visual culture, and women’s studies.

The Hispanic Linguistics track enables students to study language as social practice in Latin America, Spain, the U.S., and the multiple spaces where Spanish-speaking people have settled. Seminars pay special attention to Spanish’s co-existence — conflictual or harmonious — with other languages such as Basque, Catalan, English, Galician, the indigenous languages of the Americas and the Pacific. The track’s faculty come from a wide range of fields including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language policy, critical linguistic historiography, bilingualism in education, and applied linguistics. Their areas of research include normativity, the linguistic performance of social identities, the social distribution of linguistic resources, language and migration, teaching Spanish in the U.S., translanguaging, and the operation of linguistic ideologies in the constitution or disputation of glottopolitical regimes.