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Our Events
LAILAC is well connected to institutions abroad that co-sponsor events such as seminars, lectures, and symposia and that facilitate faculty and student exchanges. These include the Bernardo Atxaga Chair in Basque Literature and Linguistics (with the Etxepare Euskal Institute), the Xoan González Millán Center for Galician Studies (with Galicia's Secretaría Xeral de Política Lingüística), the Mercè Rodoreda Chair (with the Institut Ramon Llull), and the Miguel Delibes Chair.
In recent years we have had the honor to host scholars such as Alberto Romero, Silvia Saitta, Diana Sorensen, Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux, Enric Bou, Anxo Lorenzo, Mauro Fernández, Henrique Monteagudo, Dolores Vilavedra, Ana Maria Martinho, José María Pozuelo Yvancos, Aurora Egido, José Carlos Mainer, Ricardo Senabre, and Claudio Guillén; and prominent writers such as Ray Loriga, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Paloma Díaz Mas, Carmen Boullosa, Juan Villoro, Mempo Giardinelli, Antonio José Ponte, Leonardo Padura, Bernardo Atxaga, Kirmen Uribe, Teresa Moure, Manuel Rivas, Carsten Sinner, Annabel Martin, and Marina Garcés Mascareñas.
Annual Students' Conference
LAILAC students organize an annual international student conference at The Graduate Center. Upcoming conference details will be posted here when available.
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Dec 7, 2022
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Nov 14, 2022
Teaching and Learning Center Fellows Find Fulfilling Careers
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Oct 4, 2022
Weeks After Dissertation Defense, an Alum Joins the Tenure Track at Syracuse
A new graduate who spent the last year applying for positions while writing her dissertation shares her advice about the academic job market.
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Sep 19, 2022
Meet the 2022 Teaching and Mentoring Award Winners
Congratulations to Professors Abhijit Champanerkar, Anna Indych-Lopez, and Barbara Katz Rothman, and to students and recent graduates Filip Bergabo, Cristina Pardo Porto, and Karyna Pryiomka.
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Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures Books

Reimagining History in Contemporary Spanish Media
This book offers a new perspective via visual culture of the reimagining of history for contemporary Spanish media audiences. It gives close readings of major recent texts in a number of media (theater, cinema, television, and streaming) which have yet to receive scholarly attention and are closely connected to each other. And it stresses the intermediality of the visual by calling attention to connections between those media and others such as painting. From Picasso to the Javis and from the classic serial to Netflix, this book shows how Spanish history is radically reimagined through recent visual culture.
Published December 2021
Modern Humanities Research Association

Mexican Genders, Mexican Genres: Cinema, Television and Streaming Since 2010
This book focusses on gender and the audio-visual landscape of Mexico since 2010, examining popular culture as expressed in the still distinct but rapidly converging media forms of cinema, television, and streaming platforms. It tracks how changes in producers and genres coincide with changes in gender representations and engages with depictions of feminism, women's sexuality, masculinity, and teen homosexuality. It aims to move beyond the art, auteur or specialist film that is vaunted by film festivals but little seen by Mexicans at home, focussing instead on a wider world of media content and practices available in Mexico itself. Close attention is also paid to the social media footprint of the productions studied and the way it is used for promotion and engagement with the target audience. The book proposes a new approach to audio-visual studies, combining textual analysis with field surveys and the useof industrial sources perhaps unfamiliar to scholars in Anglo-American Hispanism and Latin American media studies in the UK and USA
Published April 2021

Los pre-textos de La Florida del Inca
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En el largo y sinuoso proceso que condujo a la publicación de La Florida del Inca (Lisboa, 1605) podemos suponer la existencia de varios pre-textos: copias manuscritas de versiones preliminares o parciales. Se publican aquí, en ediciones críticas y con un estudio histórico-filológico, los únicos documentos conocidos hasta ahora: dos resúmenes realizados a partir de la obra ya terminada pero aún manuscrita (c. 1596-1600); dos testimonios de muy distinta naturaleza y de pareja importancia, por cuanto amplían el ya complejo relato de cómo lo que podría haber sido una escueta relación histórica llegó a ser la obra clásica de 1605 y perfilan mejor los avatares de una carrera literaria sujeta a las servidumbres del mecenazgo y la política.
El Epítome del descubrimiento de la tierra de la Florida procede de un manuscrito recientemente descubierto en la Hispanic Society of America, de Nueva York. Se trata de un resumen dictado a un amanuense por el propio Garcilaso poco después de 1596, cuando las posibilidades de publicar su obra, terminada hacia 1592, se revelaban difíciles por falta de patronazgo político y económico.
El segundo texto, la Historia de los sucesos de la Florida del adelantado Hernando de Soto, es mucho más extenso que el anterior. El estudio de sus añadidos y errores muestra cómo no es una versión primitiva de La Florida, según se creía, sino un resumen preparado por el cronista Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas a partir de una copia de la obra, con el objetivo de plagiar su contenido, algo que realmente hizo en sus Décadas (2015).
La presentación conjunta de ambos pre-textos es un hecho insólito en la historia literaria de la prosa en nuestra lengua y, más allá de la micro-historia de La Florida, viene a arrojar luz sobre los complicados procesos de publicación de nuestros clásicos.
Published December 2020