Spanish and Portuguese Calendar
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Navigating the corporate world requires many of the same skills graduate students use every day. In this talk, Dr. Eager will share his experiences working as a data scientist in the insurance industry after finishing his Ph.D.
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KATHLEEN MCNERNEY is the co-author of the groundbreaking work, Double Minorities of Spain: A Bio-Bibliographic Guide to Women Writers of the Catalan, Galician, and Basque Countries (MLA, 1995), and widely published critic and award-winning translator to English of numerous stories and poems and four novels.
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Talk: Rodrigo Delgado, "La house and the casa: Gender and Phonetics by Heritage Speakers of Spanish"
Rodrigo Delgado is a Ph.D. candidate in HIspanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include bilingualism, code-switching and syntax. Previous research has focused on methodological issues regarding bilingual participants, ie attitudes toward Chicago English-Spanish code-switching.
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Salvatore Callesano is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on linguistic production and perception in US Latinx communities, specifically in Miami FL. His work is interdisciplinary, connecting sociolinguistics, bilingualism, social psychology, and community formation/maintenance.
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Essential to the poetics of revision in high literary modernism is assessing what should stay and what should be left out, and the effects of such alterations. When cinema had solidified as an influential mass art by 1930, Spanish modernist Ramón Gómez de la Serna published a film script in which he bases each sequence on his earlier short fiction collections.
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Workshop geared towards students who will be on the job market this year or are interested in learning more about the hiring process. Applicable to both Literature and Linguistics students.
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This workshop will provide the dos and don’ts of CV formatting and will pay close attention to tailoring your CV towards different positions and universities. We will show examples of research statements and discuss how to best illustrate your current and future research plans depending on the job to which you are applying.
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The job application is a packet of statements, writing samples, and reference letters. What’s the hard part? Keeping your scholarly identity and goals consistent throughout all of them… but without repeating yourself. In this workshop we will discuss the teaching statement and the diversity statement, paying close attention to how these documents differ.
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Dr. Cabrera will present and analyze the concepts of myth, tragedy, and queerness to highlight what they have in common: Elasticity, suspension, liminality...
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You’ve made it to the Skype interview round! Now let’s review some best practices for prepping for such an interview (e.g. researching the ins and outs of the department). Now, you’ve been invited to the campus visit! Come speak with us about how to prepare for the shift from graduate student to faculty member.
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Hola. Meet us on Zoom for an informal get-together among Illinois Spanish students. We will chat, get to know one of our faculty members, Dr. Anna Torres Cacoullos, and watch a short film in Spanish together. Te invitamos a pasar un rato juntos, conversando y viendo un cortometraje en español. Email Prof. Abbott for Zoom link.
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Join Ann Abbott, associate professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, and Ryan Shosted, professor in the Department of Linguistics, for a conversation about educating students through courses focused on public engagement.
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Watch a short and get to meet different Department faculty. For any Spanish students! This week meet Prof. Salvatore Callesano
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Join us for our next Cortos y conversaciones on Monday, October 18 from 4:00 to 5:00. We will spend the first part of the event chatting in small groups so that students can get to know each other. Then we will watch and briefly discuss a film short in Spanish selected by our faculty guest, Brenden Carollo.
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"Feminicide and Feminist Performance" by Dr. Debra Ann Castillo (Cornell University)
