Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World explores the representation of political, economic, military, religious, and juridical power in texts and artifacts from early modern Spain and her American viceroyalties. In addition to analyzing the dynamics of power in written texts, chapters also examine pieces of material culture… Continue reading…
En el presente libro se pueden encontrar editadas por primera vez las “comedias con música” de Las amazonas de España (1720) y La hazaña mayor de Alcides (1723), de José de Cañizares, así como también las piezas breves que acompañaron a estas representaciones en el Coliseo del Buen Retiro. En el caso del festejo… Continue reading…
In 1526 Emperor Charles V arranged the wedding of Ferdinand of Aragon, the dethroned heir of Naples, to Germana de Foix, the widow of Ferdinand the Catholic, and appointed them viceroys of Valencia. In the decade that followed, these two royal personas invited some of the best poets and musicians… Continue reading…
This book proposes community service-learning as a critical pedagogy that connects learners and communities to address key challenges in heritage language education. The book’s purpose is two-fold: to fill a crucial gap in empirical research on community service-learning in the heritage language context, as well as to provide language educators… Continue reading…
Artesana de sí misma by Claudia Cabello Hutt reevaluates the place of Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral in the literary and intellectual history of Latin America, illuminating and filling a number of lingering voids in the study of this canonical figure. Cabello Hutt introduces readers to Mistral’s vast but scarcely studied journalistic… Continue reading…
My love for languages and travel began early in my life. My father has travelled around the world for his job since I was a little girl and he would always bring me back souvenirs and would show me pictures of the places he visited. I always asked him if… Continue reading…
I began studying French in my sophomore year of high school for a language requirement, but after that, I didn’t have the chance to take any more advanced French classes in high school. However, I resorted to teaching myself French because I really loved the language. I fell in love… Continue reading…
Ignacio López Alemany received a fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the 2019-2020 academic year. This fellowship supports his research project on the “Vihuelists and Courtly Performance of Poetry in Early Modern Spain”. The early modern vihuelists—musicians who played the vihuela,… Continue reading…
Dr. Mariche Bayonas has received the Mary Settle Sharp Award for Teaching Excellence. This award recognizes outstanding success in motivating students to learn by making material attractive, challenging, and fun. Dr. Bayonas focuses on relevance as a tool that assists students in meeting needs. She likewise fosters the idea of… Continue reading…
UNCG’s motto is “Service,” and I feel that even in my time studying in the LLC, this guiding principle for our institution had a tremendous impact on my studies and my path forward after graduation. While completing my degree, I was able to enroll in a new Service Learning course… Continue reading…