This project, an initiative created by the Spanish faculty in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, offers an intellectual space for faculty and students to engage through research, coursework, and conference presentations. We organize events, design courses, and support research on the histories, societies, cultures, and experiences of the Latina and Latino, the Afro Latina and Afro Latino, and the African Spanish in Latin America, the Spanish Caribbean, the United States and Spain.
Events organized
- “Mujer negra, raza y género: propuestas de comunicación descolonizadoras del Caribe Migrante. El proyecto La Güira de Georgina Marcelino y Yania Concepción ” [Black Women, Race and Gender: Decolonial Communication Proposals from the Migrant Caribbean. Georgina Marcelino and Yania Concepción La Güira Podcast] organized by Ana Hontanilla, opening session for the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, 2022.
- “Lucía-Asué Mbomío Rubio in Conversation with Michelle Murray about Spanish Media and Cultural Change” in Conversations with the Community (co-sponsored by the AADS, Afro Latin American and Latinx Studies Project, Languages, Literatures & Cultures, organized by Ana Hontanilla, 2021
- “Roles of Black Women in Latin American and Caribbean History and Letters Since the Eighteenth Century to the Present,” Conference on African-American and African Diasporic Cultures and Experience (CACE), organized by Ana Hontanilla 2021.
- “Opening Dialogue. The Afro-Latin American/Latinx Studies Project at UNCG and the North Carolina Consortium,” Conference on African American and African Diasporic Cultures and Experience (CACE), organized by Ana Hontanilla, 2020.
- “Conversation Series on Feminisms: Spain in the Era of the 15-M (May 15th), the 8-M (March 8th) and the #MeToo Movements” with Marta Sanz, María Folguera, Lucía Mbomío and María Fernanda Ampuero, organized by Ana Hontanilla 2020.
- “Reading and Conversation with Dominican-American Writer and Performer Josefina Baez” and “The Multilingual, Multicultural Writers Workshop” organized by Ximena Gonzalez, 2020
- “Alejandro de la Fuente and Afro-Latin American Studies” organized by Ana Hontanilla, 2016
- “David Geggus The Hatian Revolutions” co-organized by Ana Hontanilla, and Peter Villella, 2015.
Courses taught
Veronica Grossi:
- Cultural Voyages across the Atlantic
- Indigenous, African and European Heritages in Latin America
- Arts and Literature
- Travels in Latin America
- Cultural Conversations: The Essay
Ana Hontanilla:
- Feminist Poetics, Africa, and Iberia from the 18th Century to the Present. Genealogies of Women Writers
- Migrant Stories. Arts and Activism (1990-2020)
- Telling to Live. Testimonio and the Borderlands.
- Cuban Slavery in Law, Literature, and Culture: The Fiction of Humane Slavery in 18th and 19th-Centuries Spanish Writings
- Construction and Deconstruction of Blackness in 19th-and 20th-Century Cuba
Kelly Pererira
- Language and gender
- Language inclusion
- Language diversity (phonetics)
- Language and Identity
