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Alumni return to speak about post-PhD career paths
Nov 16, 2020
During Autumn Quarter, the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures invited back six graduate alumni to give brief talks over Zoom about their career paths after earning a Ph.D. from the Department.         For our first of a two-part series of panel discussions, we heard from three ILAC alumni who pursued careers in academia.   Anna Castillo, who is currently Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, emphasized her passion for teaching, and she shared examples of how she took advantage of teaching opportunities at...
Gender and the Pandemic - The Elephant in the Room is a Homeschooled Toddler (and Sometimes Three)
Jun 11, 2020
Cécile Alduy, Professor of French Literature and Culture and Chair of the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, recently wrote an article for The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University regarding gender and the COVID-19 pandemic. The article, "The Elephant in the Room is a Homeschooled Toddler (and Sometimes Three)" was published by The Clayman Institute on June 4, 2020.
Statement of Solidarity Against Racism
Jun 05, 2020
It is with utter pain, rage and disgust at the abhorrent murder of George Floyd and the countless other victims of racism and targeted police violence that precede it that I write in the name of the DLCL community.   The DLCL stands in solidarity and compassion with all the communities that are hurt, threatened, unsafe, discriminated against just because they were born one color, rather than another, in one family instead of another, or, since racism goes hand in hand with misogyny, homophobia and other kinds of despicable bigotry, because of their sex, gender, origin, nationality, age...
Vivian Brates Receives Stanford Community Partnership Award
May 19, 2016
Please join us in congratulating Stanford Lecturer Vivian Brates, whose work in community engagement has been awarded a Stanford Community Partnership Award.  Read the full article HERE.
Blurred Lines: The Exploration of Screenwriting as a Literary Form & Youtube’s Relationship with Contemporary Cinema
Mar 12, 2014
The department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures is proud to announce that two graduate students, Tom Winterbottom and Samuel Gibson, will be joining Professor Jorge Ruffinelli in Guadalajara, México on March 20th and 21st for the Fifth International Colloquium of Contemporary Ibero-American Cinema. The colloquium, titled: “From Cinematographic Culture to Screen Culture: Narrative, Technological, and Consumer Keys in the New Audiovisual Landscape.” This year Professor Ruffinelli will begin the conference with a discussion titled “From the Big Screen to Youtube, From Youtube to the Big...
Interview with Jorge Ruffinelli: "On Latin American Literature and Cinema"
Sep 19, 2013
Please be sure to check out an interview with DLCL's Jorge Ruffinelli, "On Latin American Literature and Cinema." Read the full interview here. Jorge Ruffinelli is Department Director and Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. Before coming to Stanford, Professor Ruffinelli taught at the school of Letters of the Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico, and he collaborated in all the major cultural journals and newspapers in Latin America. In Mexico, he founded and directed the literary journal “Texto crítico” for twelve years. In...

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