30th August, 2009 - Posted by admin - No Comments
I’m looking forward to starting classes this fall, when I’ll be teaching “Imagining the Americas: Literature, Art and Politics in Latin America” with Julie Shayne for the second time. The student registration is starting to fill out, and it looks like a nice group of freshmen. We’re making some changes to the course » Read More
7th May, 2009 - Posted by admin - 1 Comment
Provisional List of Hispanic/Latin American Films at SIFF 2009 Below is a list of all Hispanic film being screened at SIFF 2009. The list is taken from the Seattle Times pull-out, and I could have missed something, so please let me know if you notice any omissions. I will be pasting in the screening » Read More
19th April, 2009 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Notte Sento (English subtitles) from napdan on Vimeo. This is an interesting stop-motion short made up of 4500 still frames strung together that tells the story of a deaf girl who misses her train in Rome and has to spend the night. Read More
12th April, 2009 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Just found a new collection of links, blogs, etc. that may be of interest. It’s from the “Latin American Books” store online……library distributor. http://www.latinamericanbooks.com/reviewsblogs.html Read More
4th April, 2009 - Posted by admin - No Comments
The UW is hosting a film festival featuring contemporary Spanish women filmmakers. There are dates throughout April, and there will be one screening at Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) in Capitol Hill. Here is the program link: CLICK HERE FOR PROGRAM Read More
29th March, 2009 - Posted by admin - No Comments
So it’s back to work tomorrow with a new class (BCUSP 120) and also back to coordination in Span/Port. It should be a very interesting and busy quarter. There’s a new course site, open to the public in my blogroll. The idea is to make everything so that it persists after this quarter. We’ll maybe » Read More
25th March, 2009 - Posted by admin - No Comments
I just found this little gem in the NACLA journal in 2007. It’s written by Pedro Lemebel (not sure about the translator). As it turns out, it’s not available outside research databases, but if you have access to PRISMA, you should be able to read it. Just search on Lemebel and “Farewell, Meat Bag”. Meanwhile, here » Read More