Professor Mauricio Sellmann will present a brief history of songs as narrative sources for cinema and television. He will explore how the makers of the mini series Amor em 4 Atos (Love in 4 Acts) drew from Chico Buarque's songs to be faithful to the "innermost feeling" of music.

Join us in welcoming Associate Professor, Dr. Matthew Gumpert of the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.

Kluge Fellow from the Library of Congress will discuss the epic poem San Ignacio (Madrid, 1666) by the Jesuit Hernando Domínguez Camargo. Haldeman 41 at 4:30PM

“Homosexuality on Display in 1920s Spain: The Hermaphrodite, Eccentricity, and Álvaro Retana”...

Transboundary Nature of Mexico's New Theatre...

“Cuanto más miro, más veo: la dialéctica de la imagen y la palabra en trabajos sobre el pasado dictatorial en Argentina”...

Three prominent Argentinean literary figures will be visiting the Department for the October 2014 lecture series.