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Lonche con LALIS! Every Friday, beginning Sept. 1, from 12 - 1 p.m. the Latin American, Latino, & Iberian Studies department is hosting Lunch with LALIS. Come eat your lunch with members of the LALIS Department and chat with us in Spanish! For questions, please contact Sarah Helen Studebaker at sstudeba@richmond.edu.Feature Stories



Student Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2023 LALIS Award Winners:
Outstanding LALIS Majors
Lily Miller
Outstanding Service to the Richmond Hispanic Community
Leah Kulma
Outstanding Assistant Teacher in LALIS
Nicky Ramírez

Facilities Staff Contribute to Latest Museum Exhibition
The Department of Latin American, Latino & Iberian Studies and University Museums asked custodial staff for their input on an exhibition by Latinx artist Jay Lynn Gomez focusing on the value of domestic workers. Staff shared their impressions on the art and its layout, and provided comments and opinions that were integrated into the exhibition’s educational initiatives, catalogue, and informational panels.
“Collaborating with facilities employees offered an opportunity for talking about the vital energy involved in a work that implies much more than keeping up cleanliness and beauty of physical spaces, and for exploring the meanings of work and working time,” said exhibition co-curator Karina Vázquez, director of UR’s Spanish Community-Based Learning Program.
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Faculty Highlights

Sharon G. Feldman, William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages, attended the staged reading of her English language translation of The Nicest Body Ever Seen Around These Parts (2021) by Catalan playwright Josep Maria Miró, directed by Jay Stull and performed by actor David Skeist at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center. The event, the culmination of Miró’s three-week residency in New York City, was produced by The Play Company, with the collaboration of the Institut Ramon Llull and the Sala Beckett (Barcelona).
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David Giancaspro was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor of Spanish. Dr. Giancaspro's research focuses on heritage language, specifically linguistic heritage bilingualism and the acquisition of third languages.
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Janette Amaral-Rodriguez was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor of Spanish. Dr. Amaral-Rodriguez's research focuses on colonial-era Latin American literature and culture with a specific emphasis on sixteenth-century Mexico, and she publishes in both Spanish andEnglish.
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While on a Fulbright Scholar Award in Brazil, Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies, delivered the presentation “Impertinências feministas no arquivo clariceano: Proposta para uma aproximação material sensorial e performática às intervenções feministas” [“Feminist Impertinences in the Claricean Archive: Proposal for a Material Sensorial and Performative Approach to Feminist Interventions”] at a roundtable on Impertinências Feministas na Literatura Latinoamericana [Feminist Impertinences in Latin American Literature] organized by the Feminist Lab at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
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Contact Information
Mailing Address:
Department of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies
University of Richmond
211 Richmond Way
Carole Weinstein International Center
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone: (804) 484-1543
Fax: (804) 484-1544
Department Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Kissling
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Sarah Helen Studebaker
Director of Community-Based Learning: Dr. Karina Vazquez
Director of Spanish Intensive Language Program: Mr. Ted Peebles