LALIS presents the 2022-2023 Tucker Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts

The University of Richmond’s 2022-2023 Tucker Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts will be hosted by the Department of Latin American, Latino & Iberian Studies. This year’s events will celebrate the degree to which Latines and Hispanics have enjoyed an unwavering presence throughout the history of the United States, leaving a lasting imprint on our cultural fabric. Festival activities will thus revolve around the theme “Our America,” with the idea of generating new ways of understanding what constitutes the Americas and of reappropriating discourses of “Americanness,” a notion that historically has alienated the Latinx and Hispanic populations. The festival will offer poetry readings, lectures, panel discussions, and residencies by artists and scholars whose works implicitly or explicitly address the Latino past of the United States, along with its present and future.
El Departamento de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Latinos e Ibéricos tiene el honor de organizar la edición 2022-2023 del Festival de Literatura y Artes Tucker Boatwright de la Universidad de Richmond. Los eventos de este año celebrarán la continuidad del legado cultural hispánico y latinx a lo largo de la historia de los Estados Unidos, um legado que ha dejado una marca indeleble en el tejido cultural de este país. Las actividades del festival girarán en torno al tema “Nuestra América” con la idea de generar nuevas formas de entender la identidad americana de este país y, al mismo tiempo, de confrontar los discursos de “americanidad” que han insistido en excluir a la población latina/hispana de su historia. El festival ofrecerá lecturas de poesía, conferencias, paneles de discusión y residencias de artistas y académicos cuyas obras abordan implícita o explícitamente el pasado latino de los Estados Unidos, junto con su presente y futuro.

Jay Lynn Gomez: Domestic Scenes Reconsidered
University Museums Exhibition
January 23 – April 21 | Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
This exhibition brings a captivating experience on the narratives of love, intimacy, and work through irreverence and empowerment.

Student Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2022 LALIS Award Winners:
Outstanding LALIS Majors
Hannah Grace Howell
Anna Postma
Outstanding Service to the Richmond Hispanic Community
Ally Osterberg
Outstanding Assistant Teacher in LALIS
Isabelle Drayer
The Modern Languages Award-Latin American, Latino & Iberian Studies
Braxton Hughes
Faculty Highlights

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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Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies, published the chapter “Que(e)rying Femininities: Clarice Lispector’s Correio Feminino on TV Globo” in After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century.
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Elizabeth Kissling, associate professor of Spanish and applied linguistics, published the article "Exploring Boundedness for Concept-Based Instruction of Aspect: Evidence from Novice L1 English Speakers Learning the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect" in The Modern Language Journal.
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Elizabeth Kissling, associate professor of Spanish and applied linguistics, published the article "From Rule-Based Explicit Instruction to Explicit Knowledge: A Pilot Study on How L1 English Speakers Interpret Pedagogical Rules about Spanish Preterite and Imperfect" in Instructed Second Language Acquisition.
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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. Mariela Méndez
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Sarah Helen Studebaker
Director of Community-Based Learning: Dr. Karina Vazquez
Director of Spanish Intensive Language Program: Mr. Ted Peebles