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Latino/a Studies Welcomes New Faculty and Students
Welcome to The Ohio State University’s Latino Studies Program website.
The Latino Studies Program at the Ohio State University has witnessed a considerable growth spurt. Across the OSU campus we have internationally recognized Latina/o faculty, recently adding to our impressive roster Professor Guisela Latorre in Women’s Studies and Theresa Delgadillo in Comparative Studies. We are working fast and furiously forward with establishing a Latino/Latin American Studies Program space in Smith Labs. We aim to “break ground” by the Fall of ’08, at the latest. With key-card access, computer facilities, a small library, and our assistants, this will provide the space for undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and visiting scholars to conduct and exchange research. It will also be our venue for Brown Bag lunches, special events, and our Latino Undergraduate Achievement and Research Awards ceremonies.
For our Minors—new and current—as well as students generally, our Latino Studies faculty offer new and exciting courses. In the fall quarter of every year, Professor Aldama offers differently configured versions of his Freshman Seminar, “Your Brain on Latino Fiction”; in the Winter quarter, his “Mexico in Cinema” course. Other faculty in the English department like Professor Martinez offer regular courses on Chicano authors and the Beat Poets. And, those like Professor Enciso offer cross-disciplinary courses on topics of multi-ethnic education. In a course with Professor Latorre you will learn of the riches offered by Chicano mural art. In courses offered by Professor Delgadillo a multi-spectrumed light will shine on Borderland studies in all its complexity. And Professor Tapia will open your eyes to certain resplendent visuals produced by Chicana visual artists. Professor Fernandez’s Latinos in history courses will fill in the holes of that pitted road of US history. In January 2008, we brought to the OSU campus in our yearly Latino Studies Big Event: Latinos in World War II. To discuss with faculty and students in a workshop forum, we had distinguished speakers Professor and film director Mario Barrera (University of California, Berkeley), Chicano cultural studies scholar Arturo Aldama (University of Colorado, Boulder), and our very own Lilia Fernandez. After a showing of Dr. Barrera’s documentary, Latinos in WWII, we had a rich and stimulating discussion of the implications of race, class, and gender in the shaping of the barbarous imperial US then and today. Link to photos!!
Keep an eye out for the Spring of 2008 course offerings by Latino Studies faculty across the campus: Mariela to fill in blanks. Latino Studies at OSU is at full throttle. We hope to see you in our courses, as Minors, and at our special events. For events, courses, and the Minor, or any other Latino Studies questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Professor Aldama and/or Mariela Herrera at: aldama.1@osu.edu and/or herrera.31@osu.edu
