As exams near and as the Spring semester comes to a close, we look back on the year and highlight some the biggest and most important stories for the Latin American and Latino Studies Program: The second group of participants on Wake Forest’s brand new, semester-long study abroad program in Latin America’s Southern Cone [...] Read more »
Students participating in this year’s Southern Cone Program update it’s Facebook and Twitter pages with pictures and stories regularly. Track their progress and read about their experiences by liking the /WFUSoCo page or following the @WFUSoCo page. The Southern Cone Program, a semester-long study abroad program in Chile and Argentina, was launched in the spring [...] Read more »
Wake Forest Junior Frank de Waegh was recently named by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program and by Selection Committee of the Chauvenet Award as one of the award’s first recipients. Frank, a Political Science major, will be spending his summer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti conducting research on non-government organizations in the country. Frank allowed us to interview [...] Read more »
In recent years, transatlantic approaches to cultural production have gained increasing prominence within academic fields ranging from history and geography to literary studies. Transatlantic perspectives have encouraged fruitful scholarly exchanges among literary critics, historians, linguists, geographers, sociologists, and anthropologists. In particular, a growing number of prominent scholars of Peninsular Spanish and Latin American literature and [...] Read more »
The Latin American and Latino Studies Program is part of the Undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences at Wake Forest University.
