Welcome to Kenyon! Here are some resources that can help you get to know our Spanish program better whether you want to be a major, a minor, get ready for study abroad or learn Spanish for the first time.
We are a dynamic department of seven tenured or tenure-track faculty members and special guest instructors. We are active scholars who specialize in literary, cultural and linguistic topics like Latin American film, literary translation, Spain and the Islamic world, authors in exile, transnational feminisms, Latinx art, and medieval poetry games. We like mentoring students closely and teaching them how to read deeply, analyze in historical context, and write convincingly. We are excited to get to know you and foster your passion for Spanish. Below you can find links to:
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Professor: Diego del Río Arrillaga | Spring 2021
This course focuses on the work of several Spanish writers, film directors and painters that fled Spain because of the Spanish Civil War (1936- 1939) and immigrated to different countries in Latin America. We will analyze their works before exile, during the first years living in exile, and later works (published either in exile or back in Spain). In this way, students will have the opportunity to study how the experience of exile — living in Latin America and being in constant contact with Latin American culture and intellectuals — affected their creations. By following this methodology, the course will give students a profound understanding of the phenomenon of exile and of how this particular group of Spanish artists set themselves apart from those who stayed in Spain or went to other countries around the globe. In addition, this course offers a Digital Humanities optional component, which gives students the opportunity of learning how to use mapping software in order to develop a digital map that will display the initial trajectories of these exiled artists.