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The Latino/a Studies program
is on its way to becoming one of the leading centers
for research in the Midwest.
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Whether you are majoring in business,
engineering, geography, or education, a minor in Latino/a
Studies will give you the opportunity to become an informed
and engaged participant in continuing dialogues and
research at the national level about our changing society.
Many students, both Latin@ and non-Latin@, want to learn
about the past, present and emerging identities of Latin@s
in the U.S. Latino/a Studies is a cross-disciplinary
program that focuses on who Latin@s have been and who
we might become in our communities and across the nation.
In all our courses, students encounter an emphasis on
the perspectives of Latin@s who have shaped historical
events, produced written, musical and visual arts, reformed
educational practices and policies, and changed the
landscape, economy and politics of many U.S. cities.
This year, the Latino/a Studies program and the departments
of English and History are very pleased to welcome Professors
Manuel Martínez, Frederick Aldama, and Lilia
Fernández, who have joined our OSU community.
Prof. Martinez comes to OSU from Indiana University
where he has developed an analysis of ‘movement’in
his comparison of Chicano movement writing and Beat
poetry. In addition to his scholarly work, he is an
active Chicano author who has already written two award-winning
novels.
Prof. Aldama completed his graduate work at Stanford
and held a professorship at the University of Colorado-Boulder,
where he was an active member of the Ethnic Studies
program. He is a prolific writer in the field of literary
studies and queer theory, and has made widely recognized
contributions to the understanding of literary representations
of queer sexuality in relation to changing sexual mores
in the United States.
Prof. Lilia Fernandez recently completed her Ph.D at
the University of California-San Diego and will continue
with postdoctoral work during 2005-06 at the University
of Illinois-Champaign. Her research subject is a history
of collaborations between Mejicana and Puertorriqueña
activists in Chicago during the 1960s.
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“The
Latino/a Studies program is growing and has great
promise to become one of the leading centers for
research and scholarship in the Midwest.” |
We see great promise in the addition
of Profs. Martínez, Aldama, and Fernández
to the OSU Latino/a Studies faculty, and we want to
ensure that we develop and maintain a strong climate
of support for the Latino/a Studies program. This year,
two faculty members, Professors Luz Calvo and Catriona
Rueda Esquibel, who made important contributions to
the visibility of the program and its highly regarded
courses, decided to leave OSU and return to California.
The Latino/a Studies program is growing and has great
promise to become one of the leading centers for research
and scholarship in the Midwest, particularly because
the Latin@ experience in this area is relatively new
and shifting. To continue to grow and become a sustainable
program, Latin@ Studies at OSU needs the support of
the departments and administrators across the university
so that students and faculty see that this program is
valued and know that it will be fully supported over
the coming decades.
You can support Latino/a Studies by checking out the
program online and signing up—with your friends—for
courses! This Autumn Quarter, we are offering Comparative
Studies 544: Survey of Latino/a Literature in the U.S.;
in Winter Quarter we have Arts and Sciences 294: Imagining
America; and in Spring Quarter we have Comparative Studies
242: Introduction to Latino Studies.
For more information about these courses and to sign
up for the minor program, please contact Prof. Patricia
Enciso at enciso.4@osu.edu.
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