UF Center for Latin American Studies
The specialization in Arts, Literature, and Culture draws on a wealth of expertise across campus, training students interested in careers related to arts and culture in academia, creative and critical writing, museums, arts administration, performance and related fields.
To help students and advisors to navigate the vast and constantly shifting curricular landscape supporting Latin American Studies at UF.
To foster connection and collaboration around shared interests among current and prospective UF faculty, students, and partners.
Before each semester, the Center compiles and posts online a Guide to hundreds of LAS-related courses available the coming semester. Some courses contributing to specializations are offered every semester, others once every few years. The list of courses provided here is not intended to guarantee any curricular offerings, but rather to open horizons to topics that have been and may be offered in widely varied programs around UF.
Each specialization offers students the opportunity to craft personalized programs of study and to add their own contributions. Students may identify additional courses relevant for a specialization, including new and one-time offerings, and may seek approval from the Specialization Coordinator to count such courses toward specialization credits.
John Richard Stepp (Anthropology, Latin American Studies; Mesoamerica) Cultural Ecology, Ecological Anthropology, Ethnobotany, Medical Anthropology, Visual Anthropology
Martha Kohen (Architecture)
Alfonso Perez Mendez (Architecture) Evolution of Modern Architecture in the Decade after the WWII
Derek Burdette (Art History) Mesoamerican Arts and the Arts of Colonial Mexico
Kaira Cabañas (Art History) Modern and Contemporary Art of the Americas and Europe
Gaby Hernández (Graphic Design) Social design, Design Research, Design for Development, Visual Storytelling, and Multidisciplinarity, Indigenous Groups (México and Costa Rica)
Heidi Powell (Art and Art Education) Community Art in Central America, Memory, Pedagogy and Practice, Indigenous Identities, Art Cultures, and Arts-Based Research, Medicine and Arts Integration, ​Narrative Inquiry, and Experienced-Based Research Methods
Maria Rogal (Graphic Design) Design for Development, Design Theory, Co-Design, Semiotics, Ethnography, Intercultural Design, and Typography
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (Art History) Latin American Art, Art of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America (especially the Andean Region), Indigenous Arts of the Americas
Sergio Vega (Art) Photography & Sculpture
Carlos De la Torre (Latin American Studies) Andean area: Ecuador
Luis Felipe Lomelí (Latin American Studies) Mexico, Colombia
Carmen Martinez Novo (Latin American Studies) Andean area: Ecuador
Juliana Restrepo Sanin (Political Science) Andean area: Colombia
Mary Elizabeth Ginway (Spanish and Portuguese Studies) Brazilian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Latin American Science Fiction, Brazilian Detective and Crime Fiction, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brazilian Narrative, Machado de Assis, Brazilian Cinema, Brazilian Culture, Portuguese Language
Benjamin Hebblethwaite (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures/Haitian Creole and Haitian Francophone Studies) Sociolinguistics, Language Documentation, Language Contact, Language Policy and Planning, Linguistics in Literacy and Lexicography
Tace Hedrick (English and Women’s Studies/Spanish/Latin American Studies/Art and Art History) Latina/o and Chicano/a Studies; Afro-Latino/a Studies; Intellectual History of the Americas; Feminist, Queer Theory and Cultural Studies; Feminist Theory; Popular Culture, Visual Culture
Emily Hind (Spanish and Portuguese/Latin American Studies) Mexican Studies, Latin American Literature and Film, and 20th- and 21st- Century Critical Approaches within Interdisciplinary Humanities
Leah Rosenberg (English) Caribbean and Postcolonial Studies, Pedagogy, Digital Humanities
Martin Sorbille (Spanish and Portuguese Studies) 19th Century and early 20th Century Latin American literature and culture, Spanish-American film studies, Psychoanalysis, Literary and critical theory
Kenneth Broadway (Music) Percussion
Larry Crook (Music/Ethnomusicology) Brazilian music, the African Diaspora, Music and Identity, Popular Music
Silvio Dos Santos (Music/Musicology) 19th Century to Present-Day European and Latin American Music, Cultural Identity, Intersections between Music and Politics, and Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Latin American Music
Kristen Stoner (Music) Flute
Welson Tremura (Music/Latin American Studies) Ethnomusicology, Brazilian Jazz, Classical and Vocal Music
Joan Frosch (Theatre/Dance)
Tony Mata (Theatre/Dance/Latin American Studies)
