UMBC MLLI Department

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🎓✨ Exciting news from UMBC!

UMBC’s Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication is now offering enrolled students the opportunity to earn language credits through the Maryland Seal of Biliteracy.

This is a powerful example of how the Seal of Biliteracy can open doors beyond high school, recognizing students’ multilingual skills as valuable academic assets.

MFLA celebrates UMBC for honoring language learning, multilingualism, and the many cultural and linguistic strengths students bring with them.

Students can check the UMBC Undergraduate Catalog in June 2026 for more information.

Join us for a conversation on masculinity, performance, and identity!

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This virtual conversation features Peruvian performer Luciano Anahel, whose work across drag, ballroom, and experimental performance offers a lens to understand masculinity as something constructed, negotiated, and lived. Engaging masculinities from the Global South, this event explores how transmasculine performance challenges dominant norms while opening space for new ways of thinking about identity, embodiment, and belonging. Through artistic practice, participants are invited to reflect on how gender operates across social spaces and how performance becomes a strategy for navigating and reshaping those spaces.

Looking for classes on Latin America in Fall 2026? Here’s the list of electives for the Minor in Latin American Studies.
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- ANTH 224: FOCUSED CULTURAL STUDY: THE CARIBBEAN
Dr. Camee Maddox-Wingfield - TuTh, 1:00-2:15 PM
- GES 348: LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHIES
Dr. Yolanda Valencia - MW, 1:00-2:15 PM
- GWST 343: GENDER, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN LATIN AMERICA
Dr. Mariana Meriqui Rodrigues- MW, 10:00-11:15 AM
- HIST 348: COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA HISTORY
Dr. Silvia Escanilla Huerta - MWF, 10:00-10:50 AM
- SPAN 303: TEATRO Y JUSTICIA SOCIAL
Prof. María Manni - TuTh, 1:00 to 2:15 PM
-SPA 308: HISTORIAS, CULTURASY POLITICAS DE LATINOAMERICA
Dr. Tania Lizarazo - MW, 1:00-2:15 PM
-SPAN 312: PRODUCCIONES CULTURALES EN LAS
AMERICAS
Dr. Thania Muñoz - TuTh, 2:30-3:45 PM
-SPAN 472/672: THEORY IN THE FLESH
Dr. Tania Lizarazo - M, 4:30-7:00 PM
MORE INFO:
[email protected] / [email protected]

Looking for an elective on Latin American Studies? “Masculinities in the Americas” is open

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This course examines the historical formation and cultural representation of masculinities in the Americas from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. Through literature, film, visual arts, and popular culture, students analyze how gender, race, sexuality, indigeneity, class, migration, and coloniality intersect in shaping masculinities and the systems of gatekeeping that sustain them. The course explores how cultural practices challenge dominant paradigms and imagine new forms of identity, belonging, and power in contemporary societies.

Masculinities in the Americas
Dra. Carpio Rios
M 4:30-7:00 (hybrid)

Here’s the list of classes on Latin America that will be offered at UMBC next semester!

Take one or many and consider enrolling in the Minor in Latin American Studies!




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ANTH 224: FOCUSED CULTURAL STUDY: SOUTH AMERICA
Nicholas Welcome - TuTh, 2:30-3:45
HIST 327: MODERN LATIN AMERICA HISTORY
Silvia Escanilla Huerta - TuTh, 10:00-11:15
ECON 285: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Tim Gindling - TuTh, 4:00-5:15
SPAN 308: HISTORIAS, CULTURAS Y POLITICAS DE LATINOAMERICA
Thania Muñoz D. - TuTh, 1:00-2:15
SPAN 313: PALABRA Y PANTALLA
Erin Hogan - MW, 5:30-6:45
SPAN 401: STUDIES IN SPANISH LANGUAGE
Maria Manni - TuTh, 2:30-3:45
SPAN 421/621: MASCULINITIES IN THE AMERICAS
Meloddye Carpio Ríos - M, 4:30-7:00
MORE INFO:
[email protected] /
[email protected]

Last movie! Última película! Join Professor Thania Muñoz for an interactive discussion of Real Women Have Curves: kahoot competition and Latino goodies to celebrate the end of the Latinex Heritage Month 🥳 🍬

Nuestro Latinx Film Festival empieza hoy! No te lo pierdas. 🎬

Come check out our Spanish table tomorrow! Say hi, meet other MLLI students, and take some goodies with you. Feliz inicio del semestre!