DePaul University Spanish Program

Congratulations Dr. Jacqueline Lazú!

Congratulations Dr. Susana Martinez and Dr. Rocío Ferreira!

Event Recap: Book Launch Celebration!📚 On Thursday, we had the honor of highlighting the incredible new books by our CLR and LALS affiliated faculty, Dr. Susana Martínez and Dr. Rocío Ferreira. Thank you for those joined the discussion and supporting both authors! Felicidades por sus publicaciones!✨📖

The course cart is open! Here are the SPN course offerings for Fall Quarter 2026. We're looking forward to another great fall! ☘️

Next Monday, join a book talk with Dr. Martinez on Latinx young adult literature exploring identity, migration, and community through powerful storytelling. This event is open to all!

Please join us on Thursday, May 14, from 4:30–6:00pm in Arts & Letters 102 for a book launch celebration hosted by the Center for Latino Research and the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies.

We will be celebrating recent publications by two of our affiliated faculty members: Rocío Ferreira (De las Veladas literarias de Lima, 1876–1877 a la cocina ecléctica: mujeres, nación y cultura en el Perú decimonónico) and Susana Martinez (Coming of Age(ncy) on the Migrant Trail: Adolescent Journeys in Contemporary Latinx Young Adult Literature).

Light refreshments will be served.

We hope you can join us!

We had a remarkably inspiring conversation with award-winning Peruvian writer and anthropologist Dr. Karina Pacheco Medrano during her presentation at DePaul University on Saturday, November 8th.

Dr. Rocío Ferreira, whose current research and writing focuses on women’s literary and visual cultural responses to the Peruvian internal armed conflict, talked about Dr. Pacheco’s novels and short stories and commented on the newly released book and opened a dialogue with the author.

Dr. Karina Pacheco shared beautiful insights into her fiction, her writing process, and the way she combines her training as an anthropologist, her research on Peruvian history with her creative literary texts. She immersed the audience into the characters’s journey through self-discovery, Peru’s history of political violence, gender-based violence, family dynamics, and the complexities of memory and truth in her novel —The Year of the Wind—, 2022 National Book Award Winner, recently translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem and published by Graywolf Press in November 2025. Her powerful story deeply moved our students, alumni, faculty, and community members.

Special thanks to Dr. Rocío Ferreira for organizing this impactful event and for her unwavering commitment to our Hispanic communities.

Thank you as well to the Peruvian Arts Society for being a consistent and valued partner, and to our generous sponsors at DePaul Liberal Arts & Social Sciences.

And of course, thank you to everyone who attended! We had a full house, and your presence made the event a true success. It’s always a joy to gather with our students, faculty, staff, and the vibrant communities of Chicago.

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Congratulations Dr. Jacqueline Lazú!
“Vivacious histories ripple across a two-room, one-hallway exhibition with pronounced and demanding attention. Curated by Depaul University professor Jacqueline Lazú, Tengo Lincoln Park en mi corazón finds inertia by partnering political imagination with historical reality. Tracing the emergent activism of the Young Lords Organization (YLO)—known for its transformation from a Puerto Rican street gang to a provocative community-based movement—in the Chicago neighborhood of Lincoln Park, the exhibition evidences the group’s struggle for equality in the 1950s and ‘60s amidst forces that sought its eradication through urban removal at every turn. It is a careful balance between archival ephemera, a multiplicity of past sociopolitical inscriptions alongside contemporary artistic manifestations, that echoes the cultural, visual, and material lineages of the YLO. “

Just Like Yesterday: The Young Lords at DePaul — The Latinx Project at NYU It is a careful balance between archival ephemera, a multiplicity of past sociopolitical inscriptions alongside contemporary artistic manifestations, that echoes the cultural, visual, and material lineages of the YLO.