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Sensuality in Latin American literature and film
Photograph of old Victorian era library.

The sensuality in Latin American literature and film offers a wholistic way of engaging with the world, according to Ph.D. candidate Dana Khromov.  

Sensuality in Latin American literature and film

Ph.D. student Dana Khromov presented her research on the body as the site of sensuality in Latin American literature and film as part of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Internal Speakers series.

Kristina Linnea García

Experiencing the pandemic from abroad
Person standing outside in front of trees and flowers hiding an iron fence.

Like many Penn students who are part of the Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business through the Wharton School and School of Arts & Sciences, rising junior Julia Mitchell opted to go abroad for a semester this past spring. Despite a change in plans due to the pandemic, Mitchell immersed herself in the culture and language of France. (Image: Courtesy Julia Mitchell) 

Experiencing the pandemic from abroad

When rising junior Julia Mitchell learned in March that France was about to shut down, she decided to immerse herself further in the language rather than come home, quarantining with her homestay family and finishing courses remotely.

Michele W. Berger

The unique subculture of Cuban punk
A young mohawked man with a leather vest featuring a red anarchy symbol styles another young man's hair into a mohawk

Mohawks, tattoos, and piercings are all familiar aspects of the punk aesthetic, setting "los frikis" apart from mainstream society. Image credit: Samuel Reina Calvo, an audiovisual technician and photographer that accompanied Torre Perez during field work.

The unique subculture of Cuban punk

Often idealized through images of painstakingly restored Chryslers and romantic, backroom rumbas, Cuba has untold subcultures that one graduate student, Carmen Torre Pérez, is analyzing through a social history of Cuban punk.

Kristina Linnea García

A unique fellowship for Middle Eastern languages
Five people sit along ancient mud walls at an archeological dig in Iraq.

Katherine Burge, second from right, sits with coworkers at an archeological dig in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2017 .

A unique fellowship for Middle Eastern languages

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Foreign Language and Area Studies Program (FLAS) offers undergraduate and graduate-level academic year and summer fellowships to Penn students studying Middle Eastern languages.

Kristen de Groot

First Ivy League Quechua Fulbright scholar elevates Indigenous values
Man wearing traditional Andean clothing stands in front of mosaic

Nico Suarez Guerrero stands in front of a mosaic at La Casa Latina, wearing a poncho woven by his mother. In the Andes, it is traditional for mothers to weave a poncho for each of their children, which includes colors or details specific to their home region, as a way of connecting the children with their family and heritage. (Image: Américo Mendoza-Mori.)

First Ivy League Quechua Fulbright scholar elevates Indigenous values

Nico Suárez-Guerrero of the School of Arts and Sciences is the first Quechua Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in the Ivy League, and the only one currently in the United States.

Kristina Linnea García

Restoring Indigenous knowledge systems and languages
Dakota Play on Words handwriting sample with word diagramming.

“Dakota Play on Words” sample by Dakota scholar Ella C. Deloria. (Image: Courtesy American Philosophical Society)

Restoring Indigenous knowledge systems and languages

Penn’s Educational Partnerships with Indigenous Communities builds alliances with Native Americans.

Penn Today Staff

Renata Flores brought Quechua to YouTube, and then everything changed

Renata Flores brought Quechua to YouTube, and then everything changed

Américo Mendoza-Mori of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the need to bring the Quechua language into contemporary art forms. “The stereotype where indigenous people are seen as timeless or pure must be challenged. When native people are put in that box, we are fossilizing them,” he said.