Message from the Department Head

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Gustavo Nanclares, department head in Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, teaches a graduate class in November 2015. The class was about the film The Spanish Earth, a 1937 propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.
Gustavo Nanclares, department head in Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, teaches a graduate class in November 2015. The class was about the film The Spanish Earth, a 1937 propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.

After several years of hiatus, Linguae – the newsletter of the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages – is back in production. The birth of Linguae 2.0 responds to the changing material realities of publishing today, embracing the digital format in order to facilitate distribution while eliminating the costs and waste associated with paper printing. The goal of this newsletter is to foster a sense of community among those – Alumni, professors, staff, and students – who continue to shape and define LCL as a departmental unit. By highlighting the projects and achievements of our constituent parts we hope to intensify communications within the whole and, of course, to stimulate the growth of new connections. To these ends we have also ventured into the digital landscape of social media, creating a departmental Facebook page and Twitter outlet, in an effort to extend the reach of LCL-related news and announcements to include a broader audience. The social dimension of these platforms opens new possibilities for intra/extradepartmental engagement whose full potential remains to be seen.