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Although we are sad to say farewell to our Spanish project director and beloved friend prof. Gustavo Pellón, who will step down at the end of the spring 2023 semester, we are happy to welcome prof. Ricardo Padrón as his successor at CLA.
CLA's Spanish project director prof. Ricardo Padrón talks about the literature and cartography of European expansion, including the colonial history of early modern Spain and the transpacific, and reflects on the Renaissance and themes that remain relevant today.
Listen to the interview HERE.
Teaching Literature for Liberation provides free educational materials for K–12 teachers to enable and encourage the teaching of literature associated with historically marginalized experiences of race and ethnicity, gender and sexual identity, religion, class, and ability.
Past Videos
Watch CLA Project Director Jennifer Williamson, Assistant Principal at Western Albemarle High School, discuss teaching the history of American migrations at our November 11, 2017 session at the Miller Center for Public Affairs.
The Center for the Liberal Arts remembers with gratitude and admiration the extraordinary life and work of Julian Bond. Bond did us the great honor of recording “Making Civil Rights Matter” for one of our workshops on teaching about the American movement for civil rights, remarks as important now as ever.