Assistant Professor of Spanish Soledad Gelles received the Class of 1966 Career Development Award. The award will be used to develop a new course for the Spanish department.
This award, established by the Class of 1966 on the occasion of its 25th reunion, provides a stipend and research funds to a Hamilton professor to use during the summer of 2005 "to enhance the quality of undergraduate teaching at Hamilton." Projects must seek to create an opportunity to develop new ideas and creative pedagogical approaches that might lead to new vitality in the classroom, studio or laboratory.
The award will allow Gelles to do the research necessary to develop the new course, titled "Indigenista Narratives of the Andean Region" (Spanish 271, Special Topics in Latin American Literature). The course will introduce students to "historically contextualized readings of indigenista imaginings in novels, essays, short stories, and poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." The course will not only expand the Spanish department but will also help to diversify the curriculum.
