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Cecilia Cornejo, lecturer in cinema and media studies at Carleton, has been awarded grants by Springboard for the Arts; Artists Respond: Safety in Neighbors; and Forecast Public Art: Artists as Witness. With grant support, Cornejo will introduce a cohort of Latinx neighbors to the history and technique of arpillera, a Chilean art form that emerged during the military dictatorship that integrates embroidery and appliqué techniques. Equipped with fabric, needle, and thread, participants will create small tapestries that bear witness to daily life under the current federal administration.

Jorge Brioso, professor of Spanish at Carleton, published an essay, “Literature and Its Gifts: Reflections on Two Fragments of the Odyssey,” in the literary magazine Bookish & Co. Journal, affiliated with the publishing house Casa Vacía.

Jorge Brioso, professor of Spanish at Carleton, published an essay on the political crisis in Cuba in the column on political philosophy he maintains in Revista Hypermedia. The piece is titled, “Weaving and Singing: Epic as a Mirror of Patience.”

Vera Coleman, senior lecturer and Spanish language program director; Fernando Contreras, lecturer in Spanish; and Beatriz Pariente Beltrán, senior lecturer in Spanish; attended the III Encuentro de Profesores de Español (EPE NC 2026), a prestigious conference co-organized by Davidson College and Duke University. Coleman presented a poster on “Environmental Humanities, Indigenous Cosmovisions, and Decolonial Pedagogies in Spanish Language Education,” and Contreras shared a practical experience on “Digital Narratives and Social Justice with StoryMaps in Mexico.”

Xavier Tavera, assistant professor of art at Carleton, has a photography exhibition currently on view at Cruise gallery in Minneapolis. The show, Unsettled, reflects on the past month of civil unrest in Minneapolis, and will be up through April 22, 2026.

Jorge Brioso, professor of Spanish at Carleton, published an essay in the journal Hypermedia titled, “Foreignness, a Conceptual History: From the Greeks to Kant.”

Jorge Brioso, professor of Spanish at Carleton, published an article in the December issue of La Tenada magazine titled, “A Treatise on the Passions for a Delirious Age: Cassavetes’ Cinema in Two of His Films.”

Jorge Brioso, professor of Spanish at Carleton, published an article titled, “Aristotle and the Invention of Platonism” in Revista Rialta. The article is part of a book he is currently working on, Aristotle Is Said in Many Ways, in which he proposes a reading of the Greek philosopher by placing him in dialogue with contemporary literature and philosophy.

Fernando Contreras Flamand, lecturer in Spanish; Vera Coleman, senior lecturer and Spanish language program director; Beatriz Pariente-Beltrán, senior lecturer in Spanish; and Claudia Lange, lecturer in Spanish, collaboratively designed an innovative didactic unit for Spanish 204 in partnership with the Nahua Indigenous community of Amatlán de Quetzalcóatl, Morelos, Mexico, engaging nearly 80 students. This initiative was made possible through the Mellon Foundation’s Indigenous Engagement in Place grant and reflects the department’s commitment to intercultural learning, reciprocity, and social justice.