Office Hours: The Arts of Exchange with Professor Catherine Infante
Hosts Briana Bao ’28 and Rita Xing ’28 are joined by Associate Professor of Spanish Catherine Infante to discuss her background in Arabic, English, and Spanish, interdisciplinary and multimedia teaching, insights into what unites and divides the greater Spanish-speaking world, and more.
Language is a sign of culture. Objects are a sign of culture. Different languages encounter different objects, creating a cultural exchange between the Spanish-speaking Iberian Peninsula and the Arab world of North Africa during the Medieval Ages. How does the image of the Virgin Mary, Western colonialism, and Arabic root words influence culture? In this episode, Briana Bao ’28 and Rita Xing ’28 sit down with Associate Professor of Spanish and Department Chair of Spanish Catherine Infante to discuss her own book projects, learning new languages, and teaching Spanish literature — specifically, how Don Quixote and two coasts of the Mediterranean have led her into the world of academia and other exciting interests like traveling and gardening.
Episode notes and further reading here.
Edited and produced by Briana Bao ’28 and Rita Xing ’28.
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