Humanities Teaching Highlights

Greg Stallings, Classroom Convergence

Professor Greg Stallings’ Fall 2010 Spanish 448R/648R course “Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century” is studying the poetry of the great Spanish poet and dramatist Frederico García Lorca, who was assassinated during the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Lorca’s poetry expresses his fascination with “the other,” whether it be the gypsies of his native Andalusia, or the African Americans whom he encountered while living for a time in New York City. Professor Stallings brings music, art, and film into the classroom in order to situate his authors within a cultural setting. The class is taught entirely in Spanish in order to prepare students to work and serve in diverse communities in the future.