In summer 2020 Honors Spanish Majors Cara Satullo, Emily Montenegro, and Juhee Park presented their analyses of Andean and Amazonian indigenous cultural representations in children’ films for the Center for Latin American Studies Virtual Coffee Webinar Series. Students developed their projects as part of the Spring 2020 SPAN 4565H course, "Indigenous Languages, Literatures and Cultures of Latin America" taught by Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman. Students presented entirely in Spanish for a broad-ranging audience on the movies Pachamama, The Road to El Dorado, The Emperor's New Groove and Dora and the Lost City of Gold with special participation of Américo Mendoza Mori (UPenn), who was the Quechua Language Consultant for Dora and the Lost City of Gold. 

In addition to their webinar presentation, Cara (OSU class of 2021, majoring in Public Policy Analysis and Spanish, minoring in Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife), Emily (OSU class of 2022, double majoring in Film Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a minor in Spanish), and Juhee (OSU class of 2021, majoring in Computer Sciences, Spanish and Mathematics) generated critical-analytical essays in Spanish and PowerPoint presentations that are now included as enduring K-12 teaching resources in CLAS’s Teach the Andes K-12 Resource Repository.

For the link to Cara and Emily's papers, as well as their webinar presentation, please click visit the K'acha Willaykuna news post on the Global Arts + Humanities website here. 

This article has been cross posted from the K'acha Willaykuna research page on the Global Arts + Humanities website.