- Mario Santana (UChicago)
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This article is about Mario Santana, Associate Dean at the University of Chicago. For Mario Alberto Santana, Argentinian football player, see Mario Alberto Santana.
Mario Santana Name: Mario Santana Origin: Canary Islands in Spain Education Ph. D. in Spanish Literature, Columbia University, 1994; M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Georgia, 1988; Licentiate in Philosophy, University of Barcelona, 1983 Occupation: Associate Dean of the Division of the Humanities; Associate Dean of the College; Associate Dean in the College; Master of Humanities Collegiate Division Awards, Honors, and Professional Experience Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Chicago, 2002; Chicago Humanities Institute Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1996 Published Works Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American New Novel in Spain, 1962–1974 Mario Santana became a part of the University of Chicago faculty in 1994, currently serving as the Associate Dean of the Division of the Humanities and Associate Dean of the College during his tenure as Master.
Santana's research centralizes around contemporary Spanish literature, including Catalan, Basque and Galician as well. At the University of Chicago, the study abroad to Barcelona was established 1996. He received a 2002 Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for his role in developing Reading in World Literature, a part of the University of Chicago's Humanities Core Sequence.
In the College, Santana looks to continue to develop the University's international offerings, as well as those in music, drama, visual arts and creative writing.[1]
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Teaching Style
"It's very easy to teach [at the University of Chicago] because the students are so good, they all have questions, and they all have things to say," describes Santana about his teaching experiences. "The hardest thing in humanities is to teach how to be critical about what you read. We can all gather information and write a nice paper, but to present an original point of view is not just a collection of other people's ideas; you need to be able to point out others' weaknesses and strengths and integrate them into an argument of your own." Santana further references the critically acclaimed Craft of Research to support and guide his argument, as he places an emphasis on careful reading of texts. "Two novels can talk about the same things very differently--it's the way they talk that can make them interesting to us."[2]
Literary Analysis
Literature studies at many schools, including the University of Chicago, base their studies around the Britain or other sources of general American history. However, Santana found it necessary to ensure that students at the University of Chicago are enabled with the ability to analyze literature from multiple outlets such as that of the Spanish descent, allowing for national literature to be studied rather than the norm.
Santana analyzes and criticizes these questions of national literature in "Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American New Novel in Spain 1962-1974," discussing issues such as if literature written in Catalan would be considered Spanish literature, as well as the boom of authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Manuel Vargas Llosa during the 1960s and '70s.[3]
Footnotes
- ^ "New Collegiate Masters to carry on teaching traditions". http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/051020/collegiatemasters.shtml. Retrieved 2005-10-20.
- ^ "2002 Quantrell Award Winner: Mario Santana, Associate Professor in Romance Languages & Literature and the College". http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020523/quantrell-santana.shtml. Retrieved 2001-04-21.
References
- ^ "New Collegiate Masters to carry on teaching traditions". University of Chicago Chicago Chronicle official website. http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/051020/collegiatemasters.shtml. Retrieved 2005-10-20.
- ^ "2002 Quantrell Award Winner: Mario Santana, Associate Professor in Romance Languages & Literature and the College". University of Chicago Chicago Chronicle official website. http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020523/quantrell-santana.shtml. Retrieved 2001-04-21.
- ^ "2002 Quantrell Award Winner: Mario Santana, Associate Professor in Romance Languages & Literature and the College". University of Chicago Chicago Chronicle official website. http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020523/quantrell-santana.shtml. Retrieved 2001-04-21.
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