Francisco Solares-Larrave
A Guatemalan native, he arrived in the United States in the late eighties on a Fulbright Scholarship to do graduate studies in comparative literature at the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana. Initially, he planned on staying two years, but now after three decades, he's still in Illinois.
After finishing his degrees, he returned briefly to Guatemala, but then he came back to the United States. He has been teaching Spanish language, literature and culture at NIU since August 2000, and his main research interests are 19th-century Spanish American literature. In addition, he also reads and teaches Spanish American crime novels and historical fiction.
Besides his academic work as an associate professor, he enjoys life with his family and bossy cat, biking, traveling, cooking and photography. Every other year, all these interests come together when he is director of the NIU summer study abroad program in Toledo, Spain.
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The pandemic changed us in so many ways. For Francisco Solares-Larrave, even his shopping habits may have been permanently altered. -
You can learn a lot about people by watching them like, well... like you'd watch a cat, says cat-observer Francisco Solares Larrave.
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¿Los gatos nos pueden enseñar interpretar el significado los gestos de humanos? Francisco Solares-Larrave explica.
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You think you know the works of Jane Austen, right? Well, Francisco Solares-Larrave says not so fast, if you've only watched the films.
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Francisco Solares-Larrave explica la mala pata de Jane Austen.
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Lo hizo Chile, lo hizo Guatemala, lo hizo Perú, hasta Illinois logró enjuiciar a sus líderes corruptos. Francisco Solares-Larrave dice que Estados Unidos no tiene excusa.
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Chile did it, Guatemala did it, Peru did it, even Illinois managed to prosecute its corrupt leaders. Francisco Solares-Larrave says America has no excuse.
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Francisco Solares-Larrave da consejos sobre la importancia de tener cuidado con lo que se desea.
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Ever make a wish and then it came true? Francisco Solares Larrave has a cautionary tale for you.
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Francisco Solares-Larrave reflexiona en su experiencia bajo una dictadura. (Francisco Solares-Larrave reflects on his experience under a dictatorship.)
