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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Francisco Solaris-Larrave says it's not just what you eat.
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Francisco Solaris-Larrave says it's not just what you eat.
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Francisco Solares-Larrave has a new appreciation for skilled cashiers...also, the unskilled ones.
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Francisco Solares-Larrave has some thoughts about the things that things do to you.
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Hacemos mantenimiento para prolongar la vida útil de las cosas.
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Maintenance isn't just for cars and teeth. Francisco Solares-Larrave explains the art of maintenance for our society.
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American university students are taking fewer language courses than ever. Francisco Solares-Larrave says that's not good.
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Francisco Solares-Larrave has a great idea for a reality TV show.
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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.
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You can learn a lot about people by watching them like, well... like you'd watch a cat, says cat-observer Francisco Solares Larrave.