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Marcos Antonio Colón presented one of two winning essays about Brazil, winning a lump-sum cash award of $2000 for a research trip to Brazil. His project, “Seeing Amazônia Slowly: Its Connection with Beyond Fordlândia” deals with the Brazilian rubber boom, which caused a profound change in the 19th century Amazonian economy and landscape. The Brazil …
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is delighted to announce this year’s Marsha Gray Ehrlich Scholarship Fund recipients. Marsha Gray Ehrlich was a former graduate student in our Department, and an inspirational teacher during her long professional career. She received a Master of Arts, with a major in Spanish, on August 17, 1968. She carried …
The Linguistics Faculty of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese are very pleased to announce this year’s Ray Harris Hispanic Linguistics Award recipient is Luis Fernando Vázquez. The original donors established the award in order to “recognize outstanding graduate students in or entering the MA or PhD program in Hispanic linguistics in the Department of …
Sophia Madore, Sameer Pardiwala, Olivia Reuter, and Kelsey Stimes, all Spanish 226 students, were among the winners of the 2018 Madison Metro Bilingual Bus Lines Poetry Contest. The poems will be accompanied by images created by Edgewood College Graphic Design students and will appear on the Buses after August.
FROM CIUDAD JUÁREZ, MEXICO TO MADISON, WISCONSIN The Department of Spanish & Portuguese Presents the Wisconsin Premiere of Perla de la Rosas’s Antígona: las voces que incendian el desierto May 4 – 5, 2018 | 7:00 pm Fredric March Play Circle Theater | Memorial Union The play is free and open to the public In …
The Department is proud to announce that Priya Ananth is one of a select group of outstanding TAs to have been named 2018 College of Letters & Science Teaching Fellows. Based on her excellence as a teacher, student, mentor, and leader throughout her graduate student career, Priya will serve as an instructor at the L&S …
Check out the Department’s Summer 2018 course offerings (pdf).
Written and directed by Marcos Colón, Beyond Fordlândia (2017, 75 min) presents an environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the Ford Motor Company attempted to establish rubber plantations on the Tapajós River, a primary tributary of the Amazon. This film addresses …
March 13, 2018 The Associate Director of LACIS, Alberto Vargas, was a recipient of the first “The Kaleidoscope Faculty Support Award”, in recognition for his outstanding and unconditional support to the Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.
February 8, 2018 This fellowship will allow him to complete a book examining race in Cuba, other Latin American countries, and the United States. Congratulations, Víctor!