University of Wisconsin - Madison
We are honored to feature Ella Sabin, an undergraduate in her third year studying journalism, Spanish, and environmental studies at UW-Madison. Souvenirs, a culture and travel magazine, is one of multiple publications produced by the Wisconsin Union Directorate. In the Fall 2020 issue, Ella wrote “The State of National Parks” (pages 18-19). Her article discusses …
The suspension of classes and face-to-face activities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the spring of 2020 put to the test the determination of a group of students and their teacher in their efforts to unravel and premiere the comedy by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz titled House of Trials. This forty-minute docudrama presents …
Link to Book Author Name: Rajiv Rao Publisher: John Benjamins Publication Year: 2020 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another language in speech communities across the Hispanophone world influences …
Professor Guillermina De Ferrari has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded to individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. The Foundation receives approximately 3,000 applications each year with approximately 175 Fellowships being awarded each year. Congratulations, Guillermina!
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 …
Two students from our department, Isabel Martín-Sánchez and Jorge Fernández Cienfuegos, were selected for Fall 2020 L&S Teaching Fellow Awards. This highly selective award recognizes top-notch TAs across the College of Letters & Science, who serve as instructors during the fall training for incoming TAs. Congratulations, Jorge and Isabel, you have made the department very …
We would like to thank our colleagues for nominating students’ papers for the 2019-2020 graduate student “Best Paper Award.” There were three papers submitted for consideration, with a $500 prize up for grabs: Apresar sin hacer daño: el buen gobierno en Ingermina o la hija de Calamar -Gloria Morales Osorio El problema de la identidad: …