University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: August 2024

VOCES

VOCES (Voices) is a video series that addresses topics of representation in Spanish language classes, and gives the word to a group of UW-Madison students from the Black, Latine, LGBTQ+ and non-binary communities. They express their views on the content of language courses as it pertains to their diverse identities and experiences. The videos also feature …

Bilingual Children’s Books Digital Library

The Bilingual Children’s Books Digital Library is the result of the passionate work of a group of college students enrolled in several Spanish 311 courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Fall 2020, Spring 2021, and Spring 2022. The books are part of a bilingual writing project (Spanish-English) that asked the participants to think about …

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese Mourns the Loss of Professor Emeritus Will Risley

Will Risley was a passionate reader of Spanish literature and shared this passion throughout Van Hise’s classrooms, as well as its corridors. He could talk endlessly about the works of the nineteenth-century writer Benito Pérez Galdós and the novels of the Spanish Civil War. Among these, his favorite was Réquiem por un campesino español by …