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Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating our Fall 2025 Honored Instructors. Every semester, students living in University Housing have the opportunity to recognize instructors who have made a positive impact on their learning through the Honored Instructor program. There were five Fall 2025 Honored Instructors in the Department of Spanish & …

Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating junior undergraduate Spanish and Political Science major Hailey Dickinson on her Voyager Scholarship for Public Service. Hailey is one of one hundred students (and only the second Badger!) recognized nationwide for her passion for helping others. With the funding provided by this highly-competitive award, Hailey …

Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating Kiley Specht, graduate student in Spanish Applied Linguistics, on her American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2025 Research Priorities Initiative Award! She received this award for her dissertation study, Analyzing Dialectal Awareness, Attitudes, and Listening Comprehension of Caribbean Varieties in L2 Learners. …

Congratulations to Eve Pujol for being selected to join the 2025–26 cohort of the Morgridge Fellows Community-Engaged Scholarship (CES) professional development program. The Morgridge Fellows Program is a yearlong campus initiative that supports faculty, staff, and graduate students involved in community-based teaching and research. Fellows join a learning community focused on building equitable partnerships, developing …

The Graduate School has selected Katherine Ward’s dissertation as the UW–Madison nominee for the 2025 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Arts. The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), jointly with ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, presents two of these awards each year to individuals who, in the opinion of the award committee, have completed dissertations …

Congratulations to Mellon-Morgridge Professor Paola Hernández for being awarded the Kellett Mid-Career Award!! With this award the University recognizes Mellon-Morgridge Professor Hernández’s academic success and provides her an opportunity for continued development of her outstanding research program. Since publishing her first monograph, El Teatro de Argentina y Chile: Globalización, resistencia y desencanto (2009)—for which she …

Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating Andrés Correal, winner of the Spring 2025 Pedagogical Innovation Contest! Contestants submitted a detailed proposal involving the incorporation of artificial intelligence into an existing lower-division Spanish and/or Portuguese course. All submissions underwent a rigorous review by a committee of language acquisition and teaching and artificial …