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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!
January 31, 2018 Professor Guillermina De Ferrari has been awarded a four-year Senior Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. IRH Senior Fellowships are awarded for innovative research in the humanities, and carry four semesters of leave from teaching over a two-year period. Beginning in Fall 2018, Professor De Ferrari will be in …
January 9, 2018 The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is thrilled to announce that Brianna Butera has been named a recipient of a Capstone PhD Teaching Award. She was nominated for this prestigious, highly-competitive award because she is on track to defend her dissertation this academic year and because she has defined teaching excellence throughout …
December 5, 2017 New York, NY – The Modern Language Association of America today announced its twenty-seventh annual Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. The winner is Nancy J. Gates Madsen, of Luther College, for her book …