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PhD candidate Denise Oyuki Castillo has been offered a position as a College of Letters & Science Teaching Mentor. Every year, L&S welcomes and trains hundreds of new TAs. Teaching Mentors are the heart of this crucial undertaking: they serve as facilitators at the annual L&S Fall TA Training event and provide mentorship throughout the …
Professor Paola Hernández has been named a Mellon-Morgridge Professor. This professorship is part of the Constellations humanities program, a collaborative initiative to energize undergraduate interest in the humanities through exceptional humanities classes and co-curricular experiences. Beginning in AY 2023-24 Professor Hernández will teach a large lecture class on Border and Migration Studies in LatinX America. …
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is pleased to share that Felipe Moraga is the recipient of one of this year’s campus-wide Innovation in Teaching Awards! This is the second time Felipe has been recognized with such an award. In 2021, he received the L&S Continuity of Instruction Teaching Award. Felipe excels in creating activities …
Department of Spanish & Portuguese PhD candidate Katherine Ward has received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship to support her dissertation titled, Intercultural Bilingual Educators’ Perceptions of Non-Standardized Spanish in Ecuador: A Case Study in Combatting Linguistic Discrimination in Schools. Katherine will spend six months in Ecuador working collaboratively with Indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers …
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is proud to announce that the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing has just published a bibliography on sources on Book History in South America prepared by one of our PhD students, Gloria J. Morales Osorio, alongside a former graduate student in the department, Gabriel Antúnez …
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese would like to congratulate undergraduate Biomedical Engineering and Spanish major Caitriona Treacy. Caitriona is a recipient of the UW Global Gateway Fellowship for Spring 2023. Through the UW Global Gateway Initiative, students participate in pre- and post-program engagements and onsite activities to integrate their time abroad with academics and …
One of our PhD candidates, Sabina Madrid-Malloy, is a recipient of the 2022-2023 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award (DDRA) for her project titled Resonating Resistance: The Body in Contemporary Mexican Theatre and Performance. Through the support of the award, Sabina will spend six months in Mexico City doing fieldwork for her dissertation exploring how contemporary …
As part of the student-driven project ‘Archives and Literature in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula’, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese will be hosting a roundtable with faculty, and a flash-talk event for graduate students this Fall 2022. First, on September 26, 2022, at 3:30pm (room TBD), professors Alicia Cerezo, Ellen Sapega, …
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is delighted to announce that one of our PhD candidates, Gloria J. Morales Osorio, has been selected to join the Rare Book Society – Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. During 2022-2024, Gloria will be one of ten junior fellows, a group that includes both graduate …
On May 8, 2022, one of our graduate students, Brandon Goodale, who is currently on a Fulbright in Uruguay, was interviewed about his dissertation research/fieldwork by Cacho Mariño and Javier de Gregorio of Plácido Domingo 99.1 FM El Lugar, radio de San José, Uruguay. You can find the full interview here.