University of Wisconsin - Madison
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 …
Mercedes Alcalá Galán, Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture and President of the Cervantes Society of America, has received an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. With this fellowship, the University recognizes her academic success and provides an opportunity for continued development of her outstanding research program. Her most recent book explores the sexual and reproductive bodies …
Congratulations are in order for Professor Kata Beilin, who has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research in Mexico during the 2022-23 Academic Year. Professor Beilin will use this prestigious award to complete a book project titled With the Bees and Maize: How the Mayas of Yucatán Take their World Back. The book …
Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating Professor Ksenija Bilbija, who has been selected to receive a University of Wisconsin–Madison Award for Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities! This award recognizes her ongoing commitment to undergraduate students and their scholarly pursuits. Her voluntary work as a mentor to UW–Madison undergraduates …
The Graduate Studies Committee would like to announce that Levi Cross has won the Fall 2021 Graduate Student Best Paper Award with the paper titled Movimento em tempos crip: Ondas sônicas e metafísicas de resistência subalterna em Também os brancos sabem dançar. In this paper, Levi analyzes Angolan artist Kalaf Epalanga’s autofictional novel and connects …
Link to Book Author Names: Paola S. Hernández and Analola Santana Publisher: Routledge Publication Year: 2022 Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre is a critical introduction to the most influential and innovative theatre practitioners in the Americas, all of whom have been pioneers in changing the field. The chosen artists work through …
Two of our valued and respected colleagues retired from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in May 2021. After many years of service to the department, the university, and the profession, Professors Ivy Corfis and David Hildner have opened a new chapter of their professional lives. A specialist in medieval literature, Professor Corfis has prepared …
The following students successfully defended their PhD dissertation during the 2020-21 academic year: Andrea Sánchez Vicente Megan Bailon Karen García Escorcia Cassidy Reis Ryan Grosvold Brenda Froemming Congratulations from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese on this momentous achievement!
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 …
Congratulations to Brandon Goodale, who was recently named a recipient of one of just two Fulbright Open Study/Research Awards for Uruguay for the 2021-2022 academic year. Through the support of this award, Brandon will spend March-December of 2022 in Uruguay doing fieldwork for his dissertation, entitled Diatopic, Diastratic, and Diaphasic Variation in the Intonation of Uruguayan …