Congratulations to Jamie de Moya-Cotter, who was recently awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad for his PhD project titled Narrating the Pluriverse: Eco-Storytelling from the Andes and Amazon! This project analyzes the similarities and …
Department News
Congratulations to our 2023 Marsha Gray Ehrlich Scholarship Fund Recipients
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 …
Denise Oyuki Castillo Named a College of Letters & Science Teaching Mentor
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 …
Professor Paola Hernández Named Mellon-Morgridge Professor
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. …
Felipe Moraga Receives Campus-Wide Innovation in Teaching Award
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 …
Katherine Ward receives Fulbright Award
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 …
Book History in South America: A Bibliography of Scholarship and Sources
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 …
Undergraduate Caitriona Treacy Receives Spring 2023 UW Global Gateway Fellowship
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 …
Sabina Madrid-Malloy receives Fulbright Award
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 …
Archives and Literature in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula
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 …