Department News

Congratulations to Logan Krishka and Carlos Andrés Rojas on their award-winning papers!  

We would like to thank our colleagues for encouraging students to submit their work for the 2018-2019 graduate student “Best Paper Award.” There were three papers submitted for consideration, with a $500 prize up for …

This highly selective award recognizes top-notch TAs across the College of Letters & Science, who serve as instructors during the fall training for incoming TAs. Congratulations, Mark, you have made the department very proud!

Through Professor Marcelo Pellegrini‘s new course, Spanish 468: Soccer? ¿Fúbol? The Beautiful Game, the UW-Madison associate professor of Spanish is transferring his childhood passion to the classroom. He’s challenging students to better understand Latin American …

Marcos Antonio Colón presented one of two winning essays about Brazil, winning a lump-sum cash award of $2000 for a research trip to Brazil. His project, “Seeing Amazônia Slowly: Its Connection with Beyond Fordlândia” deals …

The Linguistics Faculty of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese are very pleased to announce this year’s Ray Harris Hispanic Linguistics Award recipient is Luis Fernando Vázquez. The original donors established the award in order …

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 …