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 …
Department News
Congratulations to our 2018 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 …
Congratulations to Fernando Vázquez, 2018 Ray Harris Hispanic Linguistics Award Recipient
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 …
Spanish 226 Students on Madison Metro
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 …
Antígona: las voces que incendian el desierto
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 | …
Priya Ananth Named Recipient of 2018 L&S Teaching Fellow Award
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 …
Summer Course Registration Begins April 2!
Check out the Department’s Summer 2018 course offerings (pdf).
Marcos Colón’s “Beyond Fordlândia”
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 …
Alberto Vargas Receives Inaugural “Kaleidoscope Faculty Support Award”
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 …
Professor Víctor Goldgel Carballo named a Burkhardt Fellow
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!