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 | …
Department News
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!
Professor Guillermina De Ferrari awarded Senior IRH Fellowship
January 31, 2018 Professor Guillermina De Ferrari has been awarded a four-year Senior Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. IRH Senior Fellowships are awarded for innovative research in the humanities, and carry …
Brianna Butera wins a campus-wide Capstone PhD Teaching Award
January 9, 2018 The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is thrilled to announce that Brianna Butera has been named a recipient of a Capstone PhD Teaching Award. She was nominated for this prestigious, highly-competitive award …
MLA Recognizes Former Department Graduate Students
December 5, 2017 New York, NY – The Modern Language Association of America today announced its twenty-seventh annual Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of …
Teatro Línea de Sombra visit and residency at UW-Madison
November 6, 2017 After Teatro Línea de Sombra (Mexico) came to Madison for a workshop and to perform Baños Roma in October, 2017, a number of students and faculty made the trip to Chicago to …