Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating Letícia Barbosa on being selected as the University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral nominee for the 2025 Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Excellence in Teaching Award. …
Department News
Keira Hook Wins Spring 2025 Language Institute Generative AI and Language Education Instructional Innovation Award
Congratulations to Keria Hook, winner of a 2025 Language Institute Generative AI and Language Education Instructional Innovation Award! She will put this award toward using generative AI for an instructional activity in which Spanish 102 …
Congratulations to Professor Paola Hernández, incoming Editor of Latin American Theatre Review
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese would like to congratulate Professor Paola Hernández, who has been selected as the incoming Editor of Latin American Theatre Review (LATR), one of the most prestigious journals in the …
Congrats to Professor Rajiv G. Rao for receiving a Fulbright Specialist Award!
The Fulbright Specialist Program pairs highly qualified US academics and professionals with host institutions abroad to share their expertise, strengthen institutional linkages, hone their skills, gain international experience, and learn about other cultures while building …
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese Mourns the Loss of Professor Emeritus Will Risley
Will Risley was a passionate reader of Spanish literature and shared this passion throughout Van Hise’s classrooms, as well as its corridors. He could talk endlessly about the works of the nineteenth-century writer Benito Pérez …
Congratulations to Professor Grant Armstrong: Awarded an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship!
This award is provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research with funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. It is a major campus honor with which the University recognizes …
Congratulations to our Newest Masters Graduates!
Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating the three MA students who passed their portfolio!
Congratulations to Flor Mazzei, Winner of the Departmental Spring Semester Teaching Award
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is proud to announce this semester’s winner of the Spring Semester Teaching Award, Flor Mazzei! This award aims to recognize one TA each semester for their all-around performance, ingenuity, …
Letícia Barbosa Selected as 2023-2024 L&S Teaching Mentor
Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating Letícia Barbosa for being selected as one of this year’s L&S Teaching Mentors! It has been quite the stretch for Letícia, as this is the …
Bárbara Rodríguez-Guridi Receives Chancellor’s Hilldale Award for Excellence in Teaching
Congratulations to Bárbara Rodríguez-Guridi on receiving the Chancellor’s Hilldale Award for Excellence in Teaching! The primary mission of UW-Madison, and one of its greatest strengths, is the instruction that it provides to students. Academic staff …