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 …
Department News
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 …
Letícia Barbosa wins 2023-2024 Advanced Achievement in Teaching Award
Congratulations to Letícia Barbosa, PhD candidate in Portuguese culture and literature, for winning a 2023-2024 Advanced Achievement in Teaching Award. This award recognizes TAs with four or more semesters of teaching experience at UW–Madison who …
Congratulations to Juan Poveda Romero and Denise Oyuki Castillo!
Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating Juan Poveda Romero and Denise Oyuki Castillo, who have been recognized as Fall 2023 Honored Instructors by University Housing. Each semester, University Housing residents are …
Jamie de Moya-Cotter receives Fulbright Award
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 …
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 …