University of Wisconsin - Madison
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 second broad-scope award she has won this academic year! The L&S TA Training and Support Team received many excellent applications …
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 teach classes and support the instruction received by thousands of students each semester. This award, the only one in its …
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 are not in the final year of their graduate study. Campus-wide teaching awards are highly competitive, and Letícia’s selection from …
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 invited to nominate instructors that have impacted them positively, challenged them, helped them learn, and inspired them. Ouyki was recognized …
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 distinctions between Andean and Amazonian encounters with extractive capitalist ideals of modernity and development. Jamie’s Fulbright DDRA research will take …
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 long professional career. She received a Master of Arts, with a major in Spanish, on August 17, 1968. She carried …
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 this crucial undertaking: they serve as facilitators at the annual L&S Fall TA Training event and provide mentorship throughout the …
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. Beginning in AY 2023-24 Professor Hernández will teach a large lecture class on Border and Migration Studies in LatinX America. …
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 with such an award. In 2021, he received the L&S Continuity of Instruction Teaching Award. Felipe excels in creating activities …
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 in Combatting Linguistic Discrimination in Schools. Katherine will spend six months in Ecuador working collaboratively with Indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers …