Category: Department News

Book History in South America: A Bibliography of Scholarship and Sources

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is proud to announce that the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing has just published a bibliography on sources on Book History in South America prepared by one of our PhD students, Gloria J. Morales Osorio, alongside a former graduate student in the department, Gabriel Antúnez …

Undergraduate Caitriona Treacy Receives Spring 2023 UW Global Gateway Fellowship

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese would like to congratulate undergraduate Biomedical Engineering and Spanish major Caitriona Treacy. Caitriona is a recipient of the UW Global Gateway Fellowship for Spring 2023. Through the UW Global Gateway Initiative, students participate in pre- and post-program engagements and onsite activities to integrate their time abroad with academics and …

Sabina Madrid-Malloy receives Fulbright Award

One of our PhD candidates, Sabina Madrid-Malloy, is a recipient of the 2022-2023 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award (DDRA) for her project titled Resonating Resistance: The Body in Contemporary Mexican Theatre and Performance. Through the support of the award, Sabina will spend six months in Mexico City doing fieldwork for her dissertation exploring how contemporary …

Archives and Literature in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula

As part of the student-driven project ‘Archives and Literature in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula’, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese will be hosting a roundtable with faculty, and a flash-talk event for graduate students this Fall 2022. First, on September 26, 2022, at 3:30pm (room TBD), professors Alicia Cerezo, Ellen Sapega, …

Gloria Morales Osorio Joins the Rare Book Society – Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is delighted to announce that one of our PhD candidates, Gloria J. Morales Osorio, has been selected to join the Rare Book Society – Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. During 2022-2024, Gloria will be one of ten junior fellows, a group that includes both graduate …

Fulbright Recipient Brandon Goodale Gives Research Interview

On May 8, 2022, one of our graduate students, Brandon Goodale, who is currently on a Fulbright in Uruguay, was interviewed about his dissertation research/fieldwork by Cacho Mariño and Javier de Gregorio of Plácido Domingo 99.1 FM El Lugar, radio de San José, Uruguay. You can find the full interview here.

Congratulations to our 2022 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 long professional career. She received a Master of Arts, with a major in Spanish, on August 17, 1968. She carried …

Professor Mercedes Alcalá-Galán Receives H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship

Mercedes Alcalá Galán, Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture and President of the Cervantes Society of America, has received an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. With this fellowship, the University recognizes her academic success and provides an opportunity for continued development of her outstanding research program. Her most recent book explores the sexual and reproductive bodies …

Professor Kata Beilin Awarded Fulbright Scholar Award

Congratulations are in order for Professor Kata Beilin, who has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research in Mexico during the 2022-23 Academic Year. Professor Beilin will use this prestigious award to complete a book project titled With the Bees and Maize: How the Mayas of Yucatán Take their World Back. The book …

Professor Ksenija Bilbija Recognized for Mentoring Undergraduates

Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in congratulating Professor Ksenija Bilbija, who has been selected to receive a University of Wisconsin–Madison Award for Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities! This award recognizes her ongoing commitment to undergraduate students and their scholarly pursuits. Her voluntary work as a mentor to UW–Madison undergraduates …