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The Graduate Studies Committee would like to announce that Levi Cross has won the Fall 2021 Graduate Student Best Paper Award with the paper titled Movimento em tempos crip: Ondas sônicas e metafísicas de resistência subalterna em Também os brancos sabem dançar. In this paper, Levi analyzes Angolan artist Kalaf Epalanga’s autofictional novel and connects …
Two of our valued and respected colleagues retired from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese in May 2021. After many years of service to the department, the university, and the profession, Professors Ivy Corfis and David Hildner have opened a new chapter of their professional lives. A specialist in medieval literature, Professor Corfis has prepared …
The following students successfully defended their PhD dissertation during the 2020-21 academic year: Andrea Sánchez Vicente Megan Bailon Karen García Escorcia Cassidy Reis Ryan Grosvold Brenda Froemming Congratulations from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese on this momentous achievement!
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 …
Congratulations to Brandon Goodale, who was recently named a recipient of one of just two Fulbright Open Study/Research Awards for Uruguay for the 2021-2022 academic year. Through the support of this award, Brandon will spend March-December of 2022 in Uruguay doing fieldwork for his dissertation, entitled Diatopic, Diastratic, and Diaphasic Variation in the Intonation of Uruguayan …
This highly selective award recognizes top-notch TAs across the College of Letters & Science, who serve as instructors during the fall training for incoming TAs. Congratulations, Carolina, you have made the department very proud!
Congratulations to Gloria Morales and Felipe Moraga who have been awarded the L&S Continuity of Instruction Campus-Wide Teaching Award! This award recognizes L&S graduate students who have provided exceptional continuity of instruction support to their department or delivered an exceptional student experience in a remote instructional setting during the pandemic. A virtual awards ceremony is …
All are welcome to join the Women in Translation project. The program schedule can be found below. Tomorrow, Friday, February 5, 2021 from 9:00 -10:30am is our first session with Venezuelan poet Santiago Acosta, award winner of the City and Nature José Emilio Pacheco Literary Prize (2018). LA MUJER QUE CRECE ES ÚNICA Y TAMBIÉN …
We are honored to feature Ella Sabin, an undergraduate in her third year studying journalism, Spanish, and environmental studies at UW–Madison. Souvenirs, a culture and travel magazine, is one of multiple publications produced by the Wisconsin Union Directorate. In the Fall 2020 issue, Ella wrote “The State of National Parks” (pages 18-19). Her article discusses …
The suspension of classes and face-to-face activities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison during the spring of 2020 put to the test the determination of a group of students and their teacher in their efforts to unravel and premiere the comedy by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz titled House of Trials. This forty-minute docudrama presents …