Faculty

Alberto Bruzos Moro, Spanish Language Program Director, has co-written the article "Who Pays for Cheap Language Instruction?", published by the Boston Review on July 14. The piece, which looks at language learning apps and the conditions under which gig-economy language teachers labor, has been praised as a must-read for language educators.

Read the full article on the Boston Review website.

Adriana Merino, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Lecturer, is one of the 2020 awardees of the Rapid Response David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Mini-Grants for innovation. The grant will support Adriana’s applied research on second language (L2) pedagogies and instructional and intercultural pragmatics.

Professor Nicole Legnani’s book titled The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World is a featured title as part of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2020 virtual exhibit by the University of Notre Dame Press.

View the virtual exhibit. 

More information about the book can be found on the University of Notre Dame Press website. 

Professor Arturo Arias, Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Professor at PLAS and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Fall 2019) was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his research on contemporary indigenous novels from Guatemala and Mexico.

Read more on the PLAS website.