By Michelle Tong
Border relations between the United States and Mexico has become a major topic for recent news. This inspired Spanish and Portuguese Lecturer Nadia Cervantes to design “Before and After the Wall”, a freshman seminar that takes a closer look at the subject through a humanistic lens.
Alumni share stories of friendship, best memories, and opportunities they pursued as Spanish and Portuguese (SPO) concentrators.
For more information about Concentrating in Spanish & Portuguese, visit the Prospective Concentrators webpage.
To view information about the undergraduate language requirement, visit the Language Learning webpage for course sequence and contact information.
Aparecida Vilaça’s Paletó y yo. Memorias de mi padre indígena translated, edited, and with an introduction by Ph.D. candidate Ingrid Brioso Rieumont will be released on April 28, 2021 by Casa de las Américas.
The book was awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize for Brazilian Literature in 2020.
A review of the book can be found on La Ventana.
Berta Del Río Alcalá, postgraduate research associate (PGRA) has been a part of a collective research project that highlights the impact of the pandemic on Spanish theatre. The project utilizes interviews and surveys with professionals in the field to produce an archive.
View the project’s website for more information.
By Michelle Tong
It is without a doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has touched so many aspects of daily life within society. This semester, Assistant Professor Natalia Castro Picón’s students in the course SPA 416 “From the Apocalypse to the “New Normal” (and back). On the Imagination in the Pandemic through Contemporary Iberian Culture”, explored in-depth questions regarding how the pandemic has affected different facets of humanity and culture while providing students with the opportunity to reflect and speak on their own experiences during the past year.
The Humanities Council presents a new play for Zoom led by Argyro Nicolaou (Hellenic Studies) titled ESL (English as a Second Language). The play features SPO graduate student Oriele Benavides as part of the cast and as a co-writer of the script.
SPO graduate alum Jorge Gaupp and Professor Germán Labrador published an analysis of the Language of the Far Right Populism in Spain.
Read the full article on the CTXT website.
By Catalina Méndez Vallejo
On February 22, we welcomed Prof. María Florencia Rizzo from the CONICET institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for a virtual visit in SPA307 (Advanced Spanish Language and Style), which is taught this semester by Prof. Catalina Méndez Vallejo and Prof. Raquel Mattson-Prieto.
Lydia Spencer ’21 has been named a recipient of the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.
Spanish and Portuguese language tables for Spring 2021 have started to meet!
Language tables meet weekly on Zoom and are a great way to allow students to practice speaking in an informal setting with instructors, peers, and native Spanish and Portuguese speakers. Topics of conversation can range from current events and readings to popular culture and daily life.
The full schedule of tables with contact information is available on the Language Tables webpage.
