By Anais Holgado-Lage
The students and instructors of “Medical Spanish”, taught by Anais Holgado Lage and Eliot Raynor, enjoyed an hour-long conversation with Colombian photographer Jeisson Riascos (known as el_murcy in social media) on October 14th.
By Alejandro Martínez
On October 6, Mapuche poet Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpan participated virtually from Wallmapu (Chile) as a guest speaker in the course “Spanish 250: Identity in the Hispanic World,” co-taught by Professor Christina Lee and graduate student Alejandro Martínez through the Collaborative Teaching Initiative.
SPO concentrator Lydia Spencer ’21 has been elected for fall semester induction to Phi Beta Kappa.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, founded in 1776 and the oldest of all national honorary scholastic societies, has a chapter at Princeton. Election to this chapter is based on scholastic standing and is open to candidates for the A.B. and B.S.E. degrees in their senior year. The chapter generally includes in its membership the highest-ranking tenth of each graduating class.
Congratulations!
Spanish and Portuguese language tables for Fall 2020 have started to meet!
Marina Bedran successfully defended her dissertation titled "A Turn to Amazonia: Experimental Art, Indigeneity, and the Rise of Political Ecology in Brazil."
Marina has accepted a tenure-track position at Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese welcomes new Spanish lecturer Iris Hauser. Hauser is originally from Chiapas, Mexico and studied Applied linguistics at the Universidad de las Americas in (Puebla) Mexico and at Georgia State University. Her research focused on students' cultural identity and second language competency inside academic communities of practice.
First-year students are asked to please complete and submit this Google form to indicate their language interests and what they are interested in learning more about from the department.
Students should refer to the Language Learning webpage for details and contact information about the language requirement, placement test, and proficiency evaluations.
SPO concentrator Jimin Kang ’21 has been remotely interning for Narratively, a New York City-based multimedia company, since late May. She shares some of the components of her work as an editorial intern and highlights from her experience.
Read the full article on the Princeton University website.
Mauricio Acuña's project titled "A Communal Poemap of Afro-Diasporic Aesthetics" was recently selected as part of the Rapid Response Humanities Summer 2020 Projects of the Princeton University Humanities Council.
Graduate students Charlie Hankin and Alejandro Martínez have been awarded a grant to participate in the Rapid Response Humanities Summer 2020 Projects of the Princeton University Humanities Council. Their project, "Latin American COVID Responses: An Archive," will involve several video interviews with activists, intellectuals, and artists in order to create a real-time digital archive to document responses to the coronavirus crisis in Latin America.
