On Monday, May 23, 2022, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese was finally able to host an in-person Class Day event in celebration of the Class of 2022.
View the full list of graduates and thesis titles. Check out our Facebook and Instagram for more pictures from the Class Day event!
MMUF (Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship) is the centerpiece of the Mellon Foundation’s initiatives to increase diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher learning. The program identifies highly qualified underrepresented students and other students who have demonstrated a commitment to diversity and provides them with support and mentorship as they prepare themselves for doctoral programs and careers in the professoriate.
SPO graduate student Alejandro Virue was selected as a recipient of a 2022 Graduate School Teaching Award in recognition of his work as an assistant in instruction. Teaching Awards honor graduate students who have made a significant and exceptional contribution to undergraduate teaching.
By Paloma Moscardó-Vallés
This fall, SPA 250 will offer a trip to Puerto Rico over Fall Break.
Students who are eligible and interested in enrolling in the course should check for more details on the Course offerings webpage.
View Luke Chan's '24 video from the Fall 2022 trip to Puerto Rico on YouTube.
By Danielle Ranucci, SPO Social Media Assistant
On March 16, SPO alumni Brandon Flora Dunlevy, Jimin Kang, and Cecilia Hsu joined the SPA 215: A Spanish Writing Workshop seminar for a conversation about their experience writing senior theses featuring translation.
On the 25th and 26th of February, graduate students Nora Muñiz (G-1), Renee Congdon (G-2) and Catarina Oliveira (G-2) presented their papers “Escatón con glitter: las protestas feministas en México en 2019-2020” (Muñiz), "El cuerpo alterado del neoliberalismo y la distopía: Sangre a borbotones y el 15-M” (Congdon), and “'Cuando el mar todavía era el espejo del cielo y no un chocolate contaminado’: Doomsaying and the environmental catastrophe in Tentacle, by Rita Indiana” (Oliveira), in Backstitches.
On Friday, January 28, Ingrid Brioso Rieumont successfully defended her dissertation titled “Representaciones póstumas en Cuba y Brasil, 1870-1910.”
