Spanish certificate student Ella Gantman '23 discusses her relationship with Spanish and her experiences learning Spanish at Princeton University in the Tigers in Translation podcast.
Listen to the podcast here.
By Michelle Tong
The course “Identity in the Hispanic World” taught by Professor Christina Lee and graduate student Alejandro Martínez Rodriguez, explored how national and alternate identities are imagined, constructed, changed, and remembered.
Graduate students Alejandro Martínez Rodríguez (Spanish and Portuguese) and Camila P. Reyes Alé (Architecture) compiled a collection of photographs that document the social upheaval and crisis in Chile that began in October 2019. The nation-wide mass protests which went on steadily for months—only deterred by the restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic—were triggered by an increase in subway fare in Santiago, the capital of the country, by $30 pesos.
By Anais Holgado Lage
On November 24th, Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli participated as a guest speaker in the course SPA107, coordinated by Anais Holgado Lage and co-taught by Jeannie Byrne, Iris Hauser, Perla Masi, Miguel Domínguez, Yangyou Fang and Robert Myak. More than 100 students attended the event.
By Michelle Tong
The concept and practice of performance spans a wide range from dance, music, and poetry to sports and film.
On Friday, November 20, a panel of SPO graduate alumni spoke to current graduate students to share insight and advice about pursuing career paths with a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese.
By Catalina Méndez Vallejo
On November 3, we welcomed Prof. Joseph Farquharson from the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, for a virtual visit in our SPA-LIN-LAS 233 course (Languages of the Americas), which is taught this semester by Prof. Catalina Méndez Vallejo and Prof. Eliot Raynor.
By Alejandro Martínez
Clariza Macaspac, Class of 2023 and former Navy Petty Officer mentions SPO classes as her favorite classes in recent #TellUsTigers Q&A.
By Christina Lee
SPA 250: Identity in the Hispanic World welcomed visual artist Eduardo Tokeshi for a class visit on November 5th. Tokeshi spoke about how he has channeled his identity conflict, as a Peruvian of Japanese heritage, into his art.
