Miguel Caballero Vázquez has successfully defended his dissertation, “The Cartographic Monument: Writing the Future in Stone in Mexico, Spain, and Brazil.” Miguel has recently been appointed Collegiate Assistant Professor/Harper Fellow, Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago.
Graduate student Azahara Palomeque from the department of Spanish and Portuguese recently published a new book of poems, En la Ceniza Blanca de las Encías, with the publisher La Isla de Siltolá in Spain. In 2015 Palomeque also published the book American Poems.
More information about En la Ceniza Blanca de las Encías can be found here.
SPO Graduate Student, Jorge Gaupp Berghausen, was recently awarded a 2017 Teaching Award from the Graduate School to recognize Assistants in Instruction (AIs) for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Several faculty members of the department as well as students submitted letters of support for Jorge.
The students from SPA 216 Sacred and Profane in the Spanish-Speaking World had a mentorship activity at the Campus Club with the Cristo Rey Church youth group on Saturday.
Fischer's book Queering the Chilean Way: Cultures of Exceptionalism and Sexual Dissidence, 1965-2015 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016) will be launched at Fordham's Lincoln Center campus on February 15.
The Department is pleased to announce the following prizes which were awarded to undergraduates at the Class Day reception held May 30:
Vicente Llorens Castillo Senior Prize in Spanish for overall academic excellence by a graduating senior: Dinara Gabdrakhmanova '16
Departmental Prize for Best Senior Thesis: Abram Ayala '16
Premio Ángel Rama for excellence by a freshman or sophomore in advanced Spanish courses: Kelly McCabe '18 and Alejandra Rincón '18
Concentrators
Olivia Adechi
Abram Ayala
Dinara Gabdrakhmanova
Certificates in Spanish
Concentrator Dylan Blau Edelstein '17 interviews SPO alumna Shayla Reid '15.
Fernández-Cebrián has successfully defended her dissertation, "Fábulas del desarrollo: Capitalismo e imaginarios sociales en España (1950-1975)." She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.
Concentrator Myesha Jemison's story is featured in today's Daily Princetonian.
