SPO Concentrator Peter Schmidt '20 was recently named a 2019 Arthur Liman Fellow in Public Interest Law selected by The Princeton University Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA). In total, LAPA named five undergraduates as fellows following a competitive application based upon their demonstrated commitment to public service through past and current activities.
Visiting Professor Marília Librandi created a website with the undergraduate students of her seminar “Indigenous Brazil.” The website features short essays written in Portuguese by the students on various indigenous groups, info and images from guest lecturers who visited the seminar, poems etc.
View the website here.
By Julie Clack
Princeton’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers several ProCES (Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship) courses, including “Spanish in the Community,” “Medical Spanish” and “Spanish for a Medical Mission in Ecuador.” These courses connect service with academic work, giving students the opportunity to participate in community service as a part of their course.
By Will Simon ’19
Club de Lectura visited the Cervantes Institute in New York City on Saturday, December 8th 2018. We spent time in the Institute's library, which is full of myriad Spanish-language books, movies, CDs and newspapers. We then ate lunch at Bukhara Grill next to the Institute before heading to Museo del Barrio, an uptown museum specializing in works by artists of the Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York City. A day full of learning and fun!
Kate Reed ’19, was recently awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Reed is a Spanish certificate student as well as an undergraduate course assistant with the department.
At Oxford, Reed plans to pursue the M.Phil. in Development Studies.
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By Julie Clack
Every summer, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (SPO) sends students to countries around the world for immersive language experiences.
Sophia Nuñez has successfully defended her dissertation “Bodies and Books in the Early Modern Hispanic World.”
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to announce that we have two Undergraduate Course Assistants: Kate Reed (Spanish and Portuguese) and Kathryn Phipps (Spanish). Language tutoring sessions will begin the week of September 24th.
Last spring, students enrolled in SPA 211: Varieties of Spanish, taught by Professor Catalina Méndez Vallejo , produced videos to capture the different social, political, and cultural aspects related to dialectal variation in Spanish.
SPO alum Lara Norgaard’17, graduate student Ingrid Brioso Rieumont, and visiting student Márcia de Castro de Borges interviewed Brazilian writer Ricardo Lísias on his own work, the relation between ethics and aesthetics, the turbulence that hit Brazil in 2016, Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, and the limitation of artistic freedom in Brazil. Lísias’ visit to Princeton in 2016 was part of the seminar “The Subject in Disguise,” taught by professors Pedro Meira Monteiro and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Featured in Fórum de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea (v. 10 n. 19, 2018).
