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  • SPO welcomes new faculty member Natalia Castro Picón and Spanish lecturer Andrés Barba

    Wednesday, Jan 13, 2021
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    Natalia Castro Picón joins the department as an assistant professor. She specializes in modern peninsular/Spanish culture. Her main fields of study are modern and contemporary Iberian literature and culture as well as transatlantic Iberian relations in the neoliberal context. She combines in her research and classes tools and methods from Cultural Studies with a Glottopolitical perspective, which focuses on the political condition of language and discourse. Read more on her bio page.

  • SPO Summer Courses 2021

    Tuesday, Dec 22, 2020
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    The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to offer four virtual courses that will take place in Summer 2021. Classes are exclusively for Princeton students.

    An information session is scheduled for January 19, 2021 at 2:00PM EST. Registration is required to attend. 

    View course and application details on the Summer Courses webpage.

  • Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones launches new website sharing his archive

    Tuesday, Dec 8, 2020
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    By Julie Clack

    Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, the Emory L. Ford Professor of Spanish, Emeritus, has recently published a new website that features an archive of materials from his expansive career.

    The Department of Spanish and Portuguese sat down (virtually) with Professor Díaz-Quiñones to learn more about the website, his creative process, and what else he has been working on throughout the last nine months of the pandemic.

  • Congratulations to Berta del Río Alcalá

    Friday, Oct 30, 2020
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    On October 29, Berta del Río Alcalá successfully defended her dissertation “Teatralidades disidentes: prácticas ciudadanas e imaginarios democráticos (España, 1968-1992)", advised by Germán Labrador.

    Berta has been appointed as a Postgraduate Research Associate (PGRA) with the department. In addition she will be researching for the Institut Valencià de Cultura and Histopía.

  • Co-authored book chapter by Raquel Mattson-Prieto published by John Benjamins

    Thursday, Oct 1, 2020
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    Raquel Mattson-Prieto, lecturer of Spanish, has co-authored the book chapter, "Languaging and grammatical terminology: Expressing linguistic concepts while co-constructing understandings."

    The paper is an empirical study on how Spanish language learners formulated explicit understandings of the pronoun "se" during a series of communicative tasks in small-group interactions. This chapter and other chapters on "languaging" can be found on the John Benjamins website. 

  • SPO welcomes new Spanish lecturer and new graduate students

    Friday, Aug 21, 2020
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    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. 

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