News
Graduation
The Graduation Ceremony for the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese will follow the Lawn Ceremony on Saturday, May 18 at 1:30 p.m. The ceremony will be in the Culbreth Theatre (Drama Building), located at 109 Culbreth Road.
Congrats to Susan Abraham!
Congratulations to Spanish PhD Candidate Susan Abraham who has been awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2024!
2024 Faculty and Graduate Student Teaching Awards
Congratulations to Professor Cole Rizki and PhD student Manuel Acevedo-Reyes on being awarded all University teaching awards!
Open Letter in Support of Student Protestors
Faculty members and graduate students in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese have voted to share this open letter to President Jim Ryan and Ian Baucom
Congratulations Ricardo Padrón!
Congratulations to Professor Padrón on the upcoming publication of the second volume of The Spanish Pacific! Edited in collaboration with Christina Lee at Princeton, the book is now available for pre-order and will be published on May 22.
Congratulations Fernando Operé!
Congratulations to Professor Operé on the publication of the English version of his memoir, In the Name of the Father: Chronicle of Franco’s Spain to Trump’s America.
Congratulations Elizabeth!
Spanish Ph.D. student Elizabeth Mirabal has been announced as the 2024 Tibor Wlassics Dante Fellowship winner.
Active Learning Meet Up
Matthew Street, Alicia Lopez Operé, and Rachel Geer (French) hosted an Active Learning Meet Up Thursday, April 4. Faculty shared community-building techniques to increase student output in active learning spaces.
IWL Distinguished Undergraduate Award Winners 2024
Congratulations to Spanish students Luis M. Ruano Campos, Aden Bilchick, and Brenna Meehan and Portuguese student William Woodford who were awarded this year’s Distinguished Undergrad Awards!
Fall 24 Maya K'iche' Courses
KICH 1010 Introduction to K'iche' Maya I and KICH 2010 Intermediate Maya K'iche' II are being offered this fall!
K'iche' is one of the most common indigenous languages in Latin America, spoken by one million Maya in the western Highlands of Guatemala, the heartland of Maya culture.
Research grant opportunity for undergraduates!
If you’re an undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences and plan to conduct research in the summer of 2024, the College Council, the governing body for undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences, welcomes you to apply for the Minerva Grant.
World Language Student Colloquium
Breaking Binaries
March 26, 2024 3:30pm
Language Commons (NCH 298)
Bending Gender and Canon in the Nineteenth Century - Lincoln Day
Disability and the Social Hierarchy of Ancient Greece - Kate Jensen
Zapotec Muxes - Meghan Powers
IWL Distinguished Undergraduate Award
This award recognizes excellent undergraduate students who have exhibited extraordinary accomplishments in their studies of any World Language taught at the University of Virginia. One or more awards for an amount up to $1,000 will be given. Applications due March 22nd.
Eligibility:
I Casa Bolivar Literary and Artistic Contest
Casa Bolivar is calling for proposals for its I Casa Bolivar Literary and Artistic Contest. Prizes will be awarded at the end of the school year, during the last week of classes, with a closing party to which all contest participants, friends and family will be invited.
New Spanish course for Fall 2024!
SPAN 3559 American History From Below (and How to Read It) with Daniel Doncel Martin
Mo 5:00-7:30pm at Church of the Incarnation (1465 Incarnation Dr)
UVA in Mexico City
UVA in Mexico City: Contemporary Culture, Development, and Migration in the Ancient Aztec Capital-DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 15!
There is still time to join this inaugural UVA program in Mexico City this summer.
Apply to join Sigma Delta Pi!
If you want to promote Spanish Literatures and Cultures, Sigma Delta Pi is for you. Zeta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi is currently accepting membership applications.
Caribbean Studies Spring 2024 Events
Caribbean Studies is happy to announce their first official event on February 21st @5pm in Minor Hall.
Please RSVP using the link: https://forms.office.com/r/bxHsugctKh
Sara Curruchich visit to UVA
Please join us for a week-long artist residency by Sara Curruchich (Kaqchikel), a leading voice in contemporary Indigenous music and activism in Latin America.
Graduate Seminar with Professor Alejandro de la Fuente
Please join us for a Graduate seminar with this year's Gerszten Family Visiting Professor Alejandro de la Fuente.
Tuesday, February 6
New Cabell Hall 504
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
2024 Gerszten Family Visiting Professor Alejandro de la Fuente
Please join us for this year's Gerszten Family Visiting Professor lecture with Professor Alejandro de la Fuente, "Their "Exquisite Works": Rewriting the Art History of Cuba.
Monday, February 5
Nau Hall 101
Lecture 5:15-6:30 pm
Reception 6:30-7:30 pm
“PROMESA, Anti-Colonial Drag, and Diasporic Puerto Rican Trans Revolution” with Dr. La Fountain-Stokes
Please join us on January 25th for a lecture by Dr.
Inca Ephemerality with Stella Nair
Join us for a lecture with Professor Stella Nair on Inka Ephermerality, Thursday, Dec. 7, Fayweather Hall, room 102, 2-5 pm. The talk will go from 2-4 pm and be followed by a reception until 5 pm.