On Friday, Oct. 1, please join us at the New Dominion bookstore on the downtown mall at 7 pm to celebrate the publication of Fernando Valverde's latest book of poetry, America (Copper Canyon, 2021). Sam Amago, department chair, will introduce Fernando, who will read selections from the book.
On Thursday, September 16, 2021, at 6:30 pm in Campbell 160, please join the UVA Art Department for a talk by professor Samantha A. Noël (Wayne State University), “The Tropical Conjuring of Early Twentieth-Century Black Geographies.”
Deborah Parker (Professor of Italian) gave a public lecture earlier this spring on Dante for Georgetown University and Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Washington, D.C. as part of a series of events celebrating the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri: Dantedì: A Day with Dante
The Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and the Program in Global Studies are thrilled to announce the arrival of Mauricio Herrera Acuña, one of six postdoctoral fellows in the university's new Rising Scholar program. Professor Acuña is a scholar of Afro-Latin American Studies, focusing on the literatures and cultures of the African Diaspora in the Americas, especially Brazil and Cuba.
Please join us in congratulating Sergio Silva, a graduate student specializing in early modern Iberian studies and historical memory, on the publication of his podcast episode, "Afterlives in Stone." Brilliantly incorporating testimony from members of the African American descendants of the enslaved laborers who built the University of Virginia, archival documents from the freed communty of nineteenth-century Charlottesville, and Pablo Neruda's 20th century poetry, Sergio's podcast offers a new way of understanding historical trauma, memory, and the redress of racial inequity both locally a
Volunteer tutoring opportunity with Sin Barreras
Dear all,
We also want to offer a wonderful in-person opportunity to use your language skills to help out our neighbors on Thursday, August 19:
Albemarle High School Community Open House
Translators needed!
Thursday, August 19, 5:00-8:30 PM at Albemarle County High School
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 ... Read»
Congratulations to Professor Cole Rizki and PhD student Manuel Acevedo-Reyes on being awarded all University teaching awards!
Congratulations to Professor Padrón on the upcoming publication of the second volume of The Spanish Pacific!
