Below please find lists of Academic Centers, Academic Resources for Students and Faculty, Student Organizations, BIPOC- and minority-owned bookstores to purchase course materials, and information on COVID-19 at UVA. If you have ideas on additional resources to add, please email us.
Academic Centers at UVA
- Americas Center/Centro de las Américas
- Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and Africana Studies
- Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation
- Center for the Liberal Arts
- Center for Undergraduate Excellence
- Global South Studies
- Institute of World Languages
- Institute of Global Humanities and Cultures
- Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
- Language Commons
- Mellon Global South Initiative
- Mellon Indigenous Arts Initiative
Academic Resources for Students and Faculty
- Anti-racist Pedagogy and Undoc+ Student Support (undocUVA Faculty Executive Board)
- Anti-racist Pedagogy Resources (University of Arizona CERCLL)
- Anti-racism Resources for Language Teaching (Anna Ogunnaike)
- Accessibility Resources at UVA (Barbara Zunder, Melvin Mallory, and Lori Kressin)
- Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others (Pepperdine University)
- Guía anti-racista para periodistas hispanohablantes en EUA (Center for Community Media, CUNY)
- Guía GLAAD: Guía de términios y definiciones LCBTQ+ en español
- Guide for Undocumented High School and College Students (versión en español) (undocUVA/Informed Immigrant)
- Guidance for Reporting and Writing About Racism (Syracuse University)
- MLA Handout: In-Text Citations (practice worksheet)
- MLA Handout: In-Text Citations (answer key)
- Rare Books School
- Scholars' Lab
- Science, Humanities, and Arts Network of Technological Initiatives (SHANTI)
- Small Special Collections
- Spanish Writing Center (3000-level, Spring 2021)
- Spanish Language Learning Resources (1010-2020)
- Teachers in Training (K-12): Resources to Foster Empathy and Compassion around Immigration (RAICES)
- Textbook Reading Best Practices (Dartmouth College)
- University Library
- UVA Library: Chicanx/Latinx Studies
- UVA Library: Indigenous Studies
- UVA Library: Italian Studies
- UVA Library: Latin American & Iberian Studies
- UVA Library: Portuguese Studies
- UVA Library: Sepharad (Iberian Jews, Conversos, and the Sephardic Diaspora)
- UVA Library: Spanish Language & Literature
- WeTeachLang: A Podcast About Language Teaching
Student Organizations and Resources
- Brazilian Student Association (BRASA)
- Casa Bolívar (Spanish Living/Learning House)
- Find a Scholarship! (UVa)
- Find a Scholarship! (federal, including international students and DACAmented students)
- Latinx Student Alliance
- Latinx, Native American, and Middle Eastern Student Services
- Madison House (volunteer opportunities)
- Multicultural Student Services
- PLUMAS at UVa (Political Latinxs United for Movement & Action in Society)
- Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honors Society)
- Study Abroad
- Student Organization for Caribbean Awareness
- Students Helping Honduras
- undocUVA
- US Colleges and Universities with In-State Tuition or Tuition Waivers for Native American Students
Black-, Indigenous-, and People of Color (BIPOC)-Owned Bookstores
These small businesses invest and are investments in their communities. Please consider purchasing books from them.
- Beyond Barcodes (IN)
- Birchbark Books & Native Arts (MN)
- Black-Owned Bookstores (22 businesses, Elite Daily)
- Black-Owned Bookstores (124 businesses, African American Literature Book Club)
- Black-Owned Bookstores (sorted by state, LitHub)
- Black-Owned Bookstores (sorted by state, Refinery29)
- Café con Libros (NYC)
- Casa Camino Real (US-Mexico borderlands bookstore, gives books to migrant communities)
- Duende District (DC)
- Latinx Owned Bookstores in the US and Puerto Rico
- The Lev (LA)
- Kew and Willow Books (NYC)
- Lit Bar (NYC)
- Mil mundos books (NYC)
- Other Books, Comics and Zines (LA)
- Red Planet Books & Comics (NM)
- Seite Books (LA)
- Strong Nations (Vancouver)
- Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural and Bookstore (LA)
- Word Up Community Bookstore (NYC)
COVID-19 Information
The Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese prioritizes the safety, health, and wellbeing of students, faculty, staff, and community members. Please read our Statement of Department Principles to learn how we are caring for each other.
Here are additional resources from the University, College of Arts and Sciences, and UVA Library. We will add more as they become available.
- Returning to Grounds Fall 2020 (main university website)
- Arts & Sciences: Returning to Grounds Fall 2020
- Arts & Sciences: Resources for Students
- Arts & Sciences Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion: Best Practices for Inclusive Teaching (Fall 2020)
- Arts & Sciences Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion: Pre-Semester Tips for Inclusive Teaching (Fall 2020)
- Arts & Sciences Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion: Student Support Resources (Fall 2020)
- Arts & Sciences Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion: Student Environment Survey (Fall 2020)
- UVA Library: Information on COVID-19
- UVA Library: Apoyo e información sobre la COVID-19
- Community-Engaged Teaching in a Time of Trauma (with professor Esther Poveda Moreno)