Committees

DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE

Administrative and Committee Assignments

Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

 

I.  OFFICERS:

Head – Bowles

Associate Head – Irigoyen

Director of Graduate Studies – MacDonald

Advisors to first year M.A. Students

                     Spanish Linguistics: MacDonald

                     Hispanic Literatures: Irigoyen

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Spanish –Abbott            

Undergraduate Advisor in Spanish – Hughes

Director of Introductory Spanish Language – Yarrington

Assistant Director of Introductory Spanish Language - Dutton

Director of 4th Semester Spanish Language – Carollo

Director of Advanced Spanish Language – Henshaw

Director of Basic Language Instruction for Portuguese – Goebel

Undergraduate Advisor in Portuguese—Karam

Parliamentarian – Tolliver

Graduate Student Representative to Departmental Meetings – Lázaro García Angulo

Basque Studies Mentor & Supervisor – Hualde (Fall), Irigoyen (Spring)

Catalan Studies Mentor & Supervisor - Hualde (Fall), Irigoyen (Spring)

 

II.  STANDING COMMITTEES

Advisory Committee [elected] – Hualde (through Fall 2024), Montrul (Spring 2025-2027), Ledesma (2023-2025), MacDonald (2023-2025), García Blizzard (2024-2026), Bowles [ex officio], Irigoyen [ex officio]

Education Abroad Committee –Abbott (Chair), Hualde (Fall), Hughes, Ramírez Méndez, Torres-Cacoullos, Eunyoung Yang (student)

Graduate Recruitment & Admissions - García-Blizzard, Irigoyen, Jegerski, Ledesma, MacDonald (Chair, ex officio)

[Note: SPGO elected graduate recruitment representatives are Maialen Casquete de la Puente (LING) & Daniela García Marmolejo (LIT)]                    

Committee on Graduate Awards –Callesano, García-Blizzard, Irigoyen, MacDonald (Chair, ex officio)

Committee on Undergraduate Awards (Flores, Jugenheimer, Alvaro Monserrat Llardén, Borgeson, Pasquariello) - Abbott (Chair), Dowman, García-Blizzard, Martínez-Quiroga [committee meets in Spring only]                                           

Curriculum Committee - Abbott (ex officio), Henshaw, Hughes (Chair), Karam, MacDonald (ex officio), Jonny Pye (student)                                                                                            

Policy & Development – Callesano, Carollo, Montrul (Chair), Yarrington, Nerea Miguel Huidobro (student)

Capricious Grading Committee [elected] –  Jegerski (23-26), Tolliver (22-25, Chair), Torres-Cacoullos (22-25), Eunyoung Yang (student)

Lectures & Arrangements Committee – Callesano (Chair), Ramírez-Méndez, Torres-Cacoullos, Beatriz Jiménez (student)

Academic Integrity Violations Appeals Committee [elected] – Delgado (Chair), Ramírez-Méndez, Torres-Cacoullos

P&T Committee for Promotion from Associate Professor to Full: Bowles, Hualde, Irigoyen, Karam, Meléndez, Montrul

Darlene Wolf Fellowship – Delgado, Montrul (Chair), Jegerski

Non-departmental Awards for Excellence – Delgado, Goebel, García-Blizzard, Hualde (Chair), Martínez-Quiroga [Note: committee deadlines are in January for LAS and campus awards, so committee meets in Fall]

Website committee - Callesano, Ledesma, Torres-Cacoullos (Chair), Eunyoung Yang (student)

Proficiency evaluation committee (Fulbright, Study Abroad, other) - Carollo (Spanish), Goebel (Portuguese), Martínez Quiroga (Spanish)

Undergraduate Spanish Class Scheduling committee – Carollo (Chair), Dutton, Henshaw, Yarrington, Izaro Bedialauneta (student)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee – Delgado, Dutton, Hughes (Chair), Ramírez-Méndez, Araceli Pantoja (student)

 

III.  AD HOC COMMITTEES

Third-year Review Committee for Rodrigo Delgado – Hualde (Chair), Jegerski, Montrul

Third-year Review Committee for Anna Torres-Cacoullos – Irigoyen (Chair), Ledesma, Tolliver

Search Committee for Tenure-track Position in Latin American Literature – García-Blizzard, Irigoyen, Ledesma (Chair)

Committee on Heritage Spanish – Callesano, Delgado, Henshaw (Chair), Jegerski, Yarrington, graduate student to be chosen by SPGO

Committee on Service-learning, outreach, and engaged scholarship– Abbott (Chair), García, Peña Argüeso
 

IV.  ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

• Mariselle Meléndez – Director, School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics
• John Karam– Director, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies

 

V.  SPGO - Graduate Student Organization

President: Luis Gaytán-Soto

Vice President: Angel Maison

Treasurer: Azul Trejo Zetina

Secretary: Camila Castro Brizuela

Social Chair/Membership Director: Karen Pasetto Ovelar

 

VI.  Office Staff

EO Support and Office Manager for Spanish and Portuguese and SLATE – Mike Marino