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School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Graduate student Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka has been awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year for her dissertation project “Acquisition of Spanish Stress by English...

Prof. Silvina Montrul, recipient of a 2025-6 Fullbright Award

Professor Silvina Montrul has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright award to conduct research in Brazil. Congratulations, Silvina! 

Prof. Salvatore Callesano, recipient of seed grant through BRIDGE strategic partnership initiative

Professor Salvatore Callesano, along with co-Principal Investigators Jonathan Dunn (Linguistics) and Zsuzsanna Fagyal (French and Italian), has received a seed grant for their project Computational Sociolinguistics and the...

Karen Pasetto Olevar & Edwin Rodriguez Muñoz, recipients of Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowships

Congratulations to graduate students Karen Pasetto Olevar and Edwin Rodriguez Muñoz who have been awarded Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowships for...

Unwritten Textualities: Indigenous Literatures and Beyond

This course will introduce students to various forms of Indigenous textualities and the connections between them. Commonly, Indigenous literatures are often placed in binaries and in a western chronological timeline, from oral to written and from traditional to modern. Students will read poetry, oral stories, newspapers, zines, and textiles amongst other forms to expand understandings of Indigenous literatures. While the themes will vary, they will include identity, history, and politics. Course will be taught in English and readings will be provided in English, Spanish, and...

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code-Switching

This course explores code-switching as a multifaceted linguistic and cultural practice. Although there are a myriad of approaches to code-switching—examining syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, or sociolinguistic patterns—this seminar spotlights how these perspectives can be applied to the analysis of culturally embedded data, which refers to linguistic data that is influenced by the cultural norms, identities, values, and social practices of the community from which it originates. We will consider how code-switching operates across domains and genres, from media and...

Sara Castro-Cantú, recipient of the LAS Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants Award

 Graduate student Sara Castro-Cantú has received the LAS Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants Award. This is a college-wide competitive teaching award and is...

Prof. Anna Torres-Cacoullos awarded HRI faculty research prize

Prof. Anna Torres-Cacoullos has been awarded the 2025 Humanities Research Institute faculty research prize for her article “...

Global Spain: Between America, Europe, and the Mediterranean

In this course, we will explore the construction of the image of Spain for foreign consumption from the turn of the twentieth Century to the present. We will analyze the presence of Spain beyond its borders, including aspects such as military and economic colonialism, migration, tourism, sports, arts, food, fashion, and language. We will study a wide array of documents (films, literary texts, articles, commercials, visual culture, etc) from the perspective of postcolonial theory and cultural studies. Taught in Spanish.Prerequisites: SPAN 228MWF 12:00-12:50pm; 1064...
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School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Department of Spanish & Portuguese

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