Javier Patiño Loira, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, was recently granted the Chancellor’s Arts Initiative Grant for Wild Women on Stage: Gender in Comedia Adaptation. This innovative performance piece was a part of the LA Escena Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater in 2022 and produced by UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics initiative. For more information please refer to the UCLA Newsroom Article: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/2022-chancellors-arts-initiative-grants.