Article excerpt below: Two soon-to-be UCLA Humanities graduates, Bella Brannon and Dhanya Charan, have been honored for their presentations at the UCLA’s 2025 Undergraduate Research Week. Both were among the…
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Celebrating Mester’s Legacy: Interviews with Former Editors-in-Chief
Published: May 15, 2025The department is pleased to share a special series of interviews conducted by Mester with five former Editors-in-Chief, as part of an initiative to honor the journal’s legacy. This project…
Read MoreNew guest at the Series: “El mar y sus metáforas”
Published: May 9, 2025Ricardo Padrón: The Conquest of the Pacific: Navigation and Mapping Ricardo Padrón is a professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia, where he has been a faculty member for over…
Read MoreDistinguished Professor Emeritus C. Brian Morris passes away
Published: March 18, 2025It is with great sadness that the Department of Spanish and Portuguese announces the passing of Distinguished Professor Emeritus C. Brian Morris. He died on March 13th, 2025, in Santa…
Read MoreProfessor Patrícia Lino publishes a third edition of her book O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial.
Published: October 22, 2024
Patrícia Lino, Associate Professor in UCLA’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, recently published a third edition of her book O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial….
Read MoreJob Opportunity: Spanish Language Lecturers AY 2025-2026
Published: October 19, 2024The UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese invites applications for full-time Lecturers for the 2025-2026 academic year to teach undergraduate courses for the Spanish language program in the Department of…
Read MoreEmeritus Professor Paul C. Smith passes away
Published: October 10, 2024Paul C. Smith died at his home in August 2024, in Philadelphia. Born in 1934, he received his undergraduate degree in Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania in 1956,…
Read MoreJavier Patiño promoted to Associate Professor
Published: September 23, 2024
The Department is delighted to share the news that our colleague Professor Javier Patiño was approved for promotion to Associate Professor with tenure, effective 07/01/2024. Professor Patiño joined the Department…
Read MoreAngelica Waner receives postdoctoral appointment at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Published: September 23, 2024
Angelica Waner has been appointed as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for the 2024-25 academic year. At the University…
Read MoreEduardo Díaz accepts tenure-track position at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Published: September 23, 2024
Eduardo Díaz has been appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, starting in Fall 2024. At UAF,…
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