Recent News

Teo Ruiz, distinguished research professor emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese and of history, is one of four UCLA faculty members to receive the Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award for…

The Department is delighted to share the news that our colleague Professor Patrícia Lino was approved for promotion to Associate Professor with tenure, effective 07/01/2024. Professor Lino joined the Department…

Javier Patiño, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, will be a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fellow at I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance…

Congratulations to our graduate student, Jesus Duarte, on receiving three awards for his research: the Graduate Research Mentorship (GRM) Award (UCLA Graduate Programs), the Richard and Gerrie Leeds International Graduate…

Professor Stephen “Kip” Tobin has been selected by the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center’s Distinguished Teaching Award Selection Committee to receive the Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty for 2023-2024….

Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura (Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics) has accepted a tenure-track position at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Department of Catalan Philology – Departament de Filologia Catalana). She will also be…

Scientific research continuously expands our collective knowledge and pushes innovation forward. But what good is that innovation if it isn’t accessible to large swaths of the global population? English is…

Spanish & Portuguese faculty member G.D. Cohen was recently featured in the UCLA Daily Bruin newspaper for his work in teaching a Community Engagement course. Cohen, a continuing lecturer in…