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 of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA in 2017, after receiving his PhD from Princeton University. He is a specialist in Spanish and Italian culture and the history of science, with a focus on the Early Modern period. His first book, The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe, was published earlier this year by the University of Delaware Press. He is currently working on his next book, Ecologies of Decay: Spontaneous Generation and Nature’s Economy. Professor Patiño is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including an ACLS fellowship in 2020-2021 and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fellow at I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in Florence, Italy, in 2024-2025. Congratulations, Javier, on your promotion!