Recent News
We are excited to share some terrific news about one of our PhD students, David Cruz. Recently one of David's poems (Los inmigrantes) was featured on the front page of the Academy of American Poets in their Poem-a-Day series! David is the first Costa Rican (writing in Spanish, and not second-gen Costa Rican American) to be
This Summer Prof. Eduardo Viana da Silva led 17 marvelous students down to Brazil, for a study abroad program that focused on the intersections of art, activism, and the environment in the Pantanal, the tropical wetlands of South America. The program took place in Seattle for two and a half weeks, and then everyone headed down to the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil for the final two…
Outstanding news! Tatiana Miranda Benavides, who just completed her MA in Spanish, was recently selected to receive the Grad School's prestigious 2025 Distinguished Thesis Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts category for her thesis Sueños y tiempo: Filosofía de María Zambrano en la poesía de Concha Méndez y la pintura de Remedios Varo (Dreams and Time: The…
Please join us in congratulating Jonathon Reyes, winner of the National Student Writing Contest occurring in conjunction with the 12th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, hosted by Northwestern University!
In the world of languages, literatures, and cultures, our laboratories are our classrooms, and our tools are our books.
We are delighted to announce that this past year, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies has established, through a generous endowment created in the memory of Susan B. Johnson, the Susan B. Johnson Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is intended to support UW students participating in a UW Study Abroad programs in Spain or a Spanish-speaking country…
We are delighted to announce that this past year, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies established the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Undergraduate Essay Prize, the first undergraduate essay prize on campus for essays written in languages other than English! Entry into the competition is by faculty nomination of outstanding essays written during the…
From the Chair (slightly edited version of remarks first delivered at the graduation ceremony):
Congratulations to our Graduates!
All of our graduates—just as all of our faculty—got to where they are today from different points of origin, with our different histories and our different challenges and our different hopes and our different fears, but with a shared desire…
Exciting news! Lexi Smith has just been awarded this year's Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas' John W.