Editor’s Note: The Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies welcomes three new Assistant Professors in the 2021-2022 academic year. We will be profiling each of these faculty members over the course of the year. This article is the second in a series of three.
Angélica Amezcua is the new specialist of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, as well as the new Director of the Spanish Heritage Language program. Amezcua began teaching in the… Read more
In April of last year Associate Dean Brian Reed signed an MOU with the Vicente Huidobro Foundation in Chile to launch a series of anthologies of great Spanish-language poets. The Foundation preserves the legacy of the great Chilean avant-garde poet Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948). Prof. Anthony Geist was asked by the Foundation’s director, Mario Meléndez, to be editor-in-chief of the anthology collection, and he invited Prof. José Francisco Robles to participate in the initiative.
The project… Read more
During fall quarter of last year, I took a sabbatical, and my project was the creation of an Open Educational Resource (OER). OERs are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. Materials and resources contained in an OER are publicly accessible. My OER is called I’m All Ears and it is a course on Spanish… Read more
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By giving to Spanish & Portuguese Studies, you support scholarships, faculty, graduate, and… Read more