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Lecturer Armando Guerrero recently reviewed Spanish accents in movies and TV for the social media company Pero Like. Armando is a sociolinguist who specializes in Mexican Spanish and Spanish as a heritage language.  

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Professor Audrey Harris translated Mexican author Amparo Dávila’s The Houseguest and Other Stories. Click here to read the NPR review Click here to read the LA Times review

Fulfill your major, minor or foreign language requirements abroad this summer! Dive into a unique experience by studying at one of the cities visited by the programs in the Spanish and Portuguese Department. For more information about the programs click here. Read an article on the impact of study abroad on life opportunities and career…

Come join the Spanish & Portuguese Department team.  Gain useful work experience, work with faculty, and interact with the public. Flyer PDF

Carla Suhr, Jimena Rodriguez and Stephen ‘Kip’ Tobin have been awarded an EPIC Teaching Innovation Grant in order to carry out their project ‘Inclusive Gatherings at UCLA’ for the 2018-2019 school year. This project aims to facilitate cross-campus and inter-college collaboration in practical pedagogical development within the realm of inclusive and equitable classrooms. Informal gatherings will…

Professor Roberta Johnson co-edited book (with Silvia Bermudez of UCSB) A New History of Iberian Feminisms was published this year (2018) with the University of Toronto Press. She will also be presenting at a conference on International Hispanism on September 25 in Madrid in the presence of King Felipe.

Professor Barbara Fuchs, Jennifer Linda Monti, and Laura Muñoz co-edited “90 Monologues from Classical Spanish Theater,” published by Juan de la Cuesta.

Jennifer Linda Monti published the article “Madness, Parricide, and Incest: A Revision of Myths in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo” in Spanish and Portuguese Review.  Current Issue

Graduate Student Adelmar Ramirez published an article in Argentina called “La memoria traumatica como elemento estructurante el La ciudad ausente de Ricardo Piglia.” file:///C:/Users/spoffice/Downloads/2785-8607-1-SM.pdf