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On behalf of the Spanish and Portuguese Department here at UCLA, we would like to congratulate our graduate students for promoting this year’s Latin American and Iberian Culture Film Festival! To…

On behalf of the Spanish and Portuguese Department here at UCLA, we would like to congratulate Professor Luz Maria De la Torre for carrying out the successful Andean event “Yanantin”…

Professor Verónica Cortínez and Manfred Englebert’s Evolucion en libertad: El cine chileno de fines de los sesenta (2014) won Chile’s prestigious Premio Municipal de Literatura 2015 in the Essay category. Congratulations to Professor Cortínez on…

The ucLADINO organization at UCLA aims to spread knowledge of the Judeo-Spanish language to the UCLA community and to various campuses across the nation.  If you’re interested in learning more…

The ucLADINO organization at UCLA is looking for papers for their annual symposium. If your paper fits the guidelines, send it to http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ucladino2016.

“Garbage. Junk. Offal. Waste. Dreck. Rejectamenta. To most of us, these words simply mean ‘trash.’ To UCLA Professor Maite Zubiaurre, however, they are the subject of serious scholarship. By the…

HÉCTOR CALDERÓN IS APPOINTED CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE Stephanie Centeno | UCLA Newsroom I August 12, 2015 Héctor Calderón, professor of Spanish American, Mexican and Chicano literature and cultures, has…

In a ceremony that took place on Friday, May 30, in Tenerife, Distinguished Research Professor C. Brian Morris was awarded the Medalla de Oro de Canarias, one of the most…

Professor Efrain Kristal to share long-time fascination with Jorge Luis Borges. The lecture will explore the little-appreciated influence of the revered Argentine’s writings. Read the article featured at the UCLA Newsroom.