Distinguished Professor Fuchs’ adaptation of Lope de Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna for young audiences will be presented at the Folger Shakespeare Library in DC on January 24, 2026. There will also…
Read MoreNote: This event is RSVP only Please join us in honoring the 2026 UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award recipient Dr. Claudia Mesa Higuera, Professor of Spanish at…
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It is with great sadness that the Department of Spanish and Portuguese announces the passing of Distinguished Professor Efraín Kristal. He died on November 14th, 2025, in Southern California, surrounded…
Read MoreSpanish & Portuguese Operations Manager The UCLA Rolfe/Campbell Humanities Group (oversees Departments of Linguistics and Spanish & Portuguese) is accepting applications for a Spanish & Portuguese Operations Manager (official title:…
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Barbara Fuchs, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and of English; and Victoria Mateu, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and of linguistics; each received a Global Research Award, which is meant…
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Students in SPAN 135: Escribir desde el océano with Profa. Rodriguez explore how the ancient cartographical concept of sea monsters illuminates modern oceanic problems—from deep-sea pollution and resource exploitation to…
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Alejandro Castro is a scholar of contemporary Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latinx literature, with a focus on queer theory, visual culture and the politics of the body. Castro is also…
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HTTP://PATRICIALINO.COM/RUMOR RUMOR names a class in comics made to widely share Patrícia Lino’s infrareading of “Amor”, a well-known poem published by Oswald de Andrade in 1927. The poem is part of the equally known Brazilian…
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A community-centered approach to supporting dual language learning. Victoria Mateu (PI), and Megha Sundara (co-PI, Linguistics Dept.), and Laurel Perkins (co-PI, Linguistics Dept.) This collaboration between the Children’s Institute (CII)…
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Spanish Language Acquisition in Children: A Transnational Research Collaboration Victoria Mateu (PI), and Megha Sundara (co-PI, Linguistics Dept.) Children have the right to use their own language (UN Convention on…
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