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Mohamed Gabal, Ph.D. candidate in SPPO and an Arab-Brazilian entrepreneur, was the featured speaker at the Columbus Rotary Club on August 11 at The Boathouse Restaurant. He presented “Doing…
Catalina Iannone, Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, recently joined radio program La Ventana on Spain's Cadena SER to discuss gentrification, race, and urban change on the Iberian Peninsula,…
Professor Anna Babel, current graduate student Anahís Samamé Rispa, and recent graduates Dr. Justin Pinta (Mississippi State University), Dr. Hugo Salgado (Iowa State University), and Paola…
Faculty and graduate students from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese’s Portuguese-Speaking World Studies program were well represented at the XVIII Congress of the Brazilian Studies…
The Brazilian launch of Professor Isis Barra Costa's *Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future: Forms of Knowledge in the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora* (Columbia University Press, 2026) brought…
Congratulations to Professor Fernanda Díaz-Basteris! Her edited book, Latinx Comics Studies, received the 2026 Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize at the Society’s annual conference hosted at…
The Columbus Book Festival drew a public of 40,225 people this year! And the Bigger Than Me: My Story, My Culture community-engaged collaboration between The Ohio State University and Bexley…
Catalina Iannone was profiled in the “Office Hours” section of ASCENT (2026), the annual magazine of The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences. The feature highlights her…
On April 28, 2026, the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University held its Spring Recognition Reception at the Daley Family Pavilion at the Blackwell to celebrate faculty, staff,…
Our graduate student, Víctor Vimos Vimos, defended his PhD dissertation “Parlakunanchikkama/Nos hablamos: Ritual Relations Between Humans and Mountains During the Period of Political Violence in…
PORT 2330 – Introduction to Brazilian Culture (taught in English)
Curious about Brazil beyond the clichés?
This course offers a lively and accessible introduction to one of the most…
The Sustainability Institute is excited to announce the recipients of the 2026 Sustainability Research Seed Grant program. SI awarded over $300,000 in funding to 12 faculty-led team projects…
In April, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese welcomed our community partners to campus to thank them for their continued support. Their collaboration allows our students to practice Spanish in…
The Ohio's Professional News Press from Columbus, Ohio covered the 29th Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium, on March 27, 2026!!
Prof. Babel presented a plenary entitled "Bolivian Migrants to Spain: Why we (should) care about linguistic awareness" at the 12th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, which was…
With support from the Global Arts + Humanities (GAH) and Wexner Center for the Arts, Puja Batra-Wells (Associate Director of GAH) and Harmony Bench’s (Dance) edited volume, Archival Entanglements,…
Prof. Anna Babel gave an invited workshop on the topic of "Ideologías lingüísticas en las lenguas minoritarias del mundo hispanohablante" (Language ideologies in minority languages of the Spanish…
It is a pleasure to announce that Professor Isis Barra Costa’s new book has been published.
The Wexner Center Bookstore already has copies available, and the University Library has also…
Textos Híbridos was published in December 2025. This issue includes articles on Eliane Brum's In The Amazon: Journey to the Center of the World, Gabriel García Márquez's “La Jirafa”, a…
We are pleased to share some excellent news at the start of the semester. Maria Vitória de Rezende Grisi, a PhD student in Portuguese, has published an article in Portuguese Studies, one of the…
Still thinking about studying abroad in Summer 2026? There’s still time to apply for Global May Spain! The application deadline for this faculty-led program has been extended to January 15. •…
Dr. Zoë Brigley Publishes Poem “Knot” inspired by Kawsay Ukhunchay Class Visit. Dr. Brigley used the knowledge about story gourds non-linear narratives to create her concrete poem, now published…
Last week, Kawsay Ukhunchay curators welcomed Professor Carlos Rivas, specializing in Latin American Art, and Professor Aaron Katzeman whose work focuses on decolonial museum studies, to the…
On October 3rd 2025, Illeana Perez, and Rebeka Compos-Astorkiza gave two insightful talks on Language, Music & Identity: how artists play with words.
More on their exciting panel…
The success of the 2024-2025 pilot program for the Bigger Than Me Intergenerational Heritage Workshops and Children's Book Series has prompted a new iteration of the program for 2025-2026! The…
This summer (2025) Jean-Yves Munch and Michelle Wibbelsman embarked on a research collaboration supported through an Arts and Humanities Accelerator Grant to work with Kichwa Otavalo community…
Earlier this semester, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (SPPO) had the honor of hosting a delegation from the State University of Amazonas (Universidade do Estado do Amazonas - UEAM). The…
Dr. Anna Babel visited the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Universidad Mayor de San Simón in Cochabamba, Bolivia and gave two talks.
The first, aimed at graduate students…
Catalina Iannone, Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, was interviewed by David Staley, Associate Professor of History, on a recent episode of the College of Arts and Sciences podcast Voices of…
A local intergenerational workshop series is helping children in central Ohio connect with their history by writing self-published books that tell stories of their unique heritage. The program,…
In the autumn of 2024, Lily Crider, a senior at Columbus Alternative High School, joined the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection as a…
The Call For Papers for the OSUHALSS 2025 is open!! The symposium will take place March 21 and 22, 2025!
The graduate students in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at The Ohio State…
The 2023-2024 academic year has been a period of remarkable accomplishments for our graduate student, Maria Vitória de Rezende Grisi. Her dedication to her research and scholarly pursuits has…
On May 23, 2024, faculty members from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (SPPO) participated in the IV CAPES PrInt Workshop hosted by The Ohio State University Brazil Gateway. This…
The Portuguese program at The Ohio State University has proven to be a key element in the academic and professional journeys of our recent graduates, James Logan and Neema Adley. Their experiences…
On April 15th, Kawsay Ukhunchay welcomed 19 middle school students and three teachers from Columbus Torah Academy to our Collection. Their teacher, Hallie Fried, is an OSU alumnus and one of our…
Congratulations to Makena Van Bourgondien, Jaylene Canales, Regina Loayza, Amani Stivland and Emily Taylor for the online publication of their research on Andean and Amazonian art for the SPA 4515…
On April 29th, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Ohio State University celebrated an exceptional milestone. Professors Ana Marques and Ísis Barra Costa, along with Graduate Teaching…
This spring, Ati Cachimuel, Ecuadorian-born Kichwa-Otavalo musician and composer, visited The Ohio State University (April 8-May 24, 2024) for an artist residency with the Advanced Computing…
SPPO wants to congratulate Jaylene Canales who defended her Honors Thesis “The Perception of English [ɛ] and [ei̯] and of Spanish [e] and [ei̯] by L2…
Dr. Laura Podalsky was named College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. The title of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor serves to honor full professor…
SPPO PhD student, Hannah Grace Morrison, was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Award for Teaching Excellence. This award recognizes excellence in teaching by a graduate…
Thank you for coming to the Kawsay Ukhunchay Research Collection Open House!
The Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research…
This spring the Kawsay Ukhunchay Collection received a loan of storytelling tapestries and story cloths from the Historical Costumes and Textiles Collection. HCTC curator Gayle Strege joined the…
This spring, as part of an institutional collaboration with Denison University Museum, the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection received…
On Tuesday, February 20th the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection hosted a workshop for the Department of English’s Introduction to…
This spring student researchers for the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection installed a donated series of six paintings by Hipolito…
On Friday, January 19, Denison Museum held the opening event for three galleries on Andean and Amazonian culture including Ohio State’s Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for Ethnic Studies, and the OSU Athletic Department announce a coloring contest for Día de los Muertos.
Recent graduates and Department of Spanish and Portuguese Alumni attended and presented at the 28th Conference of Spanish in the US and 13the Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other…
Developed from a collaboration between the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (SPPO) and the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), the Capoeira in the Classroom series introduces local K-12…
On March 23, 2023, Dr. Aracelis Nieves and Alejandra Angulo represented OSU Department of Spanish and Portuguese in the Rising Youth Career Fair at San Martin de Porres Center. The objective of…
On March 9th, Dr. Aracelis Nieves, Associated Faculty Alejandra Angulo and Graduate Advising Assistant Alfonso Roca attended the Guadalupe Youth Summit at Ohio Dominican University. The event, for…
With significant contributions from CLAS Student Intern Zoey Wurgess
OSU's Department of Spanish and Portuguese (SPPO) is home to one of the strongest Portuguese language programs…
The department would like to congratulate SPPO graduate student Paola Enríque Duque for receiving a Presidential Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. The Presidential Fellowship is the most…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 9.2 of Textos Híbridos. We invite you to consult the table of contents of the new volume. Among the…
Kawsay waqaychaqkuna was blown away by the thoughtfulness and attention to detail in this visual journal excerpt! OSU English student Katie O’Shaughnessy participated in a class visit to
This week, Kawsay waqaychaqkuna was thrilled to welcome Daniel Bryan from the Pachaysana Institute to OSU’s campus! Thanks to the Center for Latin American Studies, Daniel was able to spend three…
When kawsay waqaychaqkuna saw the call for this year’s annual Curriculum & Pedagogy Conference – Practicing and Cultivating Humanizing Ways of Being in Education in the Pursuit of Social Justice –…
Thanks to the generous support from The Ohio State University's Center for Languages, Literatures & Cultures as well as the College of Arts & Sciences, 650+ bilingual books in over 10 different…
Kawsay waqaychaqkuna has been busy this semester, installing and then engaging multiple audiences with the Dancing with Devils: Latin American Masks Traditions. Since the Faculty…
In Kawsay Ukhunchay's Forum on Community-Engaged Research on September 28th, Leonardo Carrizo, the photojournalist whose images are featured in the Dancing with Devils: Latin American Masks…
Congratulations to Victor Vimos for the publication of his most recent book, Acta de Fundación, which won the Pedro Lastra International Poetry Prize in 2020, awarded by Aula de Poesía of…
In June, Santiago Gualapuro and Michelle Wibbelsman traveled to Chicago to partake in the Jatun Puncha-Inti Raymi celebrations along with more than 500 Otavalans from all over…
High school teachers and college professors from all over the country get together for a week every summer to grade the Spanish Advanced Placement exams of students who will be starting their…
The OSU Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate our alumna Dr. Diana Ruggiero on the publication of her book Teaching World Languages for Specific Purposes: A Practical…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 9.1 of Textos Híbridos. We invite you to consult the table of contents of the new volume…
Featuring Latin American festival masks from the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection at The Ohio State University along with…
Research intern Kai Perez of Metro High School successfully concluded their research internship with Dr. Anna Babel and the Spanish at COSI team. Along with graduate students Melissa Nieves Rivera…
On Friday, May 13th, Dr. José Magró gave a colloquium talk entitled "Practical approaches to language and antiracism in the language classroom." He has since given permission for us to post a…
SPPO alumna, Celia Martínez Sáez, received her PhD from Ohio State in 2019. She is currently an assistant professor of Spanish and French studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate undergraduate Adesh Labhasetwar for his recent accomplishment of being awarded the 2022-2023 Fulbright Award to Galicia, Spain…
Gayle Strenge (pictured above on the left) invited us to explore Latin American textiles in the Ohio State Historic Costume and Textiles Collection, including rare Nazca textiles (pictured…
Last year, the Kawsay Ukhunchay had the opportunity to talk with the artist who made a tapestry that we recently purchased for our collection. The tapestry, made by master weaver Mama…
On behalf of the SPPO Awards Committee, we are pleased to announce the recipients of the Rymer, Crane, Iglesias, Munthe, and Kubayanda Awards for the 2022-2023 academic year. We would like to…
Last March, I visited Chinese-American poet Arthur Sze, who has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for more than forty years. Sze is the owner of an extensive body of work that brings together more…
This month the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection partnered with STEAM Factory to bring two creative member engagement activities to…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate undergraduate Michah Unzueta for his recent accomplishment of being awarded the 2022-2023 Fulbright Award to Peru as an English…
Each semester, the Kawsay Ukhunchay: Andean & Amazonian Indigenous Art & Cultural Artifacts Research Collection is supported by the hard work and scholarship of an interdisciplinary…
SPPO wants to congratulate Kathleen Fink who defended her interdisciplinary Honors Thesis “Immigration in Modern Spain: An Analysis of Economics, Gender and Cultural…
Tamryn McDermott, a Graduate Research Associate for the Andean and Amazonian collection, was documenting some of the masks in the collection earlier this year! Check out the set-up and dramatic…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to recognize Andrea Armijos Echeverria and Paola Daniela Enriquez Duque for receiving the Felice M. Grad Scholarship.
The Felice M. Grad…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate SPPO graduate student Angela Acosta on winning third place in the Humanities section at the 36th Annual Hayes Research Forum…
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On the evening of December 1, 2021 student curators for the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection (Hagerty Hall 255) hosted a…
TEDxOhioStateUniversity is Proud to Present Bloom!
TEDxOhioStateUniversity is returning both in-person and in a virtual format for our 2022 main event, Bloom!
Featuring 12 amazing speakers…
Dr. Stephanie Aubry, Associated Faculty member in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Dr. Katherine Borland, Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies and the Director…
Sabrina Sowa, a double major in Spanish & Speech and Hearing Science, is presenting her thesis project at the OSU 2021 Autumn Undergraduate Research Festival. Her thesis titled, “Some Existential…
SPPO graduate student, Lucía Aja López, has been using her specialized research background, graduate training, and language skills to help surface inaccurate representations of indigenous…
Ohio State undergraduate student Jaylene Canales, a World Language Education major, has written a moving reflection on the significance of Día de los Muertos. The reflection has been featured on…
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the Ohio State University is saddened to learn of the passing of Loann Crane. Loann was one of our graduates and a very generous benefactor and supporter…
SPPO would like to congratulate Dr. Ana Elena Puga as well as her colleague, Dr. Victor M. Espinosa (Sociology), for their research, which was recognized at this year’s American Society for…
Anunciamos la publicación del volumen 8.2 de Textos Híbridos dedicado al periodismo narrativo latinoamericano. Además de los artículos académicos y las resenas, el volumen incluye en su…
The first day of the 2021 Día de los Muertos celebration kicked off on Saturday, October 16th! Participants of all ages spent the day at Greenlawn Cemetery where they enjoyed altar displays,…
Student curators of Ohio State University’s Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art & Cultural Artifacts Research Collection held an Open House from 1 to 6…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to welcome Tamryn McDermott, who joins us as the Graduate Research Associate for the Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifact…
As the Autumn 2021 semester begins, everyone in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese is excited to be (mostly) back in person and looking forward to welcoming students into our classes! The…
The department is excited to announce that SPPO graduate student Angela Acosta has been awarded a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Research Grant for the 2021-2022 academic year through The…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate Dr. Ignacio Corona, who was awarded the 2021 Latina/o Studies Award for Outstanding Faculty Service from the Latina/o Studies…
Volume 8.1 of Textos Híbridos. Revista de estudios sobre crónica y periodismo narrativo has just been published on the Textos Híbridos website. This volume…
On May 12, 2021 we witnessed the birth of AWANA Red de Artistas y Gestores Interculturales Comunitarios – AWANA Network of Intercultural Community Artists and Cultural…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate Palo Pinillos Chávez and Paola Enríquez Duque on being selected co-winners of the Latina/o Studies Graduate Student Paper Award!…
Each year the exceptional work and research that student curators undertake with the Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection is recognized by way of the Whitten…
The SPPO Associated Faculty Teaching Award Committee (Dr. Holly Nibert, Dr. Scott Schwenter, and Ms. Megan Lobert) is please to announce that Manuela Olaru and Caroline…
The department would like to congratulate SPPO graduate student Luana Lamberti for receiving a Presidential Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Presidential Fellowship is the most…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese recently had several students participate in OSU’s virtual 26th Annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum! There were over 180 students presenting in 21…
Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Latin American Studies librarian and SPPO courtesy associate professor at Ohio State University Libraries, was recently named one of the 2021 class of Columbus…
SPPO Ph.D. candidate Justin Pinta has been featured in the Ohio State Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays Virtual 2021 Reception video. Justin’s project “Minority Language Resilience in Corrientes,…
It is a true pleasure to announce that SPPO graduate student Kendra V. Dickinson has won one of the 2020-2021 Graduate Associate Leadership Awards (GALA).
The Graduate Associate Leadership…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate SPPO graduate student Palo Pinillos Chávez on winning second place in the Humanities section at the 35th Annual Hayes…
SPPO graduate student, Henrique Yagui Takahasi, has been awarded a Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Graduate Team Fellowship for the year 2021-2022.
Henrique will be using the…
Associate professor, Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman, will be offering two courses for the Autumn 2021 semester exploring music in Latin America. SPAN 7650: Musical Migrations and Latin American…
The Center for Career and Professional Success recently hosted a virtual mini case study competition focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, pairing students together to address a diversity…
A new edited volume of the Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology has been edited in honor of Dr. Terrell A. Morgan. The volume serves as a means of celebrating an amazing friend,…
Greetings friends!
In November of 2019 The Ohio State University hosted the 5th Annual Quechua Alliance Meeting, an event that gathers Quechua language speakers and students…
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese presents the Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium's invited speaker, Dr. Nicté Fuller Medina. She will present her lecture, entitled, "When “uno lo hace…
The Quechua Alliance is a community organization dedicated to celebrating Andean Culture and Quechua languages. Since 2015 the Quechua Alliance has held an annual conference to share in Quechua…
SPPO alumna, Anna Lieswyn, graduated from OSU in 2017 with a double major in Spanish and Comparative Cultural Studies with a minor in Latino/a Studies. During her time studying…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate Dr. Anna Babel for receiving the Public Outreach and Community Service Award from the Society of Linguistic Anthropology. The…
Portuguese 5501 is a Portuguese course designed for graduate and undergraduate students with an intermediate/advanced level of Spanish and skills to take 3400+ level courses in Spanish. Students…
The Auxiliares de Conversación program is a program run the by the Spanish government’s Ministry of Education that pays US college graduates around $1000/month, depending on the local cost of…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate SPPO associate professor Dr. Paloma Martínez-Cruz, who has received the 2020 Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching…
The Bilingual Storybook Project was created by SPPO Senior Lecturer Dr. Jill Welch in 2012. The project is a partnership between the OSU Department of Spanish and Portuguese and elementary schools…
The Women’s Place and the Organization of Latinx/Hispanic Employees (OLÉ) will offer one-on-one coaching for CV and resume building in January 2021. Coaching will be provided by Dr. Aurora…
The Wexner Center is streaming Viva Kid Flicks from December 5th-December 31st. Celebrate the best Spanish-language live action and animated short films from around the globe!
Highlighting a…
Cinetracts '20 (Various artists, 2019-2020) is a compilation of shorts produced by the Wexner's artistis-in-residency, including not only one by Gabriel Mascaro, but another by Mexican…
Divino Amor (Gabriel Mascaro 2019), a Portuguese film created by Gabriel Mascaro will be available on through the Wexner Center from now until December 24th. Set in a future Brazil where…
In summer 2020 Honors Spanish Majors Cara Satullo, Emily Montenegro, and Juhee Park presented their analyses of Andean and Amazonian indigenous cultural representations in children’ films for the…
K'acha Willaykuna has collaborated with U.S. artist Kandis Williams and Brazilian artist Aline Baiana in the commission of a Cassandra Press Reader on the topic of "Erasure" for the 2020-2021…
Members of the K'acha Willaykuna Knowledge Equity and Legacy Preservation Working Group have converted the "Dancing with Devils: Mask Traditions of Latin America" exhibit into an online format!…
Ohio State’s Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection serves as a teaching resource in support of a growing curriculum on Andean and Amazonian Studies while providing…
The OSU College of Arts and Sciences will be hosting a reading and discussion of The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie with the author, Frederick Luis Aldama,…
Dr. Elena Foulis, SPPO senior lecturer, was featured in November's Engaged Scholar Q&A. Her scholarship "draws from pressing social issues in Latina/o/x communities, informed by creating…
Dr. Holly Nibert, SPPO associate professor of Hispanic Linguistics and language program director, has been featured on the most recent "Voices of Excellence" podcast. Dr. Nibert researches the…
Are you interested in studying Quechua? Have you considered adding a minor in Andean & Amazonian Studies? Check out the video below, where SPPO graduate student Justin Bland details information…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Outreach Committee wishes to thank Sujanesh Kakumanu and Sujan Manandhar of the Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures for creating this "lively"…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is offering a number of exciting Portuguese courses in online, hybrid, and face-to-face modalities for the Spring 2021 semester! View the flyer below for…
This conversation features recipients of the Susan Pratt Munthe Fund for Latin American Studies, which was established in June 2014 with…
Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama, Distinguished University Professor at OSU, has been featured in The Columbus Dispatch's article, "Latino culture at heart of monthlong celebration." In the article, Dr…
SPPO graduate student Luana Lamberti and Linguistics graduate student Shawn Barreiro have been featured in a series of short videos that were developed to contribute to COSI's Digital Cuba Exhibit…
Congratulations to SPPO graduate student Mikel Bermello Isusi on being chosen as one of the six recipients of the Global Arts + Humanities Society of Fellows Small Grant for Cross…
In the Spring 2021 semester, SPPO Associated Professor Dr. Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza will be offering a fully online graduate course: SPAN 6340 Spanish Phonetics for Teachers. Details about the…
Sumac Puringashpa: Walking the Meaningful Path: Coming and Going in Andean and Amazonian World Views is a virtual reality project created by the Advanced Computing Center…
Dr. Frederick Aldama, Distinguished University Professor, has won the Best Nonfiction- Multi-Author section of the 2020 International Latino Book Awards for the book that he co-authored with…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate our recent graduates from our Ph.D. program! Eight of our students earned their Ph.D. between the Spring 2020 and Summer 2020…
Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama, Distinguished University Professor and author of The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez (University of Texas Press, 2014), was recently featured in a news…
Incoming SPPO PhD student, Marcia Macedo, is a well-known online Portuguese instructor. She has a YouTube channel, Português com Marcia Macedo, with over 300 educational videos on Portuguese…
SPPO faculty member and Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor, Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama, was recently interviewed by Daniel Olivas of the Los Angeles Review of Books to discuss his new…
"Buckeyes Abroadcasts" is a new podcast brought to listeners by education abroad experts at Ohio State! It shares information about nearly everything related to education abroad programs. The…
We are delighted to announce that SPPO Graduate Student, Melissa Nieves Rivera, has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement …
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate SPPO Graduate Teaching Assistant, Santiago Gualapuro Gualapuro, on the success of his webinar series that was held throughout…
In the Latinx Spaces article, "Will the Real Monster Please Stand Up?" Cristina Herrera explores Latinx folklore and the monsters featured within many of its tales. However, within much of recent…
Drs. Glenn Martinez and Elena Foulis, along with collaborators, Dr. Fitzgerald, and Grad student Palo Pinillos Chávez received the The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme grant ($18,000) for…
SPPO Associate Professor, Dr. Ignacio Corona, is helping students bring new life to Textos Híbridos: Revista sobre Estudios de Crónica y Periodismo Narrativo - a magazine within…
The Bilingual Storybook Project has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Hispanic Heritage Project. The grant will allow the Bilingual Storybook Project to expand in significant ways over the next…
Congratulations to Dr. Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza who won one of the university's 2020 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Awards that “honor individuals who have demonstrated success in…
Congratulations to Dr. Glenn Martinez who has received an Engagement Impact Grant from the Office of Outreach and Engagement. With the grant, Glenn and his collaborators will collect pilot data on…
Ohio’s first Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee, Oscar Lopez Acosta, died earlier this week from COVID-19 after being detained at the Morrow County Correctional Facility. SPPO…
OSU Department of Spanish and Portuguese Professor, Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama, and illustrator, Chris Escobar, have published their debut picture book, The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate Graduate Teaching Associate Luana Lamberti for winning an International Research and Scholarship grant from the Offices of…
Graduating Spanish and Public Health major, Elaine Louden, has developed a website for the Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifact Collection! Elaine is a student curator for the…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate Graduate Teaching Associate Kendra Dickinson for winning an International Research and Scholarship grant from the Offices of…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate Associate Professor Dr. Ana Puga on the publication of her book Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration:…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate Dr. Glenn Martinez for receiving one of the seed grants from OSU’s Office of Research dedicated to COVID-19-related research for…
Who counts as a speaker of a language? Have you ever thought about what it means to speak a language? As it turns out, the answer to this question is complex and deeply…
SPPO Graduate student Santiago Gualapuro Gualapuro has organized a series of webinars in Kichwa to be hosted by a variety of Kichwa experts during May 2020. Each webinar will address an important…
Congratulations to SPPO Graduate Student, Vitor Vilaverde, who has been awarded a Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Graduate Team Fellowship for the coming academic year (2020-2021). He…
SPPO Faculty member, Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama, recently had a article featured in Latinx Spaces, an online publication that focuses on Latinx media. Dr. Aldama's article, "I Want My…
Congratulations to Tania Espinales Correa for receiving the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Award for Teaching Excellence.
Each year, the award recognizes…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate Dr. Stephanie Aubry for receiving the 2020 Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer. This university-level…
The Outstanding Writing Instruction Award from the Writing Across the Curriculum Program recognizes graduate students who have used writing assignments and activities to help their students…
Sarah Little, a SPPO undergraduate & graduate alumnus, and Masters student in Speech-Language Pathology at OSU, and Jen Brello of Speech and Hearing Science put on an excellent online workshop on…
It is an immense pleasure to announce that Anthony Palmiscno, a Graduate Teaching Associate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has won one of the 2019-2020 Graduate Associate Teaching…
Department of Spanish and Portuguese professor, Dr. Lucia Costigan, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Mexico. This award will help Dr. Costigan further her research on "The…
The transition to finishing out the Spring 2020 semester online has brought about a lot of unexpected change the past few weeks. For some of our OSU students, however, a little distance hasn't…
The latest issue of the Portuguese Newsletter, published by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), has been published! This issue contains an interesting interview…
Congratulations to Dr. Elena Foulis who has been named a recipient of the Community Engagement Scholar Award! This honor is a part of the OSU 2020 University Outreach and Engagement Awards.
Dr. Diana Ruggiero, an alumna of SPPO's Graduate Program, has been awarded the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Teacher of the Year Award for the College…
On February 2nd, 2020 SPPO Associate Professor Dr. Pedro Pereira had an article published in Portugal’s daily Público. The article, "O padre António Vieira no país dos cordiais", was a…
K’acha Willaykuna Our Unlearning Hour Newsletter #3 February 10, 2020
In…
Who counts as a speaker of a language? Have you ever thought about what it means to speak a language? As it turns out, the answer to this question is complex and deeply…
SPPO Faculty member, Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama, recently had a article featured in Latinx Spaces, an online publication that focuses on Latinx media. Dr. Aldama's article, "Brownface…
The Public Rituals in the Portuguese Empire research project is engaged in digitizing ritual and festival-related texts held at the National Library of Portugal and National Library of Ajuda. The…
Congratulations to SPPO associated faculty member Elvia Andía Grágeda, who recently won the Premio Guamán Poma de Ayala en Lengua Originaria, a national literary prize in Bolivia. Ms. Andía…
OSU Ph.D. student, Santiago Gualapuro Gualapuro, has published the very first Kichwa-English dictionary in the world.
The goal of the dictionary is to empower Kichwa speakers and free the…
Elvia Andía Grágeda, Quechua instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the Ohio State University, recently became the first American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages …
"For DACA students, it's hard to focus on a bright future when faced with deportation fears."
PBS NewsHour featured a story about OSU DACA Students in their "Rethinking College" series on…
This College of Arts & Sciences interview with Elena Foulis, senior lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, centers around her recently published open-access textbook for heritage…
"With heritage language learners, we focus a lot on identity, on herencia (heritage); we incorporate those experiences from the home that they can bring into the conversations that we have in…
Associate Professor Anna Babel on how to support undocumented students
Anna Babel, associate professor of Hispanic linguistics, spent 17 years gathering ethnographic data…
Through the hard work of Dr. Lucia Costigan, Brazil's Instituto Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - INEP (National Institute for Teaching and Research) has recognized Ohio State as one of the few US…
On January 5th and 6th 2019, SPPO Graduate Student Elena Costello provided a 16 hour, two day training to 60 repatriated Mexican-Americans/Dreamers in Mexico on becoming bilingual bicultural…
Associate Professor Paloma Martinez-Cruz was selected to be a guest on the Voices of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences podcast. This interview highlighting her work on decolonial…
PORT 4597.02: Movies from Brazil, Portugal, Angola, and Mozambique
This course will examine how film in the contemporary Portuguese-speaking world (e.g., Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique)…
PhD student Ashlee Dauphinais was selected for the Fulbright-Hays Doctors Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. She will use this prestigious 12-month award to carry out her dissertation…
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SPAN 3413 | Mon/Wed 11:10am-12:30pm
Use and improve your writing skills throughautobiographical, ethnographical, journalistic and professional writing pieces. You will also have an opportunity to…
Several SPPO students and faculty are participating in this event organized by the Bexley Minority Parents Association:
Tuesday Sept 25th 6:00-8:00 PM…
Leonardo Carrizo is a graduate of the OSU Department of Spanish & Portuguese BA and MA programs. He is a photojournalist, lecturer in the School of Communication, and a trip leader for National…
At the annual meeting of the Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Lingüísticos in Buenos Aires, Prof. Scott Schwenter served as an invited plenary speaker, and Hispanic Linguistics PhD student Palo…
The MÁS ALLÁ Summer Program is a few weeks away! At MÁS ALLÁ high school students will be immersed in a Spanish language environment as they learn about the music, language, and culture of the…
Megan Lobert, SPPO's Acting Language Program Director, has won a…
SPPO graduate student Celia Martinez Saez has been awarded the Presidential Fellowship, the most competitive and prestigious scholarly recognition provided by the Graduate School. The award…
SPPO GTA Santiago Gualapuro Gualapuro has been awarded the Sonkin-Wasserman Families' Scholarship for International Understanding and Peace from the Office of International Affairs.
Register here for free tickets to hear Sandra Cisneros on Sunday, May 20 in the Reading Room at the Main Library.
Full details here
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese congratulates GTA Anthony Palmiscno on his acceptance into the XXXI edición dos Cursos de verán de lingua e cultura galegas, as well as for his…
Latinx Role Model Day at Ohio State, an annual program that fosters communication between Latinx high school students and local Latinx professionals, brought 500 Latinx students to OSU's campus…
We are proud to congratulate SPPO graduate students Olivia…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is delighted to announce the reactivation of OSU's chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Spanish Honor Society. We are home to a historical chapter. The…
SPPO would like to congratulate the graduate student organizers of the 21st Annual Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL) and the 21st Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies…
Devin Grammon, PhD candidate in SPPO's Hispanic Linguistics program, has recently accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. Devin will…
Prof. Anna Babel published a monograph with the University of Arizona Press in February of 2018.
To see more details or purchase the book, visit the University of Arizona Press.
Hispanic Linguistics PhD student Eleni Christodulelis was chosen to present at TEDx OSU this year! To watch Eleni and other presenters, visit http://tedx.osu.edu/livestream/.
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is pleased to congratulate Lisa Voigt, who recently received an ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship for "The Epistemology of the Copy in Early Modern…
The Center for Latin American Studies is excited to announce that they have been awarded a Field Research grant from the Tinker Foundation to provide graduate students with funds for travel to and…
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Center for Latin American Studies with the help of the School of Music are working together for our second year in a row to offer the MÁS ALLÁ (Music…
Daniel Olivas of LaBloga interviwed Prof. Frederick Luis Aldama on his new book, Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. Read the full interview here.
We would like to announce an extension of the deadline submission for our 21st Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium at the Ohio State University (OSU), to take place on March 30-31. The…