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Updated Summer Opportunities
Although the semester has ended there are still opportunities to participate in a conference, be published in a journal or participate in a symposium. Listed below are the journal, conference and…
Emerging Community Engagement Award
The Ohio State LASER High School Mentoring Program prepares Latino students in Columbus-area high schools for successful admission to Ohio State and elsewhere, integrating students and their families…
SPPO Professor wins Distinguished Scholar Award
Frederick Aldama’s work spans multiple genres. An internationally renowned scholar in multiethnic, postcolonial and Latina/o and Chicana/o literary and cultural studies, Aldama has had a profound…
Excellence Rewarded
‘Tis the season for awards in Academia, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese saw no shortage in recipients. The list grows by the day, and is hardly representative of the long hours and hard…
SPPO Professor Wins Siddens Award
Professor Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza researches phonetics and phonology, teaches all levels of classes with passion, and is learning to play the banjo. “It’s kind of hard” she grinned, “to do the…
Graduate Student Symposium a Success
It wasn’t quite 8am last Friday when graduate students, professors, and guest speakers gathered for the start of the 17th Annual Graduate Student Symposium. While a cup of coffee was in nearly every…
Summer Opportunities
The Ohio State University and other universities will provide various academic opportunities this summer. These opportunities are not just limited to students but are open to instructors and members…
SPPO Grad Accepts Tenure-Track Position
The secret is out. For nearly three months, Amanda Matousek, 2013 PhD in Latin American literature & culture, kept some wonderful news to herself as she carried out her duties as a lecturer at Ohio…
Spanish Class for Heritage Speakers
In the Autumn Semester of 2014, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese will continue to offer its new popular course: Spanish 3413 Spanish for Heritage Speakers. This type of course is trending…