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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…