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Spring/Summer 2016

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ALUMNI NEWS AND UPDATES

Laurel Hodges Abreu MA’06, PhD’09 completed her sixth year at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she is an Assistant Professor of Spanish. Her article entitled “Changes in Beliefs about Language Learning and Teaching by Foreign Language Teachers in an Applied Linguistics Course,” was published in Dimension 2015. A second article, “Teaching Hispanic Linguistics: Strategies […]

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STUDY ABROAD

UF in Cuzco – Service Learning for the Health Professions Greg Moreland The University of Florida International Center (UFIC) has recently engaged in an initiative to develop study abroad programs with a focus on service-learning and bridging disciplines. As part of this effort, Drs. Gillian Lord and Marta Wayne, Chairs of the Departments of Spanish […]

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FACULTY NEWS

Luis Alvarez-Castro published a chapter on Miguel de Unamuno’s poetry in a collective volume on Unamuno that appeared in Spain, plus a chapter on Spanish naturalist novel included in a A History of the Spanish Novel published by Oxford University Press. Additionally he published an article on the intersections of literature and history in the […]

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SPS HAPPENINGS

Code-Switching Speaker Series Comes to SPS Last year, in collaboration with Dr. Aaron and Dr. Valdés Kroff, Dr. De Prada submitted a proposal for a speakers series entitled “Shifting Between Perspectives: Examining Code-Switching in Hispanic Populations” to the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Support for Workshops and Speaker Series in the Humanities […]

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NEWS AND UPDATES FROM SPS

Update from the Graduate Coordinator, Luis Álvarez-Castro The Spanish Graduate Program, comprised of close to forty students hailing from over a dozen countries, is a vital component of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Our graduate students train in the study of Hispanic linguistics, literature, and culture from several approaches in the humanities and […]

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FOCUS ON FACULTY: Jennifer Wooten

Dr. Jennifer Ann Wooten joined the faculty of SPS in Fall of 2015, as our new Director of Language Instruction. She describes her job as “helping us all be the best teachers that we can be so that our students have the best language learning experience possible.” Her current scholarly and pedagogical foci include teaching […]

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THE PORTUGUESE PROGRAM

News and Updates In 2014-2015, we graduated the largest graduating class of Portuguese majors ever. Cristina Villaroel won the Hauptman medal for best major and was admitted to Duke Law School. Other graduates will pursue Law, advanced study in Nursing, and tourism. Bryan Weaver, a double major (Portuguese and Physics) returned to finish his undergraduate […]

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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT: Entre Nos

Departmental Speaker Series Entre Nos is our departmental speaker series. Run by Clara Sotelo, the goal of “Entre Nos” is to offer our faculty, graduate students, and the university at large the opportunity to learn about and discuss the intellectual endeavors of SPS. Students and faculty from our department meet to share our current projects, […]

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: A Summer In Salamanca

Keegan Storrs Last summer, I was very privileged to be sent to Spain for five weeks by International Studies Abroad (ISA), a company that works closely with the UF International Center on dozens of study abroad expeditions. As an intern for ISA, I used my experience as native English speaker to work on the translation […]