UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Join us May 25th, 2022 at 4PM for "Juventud y democracia: diálogos intergeneracionales en la literatura mexicana contemporánea" by Dr. Liesbeth François!

Join us on Thursday, April 14th at 4:00 P.M. PST at the Lydeen Library (Rolfe 4302, UCLA).

Join us and learn more about our Summer 2022 Travel Study Programs.
Date: November 16
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Rolfe Hall 4302 or via Zoom
https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqc-CorT8sHNZs5TFQkqHwlBEkolIz-tmI

The UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department cordially invites you to "Las Humanidades en Transición y Crisis. Notas Desde Los Estudiantes Hispánicos" A talk by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado on November 17th at 4 pm via zoom.

Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92565762098

The UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department invites you to the "Take Control of Your Graduate Education: Career Diversity for Humanities PhDs" virtual talk with Professor Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University, on 11-5-21 at 3pm

Via Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93025285872

Congratulations to Professor Barbara Fuchs for being awarded the “Ñ” Award from the Instituto Cervantes!!

UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department Professor Barbara Fuchs has been selected as the first winner of the “Ñ” Award, a distinction recently launched by the Instituto Cervantes to mark the thirtieth anniversary of its founding. The purpose of the award is to recognize individuals or legal entities with an outstanding record in the international dissemination of the Spanish language. Professor Fuchs was lauded by the Board of Directors of the Instituto Cervantes for her numerous books and for her role as founder of the Diversifying the Classics Project. Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain, will present the award to Professor Fuchs at a ceremony to be held at UCLA on July 22nd.

https://www.abc.es/cultura/abci-profesora-barbara-fuchs-primer-premio-labor-difusion-internacional-espanol-202107081849_noticia.html?fbclid=IwAR1QVpMovUU6Ythvoly1ijgOwqrJyxiqODE6_ZHTQlkF5y4sv0XaNNqgRnE&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fl.facebook.com%2F

La profesora Barbara Fuchs, premio Ñ a la difusión internacional del español Docente de la Universidad de California (UCLA), en Los Ángeles, la galardonada es experta en el Siglo de Oro español

Interested in a part-time student assistant position at the UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese? Apply now!

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend the “Mujer Migrante Memorial". The Mujer Migrante Memorial is a mega-urban mural installation that will take place at Filomena Cruz's "The Wall that Gives/El Muro que da" in Venice Beach, to honor the lives of female migrants who perish while crossing the Southern Arizona desert. The whole thing starts at 9.30 am, but will continue throughout the day: there will be a "taquero" on-site at around noon, and plenty of food and drink.

Date: June 19th, 2021
Time: 9:30 A.M. - 3:00 P.M

Congratulations to our Student Maxx Coleman Vogel for receiving The Jose Rubia Barcia Essay and Prize and the Carroll B. Johnson Outstanding Senior Award!

Maxx Vogel was born a Bruin at the UCLA Medical Center. Two and a half decades later, he is monumentally proud to be graduating from the very same university with a BA in Spanish. While at UCLA he has concentrated on researching societies in contact from the Early Modern era to the present and cultures of diaspora communities. Maxx has also taken interest in the fields of Education, Jewish Studies, and the Yiddish language. After graduation, Maxx plans on continuing his career in academia and is pursuing graduate programs in Migration Studies.

Congrats Maxx!

José Rubia Barcia Essay Prize— Essay on Spanish Literature

José Rubia Barcia (1914-1997) was a distinguished professor of 20th century Spanish literature who also served as the chair of UCLA’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He was born in El Ferrol (Galicia), where a cultural center dedicated to him now houses his library and a collection of his papers. He studied Arabic and Hispano-Arabic literature at the University of Granada. After completing his degree he held important positions in the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War and as a consequence he went into exile, first to France and then to Cuba and then to the United States. Here he worked in Hollywood with the Spanish film director Luis Buñuel. Barcia published a great number of books and articles on Valle Inclán, Unamuno, Federico García Lorca and other writers of the 20th century. He was also an author of political essays. His translation of César Vallejo’s poetry, done in collaboration with Clayton Eshleman, received the “National Book Award” in 1979.

Carroll B. Johnson Outstanding Senior Award— Special Distinction

Professor Carroll B. Johnson (1938-2007) received his B.A. in Spanish from UCLA in 1960 and his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 1966. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1964 as an acting assistant professor. He became a full professor in 1976 and continued teaching until his death. A Los Angeles native who spent his entire academic career at UCLA, Carroll was president of the Cervantes Society of America from 1997 to 2000, editor of the scholarly journal Cervantes, and Chair of the UCLA Spanish department for an unprecedented 13 years in three separate tenures. He was an influential expert on the Spanish Golden Age known for insightful and groundbreaking research, particularly in his 1983 book Madness and Lust: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Don Quixote. He later wrote from a socioeconomic perspective in Cervantes and the Material World. Professor Johnson also excelled in the classroom, and his students praised his unfailingly generous support of their research and the demanding academic standards he set for both them and himself. He set the benchmark for academic excellence, service to the profession, university service, teaching, and collegiality.

You are cordially invited to attend the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Undergraduate Class of 2021 Virtual Commencement Celebration!

We are honored and excited to announce special guest, community leader Dolores Huerta will be joining our celebration! Please join us with family and friends for our online celebration.

Link to Dolores Huerta Foundation: https://doloreshuerta.org/

*** Event link will be released on Friday, June 11th to Faculty and Staff *

Congratulations to our Student Laura Czerniecki for receiving The Dolores Huerta Community Service Award!!

Laura Czerniecki is an international student whose passion for Latin America and languages stems from her Brazilian heritage and multicultural upbringing. At UCLA, she has received departmental honors and pursued community engagement and professional opportunities that service the Latinx community. Under the guidance of Doctora Suhr, she recently completed a project investigating the disproportionate impacts of human trafficking on the Latinx community through the lens of her experience as an Anti-Trafficking intern at the International Rescue Committee. Laura is currently finishing her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Portuguese, after which she will pursue law school.

Congrats Laura!

The Dolores Huerta Community Service Award

Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor rights and social justice for more than 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as vice president and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation prize for Creative Citizenship, which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters, advocate for education reform, bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities, advocate for greater equality for the community and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards, including The Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award from President Bill Clinton in 1998. In 2012, President Obama bestowed Huerta with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. The Dolores Huerta Community Service Award is a way to acknowledge our students’ involvement with the Latinx communities at UCLA and the greater Los Angeles area through the Community-engaged Learning Program. This inaugural award will be presented by Dolores Huerta, at our End of the Year Online Celebration Ceremony on Saturday, June 12th, 2021.