News

Congratulations are extended to Poema Quesado Valente and Felix Treviño  for passing the Qualifying Examination in Hispanic Languages and Literatures this semester-fall 2017.

The department is very pleased to announce that Marlena Gittleman, a graduate student in Comparative Literature and a former student of Catalan 102 in our department, has been selected to participate in the Emerging Translator Mentorship Program co-sponsored by the Catalan institution Institut Ramon Llull and the American Literary Translators Associ

As faculty in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Berkeley, we are saddened and deeply troubled by the announcement that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, also known as the Dreamers Act, is scheduled to be suspended.

We echo UC President Janet Napolitano’s call for “Congress to immediately pass bipartisan legislation that would provide a permanent solution” for Dreamers by charting “a secure path toward citizenship,” and we applaud her commitment to maintaining structures of support for DACA students throughout the UC system.