Congratulations to the following students for completing the Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures this fall semester 2017.
Jacqueline Bialostozky with a dissertation titled "Aesthetics of the Surface: Post-1960s Latin America Queer Rewritings of the Baroque."
Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee with a dissertation titled "Alienation in the Andes: Labor and Cultural Disenfranchisement in Colonial Peru, 1570-1640."
We note with great concern the proposal currently before the US Congress that aims to tax graduate students on tuition remissions.
According to theChronicle of Higher Education:
Nationwide, about 55 percent of all graduate students had adjusted gross incomes of $20,000 or less... and nearly 87 percent reported incomes of $50,000 or less. At the same time, master’s-degree students received tuition waivers averaging nearly $11,000, and doctoral students got waivers averaging more than $13,600.
Congratulations to Prof. Emilie Bergmann, on the publication of her volume (co-edited with Stacy Schlau): The Routledge Research Companion to the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
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.
The department is very pleased to welcome Tom McEnaney as new member of the department. Professor McEnaney comes to us from Cornell University as an advanced Assistant Professor. His research interests include the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S.
