Congratulations to our graduate student Alejandra Decker, who has been awarded the 2025-26 UC Dissertation-Year Fellowship!
Decker's research focuses on 19th-century Latin American and Latinx literatures, science, and technology, with a special emphasis on mining literature and scientific writing in postcolonial Mexico.
Congratulations to Gabriel Lesser, who began as a postdoctoral fellow at the Writing Center at UC Berkeley! In his dissertation, Hegemonic Humor: Racial Satires, Caricatures, and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Mexico and Brazil, Lesser analyzes how different ideas of race became embedded in everyday nineteenth-century print entertainment, including math puzzles, fashion columns, illustrated novels, and caricatures in both Mexico and Brazil.
Prof. Saum-Pascual performed her poetic work Traceroute Poems - segundo viaje alongside Mario Santamaría at Cultur_ALH, Encuentro Internacional de Cultura Literaria de La Alhambra, Spain. See the full video of the performance here.
Prof. Saum-Pascual performed her poetic work Traceroute Poems - segundo viaje alongside Mario Santamaría at Cultur_ALH, Encuentro Internacional de Cultura Literaria de La Alhambra, Spain. See the full video of the performance here.
On October 10, 2025, the Art of Translation working group, led by Emma Lloyd from the Department of Comparative Literature, hosted a lunchtime gathering with Puerto Rican poet, translator, and educator Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, in conversation about speculative Caribbean poetry and the art of translation. The event, co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, was organized by Coral Murphy Marcos and moderated by Claudia Martínez Rivera, both from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.
Prof. Estelle Tarica has been appointed a Senior Fellow at the Townsend Center for Humanities for the 2025–26 academic year. Her current research examines the Guatemalan Revolution (1944-1954), a fascinating period of anti-fascist culture and politics that included strong support for the partition of Palestine. Studying this topic has given her new insights into the present moment.
Prof. Estelle Tarica has been appointed a Senior Fellow at the Townsend Center for Humanities for the 2025–26 academic year. Her current research examines the Guatemalan Revolution (1944-1954), a fascinating period of anti-fascist culture and politics that included strong support for the partition of Palestine. Studying this topic has given her new insights into the present moment.
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is pleased to announce that Dr. Jhonni Carr has been awarded The Arts & Humanities Teaching Award in recognition of her extraordinary dedication to undergraduate student teaching.
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is pleased to announce that Dr. Jhonni Carr has been awarded The Arts & Humanities Teaching Award in recognition of her extraordinary dedication to undergraduate student teaching.
Derek Allen, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Languages & Literatures with emphasys in Luso-Brazilian Studies, received The Center for African Studies' Andrew and Mary Thompson Rocca Fellowship.
The endowment supports student scholars at the advanced graduate level concentrating in African Studies. Derek’s dissertation researches literature and film from Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, and Brazil. His project focuses on novels and films of war and independence struggles and the many aesthetic and political collaborations that came to exist between writers and filmmakers.
Derek Allen, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Languages & Literatures with emphasys in Luso-Brazilian Studies, received The Center for African Studies' Andrew and Mary Thompson Rocca Fellowship.
The endowment supports student scholars at the advanced graduate level concentrating in African Studies. Derek’s dissertation researches literature and film from Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, and Brazil. His project focuses on novels and films of war and independence struggles and the many aesthetic and political collaborations that came to exist between writers and filmmakers.
Derek Allen, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Languages & Literatures with emphasys in Luso-Brazilian Studies, received The Center for African Studies' Andrew and Mary Thompson Rocca Fellowship.
The endowment supports student scholars at the advanced graduate level concentrating in African Studies. Derek’s dissertation researches literature and film from Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, and Brazil. His project focuses on novels and films of war and independence struggles and the many aesthetic and political collaborations that came to exist between writers and filmmakers.
Alejandro Múnera, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Languages & Literatures, was awarded the 2025 Philip Brett LGBT Studies Fellowship!
The Philip Brett LGBT Fund is an endowment established in 2009 by members and friends of the UC Berkeley campus community to support graduate students working in LGBT Studies. It provides a monetary award to a UC Berkeley graduate student, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, conducting research related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer studies in any field or discipline.
Alejandro Múnera, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Languages & Literatures, was awarded the 2025 Philip Brett LGBT Studies Fellowship!
The Philip Brett LGBT Fund is an endowment established in 2009 by members and friends of the UC Berkeley campus community to support graduate students working in LGBT Studies. It provides a monetary award to a UC Berkeley graduate student, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, conducting research related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer studies in any field or discipline.
Alejandro Múnera, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Languages & Literatures, was awarded the 2025 Philip Brett LGBT Studies Fellowship!
The Philip Brett LGBT Fund is an endowment established in 2009 by members and friends of the UC Berkeley campus community to support graduate students working in LGBT Studies. It provides a monetary award to a UC Berkeley graduate student, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, conducting research related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer studies in any field or discipline.
On Thursday, April 3, 2025, the Iberian Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley screenedOlas de recuerdo (Memories of Salt), a 30-minute documentary directed by Naomi García Pasmanick in B-4 Dwinelle (Berkeley Language Center).
On Thursday, April 3, 2025, the Iberian Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley screenedOlas de recuerdo (Memories of Salt), a 30-minute documentary directed by Naomi García Pasmanick in B-4 Dwinelle (Berkeley Language Center).
On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in the Spanish and Portuguese Library at UC Berkeley, Afro-Cuban visual artist Alexis Esquivel gave a talk on his mixed media praxis and his understanding of Cuba as a socio-political, historical and cultural space.
On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in the Spanish and Portuguese Library at UC Berkeley, Afro-Cuban visual artist Alexis Esquivel gave a talk on his mixed media praxis and his understanding of Cuba as a socio-political, historical and cultural space.
On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in the Spanish and Portuguese Library at UC Berkeley, Afro-Cuban visual artist Alexis Esquivel gave a talk on his mixed media praxis and his understanding of Cuba as a socio-political, historical and cultural space.
