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April 2, 2025

Noon - 1 p.m. at The Townsend Center for the Humanities
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720

In her debut novel, Francine Masiello (Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature) weaves a story of small-time artists and crooks who, over the course of a century, wend their way from southern Italy to the anarchist enclaves of Paterson, New Jersey, and from fascist Italy during World War II to Buenos Aires after its “dirty war” of the 1980s....

March 17, 5 - 7 p.m.

Spanish & Portuguese Library - 5125 Dwinelle Hall

This event is a public conversation on the topic of oral traditions and translation between translator Katrina Dodson (Visiting Professor, Spanish and Portuguese) and anthropologist and fiction author Pedro Cesarino ( Spanish and Portuguese’s 2025 Brazilian Writer-in-Resident). It is moderated by Natalia Brizuela and organized by Nathaniel Wolfson.

Katrina Dodson is the translator of The Complete Stories, by Clarice...

During the first two weeks of March, the department of Spanish and Portuguese welcomed author Itamar Vieira Jr. as part of its long-standing writer-in-residence programs. Over the past two decades, the department has hosted acclaimed Brazilian writers and artists, among them, Milton Hatoum, Nuno Ramos and Ricardo Aleixo. In 2024, it was the Bahian author Itamar Vieira Jr. who graced our halls.

His residency began on Monday, March 4, with a reading and conversation between Itamar and translator and literary scholar Johnny Lorenz, moderated by Professor Nathaniel Wolfson, at the...

In a special three-part series on Berkeley Voices, Anne Brice interviews Spanish and Portuguese Professor Justin Davidson about his research projects and his quest to legitimize US Spanish, among other efforts. Below you can find all three episodes.

Spanish speakers in the United States, among linguists and non-linguists, have been denigrated for the way that they speak, says UC...