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Luis Martín-Estudillo has received the 2023 Norma L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize

Luis Martín-Estudillo, professor and collegiate scholar in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has received the 2023 Norma L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for his latest book.
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Study Abroad Highlight! - Isabella Rivera: My transformational journey in Chile

Check out this article about where Isabella Rivera (world language education and Spanish), a Diversity Ambassador Scholarship recipient (now the Global Access Ambassador Scholarship), talks about her study abroad experience in Chile; she participated in ISEP Direct: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Chile in spring 2023.

El V Festival Hispanoamericano de Escritores tendrá más de 50 actos

El Premio Cervantes Sergio Ramírez es uno de los participantes del certamen, junto a Ana Merino, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, David Toscana, Horacio Castellanos Moya y Elsa López
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MFA in Spanish Creative Writing Celebrates 10 years!

The University of Iowa MFA in Spanish Creative Writing program celebrates ten years. Since its creation in 2012, the program prioritizes creating literature that highlights the Spanish language and is part of the legendary writing ecosystem offered at the University of Iowa.
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New Faculty Publication: Goya o el misterio de la lectura | Goya and the Mystery of Reading

Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Professor and Collegiate Scholar, Luis Martín-Estudillo, has recently published two groundbreaking books entitled, "Goya and the Mystery of Reading," in English and, "Goya o el misterio de la lectura," in Spanish.
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Dare to Discover: María Leonor Márquez Ponce

María Leonor Márquez Ponce, PhD Student, Captures Latinx higher eduction experiences.

Giovanni Zimotti Educator Award Recipient

Thursday, October 20, 2022
The Educator Award honors an innovative teacher/professor who has published and/or used a significant body of OER over a sustained period (at least one year) in his/her teaching practice. An individual whose open course materials and professional practices have been recognized as having an impact and influencing peers to share more openly

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Two precious and well-travelled books containing works by the Mexican nun, writer, composer, poet and proto-feminist Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz have been saved from auction in New York and returned to Spain, where they were printed almost three-and-a-half centuries ago.

Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora: 2022-23 Obermann Humanities Symposium

Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Taking Brazil’s new Black cinema as its point of departure, Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora brings together filmmakers, artists, scholars, and critics from across the globe in order to inaugurate a practice of collective attunement. How can we best attune ourselves to the waves set in motion by this new cinema? How does Brazil’s current Black cinema resonate within contemporary aesthetic practices of the Black diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, North America and Europe? In what ways do these new formations of global cinemas refract our understanding of the post-colonial and of diaspora?

2022-23 Sawyer Seminar: Racial Reckoning through Comics

Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Our Sawyer Seminar draws from both critical perspectives and creative work in the arts, humanities, and social sciences to address how race and ethnicity have been represented historically. Through yearlong conversation and four exciting public symposia, we’ll consider how comics reflect and shape understanding of race and ethnicity in specific times and places.