Commissioned by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain and curated by award-winning writer Ana Merino, “Illustrating Spain in the US” unites comic creators and scholars in a joint artistic effort to deepen into the Spanish presence in this country. Illustrating Spain in the US is a creative dialogue that combines the graphic expressiveness of comics and their authors, with the inquisitive perspective of scholars who have written a series of complementary articles. Comic authors have built comic strips that feed on academic knowledge and demonstrate that Spain has been part of the American reality since long before the very foundation of the American country. This Spanish energy continues to be present in the imagination, talent and creativity that emanates from everything Spanish and so fascinates Americans. This energy is also found in the scientific thinking of the Spaniards who made the United States their second home while they made —and still continue to make— surprising advances. Click here to see more. 

Luis Martín-Estudillo, Collegiate Scholar and professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is one of twelve authors selected to receive an inaugural Fellowships Open Book Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  

Thanks to funding from the award, Martín-Estudillo's book, The Rise of Euroskepticism: Europe & Its Critics in Spanish Culture, will be newly edited as a free ebook. For a full press release, see here. 

Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez is playing a prominent role in bringing to light the work and legacy of women writers during Spain's "Golden Age," a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Please click here to read an El País article about an exhbit curated by Ana Rodríguez Rodríguez on early modern women writers. In Spanish. 

Read the Daily Iowan article here.

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Antoinette Goodrich has been awarded a Genevieve Searle Scholarship for outstanding students making a positive learning environment in the Spanish program. Click here to see more about Antoinette. 

Neha Haque, who will receive a BA in English and creative writing from the University of Iowa this May, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Mexico for 2020-21. Click here for more details on Neha's project and how it fits with her future goals. 

Tess Van Den Hurk-Moran, who received a BA in English from the University of Iowa in May 2019, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Argentina for 2020-21. Cick here to learn more about Tess's project and future goals.