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Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Founded in the 1960s, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, is widely recognized as a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of language, literature and, more broadly, cultural expressions grounded in theorized and broadly socio-historical perspectives.

We offer B.A. degrees in Spanish and in combined Spanish and Portuguese; and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, Hispanic Linguistics, and Lusophone Literatures & Cultures. Our faculty have strengths in the colonial, postcolonial and globalization triad; feminist, gender and sexuality studies; memory and witnessing; human rights; subaltern studies; law and literature; cultural contacts; and the Hispanic legacies of Hebrew and Arabic traditions. In Linguistics, our strengths are in the study of language in its context(s) with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to language contact, phonology, pragmatics, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics and syntax.

Department News

• Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Spain, East Asia, and the Limits of Early Modern Eurocentrism

  Lecture with Professor Ricardo Padrón

  Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012
  Time: 3:30 p.m.
  Where: 121 Folwell Hall

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• Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Association (HaLLA)

  Please join the Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Association (HaLLA) for a presentation

  Day: Friday, April 13, 2012
  Time: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
  Where: 317 Folwell Hall
  
  This meeting will feature presentations by Abby Bajuniemi and Megan Strom. Please see the following summaries.
  

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• SPANISH & PORTUGUESE RESEARCH (SPRG) FORUM

  Friday, March 30, 2012
  317 Folwell
  3:00-4:30pm
  Light snacks/refreshments provided

  The Spanish & Portuguese Research Group (SPRG) is holding its next forum! Two of our department's graduate students (Michael Arnold and Molly Leonard) will be presenting their work on a variety of intriguing topics. Please see their abstracts below.

  Michael Arnold
  The Alpha and the Omega of Pony Bravo Imagery: A Case Study in Twenty-First Century Indie Neoflamenco.

  Molly Leonard
  Relaciones geográficas: painting a distinct colonial cartography
  
  

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• "History, Memory, Truth: Cultural Capital in Spain's Memory Wars."

  Lecture with Sebastiaan Faber
  Friday, March 23, 2012
  2:00 p.m.
  112 Folwell Hall
  

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