Event Archives

We are starting the New Year with a heartening Alumni Spotlight.

Professor Rosa Vallejos was invited by the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley to give a talk at the Fieldwork Forum on February 2, 2017.

She will be presenting on the challenges of letting…

Dr. Mary Quinn will be participating in the Musicology Colloquium Series being held at Zimmerman Library on February 2, 2017.

The talk examines the first zarzuela ever written, El laurel de Apolo (165…

If you were not able to make it to Dr. Nogar’s talk last week, “The Challenge of National Literary Historiography: The Case of Mexican Literature Latin American”, no problem, we have…



S&P Graduate students attended the 10th annual Graduate Portuguese Hispanic Symposium at Georgetown University on February 17-18. Juan Manuel Ramirez and Pa…

Erin Weddington illuminates our Alumni newsfeed this week with her dedication to her community and students. Read about this S&P Alumni’s journey to elevating first generation high school stude…

After graduation Alumni set off for new journeys in every direction around the globe. This week Spanish and Portuguese Alumni Vanessa Fonseca tells us what she has been up to since graduation.

Join Professor Anna Nogar at the Latin American & Iberian Institute on campus as she presents “The Challenge of National Literary Historiography: The Case of Mexican Literature” next Wedn…

Each year UNM recognizes the best of the best with the Susan Deese-Roberts Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. This award recognizes and rewards teaching achievements of graduate students. Th…

Professor Anna Nogar and Emeritus Professor Enrique Lamadrid along with other UNM scholars will be having a panel discussion on “Nuevo Mexicano Children’s Literature: Bilingual and Bicu…

Congratulations to Professor Anna Nogar on her latest publication of a children’s book co-authored with Emeritus Professor Enrique Lamadrid. The book is titled “Sisters in Blue/Hermanas d…



Shelli Rottschafer, Ph.D. completed her doctorate from the University of New Mexico in Latin American Contemporary Literature and a minor emphasis in Portuguese(2005).  Since 2…

We are exceedingly proud of our very own Dr. Rosa Vallejos for being featured in The LINGUIST List, an official Linguist blog last week. Professor Vallejos shares her personal story of how Lingu…

On Monday, March 20, Associate Professor Susana Rivera opened up and set the stage for The Granados Project, a 150th Anniversary Celebration of the Life and Music of Enrique Granados (1867-1916). Dr.…

 Dr. Carmen Julia Holguín was constructive and certainly busy this Spring Break . In agreement with the city of Chihuahua and the Culture Institute of the City, she taught a Creative Writing…

Alumni Fernando Melero Garcia graces our Alumni Spotlight this week. Fernando graduated from the S&P Department in May 2013 with an MA in Hispanic Linguistics. Mr. Melero is now pursuing his PhD in Hi…

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese has proudly nominated Alumni Elena Aviles for the Popejoy Dissertation Award. Dr. Aviles wrote a complicated and creative interdisciplinary dissertation that …

Professor Mary Quinn has accepted an invitation to be a keynote speaker for the symposium “Cervantes in the Wild West: Vices and Virtues Cervantes en el oeste salvaje: vicios y virtudes”.…

This week we catch up with S&P Alumni Willyam Thums. Willyam has been diligently working towards a PhD and second Master’s degree since graduating from UNM in the spring of 2017 with a Master&#…

Five Portuguese students will be spending their summer in Rio de Janeiro through the LAII summer FLAS Fellowship. The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship is available to students thro…

Please join us in congratulating Associate Professor Naomi Shin for her major accomplishment in being selected for the 2017 Women in STEM Awards! A group of ten UNM Professors has been awarded the pr…

Alumni are an essential part of the S&P Department. They remind us of the important role we play in students’ lives not only as maturing individuals, but also as professionals. Dr. Mary Hudgens…

We would like to congratulate Associate Professor Mary Quinn for her invitation to be a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Institute at the University College Dublin during the 2017-2018 academic year…

The Spanish and Portuguese Department hosts high school students annually to visit the department and observe Spanish and Portuguese classes. Last week, March 30th, we had the pleasure of hosting 36 …

The S&P Faculty and students have been presenting their research and knowledge at multiple conferences this spring semester.

 Céfiro Conference

Professor and Department Chair, Anthony C&#22…

Prof. Kathryn McKnight was awarded a Career Advancement Semester for Fall 2017 in order to co-author with Prof. Jill Kuhnheim of Brown University a textbook titled Literatura, arte y salud y el poder…

Alejandrina graduated from the S&P Department in December 2016 with an MA in Hispanic Literature. Ms. Padilla is now working at the National Institute of Flamenco planning the organization’s 30^t…

The Chapter Mu Alpha of Sigma Delta Pi in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico held their third initiation ceremony Friday, April 28, 2017. Congratulations to the n…

Diego Bustos, PhD candidate in Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded a LAII Field Research Grant for summer 2017. The grant provides funding for exploratory field research in Latin America an…

The Online Advisory Council at UNM has awarded S&P Professor Carmen Holguin Chaparro the distinguished Best Practices Certification for her online Spanish 307 Introduction Hispanic Literature course. …



Professor Anna Nogar has received an award for her project titled "El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail Travel: Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary and the Ft. L…



Dr. Anna Nogar and Emeritus Professor Enrique Lamadrid interviewed with host Cristina Baccin on KUNM. Dr. Nogar and Dr. Lamadrid spoke about their book Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul: …

La cruzada de los libros perdidos / The Crusade of Lost Books is a worldwide initiative to promote reading. The event occurs on a specific date, distributing books around a given city inviting…

As we near the end of Homecoming 2017: Living La Vida Lobo, we would like to recognize Alumni Miguel Estrada.  Miguel is currently an Associate Professor, and Chair of English and Modern Lan…

This week on our Alumni Spotlight, we would like to recognize and congratulate Professor Colín on his accomplishments!

After completing his Ph.D studies at the University of New Mexico, Albuquer…

To kick off the new school year, we begin by saying welcome back.  This week we introduce the Alumni Spotlight of the week Daniel Abeyta. Abeyta graduated UNM with a BA in Spanish Literature and …

Professor Richard File-Muriel has received the Faculty-Led Study Abroad Scholarship from LAII, for his Spring/Summer 2018 program “Culturas indigenas en Colombia.”  The grant provides…

What are you doing now/where are you

"I have been working for the National Park Service (NPS) as a linguist-historian, then historian, for the past ten years, first for the Spanish Colonial Re…

On Thursday, November 16, 2017 La Coordinación de Fomento a la Lectura y Programa Editorial del Instituto de Cultura del Municipio announced the winners for the “Publicaciones 2017”.&…

Alex Macias illuminates our Alumni Spotlight this week, graduating from UNM with a Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Spanish.  He is currently helping with the immigrant community in New Mexico.…

Professor Richard File-Muriel’s faculty-led study abroad program, “Culturas indígenas en Colombia,” has been awarded an additional 11k from the Office of Academic Affairs! The p…

At the Shared Knowledge Conference hosted by UNM on Wednesday, November 8, 2017, numerous SpanPort graduate students showcased their research.  The Shared Knowledge Conference is a recognition fo…

This week, Laura Vega highlights our Alumni Spotlight.  She is currently brining justice in our state of New Mexico as a Lawyer. 

Laura graduated magna cum laude from University of New Mexic…

The Alumni we would like to illuminate this week is Sutter Sugar.  Mr. Sugar was co-President of SPGSA and is currently a sucessful realtor, and a volunteer at Manzano High School. 

*What ar…