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UT Austin Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Joined April 2018
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Professor Gabriela Polit presented her new book of poems, Agujas, which has been published with an English version translated by Professor Sean Manning. Congratulations to both of you!
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Lito Porto has been selected to receive a President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award for the 2021-2022 academic year. This accolade recognizes his exceptional undergraduate teaching and innovation in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Congratulations Lito!
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Prof. Sergio Romero has been selected as member of the third annual cohort of the Provost’s Authors Fellowship. As a fellow, he will receive one-month of salary during the 2022 and 2023 summer sessions to support time spent writing his book.
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Please join me in congratulating our graduate student Isabel Ibáñez for winning the Roy Crane Award for Outstanding Achievement in Liberal Arts for her unpublished novel “Los ojos de mi padre”.
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Congratulations to Professor Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba on his latest book entitled "Gandallas: Las fuentes culturales de la violencia en México."
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Please join me in congratulating Professor Sandro Sessarego, who was recently awarded the 2021-2022 VPR Research & Creative Grant for his project on “Afro-Veracruz Spanish: African Diaspora and Creole Genesis."
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Check out Prof. Lito Porto's latest publication entitled "Teaching 'Process Ecology' at the Undergraduate Level: A Curricular Response to a Latent Yearning for an Ecologically-Based Understanding of Transdisciplinary Realties"! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Don't miss this amazing opportunity!
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Chair @JossiannaA quoted in this article from the Washington Post: washingtonpost.com/nation/20…

Perspective | Blackface has been shunned in the U.S. Brownface deserves the same scrutiny.

The mimicry of Yalitza Aparicio on Mexican television revealed an ugly, persistent form of racism in Latin America.

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Texas Observer@TexasObserver
17 Feb 2019
Texas Border Sheriffs: There is No Crisis and We Don’t Want Trump’s Wall texasobserver.org/texas-bord…

Texas Border Sheriffs: There is No Crisis and We Don’t Want Trump’s Wall

Despite Trump’s attempt to paint the Texas-Mexico border as a war zone, border counties are safer than the president’s own backyard. And local lawmen don’t believe a wall will do any good.

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UT Theatre and Dance@uttad
15 Feb 2019
From our friends at @TexasLARA. Check out the auditions on February 24 for their Talent Showcase!
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Daily Texan Video@texanvideo
20 Feb 2019
Move over, @TexasMascot. It's ya boi, Domino. 🐈🐱
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Hector Dominguez Ruvalcaba receives prize from the CODHEM for his works on gender violence
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It's Not Liberal Arts And Literature Majors Who Are Most Underemployed via @forbes forbes.com/sites/dereknewton…
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UT Theatre and Dance@uttad
13 Feb 2019
"I’ve seen many things." Congratulations to the company of THE WOMEN OF ____ on their preview performance this evening! Join us through February 17 at the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre! Get Your Tickets: bit.ly/2M9zNwk #UTWomenOf Photo by Lawrence Peart
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LLILAS BENSON@llilasbenson
16 Nov 2018
More Than 20% of UT Undergrads are First-Generation College Students news.utexas.edu/2018/11/14/m…

More Than 20% of UT Undergrads are First-Generation College Students

UT joined colleges and universities across the country to #celebratefirstgen by hosting its inaugural on-campus event.

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