Spanish and Portuguese Department at UC Davis

Advising Appointment Update

In alignment with the campus directives regarding the precautions surrounding COVID-19, the Languages and Literatures academic advising offices are now physically closed. Our Advisors remain available and will be offering academic advising appointments to students through zoom, phone call, or email. Once you have scheduled your appointment in the online appointment system, your advisor will reach out to you via email with instructions on how to connect with them using zoom, phone call, or email.

News

Staff working remotely as of March 16th

The Languages & Literatures staff are currently working remotely. Please visit http://langlit.ucdavis.edu/staff to view their contact information.

Professor Newcomb co-edits New Book

Professor Robert Patrick Newcomb is a co-editor, along with professors Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Pedro García-Caro (both University of Oregon), and Sebastaan Faber (Oberlin College; Ph.D. in Spanish, UC Davis), of a new volume Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa, published by Liverpool University Press.

Border Wall Mural envisioned by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana has been completed

A UC Davis student is telling the stories of people who came to the United States as young, undocumented immigrants, and she’s doing it in one of the most prominent places imaginable: the razor wire-topped border wall in Tijuana.

2/27/19 Meet and Greet with Xóchitl Rodríguez

Meet and Greet with Xóchitl Rodríguez

Rodríguez earned her BA in Spanish and International Relations from UC Davis in 2008 and her MA in Spanish from Sacramento State in 2013. Born in Saint Helena and raised in Woodland, Rodríguez is bilingual, is a first-generation college student, and a US Army veteran and reservist. She was elected to the Woodland City Council in 2016, for a four-year term. She is also active in state government and currently serves as a consultant to the California State Assembly.

Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
12pm
912 Sproul Hall

Professor Michael Lazzara Interviewed on TV Network of the University of Santiago de Chile

Professor Michael Lazzara appeared as a featured guest on "Criaturas," a program hosted by Chilean writer and literary critic Andrea Jeftanovic, which airs on the University of Santiago de Chile Television Network. The program focuses on a Latin American literary character as a conversation starter. In this episode, Professor Lazzara discusses El Padre Mío, the main character of a book by Chilean author Diamela Eltit, who won the 2018 Chilean National Literary Award.