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Professor Nicholas Jones has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant (NEH) for his collaborative research project "Recovering Black Performance in Early Modern Iberia (1500-1800).

A new border mural is unveiled at Playas de Tijuana over the weekend in Tijuana. The Playas de Tijuana Mural Project shares the stories of 15 undocumented immigrants who arrived to the United States.

(Ana Ramirez / San Diego Union-Tribune)

Portuguese Composition (POR 23) students created and published a magazine entitled Verbália (edited by continuing lecturer of Portuguese Eugênia Fernandes)

Congratulations to Robert Irwin and the rest of the Humanizing Deportation team in being recognized for the Communicator Award for Online Video in the category of Causes and Awa

Congratulations to Gina, who has been selected to receive a 2020-21 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. This award, which is sponsored by Graduate Studies, recognizes excellence in teaching by graduate students on the UC Davis campus. 

By CINDY CARCAMOSTAFF WRITER 

APRIL 24, 2016 4 AM PT

reporting from MEXICO CITY —  

Six years ago Bernardino Hernandez boarded a plane to Mexico City with not much — his high school yearbook, a printer and his college copy of “Thomas More’s Magician,” a novel about creating a utopian community in 16th century Mexico.

Humanizing Deportation/Humanizando la Deportación, UC Davis, Releases Multi-Media Project

Documents lives of those deported to Mexico with no actual connection to the country

Kenton Goldsby of Ferndale was recognized with the Leon H. Mayhew Memorial Award, presented by the College of Letters and Science to undergraduates majoring in music, art or literature for their academic achievement and service to the university.

https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/news/winners-top-college-awards-announced

When I mention I attend UC Davis, people usually assume I study Animal Science or another similarly scientific major. While UC Davis is known for its exemplary STEM programs, my interests lie in the realm of languages and literature. I love being a Spanish major at UC Davis.

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

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.

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.

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.