Spanish & Portuguese

University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics Naomi Shin has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award.  “This award is a tremendous honor to me. I care so deeply about teaching...

University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Spanish Enrique R. Lamadrid was recently awarded the National Prize “Enrique Anderson Imbert” 2019 of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE). This award – the...

New Mexico has a long and interesting history; however New Mexicans and their histories sometimes are not recorded forcing them to only be recorded in the memories of loved ones. This trend hurts the understanding of New Mexicans, their culture and their...

New research on Spanish in New Mexico reveals that “bilinguals don’t mix up their languages, they mix and match.” Salón Ortega at the NHCC was filled to capacity recently to celebrate bilingualism in New Mexico and launch a new book, Bilingualism in the...

Join the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Regional Studies for two events, March 22 and 23, focused on Mexican Americans and their historical settlement in the U.S. The first event, a lecture by Robert Con Davis-Undiano, titled...

Given the area’s rich, manifold history, the quest for knowledge about New Mexico and the Southwest is boundless. The Center for Regional Studies (CRS) at The University of New Mexico embodies that quest announcing visiting appointments for Dr. Anita...

Seven humanities doctoral students in the College of Arts & Sciences at The University of New Mexico are recipients of the 2017 Bilinski Fellowship. As a recipient, each student will receive dissertation completion fellowships made possible through...

 Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez is at the UNM Bookstore Tuesday, March 3 at 2 p.m. to sign copies of his book, One Day I’ll Tell You the Things I’ve Seen: Stories (University of New Mexico Press, 2015). This event is free and open to the public. The UNM...

Tey Diana Rebolledo, Distinguished Professor Emerita with the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and faculty affiliate with the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) at the University of New Mexico, presents, "Banned in Arizona: Dark Gifts, ...

Remember Maslow’s hierarchy of needs – if basic physical and safety needs aren’t met, then self-actualization isn’t achieved. It is easy to see then, that student success is dependent upon the health and wellbeing of the student. “Health and academic ...