Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Texas at Austin

Congratulations to Richard Ardila for successfully defending his dissertation, titled "Visualizing Indigeneity: Colonial Re-Inscriptions and Interventions in the 21st Century Spanish Mediacapes," supervised by Professor Jorge Pérez. Way to go, Dr. Ardila!

You're invited!

Congratulations to Jack Riordan, who has been awarded a 2026-2027 Goizueta Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellowship from the University of Miami Library’s Cuban Heritage Collection in support of his research project, “Guantánamo as Province: Regino Boti and the Archival Foundations of La Espera (2023)!
Way to go, Jack!

RIP Dr. Brian Bobbitt, a former graduate of our Department of Spanish and Portuguese who wrote his dissertation on Iberian Literatures and Cultures with Jill Robbins. Un abrazo querido Brian, y mucha luz.

Honoring the life of Dr. Brian Bobbitt, a beloved Spanish teacher at Franklin High School. 🕊️

Dr. Brian Bobbitt first earned his Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, where he began his career as a Spanish instructor, dedicating his life to language and education.

He later became a Spanish professor at San Joaquin Delta College in February 2020. Seven months afterward, he moved to Franklin High School, where he taught Spanish for nearly six years. He genuinely cared about his students and made a great impact, even donating his own money to help fund band trips and provide hygiene kits for students in need.

He deserves to be recognized and remembered for the difference he made. His legacy lives on in the lives he moved. 🙏🕊️❤️

Congratulations to Cory Reed, whose book Cervantes, Technology, and the Novel: An Aesthetic of Instrumentality in Don Quixote (University of Toronto Press, 2025) was published in December. This book examines Cervantes's novel in the context of the epistemic shift from scholasticism to empiricism and the rise of subjectivity during the so-called Scientific Revolution in early-modern Europe.
https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/9781487566036

Congratulations to Jason Borge for the publication of his book Jazz Odyssey: The Global Lives of Booker T. Pittman (University Press of Mississippi, 2026), the first comprehensive study of this key figure of global jazz:
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/J/Jazz-Odyssey

Great news to start off the semester!
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Diego Jesus on the publication of his peer-reviewed article "A Profecia dos Rios: Cartografias Afetivas na Literatura Indígena e Pensamento de Ailton Krenak" in the Special Issue “Contemporary Brazilian Indigenous Literature and Art” of the Journal of Portuguese Cultural Studies!

✨✨FSRP Student Highlight: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/humanitiesinstitute/news/2025-fsrp-student-highlights

Los presentadores de la Beca Crónica que se hicieron la semana pasada con
dos editoras de la Revista Anfibia y estudiantes de Español y Portugués, Antropología, LLILAS, y Arquitectura.
El Departamento de Español y Portugués.

🎉Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Luke Bishop for the 🖋publication of his book chapter "Neofalantes, entre o normativo e o galego de toda a vida: Evidencia de Ourense" in the edited volume Identidades e ideoloxías perante a diversidade lingüística, published by the Concello da Cultura Galega!📝

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese invites you to a talk with Professor Catalina Iannone, who will present her new book Cities Beyond Crisis.

Through her research, Professor Iannone explores how Madrid and Lisbon’s historically marginalized neighborhoods have evolved, been reshaped, and reimagined through culture, tourism, and resistance.

📅 Tuesday, November 11
🕐 1:00 PM
📍 BEN 2.104