University of Oregon Department of Romance Languages

Very proud that our very own Yosa Vidal published her new novel “Vals chilote” with Fondo de Cultura Económica!!! Bravo, Yosa! 🎉🥳

Partimos el 2023 con el lanzamiento de Vals chilote de la escritora Yosa Vidal, un libro que aborda desde una mirada cotidiana y personal, la lucha contra la dictadura en esta isla del sur de Chile.
Nos acompañarán los escritores Alejandra Moffat] y Pablo Padilla]
Cuándo: Jueves 5 de enero, 18:30
Dónde: Librería del Fondo Gonzalo Rojas, Paseo Bulnes 152. Metro Moneda.
Les esperamos!


Alejandra Moffat]
Pablo Padilla]

Cool new course for Spring 2022

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Courtesy Professor of Spanish Crystal Chemris has published a book, titled The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation (Boydell & Brewer, 2020). Use promo code BB872 before 31 March 2021 to receive a 35% discount on this title at

The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity Inspired by Walter Benjamin's notion of constellation, this book draws on theories of Latin American modernity to investigate the Spanish literary Baroque an...

Prof Gina Herrmann and co-editor Prof Sara Brenneis' (Amherst C) book "Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust" reviewed in 'The Volunteer' https://albavolunteer.org/2021/02/book-review-spain-the-second-world-war-and-the-holocaust/

Book Review: Franco’s Soldiers - The Volunteer Soldados de Franco. Reclutamiento forzoso, experiencia de guerra y desmovilización militar, by Francisco J. Leira Castiñeira. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2020.

Professor of Spanish Gina Herrmann, together with co-editor Sara Brenneis (Amherst College), is featured in the New Books Podcast (Genocide Series) speaking of their edited volume Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust (University of Toronto Press, 2020).

Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann, "Spain, the Second World War, and… Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann, "Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

Blog post

The Curse of Ham in Medieval Iberia and the Enslavement of Black Africans | David A. Wacks Modern capitalism has its origins in the institution of chattel slavery, in particular the enslavement of Black Africans. As we know, all institutions r...

Prof. of Spanish Gina Herrmann and Prof. Sara Brenneis (Amherst College) present their book Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation (Toronto UP, 2020) on the web series pleibéricos (in Spanish, ):

Pleibéricos 5 (12 de noviembre 2020) Los libros que se presentarán el día 12 de noviembre a partir de las 7pm (CET) son los siguientes: The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Cen...

Associate Professor of Spanish Pedro García-Caro, editor of the Journal Peripherica, announces the publication of a new special issue, “Image and Storytelling: New Approaches to Hispanic Cinema and Literature,” guest edited by Professor of Spanish Gina Herrmann and Isabel Jaén (PSU) and featuring contributions from RL faculty Jesús Sepúlveda and RL alums Nagore Sedano (PhD RL 2019), Nicole Mombell (MA Spanish 2004), Doralba Pérez Ibáñez (PhD RL 2019), and Noemi Martín Santo. (MA Spanish 2009)

Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History Periphērica is an open access journal that offers new critical perspectives on the literary and cultural histories of Latino-América and Iberia as spaces that are both central and peripheral to the production of contemporary culture.

Assist Prof Diana Garvin featured in OPB story “Experts on fascism warn America is at a crossroads” https://www.spreaker.com/user/oregonpublicbroadcasting/experts-on-fascism-warn-america-is-at-a-

https://www.opb.org/article/2020/11/12/what-protectors-of-democracy-can-learn-from-the-history-of-italian-fascism/?fbclid=IwAR3TE5Tp4oUnhGdMuVPTdx1iurDBOjyGOdQCwh2HBi_kVzfBanWwQGbpf8U

What protectors of democracy can learn from the history of Italian fascism On the Saturday before Election Day 2020, an open letter of concern signed by scholars of authoritarianism warned, "Regardless of the outcome of the United States election, democracy as we know it is already imperiled. However, it is not too late to turn the tide." University of Oregon Professor Dia...

RL's Prof. Diana Garvin joins other experts in open letter warning of incipient fascism in the US. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/01/democracy-fascism-global-trump-biden-election University of Oregon University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences

Scholars warn of collapse of democracy as Trump v Biden election looms Dozens of experts on fascism warn of global danger, calling for action from ordinary people: ‘It is not too late’

Librarian Bronwen Maxson has co-authored an article in the Journal of Academic librarianship titled, Boolean redux: Performance of advanced versus simple Boolean searches and implications for upper-level instruction. Find more at:

Librarian Bronwen Maxson has co-authored an article in the Journal of Academic Librarianship | Department of Romance Languages Posted: Thu, 10/15/2020 - 14:11 Librarian Bronwen Maxson has co-authored an article in the Journal of Academic librarianship titled, Boolean redux: Performance of advanced versus simple Boolean searches and implications for upper-level instruction. It is a follow up to an article about teaching ...