Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning welcomed Watertown High School seniors for a panel discussion about an online video collection, "Yale en primera persona: Narrativas hispanas," created by Lourdes Sabé, Senior Lector I of Spanish.

The ambassador presented K. David Jackson – chair of the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies and Professor of Portuguese – with the honor of Comendador of the “Order of Camões,” which is awarded for distinguished service to the Portuguese language and culture and is conferred by the president of the Republic.

Valis will be one of 40 summer residents welcomed to the National Humanities Center campus, where she will work on a new book project about Federico García Lorca and Luis Cernuda.

Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis recognized four recipients of the college’s annual teaching prizes—who span all three divisions of the FAS—during a campus reception.

In an undergraduate course taught by Aurélie Vialette, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale students examined historical objects from the Spanish Civil War — and engaged with history hands-on in Barcelona.

Three FAS faculty members—Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Naomi Levine, and Alex Gil—were recognized by the Modern Language Association for its 2024 awards.

In a new course taught by Todne Thomas and Nicholas Jones, students are taking an interdisciplinary approach to the study of tarot—a divinatory medium practiced by fortune-tellers, artists, and the curious for centuries.

In a Q&A, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Aurélie Vialette and a fellow scholar explain the difficult national conversation about the legacy of slavery that is gripping Spain — and why it took so long to happen.

In a Q&A, Olivia Lott discusses what drew her to study Latin American literature, her efforts to translate little-known works, and why she chose to do this work at Yale.

Noël Valis, a leading scholar and translator of Spanish literature, was appointed the Kingman Brewster, Jr. (B.A. 1941) Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.