
09/15/2022
Need some review of por vs para or the subjunctive? Who doesn’t?! Come join our grammar workshop Wednesday Sept 28th! 🤓
We offer concentrations in Hispanic Linguistics, Hispanic Literature (Peninsular & Spanish American), Hispanic Southwest Studies and Portuguese.
Operating as usual
Need some review of por vs para or the subjunctive? Who doesn’t?! Come join our grammar workshop Wednesday Sept 28th! 🤓
¡Felicitaciones! 🎊
Professor Anna M. Nogar (Spanish and Portuguese) and retired Distinguished Professor A. Gabriel Meléndez (American Studies) were recently awarded the Bronze Prize in the 2022 International Latino Book Awards in the category of Fiction Translation: Spanish to English for their 2021 book El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa (University of New Mexico Press). The judges commented "A lot of loving work went into this bilingual volume; the translated text feels like original writing." US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Dolores Huerta (among others) presented awards.
Come check out this special screening of “El Rey” this Friday in collaboration with SPGSA and the LLC! 🎥🍿
The 2022 Shared Knowledge Conference is now accepting submissions! all graduate students can submit applications themselves for LoboBITES. 🤓🐺
¡Felicitaciones! 🎉
Congratulations to Prof. Eva Rodríguez-González, Coordinator of the Spanish Second Language (SSL) Program, to be one of the recipients of the 2021-2022 UNM Digital Literacy Innovation Award in recognition for excellence in teaching digital literacy skills. Prof. Eva Rodríguez-González designed a student showcase portfolio (Mi travesía/My journey) via Adobe Spark in SPAN1110, SPAN1120 and SPAN2110 to enhance students’ digital literacy while reflecting and celebrating Spanish language development. Student portfolios have been implemented in multiple SSL course sections since Fall 2021 in lieu of traditional exams.
This past summer, PhD student, Jorge Hernández, had a very fruitful experience at the prestigious National Humanities Center Graduate Student Residency Program. Jorge writes:
“The residency program was great! Following all the lectures and guest speakers, my fellow graduate colegas and I (in selected groups) designed an interdisciplinary syllabus based on our specific research fields and interests. Our group, composed of a scholar of psychology, and sociology, and myself, a scholar of Hispanic Lit./Southwest Studies, designed a syllabus that examines/ed the concepts of place, space, and world. Cleverly titled, “Global Studies/Interdisciplinary Studies 4001: Towards A Renewed Understanding of the Space-Place-World”, our course examined these concepts through the kaleidoscopes of literature, human and cultural geography, world cultures, psychology, and sociology. From embodiment, the development of morality, liquid modernity and glocalization, non-places and supermodernity, Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model, time/spaces, border places-spaces, and digital spaces and virtual reality environments, our course was designed to examine how place and space tie not only into our experience of the world but more broadly, how each of our identities (often plural themselves) are constructed within this world.”
Gearing up for next semester, we are excited to have everyone back! 🐺❤️🤍🖤
📢 Good news, there is still spots available for our SPAN 371, Spanish of the Southwest. The fall semester is right around the corner, don’t wait REGISTER NOW!! 🏃🏻♀️
Are you still looking for a fun and interesting class for the fall semester? 👀😄
Look at the flyer for more information on SPAN371! 😁🤗
Looking for a Spanish 300 level course for Fall 2022? 👀🤔
Register now, and guarantee your spot before it’s too late! 📆 ⏰
We are happy to announce this amazing accomplishment of Professor Nogar’s book! 🥳
El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa (https://unmpress.com/books/el-feliz-ingenio-neomexicano/9780826363275), published in 2021 by Professor Anna M. Nogar and retired Distinguished Professor A. Gabriel Meléndez, has been selected as a Finalist in the category of Translation for the 2022 International Latino Book Awards.
The International Latino Book Awards reflect the strength and talent of the fastest-growing group in the USA. By far the largest Latino cultural Awards in the country, the ILBA have honored the greatness of 3,470 authors and publishers over the past two decades.
¡Felicidades Prof. Nogar! 🎊🎉👏🏻
It’s official!!! 📣 We are proud to announce that Dr. Anna Nogar and Dr. Naomi Shin have been promoted to Full Professor!!
Tenure and Promotion are affirmations of the valuable work faculty members do to advance the mission of The University of New Mexico. Their hard work and achievements have been recognized.
Congratulations on this amazing accomplishment, Dr. Nogar & Dr. Shin! 👏👏
Still looking for a summer class? 👀 Register now for our online Portuguese 1110 course! ☀️ See flyer for more info ➡️
Congratulations to our MA graduate student Maria Vielma, who has been selected to be part of the inaugural cohort of Zancada Graduate Fellows!!! 👏👏
The Zancada Graduate Fellow Program is designed to create a cohort of future leaders who are committed to finding interdisciplinary, actionable, and meaningful solutions to global problems. Zancada Fellowships recognize the remarkable accomplishments of the selected graduate students and provide a valuable training opportunity to develop professional skills and encourage interdisciplinarity and community engagement among Fellos.
Here are a couple of pictures of our 2022 graduation ceremony. Thank you to everyone that attended!
We would like to congratulate all graduates on their well-earned success and best wishes on their next adventures!
Three of the four Spanish and Portuguese authors honored at the UNM’s Published Professors Reception with Arts and Sciences Dean Arash Mafi! Pictured: Anna Nogar, Kathryn McKnight, and Carmen Julia Holguin Chaparro. Missing Prof. Paulo Dutra.
Photos from Spanish as a Heritage Language at the University of New Mexico's post
Did you know we are home to THE TEACHING ASSISTANT OF THE YEAR 🤩 Join us in congratulating Kory Apodaca Cordova for being selected as the Susan Deese-Robertas Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year 🥳🥳🥳
Summer Portuguese class? Sign us up! Swipe for more info 🤩
Last Spirit Day of the Semester 🤩
Celebrations are in order! Congratulations to graduate student Len Beké for winning the Graduate Studies Summer Dissertation Award 🥳
Algunos eventos de esta semana!
RESOLANAS EVENT TOMORROW 🥳
We are so proud of our graduates! If you plan on participating in graduation, make sure you RSVP to the S&P main office at 505-277-5907 or [email protected] by MAY 6!
Querencias is back! SPANPORT’s student-led graduate research conference is taking place this Friday and Saturday! Swipe for the schedule!
Did you find our booth at the UNM Health Professions Symposium this past weekend? 🤩
¡Órale, colegas! Queremos felicitar a nuestro Coordinador Asistente de SHL, Jorge Hernández, por haber sido seleccionado para asistir al National Humanities Center’s Graduate Student Summer Residency Program. Este verano Jorge estará trabajando en prácticas significativas de enseñanza y aprendizaje en el aula de humanidades. ¡Felicidades, Jorge! 🤩😍😎
Celebrations are in order! Grad student, Jorge Hernandez was selected to attend the National Humanities Center’s Graduate Student Summer Residency Program. He will be working on meaningful teaching and learning practices in humanity classrooms. Felicidades Jorge 🥳
We ❤️ our faculty
Felicidades a Elisabeth Baker, a recent recipient of LAII PhD Fellowship! 🥳
Órale colegas, please distribute widely!
On behalf of the SHL Program, we'd like to express our gratitude to UNM's Spanish as a Second Language program for sponsoring the Classroom Management workshop held by SHL/SSL Teaching Assistants Maria Vielma and Jorge Hernández this past Thursday.
Thank you so much to everyone who came out to show their support! 😍😎🤩
PhD candidate, Mario del Angel-Guevara, was recently interviewed by the Santa Fe Reporter about his research on nuevomexicano dialects. Check it out:
https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2022/03/15/a-confluence-of-dialects/
Ongoing research will explore how Northern New Mexican Spanish is shaped and revived by other dialects.
SCHOLARSHIP REMINDER: deadline approaching!!!
Looking for a way to start your spring break? How about scholarships! S&P has two scholarship deadlines coming up! Conway International Study Grant and the Ruiz y Ruiz Scholarship might be the fit for you. Deadline: April 6 by 5 pm. Go to http://spanport.unm.edu/resources/index.html for more information!
Happy Spirit Day!
Happy Grad Worker Wednesday! We are celebrating Laura Cruz today! Laura is a double MA student studying Hispanic Literature and Brazilian Studies. Laura supervises SSL 1 and medical Spanish. If you want to make her day, get her a veggie frito pie o cheese enchiladas :)
¡Seguimos con Jorge Hernández, coordinador asistente de SHL!
¿De dónde eres?
Esa es la pregunta del millón. Nací en Pasadena, Texas, cercas de Houston, pero pasé mi infancia entre Vado, Nuevo México, y el pueblo natal de mis padres, Parral, Chihuahua. Por ello me considero muy orgullosamente transfronterizo, es decir no solamente por tener raíces muy fuertes en el norte de México sino también por mi conexión a la zona fronteriza de Las Cruces, NM, El Paso, Texas, y Cd. Juárez, Chih. Soy, entonces, de todo un poco.
¿Cuál es tu relación con el español? ¿Cómo lo aprendiste?
El español fue mi primera lengua, como ya mencioné a través de la conexión mexicana de mis padres. Sin embargo, al ir y venir, al cruzar fronteras tanto nacionales como lingüísticas (entre muchas otras), alrededor de los 8-10 años empecé a hablar el inglés, y desde entonces uso los dos idiomas.
¿Cuáles cursos de SHL has enseñado? ¿Cuáles cursos enseñarás este semestre?
En UNM he enseñado los niveles II, III y IV, actualmente estoy enseñado el cuarto nivel. Este semestre, como siempre, tengo un gran grupo de estudiantes súper apasionados/as por la lengua, la cultura y sus conexiones a sus familias. Espero, pues, seguir brindándoles a elles y a mis futures estudiantes una excelente experiencia en mis clases de lengua heredada.
¿Algunos datos curiosos sobre ti, etc. hobbies o películas, ¿algo más que te gustaría compartir?
Chales. Soy muy aburrido. Cuando no estoy enseñado o estudiando, me gusta jugar video juegos, más que nada por la nostalgia. Desde niño siempre me han encantado. A veces veo una que otra película dirigida por Guillermo del Toro. Pero, sobre todo, me encanta escuchar música: Los Rieleros, Polo Urias, Conjunto Primavera, La Maquinaria, La Zenda y Los Vendavales (¡Qué bonito es Chihuahua!).
Want to teach a more engaging class— in person or virtual? We’ve got the workshop for you!
Buena suerte a nuestros alumnos graduados que andan tomando comprehensive exams this week 🤍
Photos from Spanish as a Heritage Language at the University of New Mexico's post
Looking for a way to start your spring break? How about scholarships! S&P has two scholarship deadlines coming up! Conway International Study Grant and the Ruiz y Ruiz Scholarship might be the fit for you. Deadline: April 6 by 5 pm. Go to http://spanport.unm.edu/resources/index.html for more information!
Looking for a fun way to start off your spring break? Stop by the Speaker Series event with Dr. Julio Torres! Make sure you RSVP below!
SPANPORT wishes everyone the best of luck as they tackle midterm season!
Happy Women's History Month! Read the story of Adelina "Nina" Otero Warren, a nuevomexicana sufragista whose image will soon be on a US quarter-- written by our very own Doctor Anna Nogar!
https://nmhumanities.org/?blogId=1868
Pasa por Aqui is an initiative by the Council to present occasional columns by community members.
Happy Grad Work Wednesday! Today we are recognizing Nubia Ceniceros! Nubia is studying Hispanic Southwest Studies and is planning on graduating soon with intent to focus on giving back to her community! She teaches and supervises in the SSL program. If you ever want to make her day, grab her some flautas o un té helado de frambuesa 🤩
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