Department of Spanish and Portuguese

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The Department of Spanish and Portuguese believes that studying other languages through literature, theater, and performance, lyric, and music, film, visual artifacts, philosophy, and other cultural objects and texts will provide you with deep intellectual insight into other people's worldviews and mindsets.

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Prof. Carlos Minchillo is Awarded 2026 Frank J. Guarini Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Off-Campus Programs.

7/1/2026

Associate Professor Carlos Minchillo is awarded 2026 Frank J. Guarini Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Off-Campus Programs for the...
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Congratulations to Our Very Own Assistant Professor Brioso Rieumont!

5/18/2026

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Ingrid Brioso Rieumont, who has been awarded a 2026 Franklin Research Grant from the American...
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Our very own Professor José del Pino joins the 2026 Coloquio Hispanista

5/15/2026

On April 14, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Wellesley College hosted the 2026 Coloquio Hispanista, “Hispanismo transatlántico...

Recent Publications

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La enseñanza del español y la cultura hispánica en los Estados Unidos: Desafíos y propuestas para el futuro

José M. del Pino

Disorienting cinema: sensing beyond extractivism in the Peruvian Amazon, Screen, Volume 66, Issue 3, Autumn 2025, Pages 263–283.

Martina Broner

Edited Collections 2025 Acuña, Mauricio (org.); Rossi, Gustavo (org). Trenzar palabras: Congresos, festivales y encuentros entre

Mauricio Acuña

"Morúa and Hemetério: Reading Afrodescendant Criticism Under Stones in Post-abolition Cuba and Brazil"

Ingrid Brioso Rieumont