Welcome to the website for Graduate Studies in the Division of Spanish and Portuguese at Texas Tech University. The Division boasts a variety of excellent Masters and Doctorate programs.  It features award-winning faculty with outstanding reputations. In addition, the Division has been the longstanding home for the editorship of Hispania, the premier journal sponsored by the American Association for the Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Graduate students in Spanish and Portuguese have many opportunities that distinguish Texas Tech from other graduate programs.  The programs offers a wide range of teaching opportunities, including the chance to teach at the Texas Tech campus in Seville, Spain.

 

Jose Olascuaga, PhD candidate in Spanish in CMLL, has accepted the position of Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. He will begin his new position in the Fall, 2008.

Aracely Esparza, a Ph.D. candidate in Spanish in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, will participate in a Portuguese Teacher Training Workshop at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island during the month of June. Esparza is a Teaching Assistant for the First-Year of Portuguese and is supervised by Dr. Antonio Ladeira, Associate Professor of Portuguese.

Luis I. Pradanos (Inaki), a PhD student in Spanish in CMLL, published "Narrative Multiperspectivism in La conquista del aire by Belen Gopegui: Narrative Construction of Systemic Selves and Postfeminism," in the 2007 issue of Monographic Review. Two other articles that he authored are scheduled to appear: "De lo fenomenologico a lo epistemologico: Perspectivismo narrativo en Historia de un abrigo de Soledad Puertolas" (Letras Peninsulares 20.2, Fall 2007) and "Yo tambien hablo de la rosa y la teoria de sistemas de Luhmann" (Gestos).