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Events
Dissertation Defense of Cristi Vallejos “Second Language Writing Fluency: The Effects of First Language Fluency, Working Memory, and L2 Proficiency on Pauses”
February 14th, 2020
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese cordially invites you to attend the dissertation defense of Cristi Vallejos “SECOND LANGUAGE WRITI…
Grants and Awards
Abel Cruz Flores, Valeria Meiller, and Martina Thorne Receive Fall 2019 GradGov Research Project Award
February 12th, 2020
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to extend its congratulations to doctoral students Abel Cruz Flores, Valeria Meiller, and Martina…
Events
Dissertation Defense of Timothy McCormick, “Early and Emergent Bilinguals: The Role of Cognitive Control in the Processing of Structural Ambiguity”
February 12th, 2020
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese cordially invites you to attend the dissertation defense of Timothy J. McCormick …
Events
Dissertation Defense of Ross Karlan, “Falling into Shame: The Cultural History of an Emotion in Pre-Modern Iberia”
February 7th, 2020
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese cordially invites you to attend the dissertation defense of Ross Karlan, M.S. Falling into S…
Spanish and Portuguese are indispensable languages of the Americas, Europe, and the world. Catalan’s reach is less extensive than Spanish and Portuguese, but is a critical language for understanding Spanish and European history. Join our exciting community of students, staff and faculty as we explore the literary, linguistic, and artistic diversity of people on every continent. If you came to Georgetown hoping to leave campus more attuned to the globalized currents of the present, past and future, our department is a place for you.
Take a class, consider a major, drop in the office hours of one of our world renowned professors, or perhaps just stop by a conversation hour and munch on a cookie while you’re at it…pick up a new language, improve an old one, learn why your own words take the forms and sequences that they do…learn about countries you know deeply already or barely know at all…read those books you always wanted to and discover new favorite authors along the way…plunge with gusto into familiar topics or find yourself in traditions and theories you never dreamed existed…and then leave us bolstered by whatever you have gained in our community to go and study abroad, volunteer locally, reach out to other communities, take your next steps in new places knowing that the paths you made here have created a map you can rely upon in the future.
