Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Spanish Studies graduate students are planning a Spanish-language film festival for Chief Sealth High School. 

Ana Gómez-Bravo created a class about Spanish food and culture as a way to teach the language, but found no appropriate textbook for the material — so she wrote one.

Each spring, a handful of outstanding faculty earn a special spotlight: a Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA).

Knighthood, a Woman of Courage award, and more honors for faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences.

A first-generation student from a migrant farming family, Salvador Gomez is donating his spring break to the Pipeline Project, tutoring and mentoring children in rural Washington.

"Learning another language is discovering another avenue for self-expression," says Joy Maa (Spanish, Japanese, 2014), who is fluent in four languages.

Audiences delighted in a lively Federico García Lorca play, performed entirely in Spanish by students in SPAN 449: Spanish Play Production.

Spain’s King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofiá participated in the May dedication of a new UW center housed in León, Spain, along with UW leaders, supporters, and students.

To visit the UW’s newest campus, you’ll have to book a plane ticket. And brushing up on your Spanish couldn’t hurt. 

UW students in a 200-level Spanish class have written books, in Spanish, for the children of Panajachel, Guatemala.