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Department of Spanish and Portuguese
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106-4150

Phelps Hall 4206
Undergraduate Office (805) 893-3161
Graduate Office (805)893-3162
Fax (805) 893-8341

General Description

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers undergraduates an opportunity to master the four fundamental linguistic skills, speaking, understanding, reading, and writing in Spanish and Portuguese and to study the literary, cultural, and linguistic heritages of the Spanish-and Portuguese-speaking peoples in the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas. The department offers the B.A. degree in Spanish and in Portuguese; the M.A. degree with specialties in Hispanic language and culture, in Spanish and Spanish-American literature, in Hispanic linguistics or studies in bilingualism, and in Hispanic, Portuguese, and Brazilian literatures; and the Ph.D. degree in Hispanic languages and literatures. Students interested in a Spanish or Portuguese major may meet with the department chair and advisors on the first day of each quarter. Resource persons in the department office are available on a regular basis to advise on academic matters.

Qualified students majoring in Spanish or Portuguese may spend their junior year at the university's Education Abroad center at one of the following locations: Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Barcelona, Granada, Mexico City, Costa Rica, Santiago de Chile, or Rio de Janeiro. Students with a bachelor's degree in Spanish or Portuguese who are interested in pursuing a California Teaching Credential should contact the credential advisor in the Graduate School of Education as soon as possible. Successful completion of an advanced degree in Spanish is required for issuance of the Community College Instructor's Credential. Students interested in the related professional preparation program should contact the credential advisor prior to the fall quarter of the year in which the advanced degree will be completed.

UCSB Center for Portuguese Studies
The Center for Portuguese Studies provides support for teaching and degree programs and promotes the study of the literatures, language, and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. Services and activities include awarding student scholarships and stipends; sponsoring the Summer Institute in Portuguese; hosting colloquia; maintaining the center library; and sponsoring a publications series. The Center is made possible by an endowment from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Student applications for scholarships and stipends should be made to the Director of the Center.
Tinta. Graduate Student Journal
The department's publication gives graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to gain valuable experience by editing and publishing their own scholarly work.
UCSB Summer Sessions: Hispanic Institute
The Summer Institute in Hispanic Languages and Culture at the University of California, Santa Barbara offers an M.A. program, unique among universities in the United States in that it offers an MA degree earned during 3 summers. UCSB's Summer Institute aims particularly to meet the needs of elementary, high-school and junior-college teachers of Spanish as well as other professionals unable to pursue graduate studies during a regular academic year. The program also serves students enrolled in regular graduate programs whose Spanish would improve vastly through a summer of total immersion and intensive study with UCSB credits.
Samuel A. Wofsy and Robert E. Wilson Awards
Each year the department awards two Wofsy Fellowships to outstanding graduate students at the M.A. and Ph.D. levels. The department also awards two Wilson Scholarships to outstanding junior and senior students.

Ph.D Alumni from the Spanish & Portuguese Department

Cornejo, Rafael. Professor emeritus, Humboldt State University.
Kattan-Zablah, Jorge. Instructor. California State University at Monterey Bay
Robert Arce, Instructor. Ventura College
Mary Lou Smitheram. Resident of Santa Barbara, CA
Guyer, Leland. Professor. Macalester College.
Sánchez, Patricia.  Deceased?
Utt, Roger. Deceased.
Rodríguez del Pino, Salvador. Deceased.
Bustamante-Randolph, Nuria. Titlel? Los Angeles Harbor College.
Carvalho, Ilka. Title? Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais?
Huerta, Alberto. Associate Professor. University of San Francisco.
Dávila-Smith, Elisa. ?
Magalhães, Isabel Allegro de. Professora Catedrática. Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Blacut, Gladys. Deceased.
Membrez, Nancy. Associate Professor. University of Texas at San Antonio.
Benito-Vessels, Carmen. Professor. University of Maryland.
Pollack, Beth. Professor. New Mexico State University.
Colombi, Cecilia. Professor. University of California, Davis.
Romero, Rolando. Associate Professor. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
Vitale, Rosanna. Associate Professor. University of Windsor.
Delgado, Luisa-Elena. Associate Professor. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
Vessels, Gary. In private business.  Kensington, Maryland.
Guillén, Felisa. Professor. Occidental College.
Kempff, Juergen. Lecuturer w/ SOE. University of California, Irvine.
Martínez-Torrejón, José Miguel. Professor. Queens College.
Binotti, Lucia. Associate Professor. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Lower, Andrea Jean. ?
Borgman, Patricia. Resident of Santa Barbara, CA?
Waldemere, Thomas. Senior Lecturer. Iowa State University.
Zielina, María. Associate Professor. California State University at Monterey Bay.
Abel-Quintero, Margaret. Title? Solano Community College.
Peraita, Carmen. Associate Professor. Villanova University.
Giráldez, Susan. Associate Professor. University of the Pacific.
Giráldez, Arturo. Professor. University of the Pacific.
Romano de Thuesen, Evelia. Associate Professor. Evergreen State College.
Sousa, Frank. Professor. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Egan, Linda. Associate Professor. University of California, Davis.
Ygualt, Ana María. Professor. Santa Barbara City College.
Lourenço, Jorge Fazenda. Professor Auxiliar. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon.
Vasques, Maria Eugénia. Resident of Lisbon, Portugal.
Montelongo, Alfonso Murillo. Title? Universidad de las Américas, Puebla.
Jiménez, Enrique Fausto. Was at Goucher College.  Currently?
Zuwiyya, Zachary David. Associate Professor. Auburn University.
Ramírez-Barradas, Herlinda. Professor. Purdue University, Calumet.
Badenes, José Ignacio. Associate Professor. Loyola-Marymount University.
Carmack, Stanford.  In private business. Salt Lake City, Utah?
Posner, Nancy. Teacher. Santa Barbara High School.
Rebelo-Gomes, Florbela. Teacher. São João da Madeira, Portugal.
Szymanski, Margaret. Teacher. Paramount Unified School District.
Caplan, Alison. Assistant Professor. Providence College.
Miller, Elaine. Title? Georgia State University.
Burgoyne, Jonathan. Assistant Professor. Pennsylvania State University.
Tomita, Ikuko. Teaching Title (Japanese Program Chair)?. Foothill College, Middlefield Campus.
Adán-Lifante, Virginia. Lecturer PSOE. UC Merced.
Ladeira, António. Assistant Professor. Texas Tech University.
McGuire, John. Was resident of Cambria, CA. Currently?
Brescia, Pablo. Assistant Professor. University of South Florida, Tampa.
Montes-Alcalá, Cecilia. Assistant Professor. Georgia Institute of Technology.
Sanchez, Kathryn. Associate Professor. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Smith, Myriam. Lecturer. UCSB.
Vernon, Richard. Lecturer. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Contreras, Marcos. Title? Modesto Junior College?
Argote, Rosa. Formerly Administrative Assistant for EAP program at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. Currently?
Pérez, Jorge. Assistant Professor. University of Kansas.
Ramsden, Graziana. Assistant Professor. Copper Mountain College.
Zúñiga-Lomelí, Sonia. Professor. Santa Barbara City College.
Llombart, Amàlia. Assistant Professor. Redlands University.
Ricci, Cristián. Assistant Professor. UC Merced.
Alfaro, Alma. Assistant Professor. Walla Walla College.
Bijuesca, Josu. Title? Universidad de Deusto, Spain.
Sánchez-Conejero, Cristina. Assistant Profesor. University of North Texas.
McCutcheon, James. Assistant Professor. Niagara University.
Borges, Filomena. Assistant Professor. St. Mary’s College.
López, Leticia. Instructor. San Diego Mesa College.
Berry-Horton, Glenna. Resident of Carpinteria, CA.
Finley, Michael. Director. Africare-Angola Recovery. Luanda, Angola.
Levine, Annette. Assistant Professor. Ithaca College.
Nanclares, Gustavo. Assistant Professor. University of Connecticut.
Oliveira, Sílvia. Assistant Professor. Purdue University.
Rueda-Acedo, Alicia. Assistant Professor. University of Texas at Arlington.
Ruiz-Pérez, Ignacio. Assistant Professor. University of Texas at Arlington.
Ernst-Powell, Jessica. Lecturer. College of Creative Studies. UCSB.
King, Jeremy. Assistant Professor. Louisiana State University.
Tadrissi, Parissa. Assistant Professor. College of Charleston.
Rebhan, Erin. Resident of Washington, DC.
Vivancos-Pérez, Ricardo. Assistant Professor. George Mason University.
Hurtado, Milena. Resident of Los Angeles?
Vilá, Martha. Assistant Professor. Victor Valley Community College.