Department of Spanish

Department of Spanish

Welcome to the Department of Spanish


Queridos estudiantes,

Welcome back to class! The staff and faculty members of this department wish you a spring semester full of success. Precisely, to help you have a rewarding experience in your Spanish classes and assist you in achieving your maximum potential with the Spanish language and culture, the department has designed a series of services, activities, and programs aimed to help you succeed. Please check the links below to access valuable information about these resources, and do not hesitate to get in touch with our department staff for assistance.

Sayles¡Buena suerte en el semestre de primavera!


Irma López, Chair

Free Tutoring for All Levels of WMU Spanish Students
This service strives to strengthen Spanish students' mastery of the Spanish grammar and syntax beyond the classroom by offering them the opportunity of working on an individual basis with experience and well-trained teaching assistants who teach first, second and third year Spanish.

Three Types of Spanish Tables
The Spanish Table, or "La Mesa Española," is a conversational club for Spanish students who want to practice their Spanish in an informal setting one or two days a week. To meet the interests and needs of both majors and minors, the department offers three different "Mesas."

FacebookWMU Department of Spanish - Facebook Fan Page
We are pleased to announce our Facebook Fan Page, WMU Department of Spanish. Make sure to "Like" us, as this will keep you updated with the latest news and activities within our department.

VanPattenDept of Spanish - Spring Lecture Series Word
Please join us at the University Center for the Humanities on March 16 at 2:00 p.m., for a talk by Bill VanPatten titled, "Missing Verbal Inflections as a Representational Problem: Evidence from Self-paced Reading."

caminitoNew study abroad program in Buenos Aires! Word
The Department of Spanish is pleased to announce its new faculty-lead study abroad program in Buenos Aires, Argentina, starting in the spring semester of 2013.

caminitoMargaret Glide to Present Linguistics Paper Word
Undergraduate Spanish student Margaret Glide has been accepted to participate at the Undergraduate Conference on Language Variation and Language Contact, held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on March 30, 2012. Glide's research paper in linguistics is titled "Languages of solidarity: a comparative analysis of Cuban Spanish in Miami and Judeo-Spanish."

SaylesPablo Pastrana-Pérez - Sabbatical Leave Word
Dr. Pastrana-Pérez plans to make use of his sabbatical, fall semester of 2012 - spring 2013, to conclude the collaborative research project that he began with the late Dr. Catherine Julien from the Department of History on the Spanish explorer Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca.

SaylesNatalio Ohanna's book, Cautiverio y convivencia en la edad de Cervantes Word
Published by Centro de Estudios Cervantinos in Spain, this book explores Spanish narratives of coexistence in Muslim and Native American lands, through the lens of captivity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Robert Felkel Honored for 40 Years of a Remarkable Teaching Career Word
Dr. Robert Felkel recently marked 40 years of teaching at the Department of Spanish at Western Michigan University. Professor Felkel first came to Western in 1971 and received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1973.

 

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Publications

Somos y Estamos Spanish department newsletter

Caribe a journal of Caribbean culture and literature

 

Department of Spanish
420 Sprau Tower
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5338 USA
(269) 387-3023 | (269) 387-3103 Fax
spanish@wmich.edu