Rebecca Shahrooz (Biology and Spanish) and Evan Owens (Linguistics and Portuguese) are among this year's winers of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts contest "Why I Learn Languages."
Claudia Matachana, a UMass Amherst PhD student in Hispanic linguistics, researches beliefs and discrimination related to language as experienced by young Puerto Rican Spanish speakers.
For the third consecutive year, Director of Film Studies and Professor of Spanish Studies Barbara Zecchi and her videographic work has been included in the list of Best Video Essays of the Year by the monthly film magazine Sight and Sound. Read more here.