Academic Achievements 2025-2026
Congratulations to all members of the Spanish and Portuguese Department on their achievements!
- Marissa Luquette has won the Association for Hispanic Classical Theatre's annual graduate student prize.
- Paul Montjoy Forti received the 2025 Adolfo Snaidas award.
Academic Achievements 2024 - 2025
We would like to congratulate all our department members on their achievements during the 24-25 academic year!
- Meritxell Feliu-Ribas and Jiawei Shao were selected as co-presidents of the Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Organization.
- Ivan Andreu Rascon and Jorge Vargas Mutizabal received the 2024 Adolfo Snaidas Essay Award!
- Francisco Cantero received a fellowship at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University for the academic year 2025-20265 in order to participate in a year-long seminar on “Hunger.”
- Ana Llurba secured a summer internship with the Public Humanities Initiative.
- Kaylee Fernandez received the Louis Bevier Fellowship.
- Jerlene Rodriguez received the SAS Staff Excellence Award!
- Prof. Karen Bishop and Prof. Miguel Jimenez received a Global Grant each.
- Stephanie Rodriguez was selected as a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching for the academic year 2024-2025 at Rutgers University.
- Diana Sanchez received funding for her project through the IDEA Innovation Grant.
- Meritxell Feliu Ribas has been awarded an IDEA Innovation Grant for her collaborative project with Professor Kendra Dickinson.
- Prof. Jorge Marcone received SAS an Interdisciplinary research award for the project For Healthier Hosts: Expanding the Ethical Agenda of Human Microbiota Conservation.
Academic Achievements 2023-2024
Congratulations to our Department members on their achievements!
- Rosy Ruiz and Jennifer Flaherty received the SAS Staff Excellence Recognition Award.
- Rosy Ruiz received the SAS Staff Excellence in Student Support Award.
- Prof. Laura Ramirez received the Chancellor Award for Excellence in Service.
- Daiane Tamanha de Quadros received a Lecturer Professional Development Fund.
- Prof. Marcy Schwartz received the Clement A. Price Human Dignity Award.
- Francisco Cantero was given the Excellence in Graduate Srvice Award for his work with Metafora.
- Ariela Parisi received the Programming/Event of the Year award for her highly attended event, The Spring 2023 Latin American Film Festival.
- Ariela Parisi was awarded the 2023 Adolfo Snaidas Essay Prize.
- Ariela Parisi was awarded a Rutgers Digital Humanities Seed Grant.
- Ariela Parisi received the Bevier Fellowship.
Academic Achievements 2016
- Congratulations to Christina Winger Gauss! She received the AATSP Teacher of the Year award for the secondary 9-12 convention.
Academic Achievements 2015
On behalf of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, we want to congratulate the following students on their academic achievements:
- Congratulations to Silvia Perez-Cortes who was awarded a Mellon summer grant
- Congratulations to Monica Rios who was awarded a Mellon dissertation fellowship
Academic Achievements 2014
- Juan Villegas (Lit/Cult), Henry Rugeles (Translation/Interpreting) and Rosanna Rodriguez (Translation/Interpreting) for passing their MA exams.
NEH Fellowship: Marcy Schwartz
Congratulations to Professor Marcy Schwartz, who has been awarded the 2014-2015 NEH Fellowship for her work “Reading Programs, Cultural Engagement and Civic Participation in Latin America: A Comparative Approach”.
Fulbright Award
On behalf of the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese we would like to congratulate the following students for winning the 2013-2014 Fulbright Grants:
- Dimetri Duckrey, Political Science and Spanish, Rutgers, School of Arts and Sciences, ETA, Brazil
- Shane McFadden, Language Education, Graduate School of Education, ETA, Brazil
Premio "B" Bicentario de Novela: Gustavo Arango
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is delighted to learn that Gustavo Arango, associate professor at SUNY Oneonta, and alumnus of our department, has won the prestigious literary prize, the Premio "B" Bicentario de Novela. Chosen from over fifty entrants, Professor Arango's El Origen del Mundo [The Origin of the World] was praised by the jury for both its sensitive portrayal of women and the originality of its prose. The book will be launched at the International Book Fair in Guadalajara in November. Its protagonist is a literature professor teaching a summer workshop on creative writing at an American university. Professor Arango completed his doctorate on "Stories of Solitude: The Absurd and Creation in Hispano-American Narrative" in 2004, under the direction of Rutgers Spanish and Portuguese Professor, Carlos Raúl Narváez. Among the many courses Professor Arango taught for our department was a summer workshop on creative writing!
NEH Fellowship 2013
Congratulations to Prof. Susan Martin-Marquez, who has been awarded the 2013-2014 NEH Fellowship for her work “Radical Filmmakers at the Transatlantic Crossroads: New Cinemas and Networks of Exchange in the Long 1960s”.
Academic Achievements 2013
On behalf of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, we want to congratulate the following graduate students on their academic achievements:
- Valeria Garrote who successfully defended her dissertation on "la estrateg¡a de la alegria en los colectivos art¡sticos de la dictadura y post-dictadura de España y Argentina (1973-1988).
- Carlos Marquez for passing his MA exam in Translation.
- Monica Rios for passing the first and second parts of her PhD Exam.
- Crystal Marull for winning the "The Executive Women of New Jersey's 2013 Graduate Merit Award"(EWNJ) and the 2013 Adolfo Snaidas Essay Prize.
- Claudia Arteaga on the Conference on Latin America Studies Association in Washington, D.C.
- Juan Pablo Cominguez on the International Workshop: The Syntactic Variation of Spanish and Catalan Spanish, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona.
- Anne Lingwall and Silvia-Perez Cortez on the "Workshop on the Acquistition of Quantification", organized by the Dept. of Linguistics at UMass, Amherst.
- Monica Rios, Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC.