Skip to main content

Department of Spanish News

Spanish Major presents at URECA Day 2024
Spanish Major, Meredith Prince, presenting her poster at URECA Day 2024. She worked on this Spanish linguistics project sponsored by the Wake Forest Arts & Humanities Research Fellowship during the summer of 2024 under the mentorship of Dr. César Gutiérrez.
Spanish Major Sid Subramanian Profiled by Old Gold & Black
Graduating Spanish Major and recipient of the 2024 Ruth Foster Campbell Award for Excellence in Spanish Sid Subramanian was profiled by the Old Gold & Black last week for their 2024 Graduation Tabloid. Read the full profile here.
Newspaper articles written by SPA 309 students for Qué pasa
Students from Dr. Gutiérrez’s SPA 309 class wrote compositions about the Hispanic community in Winston-Salem during the fall semester. Those compositions appeared as newspaper articles during the Christmas break in the local journal Qué pasa! Check them out here.
SPA 280 Visit to SECCA
On Indigenous People’s Day (celebrated on the second Monday of October), Professor Ryan Goodman took students from SPA 280 on a trip to the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA). There, students engaged with Corpus, an exhibition of ceramics and fabric works by Peruvian American artist Kukuli Velarde. The tapestries and ceramic works in this […]
¡Puedo Leer!
Wake Forest students had a great time teaching Spanish-speaking children at Mineral Springs Elementary how to read and write in Spanish as part of the new program ¡Puedo Leer! directed by Professor Lauren Miller. Such a fun group!

SpanishWFU

spanishwfu

308

Spanish Major, Meredith Prince, presenting her poster at URECA Day 2024! She worked on this Spanish linguistics project sponsored by the Wake Forest Arts & Humanities Research Fellowship during the summer of 2024 under the mentorship of Dr. César Gutiérrez.

Sep 30

Spanish Major, Meredith Prince, presenting her poster at URECA Day 2024! She worked on this Spanish linguistics project sponsored by the Wake Forest Arts & Humanities Research Fellowship during the summer of 2024 under the mentorship of Dr. César Gutiérrez.

Be sure to come check out this talk next Friday by Dr. Adam Schwartz, sponsored by the Spanish Department!

Sep 11

Be sure to come check out this talk next Friday by Dr. Adam Schwartz, sponsored by the Spanish Department!

Profe Turner talked to one of our Conversation class. Students really liked learning about Neuromarketing

Apr 27

Profe Turner talked to one of our Conversation class. Students really liked learning about Neuromarketing

Apr 23

Instagram post 18303643372194238

Our wonderful Profe Turner hosted Tapas and Conversation with our students. They learned about the history of tapas, regional varieties, and participated in sobremesa (table talk), but most importantly they tasted tapas 🍖🥘🧆🥓🇪🇸!

Apr 9

Our wonderful Profe Turner hosted Tapas and Conversation with our students. They learned about the history of tapas, regional varieties, and participated in sobremesa (table talk), but most importantly they tasted tapas 🍖🥘🧆🥓🇪🇸!

Apr 8

Instagram post 17942563823796943

Dr. Goodman and his SPA 315 at the Visual Resource Center de WFU. They worked with Picasso’s “Sueño y mentira de Franco”. (Photo cred to Kendra Battle!)

Apr 6

Dr. Goodman and his SPA 315 at the Visual Resource Center de WFU. They worked with Picasso’s “Sueño y mentira de Franco”. (Photo cred to Kendra Battle!)

Congratulations to our new members of Sigma Delta Pi, the national Spanish honor society.

Apr 1

Congratulations to our new members of Sigma Delta Pi, the national Spanish honor society.

We had the pleasure of hosting a guest speaker talk and food truck activity for our SPA 303 and LIN 380 classes. Thank you Nadamás Empanadas and Rita Moreno for sharing your experiences with us. @nadamasempanadas

Mar 31

We had the pleasure of hosting a guest speaker talk and food truck activity for our SPA 303 and LIN 380 classes. Thank you Nadamás Empanadas and Rita Moreno for sharing your experiences with us. @nadamasempanadas

Mar 27

Instagram post 18031797433918515

Mar 27

Instagram post 17995915901539664

The Medical Spanish Series welcomed Dr. Raúl Necochea to Wake last week. Dr. Necochea is Associate Professor of Social Medicine at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and specializes in the history of sexual and reproductive health in Latin America. He shared his expertise and knowledge with our Medical Spanish students in class and later in a campus-wide talk. Thank you, Dr. Necochea!

Mar 14

The Medical Spanish Series welcomed Dr. Raúl Necochea to Wake last week. Dr. Necochea is Associate Professor of Social Medicine at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and specializes in the history of sexual and reproductive health in Latin America. He shared his expertise and knowledge with our Medical Spanish students in class and later in a campus-wide talk. Thank you, Dr. Necochea!

The Medical Spanish Series is hosting Dr. Raúl Necochea this Wednesday, March 6. Join us at Wingate (behind Wait Chapel) at 3:30pm.

Mar 4

The Medical Spanish Series is hosting Dr. Raúl Necochea this Wednesday, March 6. Join us at Wingate (behind Wait Chapel) at 3:30pm.

Our 303 class had so much fun learning about the life of a classically trained ballerina who has worked in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and the US. Thank you, Alejandra Dore, for kindly sharing your experience, current projects, and memories.

Mar 1

Our 303 class had so much fun learning about the life of a classically trained ballerina who has worked in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and the US. Thank you, Alejandra Dore, for kindly sharing your experience, current projects, and memories.

Dr. Valdez and her SPA 303 class welcomed Irasema León, activist and founder of the NGO Comedor Golondrinas, based in Hermosillo, Mexico. ¡Thanks for sharing all your insights, Irasema!
@comedor_golondrinas

Mar 1

Dr. Valdez and her SPA 303 class welcomed Irasema León, activist and founder of the NGO Comedor Golondrinas, based in Hermosillo, Mexico. ¡Thanks for sharing all your insights, Irasema!
@comedor_golondrinas

Dec 7

Instagram post 17994869153184365

Photos from our holiday party at Puedo Leer. One semester down with our budding Spanish readers and wonderful WFU student tutors.

Nov 18

Photos from our holiday party at Puedo Leer. One semester down with our budding Spanish readers and wonderful WFU student tutors.

Nov 9

Instagram post 18288959854145345

Wake Forest students working to teach Spanish-speaking children at Mineral Springs Elementary how to read and write in Spanish as part of the new program, ¡Puedo Leer!, directed by Professor Lauren Miller. Such a fun group!

Oct 19

Wake Forest students working to teach Spanish-speaking children at Mineral Springs Elementary how to read and write in Spanish as part of the new program, ¡Puedo Leer!, directed by Professor Lauren Miller. Such a fun group!

Our first tertulia of the semester was full of laughs! Join us for the next casual Spanish conversation hour on October 5th at 3:30 in Smith’s cafe in ZSR. ¡Todos son bienvenidos!

Sep 8

Our first tertulia of the semester was full of laughs! Join us for the next casual Spanish conversation hour on October 5th at 3:30 in Smith’s cafe in ZSR. ¡Todos son bienvenidos!

Load More Follow on Instagram

Upcoming Events

There are no events at this time. Please check back later.

Contact Us

Department of Spanish
323 Greene Hall
Wake Forest University
Box 7566
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

For general inquiries and information, please email spanish@wfu.edu or call (336) 758-5487