Departmental Representative:  Angel G. Loureiro
Undergraduate Coordinator:  Beth Heisler
Phone:  (609) 258-7141

Director of Spanish Language Program:  Antonio Calvo
Director of Portuguese Language Program:  Nicola Cooney

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures offers a liberal arts major in Spanish and/or Portuguese designed to give students a thorough grounding in the language, literature, and cultures. Students are encouraged to complement their courses in Spanish or Portuguese with related and varied courses in other literatures, as well as in art history, anthropology, sociology, comparative literature, and other humanities subjects.

In addition to serving as the focus for an education in liberal arts, the Spanish or the Portuguese concentration can be the basis for graduate or professional study. In mostly small classes and seminars, allowing extensive student/teacher interaction, students become equipped to take up careers in many walks of life, including journalism, business, law, government service, and international affairs. For non-majors, the department offers a rich set of language, literature and culture courses, from introductory to very advanced. It also offers a popular certificate program, allowing the study of Spanish and Portuguese to be combined with concentration in history, architecture, English, politics, or any other subject available at Princeton.

Michael Hidalgo '08 writes with news from Colombia, where he is teaching and administering the English program at Alianza Educativa, an organization that runs five charter schools in the poor southern section of Bogotá.  Read more...

With a ReachOut 56 fellowship, Krista Brune '06 spent a year researching arts programs in prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers throughout the United States.  Details appear on PrisonArts.info, a site created by Brune to serve as a resource for those in the field.  As a Fulbright recipient, Brune more recently spent a year in Brazil studying the social and political role of popular Brazilian music during the 1960s and 1970s. She is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley.  Her focus is on the Luso-Brazilian track.