Temple University Spanish and Portuguese students have abundant resources to enhance their college experience. Take a look at our available undergraduate resources.
Current Undergraduate Students
Advising Resources
Advising: Where Do I Go If I Have Questions About:
Spanish
- Majors: Augusto Lorenzino
- Minors: Augusto Lorenzino
- Certificates: Josh Pongan
- Course(s) taken elsewhere: Augusto Lorenzino
- Non-major: Josh Pongan
- Placement test scores (retrieve and interpret) Augusto Lorenzino
- Study Abroad: Augusto Lorenzino
- Transfer Credit: Augusto Lorenzino
- Coordinator of Spanish 1003, 1903, 2001, 2002, 2096, 2901, 2902, and 2903: Marcela Pardes
- Coordinator of Spanish: 1001, 1901, 1002, and 1902: Josh Pongan
- Latin American Studies Semester (LASS): Montserrat Piera (Program Director)
- Sigma Delta Pi: Fernando Fonseca Pacheco, Nicole Nathan
- Graduate Students: Paul Toth (Fall 2020) Víctor Pueyo Zoco (Spring 2021)
- Spanish Graduate Reading Exam (for Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan languages): Sergio Ramirez-Franco
- Portuguese Minor and Brazilian Studies: Adam Joseph Shellhorse
Portuguese
- Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Advisor: Adam Joseph Shellhorse
- Portuguese Tutoring: Renata Pontes De Queiroz
- Study Abroad: Augusto Lorenzino and Adam Joseph Shellhorse
Latin American Studies
- Latin American Studies Program: Monica Ricketts
- Latin American Studies Semester (LASS): Montserrat Piera (Program Director)
- Brazilian Studies: Adam Joseph Shellhorse
- Study Abroad: Augusto Lorenzino and Monica Ricketts
Spanish Tutoring
If you are in need of a tutor to help you with your Spanish class, our department has graduate students/TA’s that are willing to meet with you for a fee. Please feel free to contact them with any questions.
AY 2020-21 Available Spanish Tutors
AY 2020-21 Available Portuguese Tutors
Note: You may also contact the Russell Conwell Learning Center, Suite 202, 1700 N. Broad St., Phila, PA 19122 at (215) 204-1252. They may have undergraduate students that will tutor for free.
Academic Support Services for Spanish and Portuguese
The Student Success Center provides support for Spanish language learners. For more information, visit their website at www.temple.edu/wc.
Current Graduate Student Resources
- View a list of Doctor of Philosophy dissertations that have been completed between 1973 and the present in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
- For more information about M.A. and Ph.D. degree requirements, please review the Graduate Handbook.
Department Journal
Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea (ISSN: 0272-1635): ALEC publishes scholarly articles studying all aspects of twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish literature (from “modernism” and the so-called generation of 1898). Back archive available in JSTOR. The last three years are only available in print. The journal is part of The Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies (SSSAS). SSSAS promotes bibliographical, critical and pedagogical research in Spanish and Spanish-American studies by publishing works of particular merit in these areas. On occasion, The Society also publishes creative works. SSSAS is a non-profit educational organization.
For any correspondence regarding subscriptions and article submissions please contact the editors at sssas@temple.edu. Updated information about the journal’s most recent issues may be found at www.sssasalec.com.
Newsletter Archive
- Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 1, September 2015
- Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 2, November 2015
- Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 3, January 2016
- Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 4, March 2016
- Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 1, September 2016
- Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 2, February 2017
- Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 1, September 2017
- Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2018
- Newsletter Vol. 4, No. 1, October 2018
- Newsletter Vol. 4, No. 2, April 2019
- Newsletter Vol. 5, No. 1, October 2019
- Newsletter Vol. 6, No. 1, February 2021
- Newsletter Vol. 6, No. 2, May 2021
- Newsletter Vol. 7, No. 1, October 2021
- Newsletter Vol. 7, No. 2, February 2022