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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Dámaris Mayans

Dámaris was born in Alicante, in the southeast region of Spain. She grew up speaking valenciano with her grandparents and Spanish at home. Additionally, Alicante is a city on the coast, and so Dámaris grew up surrounded by people of different nationalities who vacationed in the summer, and by immigrants who decided to settle in […]

Dauer Hall

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: SPS welcomes our new faculty

This year, SPS is thrilled to welcome three new faculty members to our department, and we are excited to introduce you to them here. Antonio Sajid López, Ph.D. Antonio Sajid was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He is an actor, an author, and a professor of Spanish and cultural studies. Antonio received his B.S. in […]

Seville, Spain

PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT: Seville, Spain

For this issue’s program spotlight, we take you to Seville, Spain and let you experience the first-hand reflection of Karla Geigel, who participated in this program in Summer 2018. A Gator in Seville “My decision to study abroad in Seville, Spain, was the best decision I could have made for myself. I got to fully […]

Clara Sotelo

¡Adiós, Clara!

This December, Dr. Clara Sotelo is retiring from a teaching career that has spanned the last 45 years, 23 of which have been at the University of Florida. Anyone who has passed through Dauer Hall in the past two-plus decades has surely interacted with Clara. She has taught all levels of Spanish language, literature and […]