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HLL Receives Historic Donation!

We are proud and thrilled to announce that  we received a historic donation to create the endowed Adrián Pérez Melgosa Fund for Excellence in Hispanic Languages and Literature. See our list of new research funds and awards to support undergraduate and graduate students! 

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VOICES AND VIDEO AWARD

New HLL Premio Voces y Video will award two prizes of $750 for the best one-minute videos in Spanish about a story, poem, film, song, word or any other cultural expression you discovered in one of your courses at Stony Brook, and how it changed the way you see things. Open to Spanish majors. The deadline is Monday, November 30.  Read all details here.

Student Spotlight

🌟 F26 HLL Student Spotlight: Brian Sidito

HLL is thrilled and proud to announce our Undergraduate Student Spotlight: Brian Sidito, an outstanding double major in Biochemistry and Spanish Languages and Literature.  Read more. 

Student Brian Sidito standing inside Humanities Building

"Spanish courses have been a way of connecting with my love for literature and for learning new languages, and to diversify my own course load in a more useful and important way. After I complete my degree I plan on going to medical school."

 

 

Upcoming Events
  • Nov 11    Dissertation Worshop. Taller de Tesis. Catalina Joseph,  “Imágenes plegadas en la memoria: caricaturas e historietas en El padre Cobos y El padre Padilla”. Wed Oct 11 from 12.30 to 1.30 pm in HUM 2036.
  • Nov 16    Worshop in Spanish: "Miradas del Archivo Colonial." Them Lab  (in-person and Zoom event). Organized by Prof. Paul Firbas. From 12.30 to 2 pm in HUM 1051.
  • Nov 17    HISB Faculty Fellowship lecture by Prof. Lena Burgos-Lafuente: "Left, Right, Left: Translation, Militancy, and Diplomacy in the Spain–New York–Caribbean Triangle." Tuesday, November 17, 2026 5:00-6:30pm in 1008 Humanities.