The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies is dedicated to the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of Spain, Latin America and the Lusophone worlds, as well as Latina/o populations in the United States.

Our faculty's areas of expertise include performance and politics in Portuguese popular traditions; Lusophone African literature and culture; Brazilian documentary film; modern and contemporary Iberian literature, theater, history and culture, mainly the Spanish and Catalan traditions; Latino/a culture and literature; Latino bilingualism; bilingual language acquisition; Spanish and Basque linguistics; contemporary Latin American literature and Film; Iberian/Ibero-American Civilizations; literatures and cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean, and oral histories of the Ironbound area of Newark.