The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies is dedicated to the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Spanish-speaking and 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, modern and contemporary Iberian literature, theater, history and culture (specifically of Spain and Catalonia), Latino/a culture and literature, Latino bilingualism, bilingual language acquisition, Spanish and Basque linguistics, contemporary Latin American literature, Iberian/Ibero-American Civilizations, Caribbean literatures, and oral histories of the Ironbound area of Newark.