Indiana University’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese is home to some 25 scholars who produce cutting-edge research, integrate this into their teaching, and lead one of the top programs in the country. Our specialty areas cover a full range of fields, periods and approaches to Hispanic and Lusophone literature and linguistics, offering students a comprehensive and profound preparation in the discipline.

The Department has a multifaceted mission. As scholars, we advance and disseminate research in our varied fields of inquiry, through the publication of books, essays and the teaching of graduate students. At the same time, we introduce undergraduate students to some of the world's richest cultures and literatures, supplying them with linguistic and communicative skills, analytic ability, and an international perspective.

Faculty research is also often multi-disciplinary and involves, for example, history, philosophy, gender studies, ethnography, cultural studies, film studies, visual arts, performance, creative writing, psychology, sociology, variationist theory, quantitative approaches, laboratory approaches, discourse and corpus-based approaches.

We invite you to explore these pages and learn more about the exciting opportunities in our department.