COVID-19 Information
The Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese prioritizes the safety, health, and wellbeing of students, faculty, staff, and community members. Please read our Statement of Department Principles to learn how we are caring for each other.
Here are additional resources from the University, College of Arts and Sciences, and UVA Library. We will add more as they become available.
- Returning to Grounds Fall 2020 (main university website)
- Arts & Sciences: Returning to Grounds Fall 2020
- Arts & Sciences: Resources for Students
- Arts & Sciences Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion: Best Practices for Inclusive Teaching (Fall 2020)
- Arts & Sciences Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion: Pre-Semester Tips for Inclusive Teaching (Fall 2020)
- Arts & Sciences Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion: Student Support Resources (Fall 2020)
- Arts & Sciences Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion: Student Environment Survey (Fall 2020)
- UVA Library: Information on COVID-19
- UVA Library: Apoyo e información sobre la COVID-19
- Community-Engaged Teaching in a Time of Trauma (with professor Esther Poveda Moreno)
Black-, Indigenous-, and People of Color (BIPOC)-Owned Bookstores
These small businesses invest and are investments in their communities. Please consider purchasing books from them.
- Beyond Barcodes (IN)
- Birchbark Books & Native Arts (MN)
- Black-Owned Bookstores (22 businesses, Elite Daily)
- Black-Owned Bookstores (124 businesses, African American Literature Book Club)
- Black-Owned Bookstores (sorted by state, LitHub)
- Black-Owned Bookstores (sorted by state, Refinery29)
- Café con Libros (NYC)
- Casa Camino Real (US-Mexico borderlands bookstore, gives books to migrant communities)
- Duende District (DC)
- Latinx Owned Bookstores in the US and Puerto Rico
- The Lev (LA)
- Kew and Willow Books (NYC)
- Lit Bar (NYC)
- Mil mundos books (NYC)
- Other Books, Comics and Zines (LA)
- Red Planet Books & Comics (NM)
- Seite Books (LA)
- Strong Nations (Vancouver)
- Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural and Bookstore (LA)
- Word Up Community Bookstore (NYC)
Academic Centers at UVA
- Americas Center/Centro de las Américas
- Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and Africana Studies
- Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation
- Center for the Liberal Arts
- Center for Undergraduate Excellence
- Global South Studies
- Institute of World Languages
- Institute of Global Humanities and Cultures
- Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
- Language Commons
- Mellon Global South Initiative
- Mellon Indigenous Arts Initiative
Academic Resources for Students and Faculty
- Anti-racist Pedagogy and Undoc+ Student Support (undocUVA Faculty Executive Board)
- Anti-racist Pedagogy Resources (University of Arizona CERCLL)
- Anti-racism Resources for Language Teaching (Anna Ogunnaike)
- MLA Handout: In-Text Citations (practice worksheet)
- MLA Handout: In-Text Citations (answer key)
- Rare Books School
- Scholars' Lab
- Science, Humanities, and Arts Network of Technological Initiatives (SHANTI)
- Small Special Collections
- Spanish Writing Center (3000-level) (click here to make an appointment)
- Spanish Language Learning Resources (1010-2020)
- Teachers in Training (K-12): Resources to Foster Empathy and Compassion around Immigration (RAICES)
- Textbook Reading Best Practices (Dartmouth College)
- University Library
- UVA Library: Chicanx/Latinx Studies
- UVA Library: Indigenous Studies
- UVA Library: Italian Studies
- UVA Library: Latin American & Iberian Studies
- UVA Library: Portuguese Studies
- UVA Library: Sepharad (Iberian Jews, Conversos, and the Sephardic Diaspora)
- UVA Library: Spanish Language & Literature
- WeTeachLang: A Podcast About Language Teaching
Student Organizations
- Brazilian Student Association (BRASA)
- Casa Bolívar
- DREAMers on Grounds
- Find a Scholarship! (UVa)
- Find a Scholarship! (federal, including international students)
- Latino Student Alliance
- Latinx, Native American, and Middle Eastern Student Services
- Madison House (volunteer opportunities)
- Multicultural Student Services
- PLUMAS at UVa
- Sigma Delta Pi
- Study Abroad
- Student Organization for Caribbean Awareness
- Students Helping Honduras