The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to announce that Cristina Burneo has been awarded a Snouffer
Dissertation Fellowship for 2010-2011! She will receive a 9.5 month stipend for the year, in addition to ten tuition remission credits per semester.
Her dissertation is titled, “Voyage towards Meaning: Biographical Reconstruction and Bilingual Poetry in Four Andean Poets,” and is directed by Prof. Jorge Aguilar Mora.
Also, Prof. Sandra Cypess (Chair of Spanish, SLLC) should be acknowledged for presenting our candidates in her letter of support that was sent to the Snouffer Committee for selection.
Felicitaciones, Cristina!! Please direct an email to Cristina at
cburneo@umd.edu to extend your congratulations.