The Department of Spanish and Portuguese/SLLC  is pleased to announce the successful defense of a doctoral dissertation  “EL AGUILA Y LA SERPIENTE de Martín Luis Guzmán: Una mea culpa revolucionaria” by Tanya Huntington Hyde, on October 5, 2010. Sandra Messenger Cypess, Acting Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, chaired the committee. The committee members are: Dr. Regina Harrison, Dr. Roberta Lavine, Dr. Eyda Merediz, and Dr. Mary Kay Vaughan (Dean’s representative).  We also congratulate Tanya on her latest grant from the National Fund for Culture and Arts of Mexico (FONCA) to support her poetry and artwork (2010-2011).  ¡Felicitaciones!