杜兰大学拥有该国领先的博士学位之一。西班牙语和葡萄牙语课程，为入选的学生准备在美国和国外的大学中的学术职位。除语言学外，我们的教职人员还包括西班牙，葡萄牙，美利坚合众国，巴西和非洲裔非洲人的文学和文化方面的国内外知名学者和教师。杜兰大学的霍华德·蒂尔顿图书馆拥有广泛的藏书，可以支持我们各自的领域，其中包括拉丁美洲图书馆，这是美国同类图书馆中最大的藏书之一。Tulane还是Stone拉丁美洲研究中心的所在地，Stone Center for Latin America Studies是著名的拉丁美洲比较和跨
Tulane University is home to one of the country's leading Ph.D. programs in Spanish and Portuguese, which prepares selected students for academic positions at universities and colleges in the US and abroad. Our faculty consists of nationally and internationally recognized scholars and teachers in the literatures and cultures of Spain, Portugal, Spanish America, Brazil, and Lusophone Africa, in addition to linguistics. Tulane's Howard-Tilton Library contains extensive holdings that support our respective fields, including the Latin American Library, one of the largest collections of its kind in the United States. Tulane is also home to the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, a renowned center of comparative and interdisciplinary study on Latin America, which has also been a generous source of research support for Tulane graduate students.<br><br>The Department of Spanish and Portuguese continues to build upon a long tradition of academic excellence. The 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, which was published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, ranked our department #2 in the field of Spanish and Portuguese. Graduates from our department now hold faculty positions at St. Catherine University, Smith College, Universidad de los Andes (Bogot), Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana (Mxico), and the University of Texas, El Paso, among others.