RICHARD REEVE UNDERGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to accept applications for the first Richard Reeve Undergraduate Essay Prize. The annual Prize, in the amount of $250, will be presented to an undergraduate student with a declared major or minor in one of our undergraduate degree programs. It will be awarded for the best academic paper written initially for an upper-division course in Spanish American literature taken in the period from Spring 1998 to Winter 1999.

Papers submitted for consideration should be between 8 and 15 pages in length. They may deal with any aspect of Spanish American literature or culture. To be considered for this Award, students should submit three copies of their paper to the Department's Undergraduate Adviser, Wendy Alvarado, by Friday, May 7. The Prize recipient, to be selected by a faculty committee, will be announced by the end of the Spring Quarter, 1999.

Professor Richard Reeve (1935-1992) received his BA from the University of Utah and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He taught at Ohio State University from 1966 until 1968, when he joined the faculty of UCLA's Department of Spanish and Portuguese, where he remained until the end of his life. His scholarly interests focused primarily on twentieth-century Spanish American literature, with a special focus on contemporary Mexican writers. He published numerous articles on Mexican literature, and he was the co-editor, with Professor Gerardo Luzuriaga, of Los clásicos del teatro hispanoamericano.