PORTAL

Web magazine of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections

Melissa Guy

To the Reader, Fall 2024

EACH FALL, the publication of Portal magazine affords us an opportunity to showcase LLILAS and the Benson, both as two separate units and as a rich and symbiotic partnership. In these pages, you will read articles by Latin Americanist students, faculty, and visiting professors—a snapshot of the … [Read more...] about To the Reader, Fall 2024

Benson Acquisition: Augusto Roa Bastos Papers

The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the literary archives of César Vallejo and Augusto Roa Bastos, two giants of Latin American letters. These archives augment the Benson’s already significant collection of materials that represent the region’s … [Read more...] about Benson Acquisition: Augusto Roa Bastos Papers

To the Reader, 2022 Edition

IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE to welcome you to Portal, a window to Latin American Studies and Collections at UT Austin. We want to provide our readers with a forum for inspirational discussions on the interfaces of knowledge production and Latin America’s social reality. At the heart of Portal lies our … [Read more...] about To the Reader, 2022 Edition

To the Reader

ON FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020, The University of Texas at Austin announced that it was canceling classes and closing the campus due to community spread of COVID-19. From that day forward, members of the LLILAS Benson community began to figure out how we would live, work, support our loved ones, shop for … [Read more...] about To the Reader

Message from the Benson Collection Director

I AM SO PROUD to feature the Benson Centennial in Portal. While it is impossible to tell the complete story of this great library in a single issue, nearly every piece of this edition provides a glimpse of what has been created over the past one hundred years, from the foundational Genaro García … [Read more...] about Message from the Benson Collection Director