Spanish and Portuguese Review

What Spanish and Portuguese Review does

Spanish and Portuguese Review (SPR) is the annual graduate student journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), founded in 2015 and operated as a non-profit, open-access academic publication. The journal publishes original, peer-reviewed manuscripts by graduate students on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian languages and cultures, including culture, film, linguistics, literature, pedagogy, second language acquisition, and translation; it accepts quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research, as well as interviews, response articles, and book/tool reviews, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Its primary users are MA and PhD candidates seeking early-career publication venues, with a secondary readership of AATSP members and the broader academic community in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian studies.

SPR's core product is a single annual journal distributed online as gold open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. The technology stack is a WordPress-based website with an online publication platform supporting direct article access and manuscript submission; there are no native mobile apps, public APIs, or disclosed integrations. Supporting offerings include a double-anonymous Peer Review System, a Volunteer Program for Associate Editors and Peer Reviewers, an Author Spotlight Series, and a Copyediting Training Program launched in August 2023. Editorial operations are run entirely by unpaid volunteer graduate students — including Senior Managing Editor Lillian Jones, Editor Stacey Margarita Johnson, Managing Editors of Communications (Lillian Jones, Ivana Frisa), and Managing Editor of Copyediting Doaa Serag — under AATSP oversight.

SPR has no revenue model: it charges neither authors nor readers, generates no advertising or licensing income, and discloses no financials. The journal operates as a program within AATSP, a US-based non-profit professional organization, and reaches contributors primarily through AATSP's newsletter, academic conferences, organic social media (Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube), and word-of-mouth within graduate programs. Ten volumes have been published (Vol. 1, Fall 2015 through Vol. 10, 2024-2025), with Volume 11 submissions open through June 9, 2025.

Name

Spanish and Portuguese Review

Legal name

Spanish and Portuguese Review

Website

https://spanishandportuguesereview.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Spanish and Portuguese Review is a non-profit, open-access graduate student journal operated under the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), publishing annual peer-reviewed scholarship on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian languages and cultures for MA and PhD candidates worldwide.

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Product category

Academic Journal Publishing

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (513120)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed) (MPAJABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Humanities & Arts Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAE), Education Research & Pedagogy Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAH)

Keywords

• Academic journal publishing
• Open access scholarship
• Hispanic studies journal
• Graduate student publishing
• Peer reviewed journal

Headquarters

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Not specified

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

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Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. No Revenue Generation: Spanish and Portuguese Review is a non-profit, open-access graduate student journal operated by volunteers. The journal does not charge authors to publish (no author fees) and content is freely available to readers. The AATSP provides organizational support.

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Core offering

Spanish and Portuguese Review (SPR) is an annual gold open-access graduate student journal that publishes original, unpublished manuscripts on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian languages and cultures, including literature, film, linguistics, pedagogy, and cultural studies. The journal is operated entirely by volunteer graduate students serving as Managing Editors, Associate Editors, and Peer Reviewers, and accepts submissions in English, Spanish, and Portuguese under a double-anonymous peer review process. All content is freely distributed online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Product overview

Spanish and Portuguese Review (SPR) is a single publication offering — an annual gold open-access graduate student journal focused on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian languages and cultures. The journal is published by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) and serves as the primary product. Supplementary offerings include the Author Spotlight Series (promotional author features), a Peer Review System managed by graduate student volunteers, a Volunteer Program for Associate Editors and Peer Reviewers, and a Copyediting Training Program. All content is disseminated online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Products and services

• Spanish and Portuguese Review (SPR) Journal An annual gold open-access academic journal publishing original, unpublished manuscripts by graduate students on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian languages, literatures, cultures, film, linguistics, pedagogy, second language acquisition, and translation. Accepts quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, as well as interviews, response articles, and book/tool reviews. Published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese for graduate students and the academic community.

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Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSPR is the official graduate student journal of the AATSP. The parent organization provides institutional support, branding legitimacy, newsletter distribution to members, and alignment with the MLA Statement on electronic publications. SPR publishes content related to the study or teaching of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian languages and cultures.

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Broad incumbents

• Iberoromania: A long-established peer-reviewed journal covering Iberian and Latin American literatures and cultures in Romance languages, published by De Gruyter. Comparable as an established scholarly venue in overlapping subject matter, serving as a broader incumbent in the same field.
• Hispania: The flagship quarterly journal of AATSP, covering pedagogy, linguistics, and literature of Spanish and Portuguese. Operated by the same parent organization as SPR, making it the most directly comparable incumbent within the same institutional umbrella.

Direct peers

• Cincinnati Romance Review: A graduate-student-run, peer-reviewed annual journal at the University of Cincinnati covering Romance literatures and cultures. Directly comparable in operational model (volunteer graduate student editorial board, annual open-access issue).
• Romance Notes: A peer-reviewed journal published by the Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, covering Romance literatures and linguistics. Comparable in its humanities scholarship focus and university-affiliated publishing model.
• Journal of Hispanic Studies: A peer-reviewed journal covering Hispanic cultures, literatures, and societies across the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. Comparable as a recurring scholarly publication in the broader field SPR serves.
• Luso-Brazilian Review: A peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Wisconsin Press focused on the Portuguese-speaking world. Directly comparable in its Luso-Brazilian focus and academic publishing model, providing a more established alternative venue for a key slice of SPR's subject area.
• Hispanic Review: A peer-reviewed academic journal published at the University of Pennsylvania covering Hispanic literary and cultural studies. Directly comparable in scholarly scope (Hispanic languages, literatures, cultures) and double-anonymous peer review model, though established and not graduate-student-run.
• Bulletin of Hispanic Studies: A long-established peer-reviewed journal covering Hispanic literature, culture, and linguistics, published by Liverpool University Press. Comparable as a recurring scholarly venue in the same field with a similar article-plus-reviews format.
• Letras Hispanas: A graduate student journal in Hispanic studies published by Texas State University. One of the closest structural analogues to SPR — a peer-reviewed venue run by graduate students for emerging scholars in Hispanic literary and cultural studies.
• Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: A peer-reviewed linguistics journal covering Spanish and Portuguese language research, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Directly comparable in its dual Hispanic + Lusophone linguistic scope, which overlaps with one of SPR's principal subject areas.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/aatsp_SPR
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• Facebookfacebook.com/spanishandportuguesereview
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/spanish-and-portuguese-review
• Instagraminstagram.com/aatsp_spr

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