Hispanic Studies

Professor Silvia Rodríguez Sabater’s article “Service learning and intercultural competence in the Spanish as a second language classroom” has been accepted for publication in The Southern Journal of Linguistics.

Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Benjamin Fraser, Editor, and Professors Karen Berg, Carmen Grace and Claudia Moran, Associate Editors, the spring 2013 issue of HispaNews has been published: Click here to download.

Professor Zane Segle, Adjunct Professor of Spanish, was awarded the James A. Grimsley Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at The Citadel: http://www.citadel.edu/root/grimsley-teaching-award2013.

Professor Nadia Avendaño’s article “The Chicana Subaltern and the Ethnic Female Bildungsroman in Patricia Santana’s Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility” has been accepted for publication in the journal Letras Hispanas.

Professor Benjamin Fraser has accepted an appointment to the Editorial Board of the refereed journal Letras Hispanas: http://www.modlang.txstate.edu/letrashispanas/editorialstaff.html.

The American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese has selected Professor Luci Moreira’s co-authored textbook Ponto de Encontro as the 2013 “Best Book” for the Portuguese language instruction in the U.S.

See http://www.aotpsite.net/#!awards/cdvr, click “AOTP HAS SELECTED THE WINNERS OF ITS EDUCATION AWARD FOR TEACHING AND PROMOTION OF PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE IN THE EUA SEE THE LIST HERE.”

Professor Antonio Aiello’s following two studies have just been published:
1) “El discurso narrativo de Zoé Valdés: Una escritura metaficcional”: Dossier Valdés (Invited Editor, Aiello) Ediciones La gota de agua, Philadelphia, PA.

2) “Virgilio Piñera a la sombra de los clásicos: una  dramaturgia precursora del teatro posmoderno” en Celebrando a Virgilio Piñera, Plaza Editorial.

On April 8 at 6:00pm in the Alumni Center, the following 17 students were initiated into the Nu Zeta Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi,  the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society:

Katherine Ashe
Caroline E. Buddin
Stacy Calhoun
Kaitlyn Leigh Cummings
Celeste N. DeVera
Stephanie Dove
Morgan Edwards
Sylricka Foster
Katie Gilmer
Maggie Glascott
Christina Barrett Hawkins
Caroline Kenny
Alexa Liberson
Jeremy López
Alexander Margolin
Lindsey M. Robusto
Valeria Scotto Di Luzio

Jocelyn Moratzka and Justin Lyons were the student officers who conducted the event along with the assistance from member Shannon Himes and co-adviser Dr. Carmen Grace. A reception followed in the HISP Conference Room.

Professor Carl Wise has been awarded a Folger Short-term Fellowship that includes a 2-month fellowship during the academic year 2013-2014 for his project “Doctrines on Display: Baroque Theologies in the Theater of Antonio Mira de amescua.”