Hispanic Studies

Professor Mark P. Del Mastro’s tribute to the late Dr. Donald L. Shaw of the University of Virginia has been published in the summer 2017 issue of the journal Decimonónica.

The Nu Zeta Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, was among 12 of the 613 chapters of Sigma Delta Pi nationwide to receive the Honor Chapter award for outstanding activities executed during the 2016-17 academic year.  This was the 7th consecutive year that the College of Charleston received this prestigious recognition, to coincide with the chapter’s 40th anniversary (1977-2017).  Drs. Susan Divine and Carmen Grace of Hispanic Studies are Nu Zeta’s chapter advisers, and along with past student chapter president Maya Novák-Cogdell, they were instrumental for this national recognition.

Professor Edward Chauca presented his research in two different conferences in summer 2017:

1. “Perú al pie del orbe: Re-appropriating Science and Technology in Novels by César Vallejo and Clemente Palma” at the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2017 Annual Meeting at Utrecht University, Netherlands. July, 6-9, 2017.
2. “La distopía del sujeto moderno: racionalidad, materialidad y afecto en Travesía de extramares.” Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress inLima, Perú. April 29-May 1, 2017.

Professor Vicki Garrett presented her research at two different conferences during the summer of 2017:

1. “The Body and the Popular: Performing Politics in Argentine Popular Theater” at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress in Lima, Peru, on April 29, 2017.
2. “Trauma and Coming of Age in Alonzo Ruizpalcios’s Güeros” at the American Comparative Literature Association in Utrecht, Netherlands, on July 7, 2017.

Professor Ricard Viñas-de-Puig’s book chapter “Psych predicates, light verbs, and Phase Theory: On the implications of Case assignment to the Experiencer in non-leísta experience predicates” has been published in Contemporary advances in theoretical and applied Spanish linguistic variation, edited by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and published by Ohio State University Press.

Professor Mark P. Del Mastro participated and presented in various capacities during the 99th Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese (AATSP):

1. Co-panelist in the session “Hispania: Publishing your works in academic journals”
2. Member of the AATSP Board of Directors/Collaborator in Board Meetings
3. Organizer and Chair of the Sigma Delta Pi Best Practices and Informative Session
4. Presenter of the 7th Annual Mario Vargas Llosa Award, joint recognition of Sigma Delta Pi and the AATSP
5. Member of the AATSP Executive Director Search
6. AATSP Finance Committee Chair
7. Launch of Sigma Delta Pi’s new honor society for 2-year colleges.

Professor Sara Owens’ annotated bibliography “Women Writers of the Iberian Empire” has been accepted for publication in Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation.

Professor Carl Wise has been appointed Interim Associate Director of Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Studies for the 2017-18 academic year.

Professor Susan Divine’s article “Affect, Aliens, and Crisis in Nacho Vigalondo’s Extraterrestre” has will be published  in the International Journal of Iberian Studies.

The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has selected Professor Andrew Sobiesuo, Associate Provost for International Education and Professor of Spanish, to receive a prestigious Fulbright Award to Germany IEA (Internal Education Administrators).