Drs. Divine and Vásquez Present Papers at the M/MLA Conference 2014

Professors Susan Divine and Félix Vásquez participated in the 2014 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention in Detroit, MI on November 13-16, 2014.   Dr. Divine presented a paper entitled “Nacho Vigalondo and the Impossible Recovery of Time and Space.”; and she also presented “Writing the Self/Writing the City: Spanish Authors and Social Media” in one of three panels she organized that was entitled “Spanish Cities in Transformation.”  Professor Vásquez presented his paper “Colonial Lima Coming Alive in Esteban Terralla Landa’s Work.”

Drs. Barnes and Viñas-de-Puig Present Research at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Professors Hilary Barnes and Ricard Viñas-de-Puig participated in the 2014 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium at Purdue University on November 13-16, 2014.  Dr. Barnes presented her poster “Mid-vowel contrast in Veneto-Spanish bilinguals,” and Dr. Viñas-de-Puig presented his poster “This is not the Case of the Indirect Object: Linguistic and sociolinguistic factors in double object marking constructions in ENC Spanish” and his paper “Pan-Amazonian Spanish: The case of Yagua Spanish.”