Professor Elizabeth Martínez-Gibson’s article “Language Contact: A Study of the Spanish
in Two Spanish-Language Presses in Charleston, South Carolina” has been published in the latest 2016 issue of the Journal of Language Contact.
Professor Mark P. Del Mastro directed and edited the publication of the spring 2016 issue of Entre Nosotros, the official annual of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society.
On March 29, 2016, Professor Ricard Viñas-de-Puig presented his paper “Unexpected dialect divergence in a situation of language contact: Expletive negation in Spanish in contact with Catalan” at the 83rd meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics in New Orleans, LA.
Professor Susan Divine’s book review on Omara G. Encarnación’s Democracy without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting, has been published in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
Professor Nadia Avendaño’s article “Negotiating Identities: Growing Up Female, Jewish and Mexican” has been published in the renowned Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
Drs. Hilary Barnes and Ricard Viñas-de-Puig hosted the annual SLINKI (Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina) / SLISE (Spanish Linguistics in the South East) conference in the Jewish Studies Center of the College of Charleston on February 6, 2016. The event enjoyed collaboration from multiple departments, to include several students who presented their research posters:
Tori Akerley, Carmen BensVega, Cinamon Kerr, Falyn Langford, and Anna Maggiari presented ‘Spanish object expression in the SC Lowcountry,’ under the supervision of Dr. Ricard Viñas-de-Puig.
Torrie Buchanan and Keane Costello presented ‘Production of /s/ in medial codas in the Spanish of the SC Lowcountry,’ under the supervision of Dr. Ricard Viñas-de-Puig.
Maya Novak-Cogdell presented ‘Alternatives to gendered personal pronouns in Spanish,’ under the supervision of Dr. Hilary Barnes.
Eric Singleton, Kelsey Vories, and Shannon Wischusen presented ‘A sociolinguistic analysis of progressive forms in the Spanish of the SC Lowcountry,’ under the supervision of Dr. Ricard Viñas-de-Puig
Finally, Dr. Ricard Viñas-de-Puig presented the paper entitled ‘Ceci n’est pas une négation: Linguistic divergence in expletive negation constructions in Spanish-Catalan bilinguals.’
Professor Vicki Garrett’s book chapter “Violence, Injury, and Disability in Recent Latin American Film” has been published inLibre acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies, edited by Susan Antebi and Beth E. Jörgensen (Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 2016).
Professors Edward Chauca and Vicki Garrett’s article “Haunting Capitalism: Biutiful, the Specter, and Fantasies of the Global Market” has been published in Espectros: Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives.
Professor Silvia Rodríguez Sabater’s article “Beyond Mexico and Spain: Cultural Diversity in Spanish College Textbooks” has been accepted for publication in The Southern Journal of Linguistics.