Professor Susan Divine has accepted an invitation on behalf of the Spanish Program and the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of South Carolina-Columbia, to give a talk related on her current research as part of USC’s Spanish Speakers Series on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016.
Professor Emily S. Beck’s Spanish 367 class, “Power and Gender in Early Modern Spain,” attended a lecture on Tuesday, September 6, 2016, by Mary Jo Fairchild, Addlestone Library Archivist.
Along with Dr. Caroline Dunn of Clemson University, Professor Emily S. Beck has co-founded the South Carolina Medievalists Group, an informal body of professional scholars of all disciplines – faculty and students alike – based in South Carolina. The group meeting provides the opportunity for medievalists and premodernists to connect with other researchers throughout our state and engage in informal conversations about current academic approaches and the state of medieval research and teaching in South Carolina. We welcome professionals in any area or discipline relating to medieval or premodern studies, as well as those engaged in interdisciplinary and pedagogical approaches.
The current group includes researchers in a broad range of academic disciplines. For more information, or to join the email list send a message to: scmedievalists@gmail.com.
The inaugural group meeting will be held in Clemson, SC on September 24, 2016.
Professor Antonio Pérez-Núñez’s study “Perceived Learning Value of Grammar Feedback and Error Revision in Second Language Writing” has been accepted for publication in MIFLC Review, the journal of the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference.
Professor Sarah Owens’ co-authored study “The First Nunnery in Manila: The Role of Hernando de los Ríos Coronel” has been published in the summer 2016 issue of The Catholic Historical Review.
Professor Devon Hanahan has been named the College’s new Faculty Marshall effective August 2016. This appointment is testimony to the invaluable and numerous contributions Professor Hanahan has made campus-wide and in various capacities over the years.
Professor Martha Maus participated in the 4th Annual International Conference of Spanish at the University of Salamanca, Spain from July 3-16 with a grant from the Junta de Castilla y León. At the same conference, she also completed a course administered specifically for professors of Spanish.
Professor Edward Chauca’s article “Mental Illness in Peruvian Narratives of Violence after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission” has been published in the latest issue of Latin American Research Review.
The Nu Zeta Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, received two national awards during the Society’s Triennial Convention on July 8, 2016 in Miami, Florida. Nu Zeta was among 13 of the 611 chapters of Sigma Delta Pi nationwide to receive the Honor Chapter award for outstanding activities executed during the 2015-16 academic year. This was the 6th consecutive year that the College of Charleston received this prestigious recognition. In addition, CofC’s chapter was granted the Octavio Paz Award for maintaining Honor Chapter status each year during the 2013-16 triennium. Drs. Carmen Grace and Susan Divine of Hispanic Studies are Nu Zeta’s chapter advisers, and along with past student chapter president Olivia Ghiz, they are greatly responsible for these national awards.
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.