Dr. Vicki Garrett Presents Research at Two Summer Conferences

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.

Dr. Viñas-de-Puig’s Book Chapter Published

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.

Dr. Del Mastro Presents at the 99th Annual AATSP Conference

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.

Dr. Divine’s Study Accepted for Publication: Internat’l Journal of Iberian Studies

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.

Drs. Wise and Del Mastro Participate in the 70th Annual KFLC

At the 70th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 20-22, at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Carl Wise presented his study “Pirates, Empire, and National Identity in Lope de Vega’s Dragontea” and Dr. Mark P. Del Mastro organized and directed the 15th annual Informative Session of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society.

_Hispanic Studies Review_ Hosts Panel at 70th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference


Hispanic Studies Review editorial team members: College of Charleston’s Carl Wise, Managing Editor of Transatlantic; Texas Tech University’s Diego Pascual, Managing Editor of Spanish Linguistics; College of Charleston’s Mark P. Del Mastro, Advising Editor before the journal’s inaugural panel “Strategies for Academic Journal Publishing” during the 70th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference on April 21, 2017.

Dr. Weyers’ Study to Appear in the _International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest_

Professor Joseph R. Weyers’ article “Cross national forms of address in the US and Mexico: Addressing the consumer aquí y allí” has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest.