Dr. Emily S. Beck Co-Founds South Carolina Medievalists Group

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.

Dr. Pérez-Núñez’s Essay to Appear in _MIFLC Review_

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.

Dr. Martínez-Gibson Publishes in _Journal of Language Contact_

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

Hispanic Studies Professors Invade the 69th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference

Drs. Mark Del Mastro, Susan Divine, Mike Gómez and Carl Wise participated in the 69th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference on April 14-16, 2016 at the University of Kentucky with their following research presentations:

“Partialism and Sexuality in Carmen Laforet’s Nada” (Del Mastro)
“Spanish Space and Time in Ministerio del Tiempo” (Divine)
“Literature under the Microscope: Taking a Closer Look at Ramón y Cajal’s Fictions” (Gómez)
“Madrid Imagined: Spain’s Urban Spaces in the works of two Early Modern Mexican Playwrights” (Wise)

In addition to these presentations, Drs. Divine and Wise were featured panelists in the roundtable discussion “Digital Spain: Theory and Praxis Roundtable,” and Dr. Del Mastro organized and conducted the 14th Annual Sigma Delta Pi Informative Session.

Dr. Viñas-de-Puig Presents Research at 83rd SECOL

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.

Dr. Garrett’s Book Chapter Is Published

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).