Dear HISP Colleagues & Friends, I wanted to share the news that Devon W. Hanahan, CofC ’87, Faculty Marshal and Basic Spanish Language Program Coordinator, has been named one of the Top 10 professors in the nation by CEOWORLD Magazine. Hanahan, a senior instructor in the College of Charleston Department of Hispanic Studies, was ranked […]
Hispanic Studies’ Faculty Focus for October 2020 is Yulian Martínez-Escobar. Mr. Yulian Martínez-Escobar joined the Department of Hispanic Studies for the first time in 2011 and, since his arrival, has taught extensively in the Basic Spanish Language Program. With respect to his professional formation, Mr. Martínez-Escobar’s experience has been both varied and impressive, with studies […]
Tomás Cox (2021) is Hispanic Studies’ Student Focus for October, 2020: Mr. Cox, a double major in Political Science and Spanish—with concentrations in politics, philosophy and law—has certainly not wasted time since arriving at CofC, keeping himself quite occupied as a member of the College’s Division I Men’s Soccer Team, as well as serving on […]
Congratulations to Hispanic Studies’ Dr. Joseph Weyers, who has been invited to present at the Coloquio Internacional de Español como Lengua Extranjera (ELE), organized by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile). The two day conference will be broadcast via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DRIPUCV For those so interested—and why wouldn’t you be?—Dr. Weyers’ presentation is set for […]
Hispanic Studies’ Faculty Focus for September 2020 is Dr. Falcon Restrepo-Ramos Dr. Restrepo Ramos–who received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics and his M.A. in Computational Linguistics and Linguistics & TESOL, from the University of Florida-Gainesville, Indiana University and West Virginia University, respectively—comes to the College of Charleston by way of Indiana University, where he most […]
Hispanic Studies’ Student Focus for September 2020 is Ms. Sara Thornton (’21). Beginning her college career with a major in Biology and a minor in Studio Art, Sara quickly realized her passion for Spanish and teaching, making the switch to a primary course of study in Spanish / Foreign Language Education and secondary concentrations in […]
Dear HISP & Friends, I am proud to present to you Vol. 5, No. 1 of Hispanic Studies Review for your perusal and enjoyment: http://hispanicstudiesreview.com/menu/currentissue.html Congratulations to the HSR editorial team for their hard work in bringing this edition to press. Saludos cordiales, Mike Gómez Dr. Michael A. Gómez Professor of Spanish Affiliated Faculty in […]
A news story has been posted at CofC Today regarding Madi Crow and her visual dictionary portraying some the immigrant indigenous languages that she identified in her Bachelor’s Essay project. We are all very proud of her work and her achievements. Enhorabuena, Madi! Ricard Viñas-de-Puig, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies Director, Linguistics Studies […]
Dear HISP & Friends, I am very happy to announce that Hispanic Studies’ own Dr. Silvia Rodríguez Sabater has been named Associate Editor of Short Form Pedagogical Articles at the prestigious journal Hispania (see press release below). Please join me in congratulating her on this impressive achievement. Saludos, Mike Dr. Michael A. Gómez Professor of […]
Dear HISP Colleagues, Students and Friends, For those of you who have not seen it, I would like to pass on the following link to Hispanic Studies’ own Yulian Martínez-Escobar’s short documentary film, Invisible Hands: https://bittersoutherner.com/video/invisible-hands Invisible Hands is an intimate film documenting a group of Mexican seasonal laborers in rural South Carolina. The film […]