Professor Edward Chauca’s article “Comunidades imaginadas imposibles: derechos humanos y neoliberalismo en el cine y la literatura latinoamericana” has been published in the journal Alter/nativas. Revista de estudios culturales latinoamericanos.
Professor Edward Chauca presented his paper “Body-less Communities in Mexican/American Art” at the conference of The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present in Greenville, SC. on September 24-27, 2015.
On Thursday, November 12, 2015, Professor Antonio Pérez-Núñez presented his talk “Beyond the Classroom: The Use of Online Platforms for Conversation Practice with Native Speakers” during the Hispanic Studies Teaching Discussion Series.
In the fall of 2015, Professor Antonio Pérez-Núñez received a TalkAbout Grant to experiment with 1-on-1 interaction between students of his Spanish 313 class, Spanish Conversation, and native speakers
Professor Lola Colomina-Garrigós presented her paper “La literatura en versión cinematográfica para el ahondamiento en el estudio del contexto de la dictadura militar chilena y la posterior transición democrática” at the XVI Congreso Internacional de la sociedad española de didáctica de la lengua y la literatura in Alicante, Spain on December 11, 2015.
Sponsored by the College of Charleston’s School of Languages, Cultures and World Affairs, the 65th Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC) was held in Charleston on October 15-17, 2015. Hispanic Studies Faculty collaborated in multiple capacities for this event to include organization and presentation. Dr. Mark Del Mastro served as the 2015 MIFLC President and […]
For his latest novel Tennessee River, Professor Raúl Carrillo Arciniega has been granted the Premio Literario Estatal de Novela (State Literary Award for Novel) by the the Coordinación de Fomento Editorial del Instituto Sudcaliforniano de Cultura in Mexico. Click here for additional details on all statewide and regional awardees of Baja California.
Professor Joseph R. Weyers presented his study “Cross-national advertising in Spanish: Forms of address in commercial signage in the US & Mexico” at the International Network of Address Research Conference at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, on October 9, 2015.
The fall 2015 edition of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese’s Portuguese Newsletter is available at http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.aatsp.org/resource/resmgr/pn/pnl_2015_fall.pdf, edited by Dr. Luci Moreira.
Professor Joseph Weyers’ study “English shop names in the retail landscape of Medellín, Colombia” has just been accepted for publication in the journal English Today.