Professor Mark P. Del Mastro’s article “Reflections of Oneself: Reconciling Identity in Carmen Laforet’s Al volver la esquina” has been published as a “State-of-the-State Feature” in the December 2014 issue of Hispania. His invited guest editorial “Carmen Laforet: A Tenth Anniversary and Something after Nada” prefaced the aforementioned article.
Dr. Silvia Rodriguez Sabater co-presented with Laura Plotts of TLT a virtual poster titled “Create, collaborate, and communicate in a second language: digital literacies in a distance education Spanish course” in the conference “Digital literacies in and beyond the L2 classroom: a hybrid symposium on research and practice” organized by the Center for Educational Resources […]
Professor Silvia Rodríguez Sabater presented her paper “Cross-cultural awareness in Spanish college textbooks” at the annual conference of the American Council on the Teaching on Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in San Antonio, Texas on November 20-23, 2014.
Professor Antonio Aiello presented his paper “Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: ‘Devota, no devota vulgar’. Un estudio de su religiosidad, devoción ascética y misticismo” at the 4th Annual International Conference on Caribbean Studies held at Marquette University on November 6-8, 2014.
Professors Susan Divine and Félix Vásquez participated in the 2014 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention in Detroit, MI on November 13-16, 2014. Dr. Divine presented a paper entitled “Nacho Vigalondo and the Impossible Recovery of Time and Space.”; and she also presented “Writing the Self/Writing the City: Spanish Authors and Social Media” in one of three panels […]
Professors Hilary Barnes and Ricard Viñas-de-Puig participated in the 2014 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium at Purdue University on November 13-16, 2014. Dr. Barnes presented her poster “Mid-vowel contrast in Veneto-Spanish bilinguals,” and Dr. Viñas-de-Puig presented his poster “This is not the Case of the Indirect Object: Linguistic and sociolinguistic factors in double object marking constructions in […]
Professors Nadia Avendaño and Lola Colomina participated in the 24th Conference of the International Association of Hispanic Feminine Literature and Culture at the National Hotel of Cuba in Havana on November 10-14, 2014. Dr. Avendaño’s presentation was entitled “Negociando identidades: una experiencia femenina, judía y mexicana,” and Dr. Colomina’s was “El cuerpo como locus performativo y enunciativo […]
Professor Mark P. Del Mastro, Executive Director of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, presided over the historic installation of the 600th chapter at the University of North Florida on November 14, 2014, the 95th birthday of Sigma Delta Pi, which was founded in 1919 at the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Mary Ann Blitt’s co-authored Spanish textbook Exploraciones has been released as an Instructor’s Edition and will be available for students in January 2015.
Professor Antonio Aiello’s article “En el ‘reino de la indivinidad’: La obra ensayística de Matías Montes Huidobro” has been published in the November 2014 issue of Cuadernos monográficos / Dossier by Ediciones La gota de agua.