Category Archives: Faculty

Professor Carl Wise’s archival project “African Laborers for a New Empire: Iberia, Slavery, and the Atlantic World”  has been launched with the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative: Click here.

Professor Hilary Barnes presented her presentation “Mid-vowel contrasts in Veneto-Spanish bilinguals” at the SLINKI (Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina) conference on February 8, 2014 at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.

Professor Alberto Veiga’s book chapter “Voces subalternas: el teatro criollo en el discurso colonial hispanoamericano” has been published in Estudios transatlánticos postcoloniales, III: Imaginario criollo by Ileana Rodriguez and Josebe Martinez (eds.), Anthropos 2014. See http://www.anthropos-editorial.com/DETALLE/ESTUDIOS-TRANSATLANTICOS-POSTCOLONIALES,-III-PCPU-213

Dr. Juan Luis Suárez, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Director of the CulturePlex Lab at The University of Western Ontario, Canada, will be visiting the College of Charleston for a guest lecture on February 25 from 4:30-5:30pm in the Wells Fargo Auditorium (Beatty 115) at 5 Liberty Street.  His presentation: “Teaching the Hispanic Baroque.”

The Spanish newspaper Diario de León cited Professor Benjamin Fraser’s book Understanding Juan Benet in the article “León olvida a Juan Benet,” a report covering the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the death of the renowned Spanish author and engineer, Juan Benet.  The event honoring Benet took place on December 16, 2013 at the Escuela Técnica […]

On Thursday, January 9, Dr. Benjamin Fraser presented in a panel titled “Hispanic Urban Studies” on Thursday January 9, 2014 from 5- 6:15pm during the annual convention of the Modern Language Association in Chicago, IL. Participants included representatives from the U of Arizona, U of Kentucky, Oberlin C, Rutgers U and McGill U as well […]

Professor Sarah E. Owens will travel to Ohio to present “Transoceanic Nuns: A Pathway to Sainthood in Seventeenth-Century Philippines” on Thursday, February 13, at The College of Wooster.  Her lecture is free, open to the public, and will begin at 7 p.m. in Room 009 of Severance Hall (943 College Mall).  See related article at http://www.ohio.com/upublish/general-news/lecturer-to-recount-historic-journey-that-led-to-first-convent-in-the-far-east-1.460854.

Dr. Sarah Owens presented her paper “El legado del rosario maravilloso de Juana de la Cruz en los escritos de viaje (1620-1621) de sor Ana de Cristo hacia Filipinas” at the Congreso Internacional: Los conventos de monjas, arquitectura y vida cotidiana: del virreinato a la posmodernidad. The conference took place at the Museo de Franz […]

Professor Benjamin Fraser, Founding Executive Editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, enjoyed the launching of the inaugural issue (Volume 1 Issue 1, March 2014).