Drs. Hilary Barnes and Ricard Viñas-de-Puig hosted the annual SLINKI (Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina) / SLISE (Spanish Linguistics in the South East) conference in the Jewish Studies Center of the College of Charleston on February 6, 2016. The event enjoyed collaboration from multiple departments, to include several students who presented their research posters: Tori Akerley, Carmen BensVega, Cinamon […]
Just published is the winter 2016 issue of Decimonónica, an academic peer-reviewed journal that is co-edited and co-directed by Dr. Michael Gómez.
Professor Vicki Garrett’s book chapter “Violence, Injury, and Disability in Recent Latin American Film” has been published in Libre acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies, edited by Susan Antebi and Beth E. Jörgensen (Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 2016).
Professors Edward Chauca and Vicki Garrett’s article “Haunting Capitalism: Biutiful, the Specter, and Fantasies of the Global Market” has been published in Espectros: Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives.
Professor Silvia Rodríguez Sabater’s article “Beyond Mexico and Spain: Cultural Diversity in Spanish College Textbooks” has been accepted for publication in The Southern Journal of Linguistics.
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.