Congratulations to the following inaugural officers of the Hispanic Studies Advisory Board, who were elected in late January 2018: Chairperson: Louis Richard Doelling Chair-elect: Sarah Lee Beck Treasurer: Diana Saillant LCWA Advisory Board Liaison: Adelaida Bennett
The inaugural meeting of the newly formed Hispanic Studies Advisory Board was held at 3:00pm on December 7 in the President’s Board Room of Randolph Hall and began with an address by the College of Charleston President Glenn McConnell. Board members will assist the Department of Hispanic Studies with funding objectives, recruitment and extra-curricular program […]
Professor Joseph Weyers’ study “Quechua in the linguistic landscape of Cusco, Peru: Showcasing culture and boosting pride” has been accepted for publication in the fall 2018 issue of the Southern Journal of Linguistics.
Professor Mark P. Del Mastro of the Department of Hispanic Studies has been appointed Secretary-Treasurer of the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC) effective January 1, 2018, which makes the College of Charleston the new legal seat of the organization. Founded in 1951 and with an annual conference each October, MIFLC is is an organization of teachers, […]
On Saturday, November 4, 2017 at Winthrop University, Professor Devon Hanahan gave a keynote address during the Joint Fall Conference of the AATSP of the Carolinas.
On October 27, 2017, Professor Ricard Viñas-de-Puig presented his single-authored paper “Evidence for a typology of epistemic modality in Spanish and Catalan: Restructuring clitic climbing,” and the co-authored paper (in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Fafulas, University of Mississippi) “Leísmo in monolingual and bilingual varieties of Spanish in the Peruvian Amazon” at the 2017 Hispanic Linguistics […]
The College of Charleston’s and The Citadel’s chapters of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, are proud to announce the three finalists of their 13th annual South Carolina Spanish Teacher of the Year Award for 2017: Bethany Battig-Ramseur of Hilton Head Preparatory School Julia Rowsam of Northwestern High School Tracy Stroud of Carolina Forest High School All three finalists will […]
Professor Joseph Weyers will present on the Day of the Dead at the Gibbes Museum of Art on November 1. Click here for more information.
Professor Sarah E. Owens’ book Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire has been published by the University of New Mexico Press.
Professor Joseph R. Weyers presented his study “Medellín cuenta con vos: Increasing prestige for a non-standard form” at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) at New Mexico State University, October 5-7, 2017.