Accomplishments: Department of World Languages and Cultures
Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Dialectal Aspects of Medical Spanish," at the 76th annual conference of the South Central Modern Language Association.
Alicia Rico (World Languages and Cultures) recently published an article, 鈥淎puntes gastron贸mico-sociales de El Chef ha muerto," in La nueva literatura hisp谩nica (2019). In this article, she analyzes how the author, Yanet Acosta, uses gastronomy to make a critical comment regarding contemporary Spanish society and the鈥
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper titled "Poetry in Prose: de buenas a bellas letras" during the conference El poder de la palabra po茅tica en Espa帽a y el Nuevo Mundo, the 14th Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry held at the University of California, Irvine, earlier鈥
Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) published the following edited volume, Contributions of Romance Languages to Current Linguistic Theory (Springer Press), to which she also contributed the chapter "Obviation and Old French Subjunctive Clauses."
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) was invited to give a plenary talk at the 14th Coloquio Internacional de la Asociaci贸n de Cervantistas, held at the Universit脿 Ca' Foscari in Venice, Italy, earlier this month. Her talk was titled "Cervantes y el Derecho: Pr茅stamos Rec铆procos."
Monserrath Hern谩ndez (Journalism and Media Studies), Maribel Estrada Calder贸n (History), Marcela Rodriguez-Campo (Teaching and Learning), Elsa Lopez (Education), Laurents Ba帽uelos-Benitez (Education), Rodrigo Vazquez (Economics), and Nathalie Martinez (Honors) were each recently awarded a student scholarship from the city of Las Vegas鈥
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) was invited to present a paper during an international conference held in M眉nster, Germany, earlier this month in celebration of "La autoridad de los saberes: El letrado" [Authorities of Knowledge: The Jurist]. Her paper, titled "Letras creativas y jur铆dicas por el jurista Antonio de鈥
Marina Colacicchi-Garber (World Languages and Cultures) will read selected poems from the book Everyone in His Own Paradise (Vodoley Publishing, Moscow, 2015), as well as more recent texts gathered under a working title A Canary in a Mineshaft, next month at the Tompkins Square Public Library in New York. The event is organized by鈥
Ashley Schobert (Law and Brookings Mountain West) recently wrote a report with Brookings Senior Fellow Richard Reeves titled "Elite or Elitist? Lessons for Colleges from Selective High Schools." In the report, the pair present data that show how selective high schools are racially unrepresentative of the districts they are located in, and鈥
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published the article "Juridical Philology: Incest, Adultery, and the Law in Don Quijote" in a collection titled Sex and Gender in Cervantes: Sexo y g茅nero en Cervantes. Essays in Honor of Adrienne Laskier Mart铆n. The volume has been issued by Editorial Reichenberger (2019).
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Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper titled "Lo que (no) o铆mos en Cervantes" during the 20th triennial conference of the Asociaci贸n Internacional de Hispanistas, held in Jerusalem earlier this month. During the conference, she also was re-elected to the association board, as a vocal (spokesperson), to serve a second term in鈥
Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) co-authored 鈥淭he Microvariation of the Spanish Perfect in Three Varieties鈥 with Paz Gonzalez and Carmen Kleinherenbrink (both of Leiden University), which appears in Isogloss, a journal on variation on Romance and Iberian languages. This study investigates the variability in the use of the preterit鈥