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Past News
- 2011
- 2010
- Kevin Gaugler, (Ph.D., Spanish 2000), Associate Professor of Spanish, Marist College, was awarded the 2010 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)/Cengage Learning Faculty Development Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction Using Technology with IALLT (International Association of Language Learning Technology).
- Mary Johnson, ILCS/Spanish major (2010), has been admitted to Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
- Molly Etkind, ILCS major (2010), has been admitted to the Michigan State College of Law.
- The French government has awarded the prestigious Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques to Roger Célestin, Associate Professor of French and Co-Chair of French and Francophone Studies, for his contributions to French culture.
- Felice Beneduce (ABD, Italian), has accepted a position as lecturer in Italian at Columbia University.
- Alfonso Varona, (Ph.D., Spanish), has accepted the position of visiting assistant professor in residence at UNC-Greensboro.
- Dana Boyer, a student majoring in German Studies and Environmental Engineering, and Ann Marie Hovey, a student majoring in German and French, have both been awarded the prestigious DAAD scholarship. Dana will be studying in Freiburg while Ann Marie will be studying in Mannheim. Congratulations to them both!
- Brian D. Patrick (Ph.D., Spanish) recently accepted a tenure-track position at Grinnell College in Iowa.
- Rafael Osuna-Montanez (Ph.D., Spanish) recently accepted a tenure-track position at King's College in Pennsylvania.
- Italian Ph.D. student Renato Ventura recently accepted a position at the University of Dayton in Ohio.
- Associate Professor Manuela Wagner has been appointed Associate Director of Teachers for a New Era.
- 2009
- Assistant Professor Gustavo Nanclares was recently awarded a UConn Humanities Institute Fellowship for the academic year 2010-2011 for his research project, "War Film and the Film Wars: Mass Culture and the Political Imaginary in Spain (1898-1939)."
- UCONN Today interview with Martina Lüke, Outstanding TA for 2009
- Emily Capobianco (Film Studies '09) has been accepted into the MFA Creative Writing program at Southern Connecticut State University. We wish her all the best in her new endeavor!
- Graduate students Nathalie Ettzevoglou and Jessica McBride have published Ning and Writing to Learn in an Educause Quarterly special issue on student engagement.
- Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Assistant Professor of Spanish, has been awarded the José Juan Arrom Literary Essay Prize by the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba in Havana, Cuba.
- Anke Finger, Associate Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, is featured in the trailer for a new documentary on the Czech-Brazilian media philosopher and cultural theorist Vilém Flusser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i83Y05OdH0o
She is the editor of the English edition of a co-authored (with Gustavo Bernardo and Rainer Guldin) introduction to Flusser, which will be published by the University of Minnesota Press. Following the Brazilian and German editions (2008 and 2009), the US version is much expanded and includes a new introduction and a new chapter (on Flusser and art) by the editor.
- Associate Professor Roger Travis discusses his use of online gaming to teach the classics in an interview with Colin McEnroe of Connecticut Public Radio. The interviews begins at 4:26 minutes. You can find out more about Roger Travis' work in this area at his Video Games and Human Values Initiative and Living Epic: Video Games in the Ancient World sites.
- Assistant Professor Gustavo Nanclares was awarded second prize in the 2009 Caja Madrid Non-Fiction Book Award for his book manuscript entitled "La Camara y el Calamo: Ansiedades Cinematograficas en la Narrativa Hispanica de Vanguardia" (The Camera and the Calamus: Cinematographic Anxieties in Hispanic Vanguard Fiction).
- UCONN Today interviews Assistant Professor Theodore Van Alst Jr. about Native American Studies at UCONN
- Noorjehan Ghaffar, Brittany Hart & Katelyn Powell, former Granada study abroad participants, will be working as teaching assistants in the Spanish K-12 public school system next year courtesy of a grant from the Ministry of Education, Social Policy and Sport of Spain and the Education Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C.
- Martina Lüke, doctoral candidate in German, has received the 2009 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
- Dan Gross, a Communication Sciences/Film Studies major who will graduate in May 2009, has been accepted into the University of Southern California's graduate film program. He is currently pursuing a career in professional film editing
- Professor Miguel Gomes has been awarded membership in the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. He joins Professor Stuart Miller, who is also a member of the Academy.
- Rosetta Giuliani, Professor in Residence, has accepted a tenure-track position at Auburn University in Alabama. Rosetta completed her dissertation, entitled Going out of ‘Stock’: Mulattoes and Levantines in Italian Literature and Cinema of the Fascist Period under Associate Professor Norma Bouchard at the University of Connecticut.
- Fulvio Orsitto accepted a tenure-track position at CSU, Chico. Fulvio completed his dissertation, entitled Post-National Italian Cinema in the Era of Globalization: CinemaSud 1989-2006 under Associate Professor Norma Bouchard at the University of Connecticut.
- Pre-2009
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