President Morehead has approved the promotions of Professor Timothy Gupton from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure, and of Professor Elizabeth Wright from tenured Associate Professor to Full Professor.  Please join us in congratulating them on reaching these milestones in their professional development!

Please join the Department of Romance Languages graduate students in an interdisciplinary conference beginning with an opening talk by Dr. Ernesto Silva from Kennesaw State University on "From Latin America with Love: Embracing Latinidad as Educational Experience" and continuing all day Saturday. Click here to see the full conference program.

Dr. Betina Kaplan will discuss the organization of service and experiental learning programs.

Annie Wendel and Jonathan Baillehache will discuss online teaching and the use of instructional technologies in the classroom.

Dr. Nicolás Lucero will discuss strategies for preparing new course syllabi.

Dr. Rachel Gabara will discuss publishing in academic journals.

LACSI Director Richard Gordon will present on good practices for applying for grants.

Dr. Paula Simón of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina will deliver a talk on "Narraciones dislocadas: el testimonio sobre los campos de concentración en España y Argentina." Her talk will be followed with discussion led by

Dr. Fernando Reati of Georgia Southern University. 

Invited lecturer Dr. Sylvaine Guyot, Roy G. Clouse Associate Professor of French at Harvard University, will give a talk on  “The Bedazzling Effect: Performance and Politics in Seventeenth-Century France.” Click here to see the flyer.

Graduate students currently pursing M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Romance Languages will tell you a bit about what it means to study language, literature, and culture at this level. Graduate Coordinator Dr. Rachel Gabara will be there to answer questions as well. 

Come with your questions and your appetite... as, yes, there will be PIZZA!