Cinecittà is the annual Italian movie night series organized by the Italian section of the Department of Romance Languages and this year we are at its 6th edition.

For this 6th edition we selected of four films that deal with resistance, insurgency and terrorism under the clash of competing ideologies. Click here to view the flyer.

Dr. Amélia Hutchinson's Fernão Lopes project has been awarded a translation grant from the Luso-American Foundation to continue its work translating medieval Portuguese author Fernão Lopes' chronicles.

Amélia Hutchinson will present her collaborative work translating, digitalizing, and creating a website for Portuguese medieval author Fernão Lopes's chronicles.

The Experimental Research in Linguistics (ERL) Intitative welcomes invited speaker Dr. Mary McMains, MEd, FCOVD, Neuro-Developmental Optometrist (Austin Eye Gym). Dr. McMains will give a presentation entitled “How Visual Function Impacts Learning”.

Friday, March 21, 2014

3:00-4:00 pm

Gilbert Hall 115

This presentation is sponsored by a Learning Technologies Grant from The Center for Teaching and Learning

Congratulations to Dr. Betina Kaplan, who has been awarded one of two university-wide Service Learning Excellence Awards for her work engaging Spanish students with service projects in Buenos Aires and as well as with the Hispanic population of Athens. Click here to see the article in Columns.

Professors Baillehache, Correa-Díaz, and Peterson will discuss electronic literature in French, Spanish and Italian.

Dr. Nuria Sagarra, Associate professor at Rutgers University, will discuss her psycholinguistic research on the second-language acquisition of Spanish using Eye-tracking technology.

"Eye Tracking Reveals Proficiency Effects on Transfer Emergence"

The Department of Romance Languages would like to congratulate Peter Gachanja on defended succesfully his dissertation on “Ousmane Sembene: The Aestheticization of Memory and History.”

Dr. Richard Gordon will discuss the process of writing and publishing academic articles and books.

Prominent Latin@ scholar and writer Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez will discuss queerness and the experience of AIDS in the context of Latin@ identity.