Aníbal Biglieri served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies. He is a member of the Arts and Sciences Educational Policy Committee (Humanities), and of the Graduate Council. He was appointed by President Todd to serve as member of the Humanities and Arts Academic Area Advisory Committee (2008-2010). He was invited to give two lectures at the University of Granada (May 2008) and to contribute to a volume in honor of the late Prof. Betty Rabaza (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina) to be published in Spain. His contribution’s title is: “La Argentina de Antigona Velez.” Biglieri was also invited to contribute with an article on the novel Enrique Fi de Oliva (XV century) for a volume to be edited by the Hispanic Seminar of Medieval Studies. He received a $400 minigrant for 2008-2009 for expenses associated with his editorship of Romance Quarterly. In Summer 2008 he taught for the Kentucky Institute for International Studies (KIIS) Summer Program in Rosario (Argentina).
Alan V. Brown - His presentation on Spanish students’ and teachers’ perceptions of classroom instruction at the annual convention of AATSP in San Diego in July, 2007, was selected for publication in the post-conference forum section of Hispania in March, 2008. Brown also published an article in the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education and has an article coming out in the reputable Modern Language Journal at the end of the year. Dr. Brown also worked extensively as part of the Ad Hoc Committee on Hispanic Linguistics in molding the newly instituted Allied Field in Linguistics for graduate students (p. 7) and bolstering the linguistic offerings at the undergraduate level. He will be the lead faculty member for the Applied Linguistics concentration and will be piloting translation courses for future integration into the undergraduate curriculum. KIIS selected Brown to teach for its program in Argentina next year. In addition, Brown is now a certified ACTFL OPI rater. Oral proficiency ratings can be found here.
Susan Carvalho was promoted to Full Professor during Spring 2008, and was also named to a two-year position as Assistant Provost for International Programs (2007-2009). She continues to teach in the Dept. of Hispanic Studies and work on her current project involving masculinity studies and Latin@ fiction. In 2008 she was invited to present a paper entitled “The City and its Asylums in the Novels of Cristina Rivera Garza,” at a conference on the Mexican “boom feminista” held in Cork, Ireland. She also participated in a conference session at the University of Utah, entitled “Internationalizing Universities and Curricula: Discussion of Four Models for Restructuring Higher Education and Foreign Language Programs,” in March 2008. Her article “La geografía del poder en la novela femenina mexicana” was published in the collection Confluencias en México: Palabra y género (Puebla: BUAP, 2007), and her article on the novels of Marcela Serrano was published in a special number of Letras Femeninas in 2007. In September 2008 she will present a paper at Kenyon College related to her project on Latin@ masculinities. Summer 2008 was her seventh and final summer as Director of the Middlebury College Spanish School, with its graduate and undergraduate programs in Vermont, Madrid, and Mexico.
Irene Chico-Wyatt - In Spring 2008 the Provost approved the Department´s recommendation to promote Dr. Chico-Wyatt to senior lecturer. Chico-Wyatt will serve as Interim Director of the Elementary Language program in Fall 2008.
Susan Larson presented two papers, “Industrial Fantasies of 1930s Spanish Popular Culture” at the Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago on December 29, 2007 and “Carmen de Burgos, Federico García Lorca y el crímen de Níjar” at the Second International Conference on Spanish and Latin American Women Authors of the Twentieth Century in Madrid on May 28, 2008. She published two articles, “Nemesio M. Sobrevila, Walter Benjamin and the Provocation of Film” in Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 4.2 (2007): 107-120 and “Cinematic Hybridity and New Ontologies of the Camera in the Nemesio M. Sobrevila’s ‘cine retaguardia’” Hispanic Research Journal 9.4 (2008): 339-53. She received $4000 from the College Research Activity Awards for a book subvention of Imagining the Metropolis: Constructing and Resisting Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Madrid. She also completed her two-year term as Director of Graduate Studies. This Fall she is presenting her candidacy for tenure and promotion.
Yanira Paz´s book Oralidad y Discurso en el español del Barrio El Empedrao (Maracaibo, Venezuela) has been included in this important database for research in oral Spanish: http://www.grupoilse.org. Paz will be on a sabbatical leave in Fall 2008.
Ana Rueda presented two papers at international conferences: “El dolor de la guerra: Cronistas de la campaña de Marruecos” Second Internacional Conference on Spanish and Latin American Women Authors of the Twentieth Century, May 27-30, 2008, Madrid, Spain; and “The 1808 Spanish Peninsular War: Revolutionary Women and the Political Culture of Spain,” Romanticism and War Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom, October 28-29, 2007. She also gave an invited talk, “Goya, Clausewitz, and the Extremes of War: The Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814),” for the Bingham Seminar on Goya at the University of Kentucky, March 26, 2008, and served as respondent for “The Passions and the Enlightenment Periphery”, panel chaired by Jonathan E. Carlyon, Colorado State University, The 39th American and Northwest American Societies for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, Oregon, USA, 27-30 March, 2008. She will present “Espacios privados: Voyeurismo y libertinaje en la novela de entre siglos” at the Congreso Internacional Sociedad Española de Estudios del XVIII: La Época de Carlos IV (1788-1808), Oviedo y Gijón, Spain, 15-18 October, 2008.
Rueda has two essays in press, “Virtue in Distress in the Spanish Sentimental Novel: An Unsustainable Model of Rational Sensibility,” in The Experience of Spanish and Spanish-American Women during the Enlightenment. Eds. Catherine Jaffe and Elizabeth Lewis (LSU American University Press), and “Heroísmo femenino, memoria y ficción: La Guerra de la Independencia” Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies. She was invited to serve on the editorial board of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (SECC) for the term 2007-2010.
Enrico M. Santí organized a graduate student symposium titled Race, Diaspora, Ghosts in February 2008. Graduate students of his Fall seminar, on the same subject, read short versions of their research papers. Hispanic Studies faculty members in both Spanish and Linguistics presented papers and served as respondents. Santí’s critical edition of Reinaldo Arenas’ El mundo alucinante (Madrid: Cátedra) was published in April 2008. During the same month he appeared in three hour-long television programs for Mexico´s Televisa network to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Octavio Paz's passing. He also delivered, for the same occasion, two separate lectures at NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (Tribute to Octavio Paz: 10 years after his death, May 22) and at the Library of Congress. The lectures were sponsored by the Mexican Cultural Institute. This past Summer Santí taught two courses, as invited faculty, at the Middlebury College Spanish School. In the Fall Santí will assume the duties of Director of Graduate Studies in Hispanic Studies for a two-year term.
Edward F. Stanton published “Goya’s Language,” Romance Quarterly 54. 1 (Winter 2007); “Historia de un recital,” Hispanic Poetry Review, 7.1 (2007); “The Popular Tradition of Ex-Votos in Spain,” text-panel for Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico), in Doris Francis (ed.), Faith and Transformation: Votive Offerings from the Alexander Girard Collection (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2007). He won the university-wide competition for the biannual Bingham Seminar in the Humanities and taught a seminar on Goya in Spring 2008, followed by a trip to Spain with the students in May (see p. 5). In October 2008 Stanton will give the plenary lecture at the IX Congreso de Poesía at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
Juana Suárez published two articles: “Decentering the ‘Centro’: Noir Representations and the Metamorphosis of Bogotá,” Hispanic Issues On Line, 3.3 (Fall 2008): 49–70, http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/pdfs/suarez.pdf and “‘En átomos volando’: Transformaciones de la iconografía patriótica en producción cultural contemporánea en Colombia,” Revista Iberoamericana 74. 223 (April-June 2008): 405-22. She delivered four lectures: “Narcotrafficking and the Exhaustion of Motherhood in Colombian Cinema” at the panel on Narco-epics Unbounds: New Narrative Territories, Affective Aesthetics, and Ethical Paradox, University of Pittsburgh, April 4-5, 2008; “Garras de oro (The Dawn of Justice-Alborada de Justicia): A Colombian Orphan Film,” in conjunction with Ramiro Arbeláez (Universidad del Valle) as part of her presentation of the film at the VI Orphan Film Symposium. New York University, March 26-29, 2008; “Challenging Indifference: Colombian Art in the Times of Violence,” for the School of World Languages and Cultures and Latin American Studies Program, University of Cincinnati, February 19, 2008; and “Cine y violencia en Colombia: claves para la construcción de un discurso fílmico,” at the XII Cátedra Anual de Historia Ernesto Restrepo Tirado. Versiones, subversiones y representaciones del cine colombiano. Investigaciones recientes. Museo Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia, October 25 – 27, 2007. Suárez is officially an affiliated faculty member of UK’s Gender and Women’s Studies Program. Currently she is also the Vice-President of Feministas Unidas.
Haralambos (Haris) Symeonidis presented two papers, “Spanish and Guaraní Language Policy and Implementation in Paraguay. Current Status of an ambitious Project” at the 53rd Annual International Linguistic Association Conference at SUNY College at Old Westbury, March 2008, and “El bilingüismo paraguayo y el estado actual del ALGR” at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 2008. Symeonidis published Geschichte und Aktualität der deutschsprachigen Guaraní-Philologie. Münster. Co-editor with Wolf Dietrich. Münster, Lit Verlag, in June 2008. He was awarded a mini grant of $3500 from the University of Kentucky for his research on ALGR (Atlas Lingüístico Guaraní-Románico), December 2007.