Andrew Kauffman (World Languages and Cultures) chaired a panel and presented a paper at the 2023 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention in Denver, CO. His paper was titled, "Representations of Aging and Old Age in Zhou Daxin's The Sky Darkens Slowly." 

Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) presented “Exploring Present Perfect Grammaticalization in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish” at the Linguistic Association of the Southwest annual meeting at the University of Colorado Denver. This study analyzes verb forms in sociolinguistic interviews and explores language variation in an Amazonian Spanish…

Professor Julián Barroso-Merino (World Languages and Cultures Department) presented "Cognitive, metacognitive strategies and processing fluency in acquisition of Spanish vocabulary" during the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 2023 Conference in Salamanca, Spain, on June 26-29. This case analysis demonstrates that…

Julián Barroso-Merino and Sergio Guzmán (both World Languages and Cultures) presented preliminary results of their ongoing research into actions taken to combat declining enrollments by world languages departments in community colleges across the country. The presentation titled, "What are we doing about low enrollment?" was part of the Community…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper titled, "La estética de la belleza en Cervantes," during the XXI Conference of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, held in Neuchatel, Switzerland, from July 10-15, 2023.

The department of world languages and cultures hosted the French government's DELF/DALF exams from June 12-15. Coordinated by Margaret Harp and the Alliance Française de Las Vegas, the DELF (Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française) and DALF (Diplôme approfondi de langue française) are official qualifications awarded by the French…

Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) presented the research paper, "Revisiting the present perfect in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish,” in the II international Congress ALFALito held at Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) from May 2-5, 2023.  

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) recorded a selection of specially recorded texts based on the anthology The Doomsday Poetry: Chronicles (2022) for the Time of War International conference at Princeton University. 

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper titled, "Spain's Laws (and Literature) on Gypsies," at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, held this year in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures), Roberto Zairquiey (PUCP), Pilar Valenzuela (Chapman University), and Anna Maria Escobar (UIUC), co-edited the book Spanish Diversity in the Amazon. Dialect and Language Contact Perspectives. The manuscript was published by Brill. This book, the first of its kind, is dedicated to different Spanish…

Andrew Kauffman's (World Languages and Cultures) translation of Shen Congwen's 1932 short story titled, "The Doctor," is forthcoming in the autumn issue (no. 98) of the Chinese literary translation magazine Renditions.

Guillermo M. Jodra (World Languages and Cultures) has published a book titled: On Regular Life, Freedom, Modernity, and Augustinian Communitarianism (Bloomsbury, 2022).