Accomplishments: Department of World Languages and Cultures
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented the paper "Ficino's Plotinian Metaphysics in Early Modern Spanish Poetics" during the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) conference held in New Orleans earlier this month. She also chaired three conference sessions, and completed her three-year term as Discipline Representative in…
Lizette Arellano, José Galindo and Patricia Zavala (all World Languages and Cultures) presented research papers at the 12th annual Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Conference at the University of California, Riverside earlier this month. Galindo presented “Oppression, Authoritarianism and Religion in Nada.” Zavala presented “The Impact of the…
Lizette Arellano, Shaun Mangelson, and Manuel Rodríguez-Pérez (all World Languages and Cultures) attended the third annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities held at Sacramento State University in October. They presented as a panel a series of essays on the Spanish post-war novel Nada written by Carmen Laforet. The panel covered a…
Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Creating an Intermediate Medical Spanish Program at an Urban University," at the 75th meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) participated in a debate with professor Eric Graf of the Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala), titled "Tilting at Windmills." The July 22 debate about the multiple messages in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote, was a breakout session during the 11th annual conference (…
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) recently presented at two international conferences. The first presentation, “Los tres poderes incorpóreos en Cervantes, desde La Galatea al Persiles,” was presented in June at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, at Tromso, during a conference titled Cervantes en el Septentrión. The…
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) published "'Essentiae' en Ficino y en el Quijote: Las letras y la preceptiva cervantina" in Cervantes ayer y hoy, a volume of essays on Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes edited by Nuria Morgado and Lía Schwartz, and published by the Hispanic Society of America in New York.
Elena Gandía García (World Languages and Cultures) has been awarded UNLV's Division of Educational Outreach Faculty Excellence Award for 2017. Her efforts will be formally recognized at an awards ceremony April 19.
Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) authored a chapter titled "The Present Perfect in Peruvian Spanish: An Analysis of Personal Experience Narratives among Migrant Generations in Lima" that appears in the book Aorists and Perfects edited by Marc Fryd and Pierre-Don Giancarli (Université de Poitiers 2017).
Margarita Jara Yupanqui (World Languages and Cultures) participated in an international symposium on Indo-American Languages in Contact, with Juan Carlos Godenzzi (University of Montreal), José Ramón Carriazo (UNED, Madrid), and Munia Cabal (Western Illinois University). The event "El español y las lenguas indoamericanas: interactividad y…
Giuseppe Natale (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, “’The Oil Route’ by Bernardo Bertolucci: An (Un)tech Documentary,” during a session titled "Italian Literature and Film" at the annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages earlier this month in Boston.
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) recently gave two invited presentations:
"Marsilio Ficino in Spain: The Spiritus," at the Department of Hispanic and Portuguese Studies of the University of Pennsylvania on Nov. 18
"Las constituciones cervantinas, en la política del siglo XVII español y la del XVIII…