Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) gave her Presidential Address at the 2022 Linguistic Association of the Southwest annual meeting at Cleveland State University on September 24. Her paper was titled, "Northwestern Amazonian Spanish as a macro-region: The roles of the (socio)-linguist."  Spanish has coexisted with many…

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) participated in a poetry readings series hosted by The Boston Readings project and presented her latest book, The Landlessness (Bezothechestvo) published in Kiev, Ukraine, in June 2022.

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) achieved recertification as a Spanish-English medical interpreter from The Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters and the National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters, the two national organizations that certify medical interpreters. 

Sergio Guzman (World Languages and Cultures) recently presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The session  How is My New OER Textbook Working Out? was based on SPAN 126, a course Guzman developed specially for UNLV. 

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) published a book of poetry, Homelandless, (Publishing House of Oleg Fedorov, Kiev, Ukraine, June 2022). She also published a selection of poetry about war in Ukraine in The New World  magazine (Toronto, Canada). Additionally, she participated in the No War: Poets Against the War …

Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) gave the keynote talk "Spanishes of Peru: Diversity and educational challenges" as part of the events of the Spanish language week organized by the Professional School of Translation and Interpreting of the Women's University of the Sacred Heart (UNIFE) in Lima, Peru.

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has been appointed a visiting fellow at Yale University's MacMillan Center for the 2022-23 academic year. 

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has authored a chapter titled "Ambiguity" in the collected volume Research Handbook on Law and Literature, edited by Cardozo Law School's Peter Goodrich, and published by the UK's Edward Elgar Press. In her chapter, Byrne offers a study of Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes' stylizing of…

Congratulations to the recipients of these 2022 UNLV teaching awards: Outstanding Teaching by Part-Time Faculty Award Xiaoling Hays - Chinese/World Languages and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts Elizabeth "Hope" Hinchman - School of Nursing Yousif Muradian - Finance, Lee School of Business Hiroko Tadano - Japanese/World Languages and…

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) published the article ‘Les particularités de l’Image hugolienne dans le poème « Le Hibou » : analyse imagologique [The particularities of Hugolian image in the poem: ‘The Owl’ : imagological analysis’] in  scientific journal 'Synergie Greece/3rd Congress Acts 2022. The objective of…

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) took part in an online international forum called Innovation, Technology, and Multilingualism earlier this month. She presented a webinar, ‘’Multilingualism and Translation into a Europe of Culture and Knowledge in the Face of the Digital Challenge’’. The conference was organised by the…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published the article "Historias Juridico-creativas por el Jurista Antonio de la Peña" in the journal Hipogrifo. The article compares the use of juridical details by Miguel de Cervantes in his story "El Curioso Impertinente" with the fictional writings by Italian jurist Poggio Bracciolini used in…