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).

Guillermo M. Jodra (World Languages and Cultures) has published a book titled On Hellenism, Judaism, Individualism, and Early Christian Theories of the Subject (Bloomsbury, 2022).    

Guillermo M. Jodra (World Languages and Cultures), presented a paper titled, "Sparta and the Athenian Mirage," on November 13 at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference in Los Angeles, CA.    

Alodia Martin-Martinez (World Languages and Cultures) presented at PAMLA 2022 in a session called Pandora's Xbox: Classical Imagery and Story in Traditional and Emerging Media. The title of the presentation was "Aletheia and the Social Media." 

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) gave an invited paper presentation titled, "La otra verosimilitud cervantina," in the city of Alcázar de San Juan, Spain. The conference was hosted by the City of Alcázar de San Juan, the Grupo de Investigación Siglos de Oro of the University of Navarre, and the Sociedad Cervantina de Alcázar de San Juan…