Statement from Dr. Xiang Zhang, Chinese Program Director: I’m pleased to announce that two Chinese Minor students, Aparna Bhooshanan and Addison Miller, have been selected for the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS)
Tag: Spanish
Dr. Micah McKay receives honorable mention for Harold G. Jones Best Essay Award
Join us in congratulating Dr. McKay, whose article “Bare Life and Biopolitics in El Rey de La Habana” received an honorable mention for the Harold G. Jones best essay award
Dr. Laura Rubio featured on “Enseñar idiomas” podcast
Dr. Laura Rubio engages in a dialogue with Helene Colinet, uncovering profound insights in an enlightening podcast now available on various platforms, including Spotify. Dr. Rubio, UA’s Spanish Basic Language
Dr. Xabier Granja to give keynote speech at Universidad de Murcia symposium
On Tuesday, December 12th, Dr. Granja will be giving the inaugural keynote speech at a literary symposium organized by the Universidad de Murcia and two literary journals, ARTYHUM and Monteagudo.
Spanish graduate student Vanessa Lent to begin Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in January
Vanessa Lent, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, is a graduate student in Spanish literature and graduate instructor of record in the 100-200 level of Spanish. A 2022 summa cum laude UA
Spanish graduate student Iñigo Parra to present at EMNLP (WiNLP) in Singapore
Iñigo Parra has been accepted to present his work “Do You Speak Basquenglish? Assessing Low-resource Multilingual Proficiency of Pretrained Language Models” at this year’s workshop in Widening Natural Language Processing
Four graduate students from Spanish present in November conferences
On the weekend of November 9th-11th, four current graduate students of Spanish and one former student presented at multiple conferences. Alejandro Botia and Russell Galloway presented at this year’s meeting
Drs. Cipria and O’Rourke share new work at the Faculty Research Showcase
On Tuesday, Oct. 31st, Drs. Cipria and O’Rourke presented their research on the Linguistic Landscape in Tuscaloosa at the Faculty Research Showcase.