LACLS is the campus partner for the weekly “Campus Dialogues” series at UA Crossroads, with a focus on “Migration and Immigration at the U.S. Border.” Please join us! This event is open to students, staff, and faculty, and it promises to be very interesting. Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1:00 to 1:50, in the Great Hall […]
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Micah McKay’s most recent article, “Una imagen deliciosa sobre los escombros: la producción y estética de las ruinas en Trilogía sucia de La Habana,” was published in Romance Notes in December, 2019. […]
The Department of Modern Languages and Classics was well represented at the recent Fall Graduation, with several of our students completing their programs. In the pictures below you can see Cole Lewter, Michaela Nuesser, Julius Zirngibl, Timothy Alford, Katherine Lightfoot, and Marcel Foerster, during the event, accompanied by our chair Dr. Douglas Lightfoot and Dr. […]
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Public lecture given by Dr. Chad Howe, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Georgia. This presentation will focus on the use of corpus data in understanding ongoing linguistic change in Spanish and Portuguese intensifiers. Intensifiers are known to be prime candidates for gauging language change and variation (across regions and age groups) […]
Dr. Micah McKay’s co-edited volume, with Kata Beilin and Kathleen Connolly, “Environmental Cultural Studies Through Time: The Luso-Hispanic World,” was published by Hispanic Issues On Line (University of Minnesota Press) in November, 2019. The volume feature’s Dr. McKay’s article, “Trash and the Coming Community: Portrayals of Trash and Trash Workers in Argentina and Brazil.” […]
Dr. Rey Romero (University of Houston-Downtown) will address the role of language in society and the incidence of sociopolitical contexts in language development and use, with a focus on language shift, language and identity, and language maintenance. Dr. Romero is an Associate Professor of Spanish (Ph.D., Georgetown University) at The University of Houston-Downtown. In addition […]
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Lecture given by Dr. Claudia Cabello Hutt, Associate Professor of Spanish at UNC-Greensboro. Discussion and reception to follow. […]
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Dr. Ana Corbalán completed her latest co-edited (with María José Hellín) book, Todos a movilizarse: Protesta y activismo social en la España del siglo XXI. Published by Anthropos. https://www.anthropos-editorial.com/DETALLE/TODOS-A-MOVILIZARSE-DA-008 […]
Congratulations to Resha Swanson on her graduation this December! Resha is getting her Bachelor of Social Work & Bachelor of Arts in Spanish/ Minor in Political Science. Resha has been the President of the Spanish Club: Alabama Students without Borders for the past year. She has been a dedicated and valued member of this student […]
