Announcements
- SLC is excited and proud to announce that Professor Hongjian Wang Route has been awarded the 2022 Gordon White Prize for her article in the prestigious journal The China Quarterly! Hers was selected as the most original of the 27 articles nominated for this honor.”
- Congratulations to Dr. Elena Coda, Professor of Italian and SLC’s Associate Head, for winning the Society of Authors’ John Florio Book Prize along with her co-translator Nicholas Benson for their translation of Scipio Slataper’s My Karst and My City (U of Toronto Press, 2020).
- Congratulations to Dr. Erin Moodie on her promotion to Associate Professor of Classics, and Dr. Daniel J. Olson on his promotion to Professor of Spanish Linguistics.
- SLC is proud to announce that the NEH Humanities Connections Implementation Grant was again this year Purdue, with SLC’s Dr. Lori Czerwionka as the project director in conjunction with colleagues in Engineering and GEARE – Kirsten Davis, Joe Tort, and Gabriel Rios-Rojas
- Congratulations to Atsushi Fukada, professor of Japanese and Linguistics, and Mariko Wei, Associate Professor of Japanese, Linguistics, and Asian Studies both in the Schools of Languages and Cultures and Interdisciplinary Studies for the recent publication of their online Japanese language textbook, Learn Japanese Online: Elementary (LJO)
- Congratulations to Alejandro Cuza, professor of Spanish, Linguistics & Latin American and Latino Studies for receiving and accepting a Fullbright U.S. scholar award
- Congratulations to Dr. Hongjian Wang Route, professor of Chinese, for Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure
- Congratulations to Paul Dixon, professor of Spanish & Portuguese for his new book
- Congratulations to Elena Coda, Professor of Italian for getting promoted to Professor
- Congratulations to Professor Emerita of Spanish Patty Hart for receiving the “Walk the Talk” Award from Purdue's Office of Ethics and Compliance in 2021.
The award was established in 2014 by the Office of the Vice President for Ethics and Compliance to recognize the importance of those members of the university community who exhibit the characteristics outlined in Purdue’s Statement of Integrity and Code of Conduct. Nominees should exemplify strong ethical character in their dealings with others, champion ethical practices or programs, and apply personal values to demonstrate integrity and high standards of excellence.
- Congratulations to John Sundquist, Professor of German for getting promoted to Professor
- Congratulations to Olga Dmitrieva, Professor of Russian and Linguistics for getting promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
- Congratulations to Alejandro Cuza-Blanco, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics for winning the College of Liberal Arts "Outstanding Graduate Teacher" Award
- Congratulations to Cara Kinnally, professor of Spanish for getting promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
- Congratulations to Clotilde Landais, professor of French for getting promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
- Upcoming Conference!
Call for Papers: Exploring Space in the Middle Ages 2018 Medieval Association of the Midwest Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
We invite submissions of abstracts (c. 250 words) for the 2018 Medieval Association of the Midwest Conference, to be held at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, October 4-6, 2018. The Middle Ages are broadly perceived conceptually in the cultural imagination, as occupying a place “in the middle” of bookend periods. The perception, recognition, and analysis of space in relation to this period of time cover a wide range of topics, including, but not restricted to Space and nation; space, place and identity; extra-terrestrial space; the body in space; cartography; space beyond the senses; digital humanities projects involving space; occupying space; textual space; sound and space in the context of acoustics; medievalisms: creating a new medieval space. We also welcome abstracts on topics that are not directly related to the theme of the conference. Please send abstracts, queries, and questions, to MAM2018.Purdue@gmail.com by June 30, 2018. - Congratulations to Thomas Broden, professor of French on co-editing two special issues of a peer-reviewed international journal, Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l'Association Internationale de Semiotique (Berlin: De Gruyter).
For more information click HERE. - Congratulations to John Sundquist, associate professor of German and linguistics and chair of German and Russian for winning the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching award
For more information click HERE - Congratulations to Erin Moodie, assistant professor of Classics for winning the 2018 LADISLAUS J. BOLCHAZY PEDAGOGY BOOK award for her published guide to Plautus' Roman comedy POENULUS (THE LITTLE CARTHAGINIAN)
For more information click HERE
Prof. Moodie was also recently awarded the - Congratulations to Alejandro Cuza, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics on his newest publication: Cuban Spanish Dialectology Language Variation and Change (GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017).
For more information click HERE
- Congratulations to Madeleine M. Henry, Professor and Head of the School of Languages and Cultures on the publication of Atlantis Otherwise: Receptions of the Classics in the African Diaspora of the Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds (ELISA G. RIZO AND MADELINE M. HENRY, ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD 2016).
For more information click HERE - Congratulations to John Sundquist, Associate Professor of German in the School of Languages and Cultures for being selected as a College of Liberal Arts OUTSTANDING GRADUATE TEACHER FOR 2016-2017.
- Congratulations to Jennifer Marston William, Professor in the School of Languages and Cultures on the recent publication of her monograph, Cognitive Approaches to German Historical Film: SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING (PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2017).
For more information click HERE
- Congratulations to Alejandro Cuza, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Lori Czerwionka, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, and Daniel J. Olson, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics for their new volume "Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From Theory to Empirical Evidence", published by John Benjamins.
- Congratulations to Atsushi Fukada, Professor of Japanese and Linguistics, and Mayu Miyamoto, a doctoral student in the School of Languages and Cultures upon receiving a 2016 "Excellence in Distance Learning" award.
For more details click HERE - Congratulations to Elena Coda, Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature and incoming Associate Head of the School of Languages and Cultures, and Ben Lawton, Associate Professor and Chair of Italian studies and co-founder and former long-time director of the Film and Video Studies program who served as editors of Re-visioning Terrorism: A Humanistic Perspective, published by Purdue University press earlier this year.
For more details, click HERE - Congratulations to Beate Allert, Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Film and Chair of the Department of German and Russian on serving as editor of J. G Herder: From Cognition to Cultural Science.
Click HERE for more details. - Congratulations to Jackson Havens, Spanish & Linguistics Major. Jackson has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Spain!
For more details, click HERE - Congratulations to Megan O'Connell, Spanish, Linguistics, and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. She has received a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Peru!
For more details, click HERE - Congratulations to Benjamin Rich, with a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and minor in Spanish and Military Science. He has received a Fulbright Study/Research grant to South Korea!
For more details, click HERE - Congratulations to Daniel J. Olson, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics. He is one of the two Purdue faculty to have been selected as recipients of the Class of 1922 Outstanding Innovation in Helping Students Learn award.
For more details, click HERE - Non-Degree option in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese!
In addition to the traditional Masters and Ph.D. programs, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Purdue offers a non-degree option that helps students complete professional requirements, develop new knowledge and skills, or explore graduate school options. Each semester the department will offer Spanish graduate courses in the evening. These courses are taught by leading scholars in Spanish literature, linguistics, film, and culture. Some courses will accommodate distance-learning options. Click HERE for more information and application/enrollment instructions - Congratulations to Liz Mercier who was recognized in Dean Reingold's "For the Honor" column on the College of Liberal Arts website.
Liz has been awarded a competitive fellowship to complete the Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies at the Pontificial Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto and Rome. Click HERE to read the full article.
- Congratulations to Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Associate Professor of Arabic, and Lynne Dahmen, part-time lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures for collaborating with the West Lafayette Public Library to secure the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys collection for the library in 2013.
Click HERE for more details.
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