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News
New Faculty Member
We are very pleased to welcome Professor Ryan Giles (PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Professor Giles specializes in Medieval and Renaissance literature and culture in an Iberian context. His research focuses on Castilian, Latin, Portuguese and Catalan texts, with an emphasis on connections between folklore, material culture, iconography and various types of prose and poetic genres including sermons, oaths and parodic hagiography.
Professor Darlene Sadlier is recipient of the College’s 2012 Distinguished Faculty Award
- Darlene J. Sadlier
Sadlier, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, began her career at Indiana University in 1978. She has been director of the Department's Portuguese program for 32 years. Her books cover a wide range of subject matter that includes Lusophone literature, history, film and art.
Professor Kimberly Geeslin receives GSAC Faculty Mentor award.
- Professor Kimberly Geeslin received the 2012 Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Advisory Committee Faculty Mentor Award in recognition of the diligent guidance and extensive support she has provided for graduate students both in and beyond the classroom.
Fafulas wins NSF dissertation enhancement award
- Doctoral student Stephen Fafulas was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation grant to support his dissertation research on second language acquisition under the supervision of Professor Kimberly Geeslin. His project, entitled “First and Second-Language Patterns of Variation: Acquisition and Use of Simple Present and Present Progressive Forms in Spanish and English” will include data from……
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Undergraduate Spanish major and recent IU graduate, Rachel Geissler (BA ’13, Spanish and Anthropology) was awarded a prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Mexico for 2013-2014.
Archived News
- The Spring 2008 issue of the IUF magazine, Matching the Promise, has a story on Donald Riskind, an alumnus that just created a fellowship in Spanish. The article is called “En Español, Por Favor.”
Events
Previous Events
- Working Group on Iberoamerican Imperial Histories, Spring 2013 schedule
- Lecture by Dr. Adrienne Martín, University of California, Davis “Quixotic Animals” Wednesday, April 17th
- Screenings of Night Across The Street directed by Raúl Ruiz (April 5-27)
- IU CINEMA - Fifty Years of Brazilian Cinema: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
- 3rd Annual Spanish and Portuguese Song Festival, Monday April 1 from 5 to 7pm
- 2012-2013 Fulbright Dissertation Fellows. Jaison Castro Silva (Universidade Federal do Ceará), Lorena Santos (Universidade de Brasília) Friday, March 29 - Room change BH 236
- Lecture by Dr. E. Michael Gerli “The Gathering Storm: Pre-Expulsion Converso Apologia in Castile 1391-1492” Thursday, March 21st
- Lecture by Dr. Luis Ortiz “Languages in Contact - Spanish and Haitian Creole: Acquisition of Interface Phenomena among Bilinguals” Friday, March 1st
- Workshop: "Linguistic Variation in Caribbean Spanish" by Dr. Luis Ortiz, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Thursday, February 28th
- Lecture by Professor James Buckwalter-Arias, Hanover College,
"El origenismo ante la literatura mundial" Wednesday, February 27th - Working Group on Iberoamerican Imperial Histories, Fall 2012 schedule
- Sociocognitive Second Language Acquisition, Dr. Dwight Atkinson
Nov 15, 1:00 pm, IMU Sassafrass Room - Lecture and Reading by Alexis Levitin
(SUNY- Plattsburgh) 2pm, Monday, Oct. 29th, BH 004 - Lecture by John N. Crossley
Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Australia
Challenging Cultures in the Early Spanish Philippines Friday, October 26 - Hispanic Poetry reading with Professor John Nieto-Phillips, Friday, October 26
- Lecture by Professor Jennifer Smith
Southern Illinois University "The Interplay of Race, Class, and Gender in Emilia Pardo Bazán's Insolación" Friday, October 19 - 60th Anniversary Celebration &
Merle E. Simmons Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Friday, September 21 - Desencuentros Program
- Lecture by João Ubaldo Ribeiro
- Ninth Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
Special Lilly Library exhibit: The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora January 13 - April 30, 2012- Lecture: “Joan Maragall and the Affects of Catalanism” Professor Javier Krauel
University of Colorado, Boulder
Friday, November 18, 2011, 4:30P-6:00P
Dogwood Room, IMU - MESDA Lecture
- Adriana Lisboa Lecture (Fall 2010)
- Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 2010
- Pía Barrios Lecture (Spring 2010)
- Sacred and Profane in the Early Modern Hispanic World Symposium
- Conversation with Hèctor López Bofill
- Scholar-in-Residence, Andrew Cohen, University of Minnesota
- Scholar-in-Residence and Annual Catalan Lecture, 2008
- MEM Past Events
- Lecture by Professor Geoffrey Ribbans, Spring 2007
- Scholar-in-Residence Lecture, Fall 2006
Archived Events
- Brown Bag series in Literatures in Spanish (Spring 2013)
- Brown Bag series in Hispanic Linguistics (Spring 2013)
- Brown Bag series in Literatures in Spanish (Fall 2012)
- Brown Bag series in Hispanic Linguistics (Fall 2012)
- Brown Bag series in Literatures in Spanish (Spring 2012)
- Brown Bag series in Hispanic Linguistics (Spring 2012)
- Brown Bag series in Literatures in Spanish (Fall 2011)
- Brown Bag series in Hispanic Linguistics (Fall 2011)
- Brown Bag series in Literature and Culture (Spring 2011)
- Brown Bag series in Hispanic Linguistics (Spring 2011)
- Graduate Student Research Forum (Spring 2011)
- Brown Bag series in Literature and Culture (Fall 2010)
- Brown Bag series in Hispanic Linguistics (Fall 2010)
- Brown Bag series in Hispanic Linguistics (Spring 2010)
- Brown Bag Series in Literature (Fall 2009)
- Brown Bag Series in Linguistics (Fall 2009)
- Brown Bag Series in Literature (Spring 2009)
- Brown Bag series in Hispanic Linguistics (Spring 2009)
- Brown Bag series in Hispanic Linguistics (Fall 2008)
- Brown Bag series in Hispanic Linguistics (2007-08)
- Brown Bag series in Literature (2007-08)
