Academic Excellence

Degrees Awarded Summer and Fall 2018

Spanish Doctoral

Janie Covarrubias, Ph.D.

Dissertation title: "El Placer de lo prohibido: A propósito de las distintas manifestaciones de lo erótico en la narrativa de Federico Andahazi, Gabriel García Márquez y Mario Vargas Llosa"
Dissertation chair: George Cole
Dissertation committee: Genaro Perez and Antonio Ladeira

• José Luis de la Rosa Prada, Ph.D.
• Ricardo Ivan Schmidt, Ph.D.
• Rubén Varona, Ph.D.
• Omar Isahú Corral Gamboa, Ph.D.

Master of Arts – Languages & Cultures

• Sumaia Ahmed Aldubaikhi, Applied Linguistics
• Ghadi Matouq Alkabkabi, Applied Linguistics

Master of Arts – Romance Languages

• David Arocho-Perez, Spanish
• Daniela Macias, French
• Maria Laura Rieder Sanjurjo, Spanish

Bachelor of Arts - Languages & Cultures

• Abigail Boudreaux, French
• Kaydee E. Jean, Russian Language Area Studies
• Romo, Alexander E, Russian Language Area Studies

Faculty Awards

Catalyst Scholarship Program CMLL Awardees

The Offices of the President, Provost and Vice President for Research announced the 2019 Scholarship Catalyst Program (SCP) recipients. These offices have made $126,000 available to promote research, scholarship, and creative output whose primary goal of promoting the research and creative endeavors of Texas Tech tenured and tenure-track faculty. For selection and review, the SCP is divided into 3 areas: Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. In the area of Humanities, four CMLL faculty members were among the recipients: Peter Barta (Classics), Carole Edwards (French), Don Lavigne (Classics) and Chris Witmore (Classics).

Congratulations go to Pamela Zinn (Classics) and Caroline Bishop (Classics) for having been accepted as Women's and Gender Studies Affiliated Faculty.

Retrospective Exhibition: Ezio Gribaudo: A Lifetime in Art

Curated by Victoria Surliuga, Ph.D., author of "Ezio Gribaudo: The Man in the Middle of Modernism," recipient of the Texas Tech President's Faculty Book Award 2017-2018. The exhibition ran from September 14 to October 31 in the Dean's Gallery Space, Third Floor, Texas Tech University Libraries. The opening of the retrospective exhibition which took place on September 13 at the Texas Tech University Libraries, Croslin Room included an introduction to Ezio Gribaudo, followed by the screening of the documentary, "The White Magic of Ezio Gribaudo" by Marco Agostinelli and Andrea Liuzza. A reception and view of the exhibition followed. The event was presented by Texas Tech University Libraries, Texas Tech College of Arts & Sciences and Texas Tech Friends of the Library.

Rossy Evelin Lima Recognized Poet of the Year

Congratulations to Visiting Assistant Professor, Rossy Evelin Lima who received the Poet of the Year Award at the Instituto Cervantes in New York, The Americas Poetry Festival of New York (TAPFY) on October 12, 2018. The director of TAPFNY, Carlos Aguasaco and the orgranizers Yrene Santos and Carlos Velásquez Torres, granted Lima the award "in recognition for her literary achievements and for her poetry that reflects the dreams of her generation and the true spirit of the Americas". She was selected among 43 distinguished poets from around the world representing 18 countries and 7 languages.

She is the author of the bilingual poetry collection Migrare Mutare / Migrate Mutate (Artepoetica Press, 2017) and the trilingual children's book Noyolkanyolkej. Her work has been published in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies in 9 countries. She has been awarded the Premio Internazionale La Finestra Eterea (Milan, Italy, 2017); the Premio Orgullo Fronterizo Mexicano award by the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (Texas, USA, 2016); the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Altino (Venice, Italy, 2015); the National Gabriela Mistral Award by the Hispanic Honor Society (USA, 2010), among others. She is the president and founder of the Latin American Foundation for the Arts, the founder of the International Latin American Poetry Festival (FeIPoL), and the founder of Jade Publishing.

More information about the award and her achievements can be found by clicking here.

CMLL Faculty Recognized for Faculty Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity

Anita McChesney, Assistant Professor of German, received the Fulbright Specialist Award.

Presentations

Kaiying Hsu (MA Applied Linguistics candidate and GPTI for Chinese) and Dr. Yanlin Wang presented at the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Texas Annual Conference on August 4, 2018 at The University of Texas at Dallas. Kaiying also presented at the 2018 ACTFL Conference with Dr. Yanlin Wang, "To see or not to see" you chat partner: video chatting and foreign language anxiety. Hsu made an online academic presentation entitled, "Principles of designing CALL materials for online Chinese courses with a curse module demonstration" at the 4th Online Chinese Teaching Forum & Workshop (OCTFW), organized by Michigan State University.

28th Annual Conference of the Texas Medieval Association

CMLL co-sponsored the conference of Texas Medieval Association at Texas Tech University from October 25-27, 2018 in the Museum of Texas Tech and on the campus proper.

CMLL Presiders and Presenters:

• John Beusterien (Professor of Spanish), Presider, Medieval Spanish Literature
• Connie Scarborough (Professor of Spanish), "Regulating the Natural World: Alfonso X and the Environment
• Connie Scarborough (Professor of Spanish), Presider, Medieval Disability
• Lucas Wood (Assistant Professor of French) "Senescence as Disability in Late Medieval French Poetry

2018 Annual Conference South Central Modern Language Association, October 19-24, San Antonio, Texas

CMLL presenters

• Gustavo Costa, Spanish ABD. "El espacio urbano como escenario de la violencia de género en los cuentos "Interior <<L>>" de Julio Ramón Ribeyro y "A Língua do P" de Clarice Lispector"
• Maya Edwards, Spanish PhD Candidate. ""The Word on the Street: Literary Geography in Madrid's El Barrio de las Letras
• Irina Mozuliova, Spanish ABD, "Una reescritura feminista: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda traduce "Il faut aimer" de Évariste de Parny".
• Cecilia Palacio-Ribon, Spanish PhD candidate. Mais que uma maçã no escuro: a noite que alumia a condição humana de Vitória em A Maçã no Escuro de Clarice Lispector.
• Genaro J. Pérez, Professor of Spanish. "Sadismo y misoginia en 2666 de Roberto Bolaño"
• Arturo Ramírez, Spanish ABD. Atos discursivos da Carta de Caminha. Uma visão pragmática do achamento.
• Connie L. Scarborough, Professor of Spanish. "Cuesta de Rosario as Microcosm of Cultural Exchange in Andalucía.
• Claudia Schumann, LACU-German MA Candidate, "Sie verlangte gleiche Rechte mit dem Manne, den sie lieben wollte [...]." Emancipation and Equality in Sophie Mereau's Das Blüthenalter der Empfindung.
• Sarah Schiffecker, LACU-German MA Candidate, "Remembering objects and objectifying memories – strategies of a collective culture of remembrance in Jenny Erpenbeck's Dinge, die verschwinden" (Things that disappear)

2018 Heartland Graduate Workshop in Ancient Studies

Brett L. Stine presented a paper entitled "Greeks Paining Babylon: A Preliminary Summary of Archaic and Classical Greek Sources on the City of Babylon" at the 2018 Heartland Graduate Workshop in Ancient Studies hosted by the University of Missouri (Columbia) on October 5-6, 2018.

10th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference

Lorena Alarçon (Spanish GPTI) and Sergio Ruiz-Perez (Spanish GPTI) co-presented a teaching tip titled, "Using Tasks to Develop Comprehensibility of Spoken Second Language Spanish" at the PSLLT 10th Annual Conference at Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa) on September 8, 2018.

III North American Symposium on Galician Studies, October 18-20, Denver, Colorado

Photo: left to right: first Maya Edwards, third, Carmen Pereira-Muro

CMLL presenters

• Maya Edwards, MA Spanish candidate, "Espacio e identidad femenina en Insolación" (pictured left)
• Carmen Pereira-Muro, Professor of Spanish & Department Chair CMLL, "De ruinas, archivos, cementerios y desvanes: la dialéctica entre historiay espacio en Los Pazos de Ulloa" (pictured 3rd from left)

Second Language Research Forum, Montreal, Canada

Photo left to right: Dr. Kimi Nakatsukasa, Xiaoyu Liu, Nagisa Shimizu

Texas Tech Applied Linguistics presented their innovative studies at Second Language Research Forum at Montreal, Canada on October 26-28, 2018. (1) Xiaoyu Liu (MA) and Dr. Kimi Nakatsukasa presented their study about the use of pitch gestures to teach Chinese tones, (2) Nagisa Shimizu (MA) and Dr. Nakatsukasa presented how using iconic gestures enhances vocabulary learning long-term during communicative tasks, (3) Dr. Nakatsukasa, Dr. Aaron Braver (English), and Dr. Miranda Scolari (Psychology), presented how learners' attention (measured by an eye-tracker) to different interest areas on the screen correlates with phonological development and (4) Dr. Shawn Loewen (Michigan State) and Dr. Nakatsukasa presented about the importance of non-verbal features in corrective feedback studies.

Gender and Decolonization in the Iberian World

The Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida hosted the symposium, Gender and Decolonization in the Iberian World, November 15 & 15, 2018. The symposium aimed to examine, from a post-colonial perspective, the entanglements of gender and colonialism in the Iberia world beginning in the nineteenth-century to the present. Speakers explored the role of gender in negotiating resistance to imperial narratives.

CMLL presenters

• Dr. Carmen Pereira-Muro, Duelo imperial: reinscripciones de género en cuentos anti-yanquis de Emilia Pardo Bazán
• Maya Edwards, El espacio, la decolonización nacional y el trato del discurso de la sexualidad feminina en Insolación de Emilia Pardo Bazán
• Manuel Jesús Martín González, Las tres Marías y la perpetuación del estatus quo social a través de las instituciones educativas: la monja y la iglesia ante el advenimiento de la república en Brasil

Association of Hispanists Conference

Photo left to right: Manuel Martin, Carmen Pereira-Muro, Maya Edwards, Gemma Lopez Hevia, Ana Padial, Gema Vela

In June, 2018, the Association of Hispanists Conference was held in Cáceres, Spain.

CMLL presenters

• Dr. Carmen Pereira-Muro
• Maya Edwards
• Gema Vela
• Manuel Jesús Martín González
• Anna Rodríguez Padial
• Vincente Irazo

TexTESOL Conference

Photo Left to Right: Sultan Tawhari, Ghadi Matouq, Sahar Jaf-Shateri

Students Sahar Jaf-Shateri, Ghadi Matouq, Sultan Tawhari, (all three are LACU-Applied Linguistics MA candidates), faculty member Dr. Greta Gorsuch, and retired instructor Dr. Dale Griffee together attended the 2018 TexTESOL Conference in Dallas. Sahar, Ghadi, and Griffee presented on "Who is the Best Teacher? The Native Speaker/Non-native Speaker Controversy." Gorsuch presented on "ESL programs that support international teaching assistants at Texas Universities."

Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Photo left to right: Dr. Brendan Regan, Ana Padial, Laura Rieder, Vicente Iranzo, Lorena Alarcón, and Robin Tieperman-Nispe

Texas Tech Spanish linguistics represented very well at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS)! Six members of the Texas Tech Hispanic Linguistics PhD program presented their sociolinguistics research at the annual Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS) at The University of Texas the weekend of October 27-28. Red Raider Linguistics!

CMLL presenters

• Ana Padial, "Analyzing seseo, ceceo & distinción in the suburbs of Granada"
• Vicente Iranzo, "Effects of linguistic prescriptivism in the Valencia language: the case of the preposition "en""
• Robin Tieperman-Nispel, "Investigating Constraints on Use of Definite Articles with Proper Personal Names in Chilean Spanish"
• Laura Rieder & Lorena Alarçon, "An acoustic and auditory analysis on rhotic assibilation in Northwest Argentina"

Texas Tech Arts & Humanities Graduate Research Conference

The 8th Annual Arts & Humanities Graduate Research Conference took place on November 15, 2018 featuring paper presentations by Texas Tech graduate students, highlighting research and work in the arts and humanities from fields where research engages the Arts and Humanities. Graduate students shared their work using available presentation technologies with an educated non-specialist audience.

CMLL Presenters

• Dora Arnada, (Spanish, Doctoral), "The Dominican-American Bicultural Identity Conveyed through Code-switching, Spanglish and Englañol in Junot Diaz's Short Story Collections Down and This is How You Lose"; Runner-Up in the Contemporary Media Analysis category
• Gustavo Costa, (Spanish, Doctoral), "The Crazy Obsession of Annie Wilkes in the Movie Misery: A Psychoanalytic View"
• Karin De Paula, (LACU-German, MA), "The Importance of Portuguese as a Heritage Language in a Bilingual Context in Tennessee"
• James Haney, (Spanish, MA), "The Haunting Loss of Al-Andalus for Muslims Left in Imperial Spain"
• Dylan Lewis, (LACU-German, MA) "Gothic (II) Legitimacy through Typography in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) and Egger's The VVitch (2015)"
• Sarah Schiffecker, (LACU-German, Master's) "Showing the 'Right Picture' – A Taste of the Xenophobic World of the 'HC Man'"; First Place in the Contemporary Media Analysis category

Dylan Lewis Talk and Conference Presentations

Dylan Lewis was invited to present to Dr. Travis C. Lau's 'Gothic Fiction' courses (sections 1 and 2) at the University of Texas, Austin pm September 13-14, 2018. Lewis presented a paper entitled, "Paratexts and Gothic (II) Legitimacy in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto" at the annual Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) conference at Niagara Falls, Fallsview, ON, Canada on October 11, 2018.

Catalyst - an Ideas Dialog Group

The Texas Tech School of Art hosted the first discussion of the Catalyst Dialog Group on Gloria Anzaldua's book, Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza on November 13th. Maya Edwards (Spanish Doctoral) was an invited guest at the discussion. The group seeks to discover, examine, and share inspiration and ideas among our community.

Dr. Sara Guengerich (Associate Professor of Spanish) gave an invited talk titled 'The Inca Nobles of the Spanish Empire: A Gendered Approach' at Leiden University on November 26, 2018. The talk was organized by the Archeology Department with collaboration of the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples Program. Guengerich explored the transformations of the native nobility in the colonial Andes with an eye on the importance of noble Inca women, and the genealogical claims their descendant made at key moment between 1532 and 1780. She argued that the Spanish notions of the aristocracy triggered, but did not completely destroy the Indians' understanding of nobility, particularly among those who claimed Inca descent.

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