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RETIRING STAFF
The Department wishes to express its deep appreciation to Georganne Davies, our administrative assistant of many years, retiring at the end of the fall semester, whom all students name as the one person they most thank and remember when they graduate from our department.
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| The Department wishes to express its deep appreciation also to Susana Castaño-Schultz and Richard Hattendorf who retired in Spring 2008. Prof. Castaño-Schultz joined the faculty part time in 1987 and full time in 1992. During her career, she has served as advisor, coordinator of Spanish 1001-1004, and has taken a number of summer study abroad groups to Argentina. Dr. Hattendorf joined the French faculty in 1988. In his career, he has been chair of the French Curriculum Committee, and of the department's Personnel Committee. He has taught honors seminars about the tradition of love in the West in literary sources from the Gilgamesh epic to Breton's surrealist work Nadja. He published articles and book reviews in his field of aesthetics of the visual and the verbal in Pierre Reverdy and Juan Gris's Au Soleil du Plafond. | VISITING FACULTY |
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The Department is pleased to welcome Peter Green as Whichard Distinguished Visiting Professor for Spring 2009.
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 | CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF ALUMNI The Friends of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, with the generous support of university administration and alumni relations, hosted a centennial celebration of our alumni on March 27. Over 80 distinguished graduates, many of them foreign language educators themselves, returned to Greenville to share in our founders day centennial, reconnect with each other and the department, and meet the faculty. The distinguished group included two of ECU's 100 Incredible Women and wonderful reminders for us all of the profound usefulness of a liberal education emphasizing languages. | STUDY ABROAD | |
 FERRARA EXCHANGE Six faculty members and administrators visited the University of Ferarra in Italy from February 29 to March 5. The purpose of the visit was to revive faculty and student exchange programs with Ferarra, ECU's oldest international partner (the first agreement of cooperation with Ferarra was signed in 1986). The delegation included Tom Allen (Communication), Bob Christian (Biology), Steve Culver (Geology), Bob Edwards (Sociology), Charles Fantazzi (Foreign Languages), and Deirdre Mageean (Research and Graduate Studies). IN THE NEWS | | |
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DISTANCE EDUCATION
Michael Schinasi is offering the first lower level of Spanish 1001 as a DE class for students off campus. The class aims at being a true communicative class using VOIP. Right now it has students from Dunn, Charlotte, Wilson, Elkin, Greenville, and as far away as St. Vincent Island in the Caribbean. We intend to offer Spanish 1002 DE in the Spring.
NEW FACULTY
Ricard Viñas de Puig joins the faculty as Assistant Professor of Spanish.
PROMOTIONS
NEW FIXED TERM FACULTY
NEW FACULTY BOOKS |
 | Javier Lorenzo
Nuevos casos, nuevas artes, (Peter Lang 2007).
Intertextualidad, autorrepresentación e ideología en la obra de Juan Boscán. Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, vol. 158.
This book is a study of the work of the Renaissance poet Juan Boscán in relation to the emerging discourses of courtliness, self-representation, imitation, and empire that shaped early modern Spanish culture, and challenges the oversimplified image of Boscán as an irrelevant poet that has prevailed in academic circles on both sides of the Atlantic. | | |
 Jill Twark
Humor, Satire, and Identity
Eastern German Literature in the 1990s (Walter de Gruyter 2007).
This is the first book in English to survey the Eastern German literary trend of employing humor and satire to come to terms with experiences in the German Democratic Republic and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. As sophisticated attempts to make sense of socialism's failure and a difficult unification process, these contemporary texts help define Germany today from a specific, Eastern German perspective. Grounded in politics and history, ten humorous and satirical novels are analyzed for their literary aesthetics and language, cultural critiques, and socio-political insights. RESEARCH AWARDS | |
 | Charles Fantazzi
was awarded an NEH summer stipend to work on his edition, translation, and commentary of The Poems of Michele Marullo for the I Tatti Renaissance Library series from Harvard University Press. Marullo Tarcaniota was a late 15th century Italian poet whose works include four books of epigrams, four books of Hymni naturales with naturalistic and astrological themes modeled on Lucretius, and the fragmentary De principum institutione. | | |
 Paul Fallon
won the College Research Award for Spring 2008 to work on his book analyzing "Time on the Line: Negotiations of Community, Subjectivity, Nation, and Agency in Northern Mexican Border Narratives". Current theoretical work on cultures of the Mexican-American border treats the borderlands as a spatial abstraction. Yet northern Mexican border writers are concerned with concrete realities and show a temporal sensitivity in their narrative. This study analyzes how works by regional authors generate distinct reckonings of time in describing border experiences. In relating the times of history, memory, consumption, and the body, these narratives contest dominant gender roles and a centralized State; they also question the timing of national literature in a transnational context. | |
 | David Smith
has been awarded a Faculty Research Visit Grant by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) to visit archives in Leipzig and Erfurt. Smith will analyze the degree to which commemorations of Gutenberg's printing press in 1740 Saxony privilege German speakers over the citizenry of Spain, France and England, each of whom possessed colonies and a recognized standardized language when Germans did not. | EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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