FALL 2009 NEWS

Professor Fischer recently presented a paper entitled "Metáforas de la desaparición del país en la poesía de la postdictadura" at the International Conference "Chile mira  a sus poetas" held at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in Santiago, Chile. 

Professor María Hernández-Ojeda recently published her manuscript Insularidad narrativa en la obra de Nivaria Tejera: Un archipiélago transatlántico. It was published by Verbum Publishing House in Madrid, Spain.

Professor Maria Paynter's paper Dal personaggio all'autore: tendenze degli studi siloniani dell'ultimo decennio, has been accepted for publication in a volume on Ignazio Silone, ed. by Patricia Peterle, UFSC (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Florianopolis, Brazil, 20

Professor Marithelma Costa recently published the first edited edition of La Resaca, a novel by Enrique A. Laguerre. It belongs to the Clásicos Comentados de la Literatura Puertorriqueña collection, in Plaza Mayor Publishing House.

Professor Marithelma Costa also co-edited Ottavio Di Camillo's Medievalia Humanistica. Estudios sobre literatura española. Homenaje ofrecido por sus amigos y colegas with Professor Isaías Lerner. It was published in Salamanca by Seminario de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas.

PAST NEWS

Student James Hirsh (BA in Spanish, 2009) has been accepted to the Ph.D program at University of California-Irvine. He has been the recipient of the Chancellor's Fellowship, a very prestigious award given only to students with a high GRE score and an exceptional application record.   It is one of the most prestigious fellowships awarded at UC Irvine. The package includes Non Resident Tuition ($14,694) pays for all Non Resident Fees ($10,715.50) and provides the student with a first year stipend of ($18,000). Furthermore,it provides the student with a one year Dissertation Research stipend.  James will begin his graduate studies in the fall 2009.