Spanish major awarded the Founder's Medal:
Spanish major awarded the Founder's Medal: Robert George Tauscher, from Geneva Ill., earned the 2013 Founder's Medal for the College of Arts and Science. Rob graduated as a Bachelor of Arts with majors in both Spanish and Biological Sciences. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish Honor Society, and was a co-winner of the Katharine B. Woodward Prize for Excellence in Spanish Studies and a nominee for a Rhodes Scholarship. He was an academic All-American in rowing and was active in the Maní+ project, which works to reduce the incidence of malnutrition in Guatemala. This fall, he will begin his studies at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Professor Fitz delivered a keynote address at the Texas Tech University
Professor Fitz delivered a keynote address at the Texas Tech University conference on "Frontiers and Borders: Life on the Fringe of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds, and Beyond." He spent three days talking with faculty, students, and administrators about what was described as his "groundbreaking and innovative work" in comparative approaches to Latin American and Inter-American literature and to comparative Iberian studies. His keynote was given using English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French languages.

Professor Earl Fitz gave an invited lecture at Northwestern University
Professor Earl Fitz gave an invited lecture at Northwestern University on "Soccer: The 'Jogo Bonito' as Motif in Brazilian Literature." He presented a paper on "Portugal, Brazil, and Inter-American Studies: The Luso-Brazilian World Takes the Lead" at the annual meeting of the American Portuguese Studies Association held at the University of Iowa.

Professor Philip D. Rasico has recently published the article "Josep Moran i l'edició de textos catalans antics,"
Professor Philip D. Rasico has recently published the article "Josep Moran i l'edició de textos catalans antics,"

Professor Jrade and Professor Karageorgou
Jrade, Cathy L.; Karageorgou-Bastea, Christina (eds.): Vervuert An exciting conceptual thread in most of the contributions in this volume, a thematic undercurrent, might be the relationship between the intimate and the political, the personal and the historical. The different essays by specialists such as Gwen Kirkpatrick, Bruno Bosteels, Michelle Clayton or Roberta Quance, touch upon poetry as the discursive link between the subject and the world, the voice and its others, always in a relation with normative social restrictions. For some of the authors, intimacy is a critical perspective; in other cases, it informs their analysis thematically. Intimacy involves an interpellation, not a mere reading that joins together the text and the reader; finally, as the other face of history, poetic intimacy reveals the complexities of enthusiasm and resentment as social affects. Cathy L. Jrade is Chancellor's Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Christina Karageorgou-Bastea is Associate Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt.

Professor Philip D. Rasico is the author of a new article:
Professor Philip D. Rasico is the author of a new article:

Karin Davidovich and Cory Duclos have been granted a Dissertation Enhancement Grant.
Karin Davidovich and Cory Duclos have been granted a Dissertation Enhancement Grant.

Denise Callejas was presented with an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Denise Callejas was presented with an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award at the faculty Meeting of the College of Arts and Science. She was one of only two students in the entire College recognized for their teaching. Congratulations, Denise.

Professor Philip D. Rasico presented a paper titled “Joan Sales, Joan Coromines i la llengua catalana”
Professor Philip D. Rasico presented a paper titled "Joan Sales, Joan Coromines i la llengua catalana" at the international conference Joan Sales: Homenatge Nacional Centenari (1912-1983) held in Girona (Catalonia), Spain, on November 23, 2012. On November 24, 2012, Professor Philip D. Rasico participated in a roundtable panel discussion in Sitges (Catalonia), Spain, in conjunction with the presentation of the volume Jornades de la Secció Filològica de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans a Sitges. Homenatge a Josep Roca-Pons (14 i 15 de maig de 2010). The presentation and discussion were organized by the Institut d'Estudis Catalans and the Grup d'Estudis Sitgetans.

Professor Susan Berk-Seligson, after giving invited talk at the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee
Professor Susan Berk-Seligson gave invited talks at the annual meeting of the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Project (an organization of lawyers who specialize in Mexican capital punishment cases), in Santa Fe, New Mexico (October 11, 2012), the Vanderbilt University Law School (October 17), and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee (October 19). The talks dealt with immigrants' comprehension of Spanish translations of the Miranda rights.