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University of FloridaCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Message from the Chair

Messages from the Graduate Coordinator, Spanish ...... 2 the Undergraduate Advisor, Spanish .... 2Portuguese Program Report .....................3Finita, la Gringa......................................3Study Abroad Programs .......................46Faculty News ..................................... 6, 7

Graduate Student News ..........................8Alumni News .................................... 8, 9Oral History ........................................... 9Focus on Faculty: Jesse Gleason ............ 10Student Awards ................................... 11Sigma Delta Pi...................................... 11

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in this endeavor, since some o the degrees brequire at least two semesters o a oreign langare in the process o developing Beginning Spor these online-only degrees. This is a new adus, having never o ered beginning language

entirely online be ore, and we are treading censure that the high quality o our language procompromised by the lack o ace-to- ace time. Dis spearheading this initiative, and we look orwthe results. Another curricular development we are excithe creation o our new Certi icate in Spanish essions. The 12-credit certi icate program will students majoring in pro essional or other ieldthe speci ic Spanish skills and cul-tural understanding that they willneed to be success ul in todays world, while urthering their overallcommunicative pro iciency. The cer-ti icate is going through the approval

process now, but we anticipate o er-ing specialized courses or business,health pro essions, legal pro essions,translation and education within thenext year. I hope to have updates or you in next years newsletter! Finally, we are working to increase awareinterest in our Spanish and Portuguese majors, on campus and through social media. We haveredesigned our departmental webpage ( www.spanish portuguese.u l.edu), which we hope will make user- riendly and more attractive to our potentiat all levels. We also continue to update our Fa(University o Florida Spanish and Portugueand Friends), so be sure to check us out, and ee

us comments there. Finally, this semester weirst Major Event to in orm language student possibilities or and advantages o majoring inPortuguese. Dr. Moreland has more to say aboin this newsletter it was an exciting event so bhis update. And so with that, I leave you to peruse thenews and updates. As always, thank you or yousupport o our department and your ongoing coto the study o Spanish and Portuguese. Best wall or a happy, success ul and productive acade

Gillian Lord

Dear riends, students and alumni othe Department o Spanish and PortugueseStudies

I enjoy writing this letter or our annual

newsletter, as it provides me the opportu-nity to re lect on the previous years chal-lenges and accomplishments, and to share with you those things that most enthuse meabout being part o this department. At thistime last year we were still eeling the nega-tive e ects o the economic downturn. This year, although times are still lean, things arebeginning to look up. And while we stillace a situation o reduced aculty and sta ,

we are making the most o the resources wedo have to move our department orward.

We were thrilled to learn recently thatan anonymous donor had made a substan-tial gi t to our departments Enhancement

Fund, a spendable account that allows usto as the name implies enhance ourteaching and research. The unds rom thisgenerous donation will be used by our ac-ulty and students to support study abroad,invite speakers to campus, and help ourgraduate students carry out their researchmore e ectively and e iciently. This news was an excellent way to kick o our newacademic year in great spirits. We are also excited to start the new aca-demic year with two new aculty members.Dr. Jesse Gleason has joined our depart-ment to take coordinate our large lowerdivision Spanish and Portuguese programs.

Although she has just arrived, her enthu-

siasm and her expertise have already beenmade apparent and we look orward tothe work she will do with us. Dr. ValerieTrujillo, a recent PhD graduate o our pro-gram, also joins us this year as a Visiting

Assistant Pro essor o Hispanic Linguistics.On the student side o the department, we welcomed a promising class o ten newgraduate students to our Masters and Doc-toral programs in literatures and linguistics.These students come rom all over andbring a vast array o previous experience with them as they begin their coursework with us. Welcome to you all as well!

Many o you are amiliar with the work we do regularly in our research and teach-ing, and we continue to do that and doit well. Our aculty have published a dozenbooks and over i ty articles and scholarlyreviews over the past year, in addition to

presenting our work at scores o con erencesin the U.S. and abroad. We serve on edito-rial boards or journals all over the world,and hold important positions with other prestigious organizations. We continue toteach hundreds o language students each year, and are serving our growing numberso majors (the number o Portuguese majors jumped 45% over the last year!) and minors with innovative courses each semester. But we are also involved in some new ventures you may be interested to learn about.

You might have heard o UF-Online,the University o Floridas new ully-onlineour-year degree programs, which will begin

in Spring 2014. Our department is involved

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From the Graduate Coordinator of Spanish:Dr. Luis lvarez-CastroI am very pleased to report the many outstanding accomplishments achieved by ourgraduate students during the 20122013 academic year.

Degrees Conferred and Professional Placement (when applicable):Mabel Cardec (MA) Jenni er Cabrelli-Amaro (PhD) - US Air Force Academy Sophia Durand (MA)David Giancaspro (MA)Donna Gillespie (PhD) - College o DuPageCarlos Enrique Ibarra (MA)Ti any Judy (PhD) - Wake Forest University Andrew Long (MA)Diego Pascual y Cabo (PhD) - Texas Tech University Diana Pedraza Leal (MA)Martha Pennock-Schaub (MA)Adrin Rodrguez Ricelli (MA) Whitman Surez Pez (MA)Ana Mara Sols (MA)Valerie Trujillo (PhD) - University o FloridaDiana Wade (MA)

Outstanding Graduate Students of the Year , as elected by the aculty: Spanish Linguistics:David Giancaspro (MA.), Osmer Balam (PhD), and Spanish & Spanish AmericanLiterature: Antonio Sajid Lpez (PhD)

Study Abroad Instructors: Andrea Villa (SPS in Santander), Antonio Sajid Lpez (SPS inthe Dominican Republic)

Instructors Selected for UF Humanities Course What Is the Good Life?: YaninaBecco, Matthew Michel, Alexander Torres

SPS Awards for Cooperative Leadership in Teaching : Martha Pennock-Schaub (lowerdivision), Antonio-Sajid Lpez (upper division)

CES, CLAS, and GSC Travel Grants: Jenni er Cabrelli-Amaro, Antonio Cardentey,Ana Mara Daz Collazos, Becky Halloran, Ti any Judy, Diego Pascual y Cabo, AdrinRodrguez Riccelli, and David Vsquez Hurtado

FLAS Study Abroad Scholarship: Hans Duque

SPS Doctoral Research Grants: Claudia Costagliola

Sigma Delta Pi Initiates: Ana Mara Daz Collazos, David Vsquez Hurtado

To all our graduate students, including those who just joined SPS, we o er ourcollective thanks and wishes or continuing success.

From theUndergraduateAdvisor in Spanish:Dr. Greg MorelandThe 2013-14 academic year bringssome o the old and a bit o the ncontinue to serve our hundreds and ho students in SpanishMajors, Minthose just taking a ew classes withcontinue to o er a wide variety olating courses and wonder ul study programs. At the same time, we coexpand our curriculuma new Ce will soon make its debutand provtional outside-the-classroom experidescribed in other parts o this new

A recent example was the Majorheld in September at the Pugh Hallaimed at encouraging UF students tominor in Spanish or Portuguese. M250 undergraduates, primarily romand early 3000-level SPN and PORspent quality time with a variety omembers, graduate students, and alevel Spanish majors. They obtainedtion by visiting seven tables, eaturingraduate advisors, study abroad directors, representatives rom studenizations and the Language Learni

ter, and our special guest Darcy Le wwwdarcylear.com, a career coach or lanstudents. They also enjoyed music, pbeverages, and six lucky students tonice ra le prizes. The event was a biand we plan to repeat it in the uture.

Greg Moreland speaks to potential Spanishmajors at Major Event You can help! SPS is always looking to expand our collection of

music, art, books and film. Your gift in any amount can help usacquire much-needed teaching materials. See back page for details.

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News from the Portuguese ProgramNew majors and minorsThe number o Portuguese majors hasnearly doubled since last year, quite unlikecomparable majors in the College. Minorsalso continue to join us at an increased pace,especially rom the Colleges o Business and Journalism.

The Bate-Papo The conversation hour o the Brazilian Por-tuguese Club had a great year, expandingits membership and activities. We were ableto utilize the growing number o Brazil-ians on campus, thanks to programs suchas Cincia sem Fronteiras, to increase stu-dents access to native speakers. Further-more, we increased our cultural immersionactivities, which has created lasting riend-ships between Portuguese students andBrazilian exchange students. The club iso to another great year under new Presi-dent Carol Movschowitz, who is already planning the years irstchurrasco, Brazilianstyle cookout.

Celpe-Bras Celpe-Bras is the Portuguese Pro iciencyExam administered by the Brazilian govern-ment. Its rating system includes Intermediate,Advanced Intermediate, Advanced and Supe-rior. We rate the Portuguese FLAS scholar-ship recipients, graduate and undergraduate,

as well as Portuguese majors and minors, oranyone who wishes to enroll.Libby Ginway and Richard Sansone oValencia College serve as the raters. The writ-ten exam takes two and a hal hours, and theoral portion is a 20-minute interview. Wehad two students place at the Advanced level,three at the Advanced Intermediate level andone at the Intermediate level.

Celpe-Bras Results for Spring 2013 Ana Szogi, Advanced MALAS Alyssa Peavey , Advanced Intermediate

MALAS Anastacia Matkovski, Portuguese minorCaitlin Schroering , Intermediate MALAS

New TAs in Portuguese2013-2014Marco Arajo, PhD student in

Political SciencePatricia Infantino, PhD student in SPSSarah Benton, Master o Arts in Latin

American Studies (MALAS)

2012-2013 Portuguese languinstructors: POR 1130-3010Gabriel Ferraz, adjunct instructor,

PhD Musicology Cristine Kopper , Masters candidate in

Comparative LawSarah Benton, student in dual program

M.A. in Latin American Studies Urban Planning

FLAS [Foreign Language ArStudies] for PortugueseUndergraduates:Academic Year 201213: Jasmine Bensinger (Portuguese) undergCarley Fuller (Portuguese) undergrad

MALAS

Academic Year 201213: Alyssa Peavey (Portuguese)Caitlin Schroering (Portuguese) Ana Szogi (Portuguese)

FLAS recipients Academic Y201314Dylan Attal, UndergraduateMichelle Blanck , MALAS

The idea or Finita came up around the time when Cari Jimnez and Stephanie Cox spenttheir lunch breaks together chatting about their li e experience: Cari grew up in Cuba andStephanie in France, and now they were teaching language and culture in an American school.They are both passionate about teaching, and sharing with their students their experienceslearning another language and culture.

When Cari talked about her childhood, Stephanie imagined her stories in pictures. Asavid readers o comic books, they decided that one day they would create a comic book based onCaris experiences in Cuba and her li e in the U.S. By the time they got around to it, Finita had

developed into a great character ull o li e and warmth, and technology had leapt ahead, sothey decided that an iBook would be a antastic way to engage readers with Finitas stories and with Cuban li e. Based on their teaching experience engaginglanguage learners, they decided that Finita laGringa would be interesting, and use ul toteenage and young adult readers (high school

and college). However, Finita la Grina book or readers who wish to continticing and learning Spanish on their In this project, Cari is the wriStephanie, the illustrator. Together, the story o Finita Delgado who greHavana, Cuba and emigrated to the young girl. The story begins when shlege student and a pro essors commeher review and revise her identity asimmigrant. With the encouragemenriends, she embarks on a personal ind her origins and rede ine her iden

Charles Perrone at the Major Event

Finita, la Gringa Finita la Gringa is an interactive iBook where learners can follow Finitas adventures, playin and explore her world, and learn Spanish at the same time. Please visit https://www.facebook.com/finitalagringa to learn more about Finita! Cari Jimnez, M.A is an adjunct lecturer at University of Florida and Santa Fe College.http://spanishandportuguese.ufl.edu/ Dr. Stephanie Cox is a visiting assistant professor of French, Francophone and Cross-Cultural Studies at Carleton College. http://apps.carleton.edu/profiles/scox/

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UF in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilDr. Libby Ginway and Dr. Charles Perrone

The summer program in conjunction with our counterparts at Georgetown University wasagain held at the Instituto Brasil Estados Unidos. 2013 was another success ul experience.Headed by a diverse crew o Gators, twenty-six students rom twelve di erent universities par-ticipated. Students took language classes in the morning and explored culture in the a ternoon

sessions, hearing presentations by several local artists and academics. The overall theme was Bra-zilian Song and Speech, with particular attention to literary representations and musical themes.Charles Perrone co-directed the program with Michael Ferreira rom Georgetown. On the irstSunday in Rio, everyone was happy to see Brazil de eat Spain or the Con ederations Cup, one

year in advance o World Cup 2014! Summer2014 will be an exciting time with the whole world watching the tournament in Rio andother cities. In 2013, the big news was the week-long visit o the Pope!

Christine Casey, participant in 2013 Rio Language and Culture Progra

The UF-Georgetown Program at IBEU [Instituto Brasil Estados Unidos] exposed me to not only what it was like to live in a di erent country bu

in an entirely new culture. My avorite part about Rio was the wide varietThere are always the spectacular beaches and amous nightli e but you still downtown and botanical gardens. I also loved that you live with a host amio your stay, not only improving your Portuguese but experiencing Brazilianli e. I quickly ound mysel wishing that I had chosen to stay longer than 6 wnever would have imagined or mysel . The classes provided by IBEU immePortuguese and allowed me to learn about an aspect o Brazil that un ortunatethe time to experience mysel . This program provided me with an experiencind anywhere else and wouldnt hesitate to recommend it to anyone that ask

UF in Santander, SpainMichael Lattanzi

Miguelito, despirtate! I heard, just as I did every morning, yelled rom the kitchen by mymam as I lay in bed still trying to wrap my head around where I was. I was in Santander,Spain studying abroad, living out a dream that I have had ever since I decided to study Span-ish. Despite running the risk o staying in bed too long, which would result in mymam coming into my room and lecturing me on how people rom the United States sleep too muchat night (not my ault that we have yet to adopt the siesta), I could not help but re lect on the journey that I was going through and hope that I was not dreaming.

It all began at the end o June, when my classmates and I stepped o our long lights romthe U.S. to arrive in Madrid, completely unaware o what we were about to experience. A termaking our initial adjustments to Europe which included a lack o public restrooms and ree water at restaurants, not to mention the act that we were in a place where not everyone spokeEnglish (what?!) we began to embrace the rich culture that surrounded us. Several days later, we departed or Toledo, where we were greeted by a panoramic view o the old city, whichtook our breaths away. We walked in awe through the cobblestone streets o Spains beauti ulormer capital and began to realize what lay ahead o us in this amazing country. As we embarked on our bus ride to Santander, our home or the next six weeks, theanticipation began to build. Upon arrival at our university each o us was called with ourroommate to go meet our amilies. Upon hearing our names, my roommate and I cautiouslystepped o o the bus, with no idea what to expect. Our host mother immediately bombardedus both with kisses while our host sister stood at the side and smiled. Within the irst ew daysI ell in love with my host amily and Santander; I knew at that moment that my time abroad would be unlike anything I had ever experienced be ore.

Daily li e was very di erent rom that o the U.S. between the meal schedule, siesta, andlate nights, but in time we all embraced it. On several weekends, we Michael Lattanzi inPicos de Europa

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Students in Rio de Janeiro

Students enjoying Rio

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Study Abroad Programs Continuedhad planned excursions to Picos de Europa, Potes, San Sebastian, and Bilbao, which were always memorable. On wesions I went with several riends to several cities including Santillana del Mar, Comillas, Barcelona, and Rome, each othan the last. So, as I began to get out o bed and realize that what I was experiencing was indeed real, I was speechless. Ththat you think you want so badly, but when the moment inally arrives you are met with disappointment. On many in Santander I thought that I was dreaming because it was so per ect, with every moment being more amazing than tthank ul or the time I spent abroad, or the people I met, the experiences I had, and the things I learned, all o which

UF in Seville, SpainRandi Spitko

Living in Seville, Spain or six weeks this summer was the one o best decisions I have evermade. As a Spanish minor, I absolutely love Spanish culture but I did not have any idea whatthe culture was even like be ore I went abroad.

I lived with a host mom and her 90-year-oldmother, in the small neighborhood o Triana. I hadabout a thirty-minute walk to class each day rommy house, which I absolutely loved. Every time that I walked somewhere, I noticed new things, whether it

was a newheladera to buy gelato or a di erent park to walk through. Every day was an adventure in Seville. When we got an o er to go to a bull ight while we were there, I was very u picture in my head was how cruel it is and I didnt understand how anyone couldmatadores (bull ighters) kill the bulls as a sport. However, my host mom told mehad to go to experience such an important part o Spanish culture. So we bough Be ore going, we learned all about the bull ights the rules, strategies, and wh

to happen. Be ore entering the arena, we stood outside and waited to meet thematadoresand I actually got to take a picture with one oA ter entering the arena, I was very nervous but I had nothing to worry about. The event was not nearly as blo

and I actually enjoyed it. Spanish people surrounded me and they were all very excited and enjoying the bull ight how they actually work and I stayed until the end o the event, which was surprising to me because I didnt think I wor all six bulls.

Although be ore this event was cruel to the bulls in my eyes, I de initely was immersed in the Spanish culturany hesitations and I enjoyed every second o it. I I had not gone to the bull ight, I would havemissed out on a very important part o the Spanish culture and my experiences de initely would nothave been the same.

UF in the Dominican Republic: International Service LearningKathy Dwyer Navajas

Our service learning program in the Dominican Republic ills a need or programs that are academically rigocultural and linguistic luency, and that bene it both the participants and the communities that host them. Ouimmersion experience in which the students would spend less time being tourists and more time engaged withtraditional orty ive hours o class time, excursions, and the homestay, we added thirty six hours o community servtion. We chose the Dominican Republic because:

its proximity to Florida makes the program financially accessible to more students; few Dominicans speak English, so our students speak more Spanish; its geographical isolation means our students remain in a Spanish speaking environment; it offers many opportunities for service work

In 2013 we expanded our course o erings and tripled our enrollment! Antonio Sajid Lpez, a doctoral candidaDominicana, which included history, literature, popular culture (music, baseball, carnaval), and social issues. Accish, which combines two semesters o intermediate Spanish into one six-week session, was o ered again. Many stuservice work so compelling that they did more than the thirty six hours requiredsome did over i ty hours!

During the program in 2012, we had realized that the students needed more preparation to be e ective in ththey would be a real help, not just a riendly presence. While the service supervisors assured us that any e ortappreciated, the students wanted to give more than they elt they were able to. So or 2013 we decided to partneContinued on next page

Randi Spitka andthe matador

Randi Spitka andMichelle Moody

You can help! Your gift o$1200 will help a studeexperience one of these lialtering programs. See bapage for details.

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with Accin Callejera, an NGO that works with street children, and which ocuses on intervention, prevention, and advocacy. For nine months we worked to match the needs o the community with theexperience and interests o UF students eager to serve.

Our volunteers did important work this summer, much o which involved serious rethinking oexpectations and recalibrating to the reality o what they encountered: How to teach the notes o a pianoto a homeless Haitian shoeshine boy who barely speaks Spanish and who cant read in any language? Howto work on math in a classroom with both six and eleven year olds, all at di erent levels? What to do when

ights break out? Where to begin with three brothers,aged seven, nine and thirteen, who have never been toschool? With lots o support, the volunteers did the bestthey could, identi ying their shortcomings and workingto overcome them, inding the courage to keep going.They studied and sweated and collaborated. They camehome trans ormed by the struggle and by the love theygot in return.

For 2014 we are going to concentrate our volunteer e orts on literacy worka more signi icant contribution, without imposing a North American rameworreality. We are working with colleagues at UF and in Santiago to prepare lessoolder children, and adolescents who cant read or write. It could be a per ect exluent in Spanish and our UF volunteers are not; we can read and write and th

program will continue to evolve, in dialogue, like dance partners re ining our

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Faculty News

Jessi Elana Aarontraveled to Albuquerque,New Mexicoin September to present at acon erence entitled Celebrating Varieties oNew Mexican Spanish. Dr. Aaron, who has published several articles on New MexicanSpanish, was one o our specialists on Spanishin the US to be invited to discuss research onSouthwest Spanish and its impact in the ieldo Hispanic Linguistics and in linguistic the-ory in general. The con erence also included akeynote presentation on code-mixing by RenaTorres Cacoullos, a poster session, and a ilmscreening o Mapa del Corazn, which high-

lights the collection o the database o NewMexican speech that Dr. Aaron and otherscholars have used in their research.

This past academic year Luis lvarez-Cas-tro directed an undergraduate honors thesisby Ms . Emet Anceaumet on Visiones de lainmortalidad en Niebla y San Manuel Bueno,mrtir , de Miguel de Unamuno, and he

was recognized by OEGE as best literatureprofessor of the year. On the research front,Luis co-edited a collective volume onHero-ism in 19th-Century Hispanic Literaturethat

includes essays presented at a conferensponsored by SPS in the spring of 2012

Additionally, he published two articles ohistorical memory and the Peninsular Wa(1808-1814); the first one included in amonographic issue ofHispanic Issues on Linand the second one in a collective volumedited by the Universidad de Cdiz, SpainHe also presented papers at conferences iLexington, Kentucky, and Paris, FranceFinally and more importantly, this past yea

was very special to Luis as he got married!

CJ Hall teaches piano to two Haitianboys at Accin Callejera

Daniel Sherer; Antonio Sajid Lopez; KathyDwyer Navajas; Danielle Jordan: trying onCarnaval costumes at the home of the artesan

All the Worldsa StageDr. Shifra ArmonThe buzz in theater studies lately is allabout per ormance, which is a wonder ullens through which to teach Spanishcome-dia. This semester I am running two per-

ormance-based courses: a 3-credit class onGolden Age theater, and a 1-credit courseocusing on Miguel de Carvajals 1557 play,Los indios en la Corte de la Muerte [TheIndians in the Court o Death]. Picturedhere are three students rom theater course per orming Caldern de la Barcas El granteatro del mundo which takes quite liter-

ally the metaphor otheatrum mundi, thenotion that all the worlds a stage. In thisscene, newborn Beauty and Wealth have just entered the World. A ter receiving theappropriate props to play their roles, it isup to them to per orm well or poorly asthey make their way romcuna [cradle] to sepulcro [grave]. In the one-credit course, Carvajals play gives voice to the anguish o the indig-

enous peoples o the New World, who plead with Death to either remove theirSpanish taskmasters rom power or allowthe Christianized natives to die. The playtakes the orm o a trial, but no verdict isreached. The students o SPN 3224 arecollaborating to compose and per orm anoriginal conclusion to the trial scene.

Left to Right: Wendy Escobar as Mundo ; CarleyAnderson as Hermosura ; and Ruth Sequeira as Rico staging a scene from Pedro Caldern de la Barcasc.1645 El gran teatro del mundo .

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Kathy Dwyer Navajas was awarded the UF Superior Accomplishment AwCommunity Service.

Charles Perroneenjoyed a ull sabbduring academic year 201213. In to numerous translation projects, inthe poetry o Vincius de Moraes, heco-editing a new and expanded edCrnicas Brasileiras: A Reader , which wappear in summer 2014.

David Pharies announc-es the publication oa new (sixth) editiono the University ofChicago Spanish-English Dictionary, o which he was editor-in-chie .

Ana de Prada Prez has been workina variety o projects in addition to cing her book manuscript on bilinguMinorca (Spain). She has been invethe linguistic consequences o bilinboth in Minorca and in Florida, acode-switching the alternation o lain which bilinguals engage in BeFlorida. Ana and her student collabor presenting their work at this years Linguistics Symposium, showcasingety o research on bilingualism carat UF. Over the past year Ana has opportunity to teach graduate courseoundations o Hispanic linguistics code-switching. Out o these classesdents have developed several researcthat have been submitted or presenta publication. At the undergraduate ltaught a course on Spanish syntax anon bilingualism; students rom thesare also pursuing con erence prese with their class projects.

With the help o a course development grantrom the Center or Latin American Studies,Libby Ginway also taught a class in SpanishAmerican Science Fiction in the spring o2013 and a graduate class on a similar topic inFall 2013 (SPW 6286, Contemporary Span-ish American Narrative).

Gillian Lord was pleased to publish her book

Language Program Direction: Theory and Pract ice in summer2013, and she hopesthat this volume can provide guidance andresources to language program directors atseveral institutions.Gillian has also con-tinued her work in theacquisition o Spanish,and published a num-

ber o chapters and articles over the last year.Last spring she conducted a study into thee ectiveness o the Rosetta Stone programto teach Spanish, as compared to our regularclassrooms. Data analysis is still underway, butit seems clear to her that the language classes we o er provide guidance and knowledge thatsimply cant be replicated by a computer!

Greg Morelandattended the 15th AnnualCIBER Business Language Con erence (Indi-ana University, April 2013), where he deliv-ered a presentation on The Business andCulture o International Soccer.

Shifra Armon visited the Cervantes Instituteo Tel Aviv, which was hosting an exhibit on

the li e and writ-ings o Jos Gerva-sio Artigas (17971850), regardedas a revolutionary

hero in Uruguayand Argentina.Shi ra also deliv-ered a paper enti-tled, I Do: How

Baroque Spanish Women Writers Do Mar-riage Plots, at the Renaissance Society oAmerica in San Diego, and attended the Cer- vantes Society o America con erence, heldat the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago. Shi ra published one review or Romanische Forsc-hungen entitled Xon de Ros and GeraldineHazbuns A Companion to Spanish Womens

Studies (Tamesis, 2011, 404 pp.), an excellentcollection o essays that covers all periodsrom medieval to 21st Century. She alsocontributed a chapter entitled (Des)ci rando voluntades: Cdigos de la masculinidad enla corte austraca espaola to MechthildAlbert, ed.,Sociabilidad y literatura en el Siglode Oro which was published in the Bibliotecaurea Hispnica series (Madrid and Frank-urt). Finally, The Dancing of an Attitude:

Inconstancy as Masculine Virtue in Lope deVegas El perro del hortelano appeared inComedia Performance, a new journal devotedto the staging o early modern drama.

M. Elizabeth Ginway and J. Andrew Brown, were the editors or Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Pract ice (PalgraveMacMillan, 2012), acollection o essays byscholars rom Europe,Latin America and theU.S. writing about thescience iction romArgentina, Bolivia,Brazil, Chile, Cubaand Mexico.

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You can help! Your gift of$5,000 will help fund a faculmembers research. See bapage for details.

Libby Ginway and Richard Sansone

Carlos Andrs Bertoglios article La certidumbre de resultar vencido: la iloso a deSchopenhauer en La Regenta de Clarn ySin Rumbo de Cambaceres was published asone o the chapters in El naturalismo en Espaa: Aproximaciones desde una perspectiva actual, by E rain E. Garza, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Plat orm, 2013. Ana Mara Daz Collazos, PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics, presented a paperentitled Historia del voseo en Colombia entre los siglos XVI y XIX: Regiones suroc-cidental y centro-oriental at the IX Congreso Internacional de Historia de la LenguaEspaola, that took place in Cdiz, September 2012.

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Erica Fischer (Ph.D., 2010)returned to Mexico a ter passing her quali ying exams. She was there or 4 years, working oteaching as a part-time instructor at the State University o Chiapas (UNACH) and the ITESM. A ter graduating with hgrated to Canada, where she has been working ull-time or a Canadian company as director in university recruitmenErica has returned to academia and is teaching at two universities in Hali ax, Nova Scotia: Saint Marys and Mount SLuca Monts Ros (M.A., 2009) worked or our years as a lecturer, teaching Spanish at the University o Tennessee Chahas begun her doctoral studies at the University o Kentuckys Department o Hispanic Studies.

Cindie Moore (M.A., 2011) has worked, since graduation, with a womensin Guatemala called La Asociacin de Mujeres Cristianas Mam para eAssociation o Mam Christian Women or Development). The associa principal activities: (1) a micro-loan program; (2) health outreach; ando schools and scholarships. Cindie serves as a liaison between the assoAmerican churches. Additionally, she leads U.S. groups to Guatemala tassociations activities. Cindie says that the members o the associatioSpanish and Mam, but speak no English. All o the work is transacted in Sence at SPS is critical to my new activity.Dr. Marcos Protheroe (B.A., 1987)received his doctorate in Spanish StudiesUniversidad de Puerto Rico in June 2011, a ter de ending his dissertatiosobrecruzadores: modos discursivos en una muestra de documentos sobregenizacin del siglo XVI. He is currently the Spanish Instructorat Arkansas Early College High School, a statewide, closed

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Alicia Mercado-Harveyobtained a two year shared appointment as Visiting Assistant Pro essor in IArea Studies at New College o Florida, teaching hybrid courses that combine History and LiteraAmerica and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the Portuguese Language.Last October, Alicia published her irst novel (co-authored), entitled El Cajn del Cndor (The Condors Box), in The novel tells the story o a pro essional detective, a journalist and a orensic doctor who investigain the process, unveil the recent political history o Chile. Andrea Villas article entitled La autoconciencia de lo abyecto: rede inicin de la sub- jetividad emenina en Noche de Alejandro Sawa yCarne importada de Eduardo LpezBago was published as one o the chapters in El naturalismo en Espaa: Aproxima-

ciones desde una perspectiva actual,by E rain E. Garza, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Plat orm, 2013.Roberto Weiss ongoing research e orts ocus mainly on war and representation in literature and ilm, particularly the cultural production that emerged on both sides o the Atlantic as a result o the Falk-lands/Malvinas War in 1982. His latest article La perdida perla austral: Malvinas y el sujeto nacional enla nueva narrativa argentina will appear in the Argentine cultural journal Revista Contratiempo in 2014.

Diario del Sur. De Trelew a Ro Gallegos. Roberto Weiss, June 2013. Voy a la Patagonia para ver si el estar ah me ayuda a descorrer el velo neblinoso de la causa nacional que los argdesde hace ms de un siglo. Voy al Sur argentino para estar ms cerca de la Islas, de aquellas Malvinas que parecen intento acercarme. uizs la misma contradiccin a la que apunta Marcelo Eckhardt cuando le pregunto: u se siente sLo bueno y lo malo responde un poco sorprendido, como si nunca hubiera pensado en tal dicotoma es queinnovs, escribs, les la literatura argentina de otro modo, pero sabs bien que no se te lee Pienso en las Islas, tan a-isladas tambin, tan poco l y miro a mi alrededor, veo los pinginos reyes en la playa, con la mirada puesta en el mar en direccin a Stanley (o

lopes todava esperando que alguien regrese. Escucho los jocosos comentarios en un inggrupo de jvenes galeses o argentinos o gales-patagnicos, estoy en Trelew o en Cardide ex-combatientes argentinos en cada esquina, todos quieren contarme sus historias, qu pregonan ser dueos de secretos, de tesoros perdidos. Esperan con un ansia casi adoles algo, quien saqu. Como si quisieran regresar a esas malditas Islas a las que en 1982 juraron (de ende

Voy a la Patagonia para con rontar las versiones populares y escolares y las versiones testuvieron en las Islas en el 82 con mi impresin crtica de extranjero, y ver tambin cmcio ignoto en las representaciones iccionales de la Guerra. Me siento en Malvinas aunqueIslas. Sin tel ono ni internet, porque ya es tarde y est todo cerrado, sin gente o vehculo

Ruta Nacional N3 que me llevar de Trelew (Provincia de Chubut) a Ro Gallegos (Provincia de Santa Cruz), 1,116 KmCaptain Lewis Jones, sigo hasta Avenida Hiplito Yrigoyen, paso la calle Gaucho Boni acio Luna y viro ligeramente a

child, dnde estoy? Perdido entre piratas ingleses, presidentes argentinos, gauchos malvineros e inventores galeses tengalguna culpa olvidada. Forzando la vista en la oscura noche patagnica alcanzo a divisar el herrumbrado cartel de mial in, voy por buen camino. Al margen del cartel alguien ha ingeniosamente revertido las siglas: NR: Nunca Retornar

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Cindie Moore with the Association of Mam Christian Women for Development members

From left to right: Melissa Turnier, Yanina Becco, Carlos Bertoglio, andAndrea Villa at the Major Event

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circuit, interactive television, distance learning program. He recently conducted a workshop about his program at theerence in Little Rock.Francisco Salgado Robles (Ph.D., 2011)has recently accepted a position at The City University o New York (CUNY), whePro essor o Spanish and Linguistics, a ter two years as the Coordinator o the Lower Division Spanish Program in thStudies at the University o Kentucky. Francisco continues to investigate the e ects o di erent learning scenarios (i.e., abroad, bilingual immersion, community service, and web 2.0 technology settings) in the development o second languhe has presented his research at national and international con erences, and his work has been published in various ve Relingsti Aplicada, Revista de Estudios Hispnicos, Boletn de Filologa de la Universidad de Chile, and Revista de Estudios de Lingstica Aplicada.Mary Beth Sanchez (M.A., 2009)moved to Colombia a ter completing her M.A., where she participated in various consu joining Open English, one o Latin Americas largest, astest-growing ESL learning opportunities, as their head o teacing. Mary Beth is still with Open English but has relocated to Athens, GA, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Education

Belkis Surez (Ph.D., 2011)is working as an Assistant Pro essor o Spanish at Mount Me where she also directs and coordinates the recently created Spanish Program. In additioliterature courses, Belkis designed and taught two new courses: Spanish or the Pro essioand Cinema and Culture; she also directed the Study Abroad Program in Costa Rica This year, she was awarded a scholarship in order to do research about the movie inand presented a paper entitled La poltica de la violencia o la violencia poltica en the NeMLA Con erence in Boston. Belkis has also organized two internacional panelVenezuela: una relacin intensa, extensa e histrica, at the 2013 LASA Con erence in Representacin y nacin en la memoria democrtica del cine venezolano, which willCon erence in Chicago. In October 2013 she participated in the Global Issues Series 20nized by Mount Mercy University, presenting a paper about cinema and statehood in VenUnique Path to Socio-Economic Development: the Case o Film Industry.Eric Thau (M.A., 1992)is Associate Pro essor and Chair o Spanish at University o Hawa Valerie Trujillo (Ph.D., 2013)is presently a visiting pro essor in the Department o Spanish a

Studies at the University o Florida. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish with a concentration in Hispanic linguistics roin the summer o 2013. Her dissertation was entitled Listener and speaker e ects on dominant language perception aheritage speakers in New Mexico. Her research ocuses on heritage language maintenance and acquisition, second ltage speaker phonology and syntax. Valeries current projects include research on the learning pre erences o heritagelexical bene its o overhearing a language in childhood.

Since the Fall 2011,Claudia Garca (Ph.D., 2007),Grazyna Walczak (Ph.D., 2007), andKarina Elizabeth Vzquez (Ph.D., 2008) have beco-editing an anthology in honor o SPSs lvaro Flix Bolaos, prominent scholar in the ield o colonial studies, w volume gathers critical essays t dealing with the reproduction o the Eurocentric and ethnocentric discourses in Latinto the present. Pro . Bolaos is remembered or the passion and commitment he transmitted to his graduate students aContributors to the volume are well-known scholars in the area, ormer colleagues o Dr. Bolaos, as well as ormer s pro essionals in the area o indigenous rights. The volume also includes an unpublished article by Flix Bolaos, gene project is in its inal stages and publication is anticipated in the coming year.

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Chronicling the Immigrant Experience through Oral HistoryKathy Dwyer Navajas

In the context o a national debate about immigration re orm, and the demand or greater involvement with the commlaunched a course that would give voice to Spanish-speaking immigrants in our university and local community, and literacy at the same time. In SPN 3948: Spanish Service Learning, we study those experiences in ilm, stories, poetry

debate in the national and international press. Students also work in groups to ind an immigrant rom a Spanish-speabe ilmed telling his/her story. The students prepare questions that will elicit a narrative on the topic they choose as thework and in the spring it was What they hoped or, what they ound. They ilm the interviewee, choose photos, mapthen spend several weeks editing what they have into a ive minute video, with subtitles in English so that the video is and English monolingual viewers. Then we combine the short videos into one longer one tied together by the theme. WHendrix rom the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and with Judy Shoa in the Language Learning Center, who h partners in launching this project. While giving a voice and a ace to this debate that is more o ten about numberscommunity, students also gather small groups o riends or colleagues, show them the video rom the previous semestethe immigrants experience, thus broadening the reach o the video and deepening the dialogue about who is Amerinclusion, the history o exclusion, and the motives or leaving the known or the unknown. Weve been taking the lemuch o the way, but its been an exciting ride and we have been well accompanied! To view the videos: El trabajo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5l7kKnKAjE Lo que esperaban y lo que encontraron: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCrhnrX4B4I

Belkis Surez en el Museo Nacionalde Costa Rica en San Jos

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Focus on Faculty: Jesse GleasonDr. Gleason just joined our faculty as the Coordinator ofthe Lower Division Language Program. She teaches courseson language learning methods and Spanish. Her researchinterests include discourse analysis, instructional technol-ogy, and systemic functional approaches to language andlearning.

Jesse Gleason was born and raised in SpringLake, Michigan. In second grade, becauseo her Colombian teacher, she ell in love withSpanish, a passion that has only intensi ied asthe years have passed. At the age o 15, with agroup o students selected by her high school,she spent six weeks in Spain. A ew years later,despite the suggestion o many (including herather), who urged her to study somethingpractical, she decided to major in Spanishat the University o Michigan in Ann Arbor. While in college, she had another marvelousopportunity to study abroad, this time in San-tiago, Chile, where she spent a ull year. A tera wonder ul year abroad, Jesse had to returnto Michigan, where she quickly inished herdegree. However, on graduation day, when hername was called, she was nowhere to be ound.That same day she was boarding a plane backto Chile, with a one-way ticket in her hands, where she stayed or the next nine-and-a-hal years. Some may ask, why Chile? To use Jessesown words: Because o the people, o course.They are amazing, welcoming, lovely humanbeings, who stole my heart. An avid outdoorenthusiast, Jesse has taken ull advantage oChiles breathtaking landscape. And it wasmountain climbing that brought her together with her husband, Chilean architect JorgeRodriguez Irigoyen. Now happily married,they have two young children: Violeta (4) andSimn (2). At home, they speak Spanish totheir two little ones, another adventure thatcontinues to kindle Jesses interest in educa-tion, linguistics, and language learning.

In her own words Jesse o ered her thoughts in response toseveral questions we posed:

You recently completed your doctoral degree.Can you tell me a little more about it and yourcurrent research interests?

My Ph.D. was in Applied Linguistics andTechnology rom Iowa State University inAmes, Iowa. I am particularly interested inhow we can harness technology to createthe optimal language learning conditions. With this in mind, my current researchocuses on learning Spanish in blended (orhybrid) contexts. I have experience withboth quantitative and qualitative researchmethods, but my passion lies with the quali-

tative. In particular,I do grounded eth-nography paired withdiscourse analysis.Usually, I go into acontext (o ten a class-room, but not always)and just observe whatstudents and teachers are doing. Later,during in-depth interviews, I ask themto re lect on what they have done. Thisknowing/doing is particularly use ulor understanding di erent participants worldviews. I have ound systemic unc-tional linguistics, a linguistic approach withroots in anthropology and sociology, to be a very use ul tool or understanding participants language, knowledge, and behaviors.

What was your dissertation about? My dissertation was about the language-content (sometimes called the language-lit-erature) gap. Speci ically, I was interested inthe third-year Spanish grammar and writ-ing course (e.g., SPN3300) and the types o

tasks that teachers were using as learningtools. As many scholars have noted, the ways that we learn languages at the lower-levels o ten di er notably rom the waysthat we learn them in the upper-level cours-es. In this way, I used a technique similarto action research, where I helped a teacherimplement new technologies into her class-room. What resulted was a highly reward-ing collaborative partnership, which endedup trans orming the third-year courses intoa sort o bridge, paving learners transi-tion to the upper-level courses. Speci ically, we ound that certain types o technology-

mediated tasks helped them develop thetypes o academic discourse that they willneed in the 400-level Spanish courses andother advanced target-language-use situa-tions.

Do you have any ongoing projects or investiga-tions?

But o course! I am in the process o prepar-ing a presentation o technology-enhancedlanguage learning tasks or the upcom-ing TBLT (task-based language teaching)con erence in Ban , Canada. I am also

working on a presentation or the Acon erence here in our very own in late November. That, in additgetting acclimated to a new job (plu parenting or a semester while Jorgup his grad work in Iowa) are kee plenty busy.

How did you become involved in coordinaThats a unny question. I would say that coordinating just sort o elap. That said, I have enjoyed the months immensely. It has been a dmeet and get to work with the othdinators. I am very impressed wexpertise and experience. They aring me with extremely excellent ctor models.

What were your first reactions to our lodivision language program?

The lower-division programs ha painstakingly and care ully desigI am in awe o all the hard wohas been put into them, and the aintegration o technology into the During this irst year, I am devunderstanding exactly how the p works. As an ethnographer, it is to irst observe whats going on hemaking changes. This will help mthorough understanding o the prand its constituents.

Do you have any plans for innovation/chanthe lower division language program?

We are soon adopting a web-based placement exam in order to more e place students into the appropriategiven their own level o language aare also currently developing our online Spanish course (SPN1130) will be launched in spring semesthrough UF Online, the universityonline learning initiative.

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Student Awards Ceremony April 16, 2013Friends of Music Room, University Auditorium

Undergraduate Student AwardsHauptman Medal for Most Outstanding Majors

Spanish: Lydia Franzek Portuguese: Ana HernndezSenior Honors Theses Andreas Christo akis (Gil), Kimberly Ferris (Aaron),

Toni-Ann Miller (Lord), Jack Reiman (Lord)McNair Scholars Program Andrea Hernndez (de Prada)Study Abroad Scholarships Dominican Republic: Ava Funk, Larissa Scott

Rio: Elsa Mota Santander: Marissa Elordi, Michael Lattanzi Seville: Carla Ginlock, Zinnia Sotolongo FLAS scholarships (Rio): Dylan Attal,

Mirelis Martnez, Elsa MotaPhi Lambda Beta Initiates Chloe M. Burke, Ana Hernndez, Katerina Resek,

Thais TavaraSigma Delta Pi Initiates Dylan Attal, Renee Cunkle, Patricia Goya, Elizabeth Anne

Isiminger, Max Kirkpatrick, Catherine Koubek, SarahLambert, Cassandra L. Mall, Michelle Moody, Diana Pineda,Rory Pinsky, Lacie Rosser, Shirley Sigeas, Stephanie Smith,Keegan Storrs, Amanda Wilder, Walter Winn

Phi Beta Kappa 2012 Electees Spanish: Margaret F. Cusack, Catherine A. Koubek, Stephanie Smith

Sigma Delta Pi at UFSigma Delta Pi, the National Hispanic Honor Societynineteen new members at our February 2013 initiatinitiation also honored long-time Sigma Delta Pi mesupporter, Dr. Reynaldo Jimnez on the occasion o his r

Two graduates o our doctoral program, Grazyna Walctant pro essor o Spanish at Valdosta State University, aParra, associate pro essor o Spanish, also at Valdosta, drom Georgia especially to deliver personal tributes. O

wishers messages were inscribed on an antique scroll t presented to Dr. Jimnez during the initiation ceremony

This year Chapter Beta Rho bids goodbye to Mea who has served as our president or two years. Thankgan! Ana Mara Daz Collazos, graduate student o linguistics, has agreed to serve as this years presidenhelp o Keegan Storrs, an Honors undergraduate Spanisguistics student, who has taken on the dual roles o websecretary. Check us out on the departments new webpahttp://spanishandportuguese.u l.edu/honor-societies/sigma-de.

Mi (nueva)vida; sin llaves(quizs)Vctor Jordn

Ayer se cruz de improviso:No son necesarias, me dijo,en re erencia a las llaves,(no sus llaves. TODAS las llaves).Las que ella haba olvidado o,

quizs,

adrede no haba recordado traer;sas que yo le prestaba para entraral lugar de donde sacara unas copiasque le permitiran seguir con sus

labores;aquellas que cuelgan de llaverosque cuelgan de clavijasque cuelgan de paredes, TODAS

esas llaves.Hoy, sentado en elGatorland Caf,esperando la revisinde las 45000 millas de mi auto,imagino un mundo sin el tintineo

de llaves.Sin las que sellan las ras vitrinas

en rente mo,donde se exhiben latas y botellas,

bolsas y barras.Las llaves que hace unos minutos.dej en manos de un desconocido.

quien entr miCorolla a su taller.

Y es ahora cuando apenas entiendoLa morti icacin oculta tras el

comentario:Es que no son necesarias.

Y es porque las llaves no abren,

las llaves cierran,siempre cierran.Clausuran el bal donde tengo

ocultos los recuerdos;sellan la cajita que salvaguarda las

cartas que reciba hace aos,cuando todava nos escribamos de

puo y letra;enjaulan los secretos que nos

envilecen;aslan, separan, prohben.(Pero es que es tan evidente!)Si todo es asequible, las llaves

no son necesarias.Las llaves cierran, no abrenApenas ahora lo entiendo!

De este instante en adelanteAbolir cerrojos y candados,A mi casa, sin cerraduras,no acudirn pela ustanes ni cac para cuando ellos lleguen ya nhabr lugar;estar invadida de amistades y

conocidos,saturada de apertura y porvenirMis cartas integrarn el libro abde mi vida (nueva), sin llavesY ese bal rodo por el tiempono podr jams convertirse en

de Pandora:no habrn males aprisionados yen su interior reposar (quizs)

lo que ah quiera permanece

Shifra Armon with 2012 initiates

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