Grant Berry has been awarded the Superior Teaching and Research (STAR) award from the College of the Liberal Arts. Congratulations, Grant!
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- Penn State's Doctoral Programs Gain Top Outcomes in National Rankings
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- Remembering Erik D. Steindl
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- Penn State among Top 50 universities in the world
- Prof. Maria Truglio wins Outstanding Teaching Award
- Congratulations to Guada Martí-Peña
- Congratulations to Ana Cortejoso de Andrés
- Penn State among top national public schools in 2015 U.S. News' 'Best Colleges'
- Joshua Deckman to present at MACHL
- Congratulations to Pablo Requena for forthcoming paper in 'Language Acquisition'
- "Language Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory", co-edited by Prof. Rena Torres Cacoullos, now in press
- Congratulations to Grant Berry on his forthcoming paper in 'Probus'
- Summer Research Opportunity for undergraduates -- act fast! Deadline Feb. 10
- Apply for a FLAS fellowship to study Portuguese in Brazil - review of apps starts February 15!
- New PSU Maymester course in Cuba!
- Call for Submissions to PSUxLING2 - undergraduate linguistics conference
- Prof. John Lipski named to the Order of Don Quijote
- SIP announces new Study Abroad program in Ronda, Spain
- Congratulations to Josh Deckman and Fernando Fonseca!
- SIP is on social media! Follow us!
- Ana Cortejoso de Andres wins 2nd place at Graduate Exhibition
- Where in the world is John Lipski? On the CLA homepage!
- ¡THEMES! The convenient new way to pick your Spanish classes for next semester
- NSF PIRE grant to translate science of language learning to education
- Nicoletta Ventresca and Jason Laine win National University Technology Network Distance Education Innovation Award
- Congratulations to Miguel Ramos for the the publication of his article "Continuity and change: First person singular subject pronoun expression in earlier Spanish" in Spanish in Context
- Congratulations to Fernando Fonseca Pacheco, whose article on an ethnographic journal by Mário de Andrade, was accepted for publication in Hispanic Review
- Congratulations to Fernando Fonseca Pacheco, who was awarded a Center for Humanities and Information Fellowship for 2016-2017
- Congratulations to Sarah Townsend, who has been selected as a Resident Scholar in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities for Fall 2016 for her project “Opera in the Amazon: Culture, Capital, and the Global Jungle"
- Congratulations to Matt Carlson, who has been awarded a collaborative fellowship from the Social Science Research Institute for the project titled "Competition, conflict, and optimization: Toward a dynamic model of multilingualism”
- Lauren Perrotti wins Penn State Alumni Association Scholarship for Penn State Alumni in the Graduate School
- Congratulations to Chris Oechler, who has accepted an offer for a tenure-track position in Golden Age Literature at the rank of Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College
- Lauren Perrotti wins College of the Liberal Arts "STAR" (Superior Teaching and Research) Award, to support her research project on bilingualism among speakers in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Adison Godfrey wins Fulbright to Ecuador
- Congratulations to Madeline Iffert on winning 3rd place for her thesis in the Undergraduate Student Exhibition
- Anna Torres Cacoullos receives the Superior Teaching and Research (STAR) Award in the College of the Liberal Arts
- Congratulations to Dr. Sherry Roush on her appointment to Full Professor!
- Mary Barnard among winners of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Award for her book "Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe"
- Congratulations to Dr. Karen Miller on her appointment to Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics!
- Congratulations to Mike Johns for winning a STAR Award from the College!
- Congratulations to Grant Berry for winning a STAR Award from the College!
- Congratulations to Michele Rossi, whose book "Pedagogia e corte nel Rinascimento italiano ed europeo" has just appeared
- Congratulations to Chris Andrejcik, who has accepted an instructor position in PSU Altoona.
- Congratulations to Grant M. Berry, recipient of a Doctoral Dissertation Research award from the National Science Foundation
- Congratulations to Andrea Biscoveanu on being named the Student Marshal for Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese for the Spring 2017 commencement activities.
- Congratulations to Professor Bob Blue on being selected Faculty Marshal for Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese for the Spring 2017 commencement activities!
- Congratulations to Professor Marco Martinez on the publication of his essay "Rounds de sombra: el boxeo en la crónica deportiva de Tablada, Garibay y Monsiváisin" in Latin American Research Review!
- Congratulations to Lauren Perrotti Halberstadt on successfully defending her doctoral dissertation!
- Congratulations to Lauren Perrotti Halberstadt on winning second place for in poster in the category of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Graduate Exhibition!
- Congratulations to Matt Crager on receiving a Fulbright to be an English Teaching Assistant in Brazil during 2017-2018!
- Congratulations to Sara Davis, graduate student in Spanish, who was awarded a Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship to study Portuguese this summer in Brazil!
- Congratulations to Jonathan Steuck, who received a Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar Award to conduct research on New Mexican Spanish at the University of New Mexico in Feb. 2018.
- Congratulations to Josh R. Deckman, who has received the 2017 CUNY Dominican Studies Archives and Library Research Award
- Congratulations to Josh R. Deckman (Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese), on the publication of his essay "Sueños utópicos: Espacios, geografías y comunidades al margen" de la sociedad española en El mapa de la espera (Ana Rossetti, 2010)"
- Congratulations to Maria Truglio, whose new book "Italian Children's Literature and National Identity: Childhood, Melancholy and Modernity" has been published by Routledge, in their Children's Literature and Culture series!
- Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Grant M. Berry on the publication of his article "Structural autonomy and aspectual import: A new(er) Spanish Progressive" (Probus 29.2, August 2017)!
- Congratulations to Cynthia Lukyanenko on her new teaching position at George Mason University!
- Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Marr, who has received the Hispanex Program Grant from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte!
- Congratulations to Rosa Guzzardo Tamargo, former graduate from Spanish linguistics at Penn State, who has been promoted to associate professor with tenure at the Universidad de Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras)!
- Congratulations to Marco Martínez has an article entitled "Rounds de sombra: el boxeo en la crónica deportiva de Tablada, Garibay y Monsiváis" forthcoming in Latin American Research Review, volume 53, no. 3 (2018)!
- On October 6th please join us for our third professional development opportunity of the semester: a SafeZone 101/102 Fusion Training.
- On October 10th please join us for Michele Rossi's presentation to The Committee for Early Modern Studies, entitled "Eminent Poet, Clumsy Lover: Francesco Filelfo's Commentary to Petrarch's Canzoniere (1476)".
- On February 12th please join us for a presentation by Fred Kuwornu entitled, "Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema".
- On November 3rd please join us for a talk by Micol Seigel (Indiana University) entitled “Always Already Military: Police, Public Safety, and State Violence.”
- The department would like to extend their congratulations to Dr. Nicolás Fernandez-Medina. Nicolás now holds the title of Associate Professor of Spanish and Philosophy. ¡Felicidades!
- On Thursday, November 2 at 6pm please join us for the first information session for the study abroad program in Reggio Calabria Italy.
- Congratulations to Annie Beatty-Martinez, who has received RGSO funding for her dissertation research!
- Congratulations to Grant Berry for the publication of "Phonetic alignment in English as a lingua franca" in Second Language Research!
- Penn State grad reinforces and embodies lessons learned in SIP department
- Congratulations to Stacey Mitchell on her recent publication of "The Landscape of Pío Baroja’s Madrid: The Search for Meaning in La busca (1904)” in the Cincinnati Romance Review!
- Sorry STEM, Google just made the case for more foreign language education
- Penn State Search: College of the Liberal Arts Dean
- Congratulations to Anna Torres Cacoullos, who has won a dissertation fellowship from the Center for Humanities and Information for 2018-2019!
- Congratulations to Stacey Mitchell, who has won a digital humanities implementation grant from the Center for Humanities and Information!
- Congratulations to Krista Brune, who has been chosen as a faculty resident scholar at the Humanities Institute for spring 2019 for her project "Creative Transformations: Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas".
- Congratulations to Borja Gutiérrez, Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish, and Sarah Townsend, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, on their election to the Faculty Senate!
- Congratulations to our Spanish Major alumna Sylvia Biscoveanu, who is featured in Penn State News!
- Congratulations to Joshua Deckman, who has accepted a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latino Studies at Marywood University.
- Congratulations to Joshua R. Deckman, who defended his dissertation, The Poetics and Politics of Pain: Decolonial Spirituality in the Afro-Caribbean and Its Diaspora.
- Congratulations to Jonathan Steuck for the defense of his dissertation, The prosodic-syntactic structure of intra-sentential multi-word code-switching in the New Mexico Spanish-English bilingual community.
- Congratulations to Grant Berry on receiving the College of the Liberal Arts Raymond Lombra Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research in the Humanities.
- Five Liberal Arts courses, including a new Italian course with embedded experience in Italy, sending students abroad over spring break
- Congratulations to Chris Champi who accepted a position as Learning Scientist at DuoLingo!
- Congratulations to Giuli Dussias who is the 2018 recipient of the Ray Lombra Award for Distinction in the Social Sciences from the College of the Liberal Arts!!
- Congratulations to Maria Truglio who received a grant for the Committee of the Children’s Literature Association for her project "Mediterranean Migration in Italian Children’s Literature."
- Read about how Liberal Arts students, including a group from Italian 197, spent spring break abroad through embedded courses!
- Congratulations to Anne Beatty-Martínez who has been selected as an awardee for a Ford Foundation 2018 Dissertation Fellowship, which is administered by the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine!
- Congratulations to Johan De La Rosa Yacomelo, who received a STAR award funding his project on "Acquisition of word order in interrogatives: Portuguese and Spanish contact in Misiones."
- Congratulations to Spanish Major Shannon Reinke, who has received the Center for Global Studies Thesis Prize Award for her thesis. Shannon is advised by Professor Judith Sierra-Rivera.
- Congratulations to Isabel Deibel and to Alex McAllister (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese), who have each been selected to be a Center for Global Studies Fellow for 2018-2019.
- Congratulations to Jayme Rhoads, who has been chosen as Student Marshal representing Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese during the College of the Liberal Arts commencement ceremony on May 5!
- Congratulations to Manuel Pulido-Aspiroz, who received a RGSO dissertation support award from the College of the Liberal Arts!
- Congratulations to Stacey Mitchell, who received the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Sparks Fellowship for Fall 2018 in support of her dissertation project!
- Congratulations to Spanish Major Lauren Echols, who has won an Erickson Discovery Award for her project, “Syntactic ambiguity resolution in Spanish speakers and Spanish-English bilinguals.” Her research is advised by Professor Giuli Dussias.
- Congratulations to Spanish Major Rebecca Anne Barnes, who has won an Erickson Discovery Award for her project “Switching between languages that share the same vocabulary: What keeps them apart?” Her research is advised by Professor John Lipski.
- Congratulations to Spanish Major Nmachi Anumba, who has won a Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Mexico.
- Congratulations to Kelsey Wetzel, a 2017 Spanish graduate, who has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for Mexico!
- Congratulations to Borja Gutiérrez, Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish, who has been featured for his work in mentoring Penn State students through "FastStart"!
- Congratulations to Grant Berry, who has accepted a position as Language Engineer for Amazon.
- Congratulations to recently graduated Italian major Jamie Manecky, who has won first prize in the Gamma Kappa Alpha Essay Award Contest for her essay "La letteratura italiana e la modernità: L'evoluzione del genere."
- Congratulations to Fernando Fonseca Pacheco, who has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor at Lycoming College!
- Congratulations to Professor Nicolás Fernández-Medina, who has published his book "Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity" (McGill-Queen's University Press).
- Congratulations to Professor Sarah Townsend, who has published her book "The Unfinished Art of Theater. Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil" (Northwestern University Press).
- Congratulations to Professor John Lipski, who has received a grant from the National Science Foundation for his proposal entitled "A limiting case of bilingual language identification: the Quichua-Media Lengua lexicon" to conduct research in Ecuador.
- Congratulations to Mike Johns, who has received a grant from the National Science Foundation for his proposal entitled "The Psycholinguistic Status of Lone English-Origin Nouns in Spanish: Integrating Sociolinguistic Approaches."
- Congratulations to Manuel Pulido, who has received a grant from Language Learning Journal for his proposal entitled "Inducing interference as a desirable difficulty in learning of L1-L2 incongruent collocations: A behavioral and ERP study."
- Congratulations to Carla Cornette, Lecturer in Italian, who successfully defended her dissertation on Friday, August 24th at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Congratulations to Professor Judith Sierra Rivera, who has published her book "Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas" (Ohio State University Press).
- Congratulations to our Portuguese minors Matthew Cavadas and Brianna Ford, who received FLAS fellowships for Spring 2019 to study Portuguese. Parabéns, Matthew and Brianna!
- Congratulations to Manuel Pulido Azpíroz, whose Doctoral Dissertation Research has been recommended for funding by the Linguistics Program at the National Science Foundation.
- Congratulations to Johan De La Rosa Yacomelo, who has been awarded a Center for Humanities and Information (CHI) Predoctoral Fellowship for 2018-2019!
- Congratulations to Johan De La Rosa Yacomelo, who received a Language Learning Dissertation Grant for his research on "Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish-Palenquero Bilinguals: Second Language Acquisition and Contact" under the direction of Dr. Lipski
- Congratulations to Spanish Graduate Students for having passed their MA Exams!!
- Congratulations to Anna Torres Cacoullos, whose article "The Possibility of Becoming in Pedro Almodóvar’s Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988) and Los abrazos rotos (2009)" got published in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.
- Congratulations to Stacey Mitchell, who is the recipient of the 2019 Denise Haunani Solomon Outstanding Teaching Award for Graduate Students
- Congratulations to Matt Carlson, who has been selected Faculty Marshal for Spring 2019 graduation by Student Marshal Seckin Kara.
- Congratulations to Carlos Echeverría Arriagada on the publication of his article "La transición de la ortografía casera a la académica en un corpus de folletos políticos chilenos (1880-1939)" in the Boletín de la Real Academia Española, 98 (318), 429–446.
- Congratulations to Stacey Mitchell, who has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Lynchburg.
- Congratulations to five outstanding SIP instructors for their promotion to Associate Teaching Professor
- Congratulations to Sarah Townsend, whose book 'The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil' (Northwestern University Press) received Honorable Mention for 'Best Book in the Humanities on Mexico'
- Congratulations to Professor Giuli Dussias, who has been awarded a 2019 Faculty Scholar Medal!
- Congratulations to Professor Maria Truglio, who has been awarded a Center for Global Studies Career Development Award to work on her project entitled "Mediterranean Migration and Italian Children’s Literature"
- Congratulations to former Student Marshal Jayme Rhoads, who has received a Fulbright to teach English in Italy
- Congratulations to Professor Matthew Marr, who is this year's winner of the James Whiston Prize for his article "(Im)mobility at the Movies: el paro, Property and Prosthesis in Álex de la Iglesia’s 'La chispa de la vida' (2011)"
- SIP's Afro-Brazilian Samba and Capoeira event featured on Channel 6 New's (link in description)
- Congratulations to undergraduate SIP student Hannah Griffin, who has received an honorable mention for her work ("Influences of Italian Colonial Media on Perceptions of Immigrants Today") at the 2019 Undergraduate Exhibition
- Congratulations to Sherry Roush, whose most recent monograph "Speaking Spirits: Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy" (University of Toronto Press) was a finalist for the Haskins Medal, an award sponsored by The Medieval Academy of America.
- Congratulations to our promoted faculty!
- Congratulations to Anne Beatty-Martínez, who has been awarded a National Institutes of Health NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project entitled The behavioral and neurocognitive effects of bilingual experience on cognitive control and language proces
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish Borja Gutiérrez featured in Penn State News!
- Graduate student Juliana Cruz Martinez awarded a Mellon Mays Graduate Studies Enhancement Fellowship!
- Leah Daekins' study abroad experiences featured in the Daily American
- Graduate Student Isabel Deibel's paper, "The contribution of grammar and lexicon to language switching costs: Examining contact-induced languages" recently published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
- The Human Rights Campaign 2019 Municipal Equality Index launches in State College
- Teaching professors Lyvia Valentín Pagano and Jason Laine promoted!
- Come develop your professional skills at the Liberal Arts Career Week!
- Staff Assistant Heather Rutten recipient of the College of the Liberal Arts Rising Star Award
- Call for applications: Judith Kroll Undergraduate Student Research Award
- Sherry Roush (Professor of Italian) named recipient of two prestigious grants
- PSUxLing6 submissions due February 1st
- Students from IT 470 (Italian Ghost Storytelling) among winning writers of Penn State University Libraries 2019 Short Stories' "Brunchin' Around"
- Present your research at the Penn State Pan-African Professional Alliance 2020 conference!
- Congratulations to Priscila López-Beltrán Forcada, on receiving a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Linguistics Program
- Graduate student Isabel Deibel accepts position at Duolingo!
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