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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 Sarah Townsend, whose article "The Spectral Stage of Édouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint" was awarded the Modern Drama Outstanding Article prize for 2018.

Modern Drama (University of Toronto Press) is the most prominent journal in English to focus on dramatic literature.

Congratulations to Spanish Graduate Students for having passed their MA Exams!!

Spanish graduate students Ricardo Andrade, Trevor Bero, Estilita Cassiani Obeso, Lindsey Chandler, Juliana Cruz Martínez, Carlos Echeverría, Gustavo Herrera-Díaz, Victoria Jansen, Javier López Seoane, Michelle McGowan, Deyanira Moya, Ashley Pahis, Gabriela Puscama, and Sonya Trawick have passed their MA comprehensive exams. 

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 Johan De La Rosa Yacomelo, who has been awarded a Center for Humanities and Information (CHI) Predoctoral Fellowship for 2018-2019!

Congratulations to Manuel Pulido Azpíroz, whose Doctoral Dissertation Research has been recommended for funding by the Linguistics Program at the National Science Foundation.

Manuel's Doctoral Dissertation Research is entitled: "Processing of L2-specific multi-word units and the impact on representation and generalization: An ERP study ". 

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 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 Carla Cornette, Lecturer in Italian, who successfully defended her dissertation on Friday, August 24th at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Her dissertation is entitled: "Postcolonial Pathology in the Works of Italian Postcolonial Writers: Carla Macoggi, Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, and Igiaba Scego."

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."

The grant will fund a portion of his dissertation work.

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."

The grant will fund his dissertation work.

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 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 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 Fernando Fonseca Pacheco, who has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor at Lycoming College!

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 Grant Berry, who has accepted a position as Language Engineer for Amazon.

Congratulations to Borja Gutiérrez, Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish, who has been featured for his work in mentoring Penn State students through "FastStart"!

For more information see: https://www.shearwaterblog.com/psu.

Congratulations to Kelsey Wetzel, a 2017 Spanish graduate, who has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for Mexico!

Congratulations to Spanish Major Nmachi Anumba, who has won a Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Mexico.

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 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 Stacey Mitchell, who received the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Sparks Fellowship for Fall 2018 in support of her dissertation project!

Congratulations to Manuel Pulido-Aspiroz, who received a RGSO dissertation support award from the College of the Liberal Arts!

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!

To read more about Jayme see this Penn State News story.

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.

For more information see: http://news.psu.edu/story/452351/2017/02/22/call-applications-center-global-studies-awards.

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.

The title of her thesis is "From Central America to the United States: Youth Migratory Productions out of El Salvador and Guatemala in the 2000s."

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 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!

Read about how Liberal Arts students, including a group from Italian 197, spent spring break abroad through embedded courses!

http://news.psu.edu/story/512040/2018/03/22/academics/liberal-arts-students-spend-spring-break-abroad-through-embedded?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=email&utm_term=512306_HTML&utm_content=03-26-2018-11-25&utm_campaign=liberal%20arts%20headlines%20issue