In August 2019, two of our Spanish professors traveled to the Universitat de València in Spain. Maria Serenella Previto (Sere) and Vilma Navarro-Daniels attended the 29th International Conference of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AGSS). Maria Serenella Previto chaired the session Woman Agency in Contemporary Latin American and Spanish Narrative, and presented a […]
On Feb. 22, the school awarded the outstanding students and outstanding senior students within each program. Below are the awarded students.
On April 22, the school recognized SLCR students for their academic excellence with outstanding student awards, outstanding senior awards, and scholarships. Learn more about the school’s scholarship recipients below! Thank you to our generous donors who create scholarship opportunities for the SLCR students. A brief article will be out soon on the outstanding student awards […]
On Feb. 15, Maria Eugenia Sileoni (Eugenia), instructor of Spanish, interpreted pro bono for a Native American man from Panama at the Dinner and Auction hosted by Engineers Without Borders at WSU. Pro bono work is professional work done for a client without pay. A student in her Reading and Translation asked her if she […]
On Mar. 28, Amanda Hussein, adjunct instructor of Spanish, will present her work at the WSU Academic Showcase. Her presentation is titled, “Saving Lada Marina: An Analysis of Jerónimo López-Mozo’s Yo, Maldita India…Using Historiographic Metafiction by Linda Hutcheon.” Through her analysis, she questions how history, fiction, and narrative are described from different perspectives to give […]
After 18 years of dedicating her work to the French section of foreign language studies at WSU, Clinical Associate Professor Sabine Davis, earned a promotion to clinical professor. “Her case for her promotion was outstanding. She truly deserved it,” Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, director of the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race (SLCR) and professor of […]
On Mar. 11, Maria Serenella Previto (Sere), clinical associate professor of Italian and Spanish, and Dr. Vilma Navarro-Daniels, assistant director of undergraduate studies and associate professor of Spanish and American studies, presented their works at Cine-Lit 9 conference. Amanda Hussein, adjunct instructor of Spanish, and Maria Eugenia Sileoni (Eugenia), instructor of Spanish, also presented their […]
On Mar. 28, Dr. Xinmin Liu, associate professor of Chinese and comparative cultural studies, will present his ideas on human-land relationships for the second consecutive year at the WSU Academic Showcase. Xinmin will discuss the traditional Chinese ethic Rendi qihe (human-land affinity) in relation to how humans can interact and habitat non-human life in harmony, […]
AnnMarie McCracken, SLCR undergraduate student, received the research grant from Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society’s Grants-in-Aid of Research program. AnnMarie plans to achieve a bachelor’s degree in French and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology. She will receive a $847 grant from the programs ecology category called, “An Isotopic Examination of Dietary Niche Partitioning […]
Dr. Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, associate professor and associate dean of Student Affairs and Global Education, College of Arts and Sciences, received the 2018-19 Samuel H. Smith Leadership Award from the Washington State University Association for Faculty Women (AFW). On Mar. 29, she will be recognized during Celebrating Excellence Regnition Banquet at WSU’s annual showcase. Ana Maria […]