The spring 2007 issue of El Cid, the national refereed journal of The Citadel's chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, was published online on May 20. Mr. Kevin Jack (Spanish minor) served as Copy-Editor for this 19th edition.
Travis Zane Hutchins (B.A., German, '05) has taken his master's in German at the University of Colorado and will teach next year at Korea's model Daegu English Village.
Garrison Groh (B.A., Spanish, '04) has finished his J.D. at Ohio Northern University and has just been accepted into the U.S. Army's JAG School in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he will begin a three month program in February 2008 before moving to his permanent duty station (TBA).
Brandon Hall (B.A., Spanish, '04) has been accepted into the dual degree J.D./M.S.I.C.P. program at Valparaiso University. He currently works works as a Health Services Manager for Houston/Hillcroft and Astrodome in Texas.
Charles S. Knisley (B.A., Spanish, '06) is currently enrolled in the M.A. program in Spanish at Middlebury College in Vermont; this fall he will head to Madrid, Spain, to continue his graduate studies with the same program.
Drew Lee Brooks (B.A., German, '06) returns this fall from his Fulbright year in Cologne to begin graduate work in German at the University of Pennsylvania.
Cadet Jonathan Poole (Spanish major) has been accepted into the University of Virginia's prestigious study abroad program in Valencia, Spain, where he will study during the fall of 2007.
On April 20, 2007, Jared Newman (Spanish major), Chapter Vice-President of Sigma Delta Pi at The Citadel, was a panelist in the Sigma Delta Pi Informative Session at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference where he presented on the activities of his award-winning chapter. In April, Jared received the national Gabriela Mistral Award, granted by the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society for an outstanding chapter member of Sigma Delta Pi.
The following students are the inaugural recipients of the 2007 American Society of the French Legion of Honor summer scholarships: John Marcus, Parker Chapman, Derek Williams, Michael Lowe, Joseph Quinlivan, Andrew Harris, Charles Flanagan, Jessie McKay, Bobby Steinbach and Jessica Park.
Cadets Joseph Stewart and John Lathers both received Citadel Scholarships for study in France during the summer of 2007.
Daniel Steve Villarreal (B.A., Spanish, '76) is currently studying beginning Mandarin Chinese at the Mandarin Training Center of National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan. He is also working on his Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education at the University of Texas at Austin.
Professor Al Gurganus's article "Typologies of Repetition, Reflection, and Recurrence: Interpreting the Novella in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften" will be published in this summer's edition of Goethe Yearbook. He returns from research leave in August to direct The Citadel's new Office of Fellowships, established to prepare the college's select students for postgraduate awards.
Dr Susanne Wagner, Visiting Assistant Professor of German at The Citadel in '06-'07, has accepted an appointment at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta; Dr. Amrita Das, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish from 2005-2007, will begin a new position in August 2007 as Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington; Mr. David Rust, Adjunct Professor of Spanish since 2000, has departed The Citadel for a new residence with family in Alabama. We wish Professors Wagner, Das and Rust the very best in their future endeavors. They will be sorely missed at The Citadel.
Dr. Del Mastro authored the 2nd edition (July 2007) of the Sigma Delta Pi Chapter Adviser Handbook.
On June 15, the 6th issue of Decimonónica was published. Professor Del Mastro is founding Co-Director of this refereed, online journal of 19th century Hispanic cultural production.
Professor Del Mastro participated in the Association of College Honor Societies Board Meeting in Chicago on June 14-16, 2007.
Dr. Guy Toubiana has been promoted to Full Professor effective August 16, 2007.
Professors Guy Toubiana and Cathy Jellenik directed the April 2007 issue of Le Gaulois Littéraire, a French student journal that published the works of 28 different Citadel students.
Dr. Katya Skow facilitated a workshop called “Extended Role-Plays in Business German” for the annual SC-AATG (American Association of Teachers of German) meeting on Saturday, April 21, at Wofford College.
At the 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (April 19-21, 2007), Dr. Zane U. Segle presented his study "(Re)imagining Ramadan: The Significance of Festival Discourse in Pérez de Hita's Guerras civiles de Granada." At the same conference, Professor Del Mastro presented his paper "Fetishism and Identity in Laforet's Nada" and organized and chaired two sessions: 1) The Sigma Delta Pi Informative Session; 2) "Contemporary Spanish Women Writers."
Dr. Del Mastro directed the spring 2007 issues of Entre Nosotros (No. 49), the national journal of Sigma Delta Pi, and El Cid (No. 19), the refereed student journal of The Citadel's Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi.
At the 31st annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, held March 22-24 at Myrtle Beach, Dr. Al Gurganus read "The Fight over a Voice: Molding the Wilhelmine Proletariat through Journalism," Dr. Cathy Jellenik presented her study "Ernaux's Event" and Dr. Katya Skow presented her paper "Of Superweibern, gemieteten Männern, and Champagner-Diäten. Hera Lind and the New German Frauenroman."
Dr. Alan Cambeira will be returning to the department in August 2007 as Assistant Professor of Spanish.
Mrs. Yan Cao will be joining the department in August 2007 to teach Elementary Chinese I and II (101 and 102) in the fall semester and the newly adopted, Intermediate Chinese I and II (201 and 202) in the spring 2008. Cadets may now take Chinese at The Citadel to satisfy their core curriculum foreign language requirements.
