The Fount

The Department of Modern Languages will become the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures effective July 1, 2008. This change in name will serve to represent better our department's current programs.

On Monday, October 22 during evening mess, the inaugural language tables were held in Coward Hall (1700-1930) for students interested in speaking exclusively in French, German and Spanish during dinner. The language tables will continue to be offered weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, for those wishing to practice their French, German or Spanish speaking skills.

The Citadel's new Office of Fellowships, under the direction of Dr. Al Gurganus, launch of its new website. Dedicated to identifying and preparing students for national and international fellowships, this new office streamlines the application process for students.

Citadel's Tau Iota Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, is proud to announce the three finalists for its third annual South Carolina Spanish Teacher of the Year award: Brenda Barron of Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach, Maelda Chalk of Hilton Preparatory School and Renee Love of Gaffney High School. The winner will be announced during a special ceremony to be held the evening of November 15 at The Citadel. Dr. Mark P. Del Mastro is Founder and Director of this awards program.

The Department is pleased to announce the founding of a new student group: the Modern Languages Student Council. Currently overseen by Dr. Cathy Jellenik, this council includes current student officers of Modern Languages' clubs and honor societies with the goal of supporting and enhancing many of our department's activities.

Sunday, September 30, 2007, Cadets Tara Woodside and Michael Kourkounakis and Dr. Jack Porter of the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice were inducted into Delta Phi Alpha, the National German Honor Society. The ceremony was followed by the German Section's annual fall "Grillfest."

Matthew Lange (B.A., German, 1994) is the proud author of the book Antisemitic Elements in the Critique of Capitalism in German Culture, 1850-1933 published in 2007 with Peter Lang Publishing Group. Dr. Lange is currently an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Cadet Jonathan Rodriguez (Spanish major) has been awarded the 2007 Hispanoamerican Society scholarship.

On August 4, 2007, The Citadel's Tau Iota Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi was one of only 13 chapters nationwide to be selected as an "Honor Chapter" by the National Executive Committee. This is the 15th consecutive year that The Citadel's group has earned this distinction; there are 546 total chapters in the U.S. Tau Iota was also one of only 8 chapters to receive the prestigious Octavio Paz Award for maintaining Honor Chapter status for a complete triennium (2004-07). Cadets Brian Corbett, Jared Newman and Andrew Green served as the chapter's President, Vice-President and Secretary respectively during the 2006-07 academic year. Cadets Valentin Boza, Jonathan Rodriguez and James Chamberlain were elected to serve as the new President, Vice-President and Secretary respectively for the 2007-08 academic year. Dr. Del Mastro founded Tau Iota in January 1993, and he still serves as Chapter Adviser along with Dr. Zane U. Segle.

Dr. Zane U. Segle presented his study "Frolicking Through the Grenadine Imagination: Pérez de Hita's Rhetoric of Festivity and the Renegotiation of the Westernized Moor in the Guerras Civiles de Granada" at the 33rd Annual Hispanic Literatures Conference at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 19-20 October 2007.

Dr. Eloy Urroz has accepted an invitation from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington to address students and faculty on his recent novels. Professor Urroz is scheduled to speak in early April.

Dr. Cathy Jellenik's article "Soudain une vallée: de l'homme bourreau à l'homme sauveur dans L'Evénement et L'Usage de la parole" will be published in the fall of 2008 by the Université York in Canada.

Dr. Guy Toubiana's encyclopedic entries on Barras, Fouquier-Tinville, Theroigne de Mericourt and Tallien were published in the fall 2007 by Greenwood Press in the two-volume Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies 1760-1815 directed by Gregory Fremont-Barnes.

Professor Urroz's book Êthos, forma, deseo entre España y México was published in September 2007 by the University of the Americas Puebla.

Dr. Katya Skow's article "Die Zuckerbäckerin, Die Glasbläserin, Die Totenwäscherin: Nineteenth-Century Women in Contemporary German Historical Fiction" has been published in the spring 2007 issue of the South Carolina Modern Languages Review.

Professor Cathy Jellenik's book Rewriting, Rewriting: Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, and Marie Redonnet was released in August 2007 by Peter Lang Publishing.

Mrs. Yan Cao has joined the department 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 term. Day students may now take Chinese at The Citadel to satisfy their core curriculum foreign language requirements.

Dr. Del Mastro conducted the annual Sigma Delta Pi Executive Committee Meeting in San Diego, CA on August 2-4, 2007 and Sigma Delta Pi's national Triennial Convention on August 4 where he was appointed Executive Secretary-Treasurer for a 5th consecutive term (2007-10).