On March 11, 2008 at 6:30pm in Copeland Auditorium, Grimsley Hall, The Citadel's Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi and the Modern Languages Department hosted "Una noche con nuestros novelistas/A night with our Novelists." The department's own Drs. Alan Cambeira and Eloy Urroz discussed their recent novels, and select books were available for sale and signing. This event was open to the public, and a reception followed in the Greater Issues Room of Mark Clark Hall.
The Citadel's Tau Iota Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi inducted six new student members and one honorary members on March 4, 2007 at 7:00pm during its annual ceremony in the Greater Issues Room of Mark Clark Hall. Conducted by Valentín Boza (Chapter President) and James Chamberlain (Secretary), Drs. Del Mastro and Segle (Chapter Advisers), the ceremony initiated the following active members: Louis Doelling, Alexander Johnson, Bryan Kant, Robert Kozakiewicz, Lana Moore and Michael Warwick. Dr. Alfred Finch, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, was inducted as an honorary member for his outstanding support of Sigma Delta Pi's mission.
From January 29-February 8 the Modern Languages Department, Sigma Delta Pi and Daniel Library proudly hosted the Escuincles Project, an art exhibit and initiative of the South Carolina Hispanic Leadership Council. Click here for details about this project. Access to the exhibit was free to the public in Daniel Library. Download announcement flyer.
At noon on December 7, 2007, The Department of Modern Languages' German Section and Daniel Library hosted the dedication of the James C. O'Flaherty Collection of Hamanniana and Nietzscheana. Click here for further details and pictures.
The Citadel's Tau Iota Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, hosted an awards ceremony on November 15 for its third annual South Carolina Spanish Teacher of the Year award. Mrs. Renée Love of Gaffney High School was crowned the 2007 S.C. Spanish Teacher of the Year and was presented a cash award of $1000 courtesy of the Harvey, Casterline & Vallini law firm and Stewart Title. Runners-up were Mrs. Brenda Barron of Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach and Mrs. Maelda Chalk of Hilton Preparatory School. The Francis Marion Hotel provided complimentary lodging the night of the ceremony and breakfast the following morning to all three finalists and their spouses. At the ceremony's conclusion, Dr. Del Mastro and Chapter President Valentín Boza inducted Mr. Daniel Vallini (Spanish minor, 1995) into Sigma Delta Pi's prestigious Order of the Discoverers for his exemplary support of the Spanish program at The Citadel.
Cadet J.D. Lathers (French, '08) has been accepted into the International Studies Graduate Program at Johns Hopkins University.
Cadet Jared S. Newman (Spanish, '08) was named Editor of The Citadel's Spanish journal El Cid for the spring 2008 issue.
Charles "Chip" Knisley (Spanish, '06) spent four weeks in the fall of 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he completed a TEFL course in order to teach English to Spanish speakers.
Professor Sara Fernández Medina (Ph.D., Texas Tech University) will join our faculty as an Assistant Professor of Spanish beginning August 2008.
Dr. Eloy Urroz was one of a select group of international scholars, writers and artists invited to participate in the 19th annual International Cervantes Colloquy to be held November 4-8, 2008 in Guanajuato, Mexico.
On March 13, 2008, the journal Studies in Twentieth and Twentieth-Century Literature invited Dr.Cathy Jellenik to serve as a guest reader.
Dr. Zane U. Segle attended the workshop "Language and Culture for International Business" from February 21-23, 2008 at the University of Memphis.
Professor Eloy Urroz's latest novel, Fricción, was published in February 2008 by Alfaguara, Mexico.
Professor Mark P. Del Mastro participated in the Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS) Annual Council and Board Meetings in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 13-16, 2008. In addition to serving as Sigma Delta Pi's official representative to the ACHS, Dr. Del Mastro is also an elected member of the ACHS Board.
Dr. Del Mastro edited the 2008 hard copy edition of Sigma Delta Pi's national Ritual.
Professor Del Mastro accepted an invitation from the Modern Languages and Cultures Department of Virginia Military Institute to serve as an external reviewer for their language programs. Dr. Del Mastro will visit Lexington, Virginia for this purpose on April 2-4, 2008.
On February 6, 2008, Dr. Guy Toubiana launched his 18th Century online encyclopedia: Enlightenment and Revolution.
Dr. Katya Skow's article "Camillus vnd Emilia in Germany: A Modern Novel Before its Time" has been accepted for publication by Germanic Notes and Reviews.
In January 2008, Dr. Juan Bahk's article "La Influencia del Jaiku Oriental en la Literatura Hispánica" was accepted by the Italian literary journal Studi Ispanici of Milan, Italy to be published late in 2008.
Dr. Katya Skow's article "Of 'Superweibern' (Superbroads), 'vermieteten Männern' (Rented Men), and 'Champagner-Diäten' (Champagne Diets): Hera Lind and the New German Women's Novel" will be published in the January 2008 issue of Popular Culture Review.
On 15 January 2008, the 7th issue of Decimonónica was published. Dr. Del Mastro is founding Co-Director of this refereed, online journal of 19th century Hispanic cultural production. Decimonónica was also named co-Journal of the Month in January by The Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
Senior French and history major John Daniel Lathers has been awarded a US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to learn intermediate Turkish this summer at the American Research Institute in Ankara. (Summer 2007 he applied a Citadel Star of the West International Summer Scholarship to a course in elementary Turkish at Fatih University in Istanbul.) Mr Lathers has been admitted to the master's program at Johns Hopkins' Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy.
