Faculty Highlights
-
Dr. Jorge
Aguilar-Sánchez
is presenting a paper
entitled “Por una política educativa fundamentada en la ciencia: el caso
de inglés en Costa Rica”. Hewill present at the II Congreso
Internacional de Lingüística Aplicada at the Universidad Nacional,
Heredia-Costa Rica. The conference will be Sept 24, 25, and 26. Jean
Hindson is also presenting at this conference.
http://www.una.ac.cr/cilap.
He is also presenting a paper entitled: “How many speakers? How many
tokens?: A methodological contribution to the study of variation.” at
the New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference 38 in Ottawa, Canada. The
conference will be held at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada on
Oct 22-25, 2009.
http://www.sociolinguistics.uottawa.ca/nwav38/
- Dr. Donald E. Socha presented an article on Ambiguous Heroism in the Poema de mío Cid
that is now at the publishers coming out soon in the selected proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Iberoamerican
Conference on Spanish Languages and Literatures, held by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at
the University of New Mexico on February 28, 2008.
In January 2008 he received a UWL summer research grant to work on converting two
presentations on US Latino Literature (one an overview of my proposed research entailing all
US Latino Literatures which was presented at a UW Milwaukee conference on immigration in April 2007
and another a paper on youth, families and immigration in US Chicano Literature presented at UWL in
October 2007) into publications and to do reading on the theme of Immigration, Employment and Social
Justice in US Chicano Prose as a first step toward work on a book of the same title.
On October 7, 2008 he presented a summary of the history of US immigration laws during the past century that
related specifically to Mexican and Central American immigrants. Dr. Socha was proud to see our
chancellor in that audience and to note his complete attentiveness to every word he spoke.
That presentation was part of a panel sponsored by UWL's ILLAS and he prepared an extensive
handout with bibliography to accompany his talk, which was done extemporaneously, for a
change.
- Dr. Jean Janecki presented at
the 11th annual CATL conference on campus in September, 2009. Her
presentation discussed how to "wiki-fy" assignments by using a
collaborative web program, called wiki.
She received a faculty research grant from the Program for Cultural
Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and the United States Universities
as well as a UW-L faculty Research grant for investigations conducted this past summer
in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. As a result of her research she presented "Awakening of
the Avant-garde: The Interrelations Between Politics, Art and Literature of the 1950s"
at the First International Conference on Contemporary Spanish Literature and Culture: XX
and XXI Centuries held at the Universidad de la Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The paper
will be published in the conference proceedings.
