Department Archives: Modern Languages and Literatures

Paolo Giordano, Neil E. Euliano Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies, was invited to a conference/workshop at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center titled “Transcending Borders, Bridging Gaps: Italian Americana, Diasporic Studies, and the University Curriculum.” Eighteen professors of different disciplines, nine from the United States and nine from Italy, participated. The event was […]

During the fall semester, students in Yilaisa Seijas’s Spanish 1120 and 1121 courses created holiday cards in Spanish to send to women and men serving abroad. Custom greeting cards were mailed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations. Seijas’s students were recognized by the president and co-founder of For the Troops, an organization that sends care […]

In December, Keith Folse and Melanie Gonzalez presented papers at the Vocab@Vic Conference on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition at the University of Victoria in New Zealand. In 2013, Folse was an invited plenary speaker at international conferences in Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Oman, and Japan, as well as several regional conferences in the U.S. […]

UCF Modern Languages Professor Alla Kouova recently had her article Connecting Classrooms: Russian Language Teaching Project at UCF published by the Russian Language Journal. The journal is a bilingual scholarly review of research, resources, symposia, and publications pertinent to the study and teaching of Russian language and culture, as well as comparative and interdisciplinary research […]

Humberto López Cruz was invited by Panamanian historian and critic, Professor Ricardo Ríos Torres to speak at the University of Santa María la Antigua and Exedra Books in Panama City, Republic of Panama. López Cruz presented lectures on impressions of Panamanian culture from Central Florida and on the last ten years of Panamanian literature as […]

Modern Languages and Literatures assistant professor Alla Kourova’s monograph was recently published. It is titled “Using Cross-Cultural Projects in Teaching Foreign Languages: A research- based approach to design and implementation” and was published in Russia in July in the Smolensk University press. The monograph presents a detailed coverage of theory and practice of the project […]

Natalia Sepúlveda has been awarded a McNair Fellowship to conduct research with Dr. Martha García, who is her mentor and the director of her undergraduate thesis. Her thesis, “The Importance of Education from a Global Perspective: Teaching Don Quixote in the 21ST Century,” has led her to continue her studies at the graduate level. Natalia […]

Dr. Paolo Giordano, Neil R. Euliano Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, delivered two lectures on the history and literature of Italian emigration to America at the University of Parma, Italy on Friday May 10 and Friday May 24.

Martha García recently conducted intensive research at the University of Alcalá de Henares in Madrid, Spain, where she was appointed Visiting Scholar at the Instituto Franklin de Investigación en Estudios Norteamericanos. García worked at the institution during a sabbatical in spring 2013. She has visited the university several times in the course of her research.

Leah DeLorenzo, graduate student in UCF’s TESOL program, won the Arts and Humanities Award for her presentation at the very first statewide Graduate Student Research Symposium. Leah (pictured far right), presented a poster titled, “Parental Beliefs and Attitudes on Enrollment in a Dual Language Program at an Elementary School.” Graduate students from across the state […]