~ Upcoming News ~

Congratulations to all for a Successful Spring 2008 Semester!

1.) Click here to find a listing of our Spring 2008 graduates.

2. ) News about our Graduate students!

Joint MA Adrienne Harris was awarded the  CSU "Graduate Student Leadership Award," and Hannah Grant-Boyajian obtained the English Department's "Ann Osborn Zimdahl Memorial Scholarship."

Emily Ellis, MA student in the Joint program, has been awarded a "Fulbright Scholarship" to spend a semester in Spain teaching and studying Spanish. It is an honor and quite an achievement considering that it was a nation-wide competition.

The "Walker Awards" have been announced.

Sophie McKee won the" Ronald W. Walker Graduate Award for Excellence in Teaching" (she was nominated by Marie-Jo Hofmann)

Ina Sammler won the "Ronald Walker Graduate Award for Excellence in Scholarship" (she was nominated by Irmgard Hunt).

Congratulations to the all of you!

3.) It is an exciting time for the Department. We have just completed the process of interviewing and hiring three positions in Spanish. We are pleased to welcome the following newest colleagues: Antonio Pedros-Gascón - Contemporary Peninsular Literature; Francisco Leal - Hispanic Poetry and Maite Correa - Linguistics.