General Events

On the way to the North Pole Here Mr. Twig Branch is holding our photo on the ship “Le Commandant Charcot” on the way to the North Pole. Polar Bears and Whales made appearances.  LANG at the North Pole And here we are! Our Banner was unfurled still on board of “Le Commandant Charcot” at […]

2026 Dean’s Prize for Outstanding Research Tairen Fenhoff: Examining the rhetoric of enemyship Tairen Fenhoff, a double Major in Spanish and Communication Studies, completed Honors Program in both majors. As part of the Communication Studies Honors Program, she examined how perceived enemies were constructed through presidential campaign rally rhetoric during the closing stages of the […]

Dr. Cross published his edited volume Deleuze and Affect. Deleuze and Affect brings together work from emerging and established scholars to address and reassess the role of affect in Deleuze’s work and its legacy in the critical humanities. Affects are not merely new sensations; they are, more radically, new sensibilities. They therefore have the potential to redefine the very […]

Dr. Don Cross co-edited and co-translated Catherine Malabou’s Formations. The work is an elaboration of the concept of plasticity, which has made Malabou one of the most innovative philosophers working today. Formations collects eighteen of Malabou’s early writings, spanning 1986 to 2003, within which her initial articulations of plasticity take shape. Never just an archive of precursory traces of […]

Dr. Bobby Hobgood was nominated for the UNC Charlotte Award for Teaching Excellence, one of the University’s most prestigious honors, recognizing faculty members who demonstrate outstanding commitment to teaching and student success. Dr. Hobgood was nominated for the 2026 award. While the award finalists have now been selected, the provost wrote to recognize his nomination and thanked him for […]

Welcome to four new adjunct faculty members in French, Chinese, and Korean.

Dr. Parra Garcia holds  Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, an  M.F.A. in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa, as well as an M.A. in Crossways in European Humanities as part of the Erasmus Mundus Program. His teaching focuses on the development of Spanish communication and intercultural understanding through communicative activities, experiential learning, […]

 Dr. Ortega Pérez holds holds two doctorates: a Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from UC Davis, with a Designated Emphasis in Second Language Acquisition, and a Ph.D. in Communications from the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain), as well as a Master’s in International Relations from the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (Spain) and a Bachelor’s in Journalism from the Universidad […]

Dr. Johnson holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Georgia at Athens. His dissertation research deals with the use of evaluation and stancetaking as resources for gay identity construction in interaction. His main field of study is pragmatics, with specific interest in discourse analytical methods, discourse markers, pragmatic variation, and expression of deictic […]

Dr. David Dalton published his third monograph Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations: Resistance, Catharsis, Transformation with Rutgers University Press.  Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations analyzes Mexico’s rich history of digital activism, which is among the most vibrant of any country in the Hispanic world. The book begins with a discussion of the Zapatista […]