Kara Morgan-Short’s Campus Research Board proposal “Memory-based individual differences in late-learned second language: Accounting for development in proficiency and neurocognitive processing” was funded for $20,000. Morgan-Short is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and…
Kim Potowski, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program, discusses heritage language teaching and her Fulbright research at the Benito Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, Mexico. Read the…
Gabriela Reno was one of four LAS undergraduate students to receive Gilman Scholarships for summer 2012. Read her story in the Winter 2012 edition of AtLAS. (Scroll down for Ms. Reno’s profile and…
On November 8, 2012, Margarita Saona, Associate Professor of Hispanic Literature and Interim Head of Hispanic and Italian Studies, presented her new book of micro-fiction, Objeto perdido, in Lima, Perú. Dr. Susana Reisz…
Kim Potowski, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, will deliver the keynote address at the 36th Annual Statewide Conference for Teachers Serving Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students. She will be speaking on “U.S. Spanish:…
The German Language Society of Chicago’s first dinner program of the season was held under the motto “Never Forget” on November 13, 2012 at the Metropolitan Club in Chicago. Consul General Christian Brecht…
On Thursday, Sept. 27, St. Olaf hosted Dr. Kim Potowski, Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Potowski’s talk, titled “When ‘Foreign’ Languages Aren’t Foreign: The Value of…
For the second year, Sara Hall is chairing the Chicago Film Seminar, which convenes faculty and graduate students in film, television and media studies from academic institutions in the greater Chicago area throughout…