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Dr. Christopher Coski, Professor of French and Chair of Modern Languages, delivered the keynote address at the fifth biannual Forging Linguistic Identities Conference at Towson University in Maryland on March 15. Coski’s talk, “I Speak, Therefore We Are,” examined the implicit recasting of Cartesian identity in Condillac’s 1746 Essai sur […]

  The Ohio University Chapter Pi Rho/Tao of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, initiated 12 new members at a Feb. 25 ceremony.   Sigma Delta Pi is the only national honor society recognizing outstanding college and university students of Spanish and requires members to hold a […]

Since its formation in 2017, the Ohio University Translation Club has been a valuable resource, providing the university with fast and reliable interpreting services. So far, the club has carried out translations and interpreted for three delegations who came to Ohio University to strengthen their partnerships between various programs. The […]

Dr. Ashwini Ganeshan, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Modern Languages Department, published an article on the impact of service learning on students’ understanding of the Spanish verbal aspect. Ganeshan co-authored the article with Dr. Cecilia Tocaimaza-Hatch of the University of Nebraska Omaha Foreign Languages and Literature Department. The article, […]

In April Wes Gilkey ’17, ’18M began working as a graduate intern with the Hocking County Sheriff’s Office as a data administrator for the Hocking Overdose Partnership Endeavor, also known as Project HOPE. The HOPE team consists of experts and community leaders from around Hocking County, including representatives from Jobs […]

Dr. Melissa Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Modern Languages Department, published a collection of short stories titled Nota de duelo (Mourning Note) in ArtePoética Press, a New York-based publishing company that specializes in literature written in Spanish in the United States. The stories are about Puerto Rican traditions […]

Dr. María Postigo, Lecturer of Translation-Spanish in the Modern Languages Department, translated several documents for the Whitehall, Ohio, Parks & Recreation Department from English into Spanish. The materials were distributed to the public during the Latino Night in Whitehall. The documents included Whitehall’s Fall 2018 Flyer, the 2019 Parks Shelter […]