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Say There Alumni Newsletter Fall 2018 By Christopher Coski Professor & Chair of Modern Languages Greetings! It is a pleasure to welcome everyone to the latest edition of Say There. As incoming chair, I have inherited a robust, enthusiastic, and active department from Betsy Partyka, who spent the last nine […]

By Christopher Coski Professor & Chair of Modern Languages After the very successful 2009 alumni reunion, the Modern Language Department intended to get together every five years. We realized this goal nine years later on April 21, 2018, with the same enthusiasm from alumni to come to campus more often. […]

The Ohio University Chapter Pi Rho/Tao of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, celebrated the initiation of eight new members on Oct. 8. Sigma Delta Pi is the only national honor society recognizing outstanding college and university students of Spanish and requires members to hold a high […]

The Modern Languages Department welcomes two new faculty. Dr. Ashwini Ganeshan joined the Spanish faculty in 2016-17 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. She specializes in Hispanic Linguistics and teaches courses at the Intermediate, Advanced and Graduate levels. Ashwini’s research focuses on Lexical Semantics, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Spanish and General […]

By Fred Toner Retired Associate Professor of Modern Languages If I had to sum up in one word what I’ve most enjoyed since taking early retirement in 2016, I’d say “traveling.” Time in itself is a luxury, and I’ve been fortunate that my partner, Don Adleta, and I are on […]

The Mexican theater company, Efe Tres Teatro, comes to campus on Oct. 19 to perform El merolico at 7 p.m. in Scripps Hall, room 111. The performance is based on three plays originally published in 1613 by the Spanish writer, Miguel de Cervantes: El viejo celoso (The Jealous Old Man), […]

Barb Reichenbach, who has played a major role in teaching and advising Modern Languages students interested in future careers in education, retired in 2018. “After teaching for 50 years, it will be quite an adjustment for me, but my husband, Jack, and I plan to continue traveling in our RV, […]