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Dr. Melissa Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Spanish, presented a paper on “Theater Reminiscences: The Politics of Memory after the Expulsion of the Moriscos” at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Boston. The paper explored how the Moriscos—descendants of Muslims in Spain who were forced to convert […]

Graduate student Jessica Brown ’15M.A. has some tips for fellow Teaching Assistants on time management. Her video is part of a collection of testimonial videos in a project led by the College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Learning Community “Professional Development of TAs.” The videos are designed to help Teaching […]

By Ehrin Lingeman ’15 Ohio University alum and French major Nestled in the Appalachian foothills, Ohio University granted me boundless — almost overwhelming — opportunity both in and out of the classroom. When I arrived in the fall of 2011, I was oblivious to how much my four years in […]

Annalycia Liston-Beck at the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. By Casey Tisdale ’17 Annalycia Liston-Beck came to Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College as a Political Science major. Now a junior, she has added a Spanish minor, while picking up certificates in War and Peace and Law, Justice & […]

By Catherine Hofacker From Compass While many college students worked summer jobs or interned in their field of study, Ohio University senior Mica Smith was in Morocco. Don’t think she had it easy, however. Smith was a spring 2016 recipient of the Critical Languages Scholarship, which offers awardees an eight-week […]

Several graduate students from Ohio University participated in the symposium “Reimagining the Spanish Comedia in the Transmedia Age,” which explored new ways of examining Hispanic classical theater in order to make it more relevant to college students and other audiences in the United States.  As the conference, hosted by Ohio […]

Epicurious interviewed Ohio University alum Yvonne Maffei ’97, ’00M on “How to Make Anything and Everything (Bolognese! BLTs!) Halal.” Maffei is the author of the “wildly popular blog-turned cookbook, My Halal Hitchen.” She earned degrees in Spanish and Global Studies-Latin American from the College of Arts & Sciences and a master’s […]