RLLRLL NewsNews The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida Issue no. 7, Spring 2002 J Killer & X Moors, Editors / G C Nichols, General Editor Dear alumni and friends of RLL, Theresa Antes and Joaquim Camps in eted (c. 240). This Newsletter should reach you our applied linguistics group; with three Our study early in 2002, and so I take this oppor- specialists on hand, RLL is well on the abroad pro- tunity to send you warmest wishes, on way to becoming as a center of excel- grams in Rio, behalf of faculty, staff and students in lence in this highly sought-after field. Rome and Romance Languages, for a peaceful Higher education has been dramati- Provence year in 2002. cally restructured in Florida since last had a banner This year has been difficult at the we spoke. Each university now has a summer in University of Florida. The ghastly Board of Trustees, while the state-level 2001, and we events of September 11 cast a pall over Board of Regents has been abolished. inaugurated the campus that reminded longtimers It isn’t entirely clear how this change a new pro- of the student murders of 1990. Teach- will affect UF, but we are at last in the gram in Se- ers and students may have been competent hands of a “permanent” ville. In Sum- equally shaken, but helping the under- rather than interim higher administra- mer 2002, we graduates to cope was of primary con- tion. This includes a new Dean of Lib- will add another in Santander (Spain). cern in the department. Because lan- eral Arts and Science, Neil Sullivan, It’s gratifying to report the great suc- guage classes are never larger than who has been a great supporter of the cess achieved by our innovative For- 25, RLL faculty and TAs are often the humanities. eign Languages Across the Curriculum only teachers at UF who know a given Last year RLL reaped the first fruits (FLAC) program, started with a US student’s name, and thus we felt a par- of changes made in our PhD programs Department of Education grant in 1995 ticular responsibility to offer our stu- during my first year as Chair, designed (see article elsewhere in Newsletter). dents whatever help we could. to streamline the path to the degree. We can’t keep up with student demand The recession deepened after Sep- We had the largest number of PhD for the courses! The Warrington Col- tember, and tourist income plummeted; graduates in our history: six in Span- lege of Business, the Center for Latin recent cuts in education funding have ish, and one in French. MA graduates American Studies, and the nascent been substantial. We had hoped to hire were at record levels as well: eleven in European Studies Program have all four new professors this year, but bud- Spanish, six in French. Sixteen new made RLL’s FLAC courses a corner- get cuts prompted a hiring freeze, and graduate students entered in Fall 01 (12 stone of recent grant proposals. we will have to get by with our current in Spanish, 4 in French), including one Let me applaud a few more standout faculty. This gives us an extra year to Presidential and two Alumni Scholars. achievements by RLL faculty: Shifra dote on three newly-arrived assistant Majors are holding steady in French Armon’s successful bid for tenure and professors: Rori Bloom, Gillian Lord, (72), Spanish (124) and Portuguese promotion to Associate Professor; and Andrew Lynch. Dr. Lord joins (6), but Spanish minors have skyrock- Carol Murphy’s receipt of the Palmes Académiques from the French govern- ment, for significant contributions to the In this Issue diffusion of French culture; David Pharies’ direction and edition of a new Department News and Announcements ...... 2 version of the University of Chicago J. Wayne Conner Memorial Fund ...... 3 Spanish-English dictionary; my election Alfonsina Lorenzi Memorial Scholarship Fund ...... 3 as President of the Association of De- RLL Foundation Fund 2000 ...... 3 Alumni/ae News ...... 4 partments of Foreign Languages (an New & Newest Faculty ...... 5 organization affiliated with the Modern RLL Study Abroad Programs ...... 6 Language Association); Reynaldo RLL Staff ...... 6 From the Undergraduate Coordinators...... 7 Jiménez’s conclusion of a highly suc- From the Graduate Coordinators ...... 8 cessful three-year term as Chief Fac- Sigma Delta Pi (Hispanic Honor Society) ...... 8 ulty Reader for the Spanish Advanced “A Rio Diary” by Libby Ginway ...... 10 RLL Faculty News ...... 10 Placement Exam; the publication of Continued on page 15 DEPARTMENT NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FRENCH Terry McCoy and Carmen Cañete); they don’t always coincide. It is a place The UF French Club is a student or- “Mexican Cultural Icons” (Dr. Efraín of risk-taking, insight, and exhilaration ganization whose mission is to pro- Barradas and José Ignacio González); and also of fear, frustration, and resis- mote a friendly atmosphere where “World Music Ensemble: Jacaré Bra- tance; a place of striving and of strife, members can share their interests in zil” (Dr. Larry Crook and Dr. Libby of opening to learning and of shutting francophone culture, while they im- Ginway); “Business and Economics in down. prove their French language skills. Latin America” (Dr. Doug Waldo and In addition to teaching what we per- Meetings are held twice a month. Ad- Diana Serrano); “Spain and the Euro- ceive to be the content of the course, ditional information, as well as a sched- pean Union” (Dr. Leann Brown and the way we conduct our classes and ule of planned events, is available at María Guerrero); “U.S.-Latin American shape those fleeting communities re- the club website: http://plaza.ufl.edu/ Cultural Relations” (Dr. Alejandra flects our different views about the rodolfo Bronfman and Dr. Greg Moreland). kinds of community we believe in and New Course: SPN 2440, “Interme- provides a model for the uses of power. HAITIAN CREOLE diate Spanish for Business” This happens whether we do it con- The Haitian Creole section is doing Dr. Greg sciously or unconsciously. Our students well here at UF. Last fall we had an Moreland, RLL’s move on from our classes having enrollment of 80 students in the 4 sec- Liaison with the learned not only another language, but tions being taught, and I was obliged Center for Inter- also how to relate to others, how to use to turn away 15 more students who national Busi- power, how to cope with success and wanted to begin study of the language. ness Education failure, how to listen, how to deal with We hope to have a TA next year to and Research differences. teach more sections. I hope, in the near (CIBER), devel- The Teaching Support Group cur- future, to teach a class of 3230 in Hai- oped and rently meets informally once a month tian Literature or History or Culture. taught—with to discuss in a thoughtful and inten- Jean Gilles, [email protected]. CIBER fund- tional way these issues of what we are ing—a new doing in the classroom. PORTUGUESE course aimed at We try to be especially attentive to The past fall term saw healthy en- expanding the department’s presence those who are beginning to teach, and rollments in Brazilian Drama and Luso- in the growing field of languages for welcome requests to address certain Brazilian Culture. We have a new Bra- the professions. SPN 2440 made its topics. For example in our first meet- zilian teaching assistant, Patricia debut in Summer A, 2001. Ten stu- ing we talked about how to be creative Belchior, who is teaching our introduc- dents enrolled in this successful initial in the classroom, how to move away tory classes. Pedro Werneck, a section. Summer 2002 will see it be- from and then back to the textbook in a videographer from Rio de Janeiro, has ing offered as part of the department’s pedagogically sound way that moti- recently completed a 15-min. video and new Study Abroad Program in vates students with different learning CD ROM to publicize the Rio program, Santander, Spain. styles. which had 42 participants for 2001. The Teaching Support Group The topic of the second meeting was Organized by Spanish lecturer Kathy how to respond to aggression, resis- SPANISH Dwyer-Navajas, is an on-going forum tance or bad attitudes in the classroom: Foreign Languages Across the for discussing ideological, method- those resistant silences, those racist/ Curriculum (FLAC) ological and institutional issues related homophobic/sexist/ nationalist/etc RLL continues to collaborate with to teaching. For many of us the class- comments, rudeness and other disci- other departments in offering FLAC room is a place of dynamic transfor- pline problems—basically those emo- courses. Workshops are held each mation where people form a provi- tionally charged moments when it’s summer to facilitate the preparation of sional community that fosters or hin- sometimes difficult to respond in the courses for the upcoming academic ders learning in many different ways. most effective way. In the third meet- year. This past summer RLL’s FLAC Both students and teachers strive (or ing we discussed the many roles of the Coordinator, Dr. Greg Moreland, was don’t), both encounter obstacles, both teacher with her/his students: instruc- pleased to work with colleagues in Eco- develop their resources and discover tor, facilitator, police, authority, walking nomics, History, Latin American Stud- their limits for overcoming those ob- dictionary, buddy, shrink, center of at- ies, Music, and Political Science as well stacles. The classroom is a place of tention, dominatrix, mentor, model, etc. as Graduate Teaching Assistants in hard intellectual and emotional work, The Teaching Support Group wel- Spanish. They produced FLAC because every person in the room comes new teachers from all the dif- courses in the following areas: “Latin brings his/her own history, experience, ferent languages. Because the Meth- American Business Environment” (Dr. and expectations to that encounter, and odology class for new teaching assis- 2 RLL News tants only lasts one semester, our ing at the homework there, but instead we sim- Spring meetings will be more frequent. Swamp every ply chat the evening away in the com- We plan to meet twice a month, with Wednesday pany of like-minded people! It is a time one meeting continuing along this from 6:00pm to to get together and converse in Span- philosophical line and the other meet- 8:00pm. You ish about everything and anything. So ing being more practical, for example can drop by or please, feel free to come visit us and how to stay in the target language in leave whenever meet others who are keen on learning first and second year language classes. you wish. We and practicing this wonderful language. Mesa de Español think of it as an Esther Valls, [email protected]. As the new academic coordinator of opportunity for the Spanish Table, I warmly welcome people wishing all students and UF academic mem- to practice their RLL FOUNDATION FUND 2000 bers who would like to spend more time spoken Spanish in a relaxed social set- We are immensely grateful to the fol- speaking Spanish. We are still meet- ting. We do not grade exams or do our lowing individuals and companies, whose generous donations have en- J. WAYNE CONNER MEMORIAL FUND abled us to fund small Scholarships, We are proud to announce the creation of a memorial fund in honor of Pro- hold “major days” for chats with our fessor J. Wayne Conner, the founding chair (1962-1980) of the Department of majors, have receptions for visiting Romance Languages & Literatures, who passed away on December 10, 2000. speakers, and endow prizes for excel- We most gratefully acknowledge the fund’s promising start thanks to a gener- lence at the graduate and undergradu- ous contribution of $25,000 by Mrs. Aileen Conner. ate level. Thanks for helping us to be The purpose of this fund is to provide initially a $1,000 J. Wayne Conner what we are! Fellowship as a one-year supplemental grant to an incoming French graduate student selected by the faculty of the French section. Each year, a new French graduate student shall be the recipient of this fellowship. Donations for 10/2000 We appeal to our colleagues, alumni and alumnae, especially those who to 2/2001 studied and worked with Dr. Conner, to contribute to this fund, to help us main- tain it and gradually allow us to increase the number of recipients who, eventu- Gator Textbooks, Inc. ally, may include undergraduate students. To make a contribution, please de- Mr. Brian E. Adams tach the stub at the end of this newsletter and mail it in with your check. Please Dr. F. Daniel Althoff, Jr. make your check payable to “The University of Florida Foundation,” and note Mr. Gregg B. Arum “J.Wayne Conner Memorial Fund # 8517” on the left hand bottom of your check. Dr. William C. Calin Thank you for your generosity. Dr. Joaquim Camps Mrs. Aileen G. Conner Ms. Nicole T. de Venoge ALFONSINA LORENZI MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Mr. Jose A. Fernandez Dr. Raymond Gay-Crosier The “Alfonsina Lorenzi Memorial Scholarship Mr. Antonio C. Gil Fund” is accepting a donation in memory of a Mr. Jere T. Groover graduate student in Spanish from Italy. Ms. Mr. Eddy A. Hernandez Lorenzi passed away in 1999 after a battle with Mr. Gerald G. Langford cancer. She was very vibrant and interested in The McGraw-Hill Cos. how mass communication, especially television, Dr. Ruthmarie H. Mitsch influenced contemporary Latin American litera- Mrs. Mary Morrisard-Larkin ture. The scholarship awards a graduate student, Ms. Kelly A. Moss who shares her zeal, with a cash prize. To make Dr. Sylvia S. Newman a contribution, please detach the stub at the end Dr. Geraldine C. Nichols of this newsletter and mail it in with your check. Mr. Oscar A. Otero Please make your check payable to “The Uni- Sister Eugena Poulin versity of Florida Foundation,” and note “Alfonsina Mr. Jorge H. Ramon Lorenzi Memorial Fund # 6049” on the left hand Dr. Roch C. Smith bottom of your check. Ms. Katheryn Lee Wright Thank you for your generosity.

3 Spring 2002 ALUMNI/AE NEWS FRENCH guages other than English. (The certi- Spanish American Literature, Marcela Joe Johnson (Ph.D. 1999) taught for fication will be available this fall) In teaches Spanish Linguistics (currently a year as a Visiting Assistant Profes- addition to this work at ETS, she is cur- phonetics). For next year we are sched- sor of French and Spanish at Georgia rently writing her dissertation on Pro- uled to teach graduate courses. We are Southwestern State University where, fessional development experiences of happy to be working together, each one after a national search, he has been National Board candidates in Florida at in his/her own field. Our Department is rehired in a tenure track position. He Florida Atlantic University in Boca called Foreign Languages and Litera- continues to publish translations of Raton. [email protected] tures, and we feel very well here so far. French graphic novels, including the As an additional piece of information, recent edition of Proust’s A la recher- SPANISH I will say that I attended and presented che du temps perdu. He recently had Gregory A. Clemons (Ph.D. 1996) a paper titled “The Economy of the an article on Manon Lescaut accepted recently was granted tenure and pro- Word: Latin American Economy and for publication in Vol. 31 of Studies on moted to Associate Professor. Greg is the Aesthetics of the Baroque” at the Eighteenth Century Culture. on the faculty at Mars Hill College near biannual Latin American Studies Asso- Lauren Oken (M.A. 2001) is a Finan- Asheville, North Carolina. In the spring ciation (LASA) Conference, held this cial Solutions Administrator at HNC of 2002, Greg and another colleague past September 5-8, just days before Software Inc. in San Diego, Califor- will take students to Chiapas, Mexico, the deadly attack on that city. Also this nia. She provides administrative sup- for a week-long study tour. This will be past April my article “Sarduy’s Pajaros port, manages group goals, and is re- Greg´s fifth trip with students to de la Playa and the Deconstruction of sponsible for the creation of and up- Chiapas! Greg will present a paper at the American Paradise” was published dating of the website for the Implemen- this year´s MLA convention in New in the Journal Tinta: Technological Dis- tation Services, Risk Analytics group. Orleans. His topic is a comparison of course, published by the University of Aneesha Pretto (B.A. 2001) re- Spanish-language education for adults California - Santa Barbara (December ceived a Fullbright Grant to study at two-year and four-year schools. In 2000 issue). speech pathology at the Free Univer- the fall of 2001, Greg presented a pa- Both Marcela and I hope to stay in sity of Brussels, Belgium. She is cur- per at the annual meeting of the For- Central Michigan for at least a few rently taking courses there and doing eign Language Assoc. of North Caro- years, possibly for longer since we are research on issues related to the bilin- lina. His talk was a presentation of on tenure track jobs. We also hope to gual education of deaf children. current statistics about Hispanics in the stay in touch with our friends and col- Kristen Warner (B.A. 1988) has USA North Carolina as well as teach- leagues in RLL in Florida! Please send taught French and Spanish in Florida ing strategies for heritage language our warmest regards to everybody, es- for 10 years. She was President of the speakers/learners in the K-12 class- pecially to Susana Braylan, Prof. Alás- Florida Foreign Language Association room. Greg´s partner, Jim Johnson, Brun, and Dr. Nichols and please pass in 1999-2000 as well as President of also a UF grad, is currently a case on our e-mail address to Terry Lopez, the Palm Beach County Foreign Lan- manager at a home for at-risk youth in whom we also greet warmly (as well guage Teachers’ Association. In 1995 Asheville. as all the other staff in the office!) she was awarded the Embassy of Krzysztof Kulawik (Ph.D. 2000) Our address is: 301 W. Broomfield Spain Scholarship for study in Sala- and Marcela Hurtado (Ph. D. 2000) St. Apt 202 / Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 / manca at the University of Salamanca Thanks for the interest in our where- Tel: (989) 774 6837 / (989) 774 3536 / and the Florida France Institute Schol- abouts! Both Marcela and I graduated E-mail: [email protected]; arship for study at the University of the from UF as Doctors of Philosophy last [email protected] Antilles in Martinique in 1996. She was summer semester. We are currently Kyrenia (Kitty) Tages-Labrador re- also the recipient of the AATF scholar- working (very hard) as Assistant Pro- cently got her M.A. in Gifted Education ship for study at the University of fessors at Central Michigan University and Secondary Spanish from Belmont Montreal in 1997. Kristen has written (19.000 students), situated in a town University, TN. Kitty moved to St. Pe- language-testing materials for Heinle called Mount Pleasant in the middle of tersburg, FL, where she is teaching at and Heinle publishers and has worked the lower peninsula of Michigan. It truly Gibbs High School, Pinellas County. as a consultant and teacher trainer. She stands up to its name: it is an enchant- Catherine Osborne (M.A. 1999) I is on a two-year professional leave of ing area and an interesting part of the graduated with Chris in Spanish Litera- absence from her current position in State of Michigan, especially for nature ture. Currently I am a Visiting Instruc- Palm Beach County while she is work- lovers. We are about 3 hours from tor at George Mason University in ing as the Teacher in Residence at Edu- Detroit and 5 hours’ drive from Chi- Fairfax Virginia. I principally teach in- cational Testing Service in Princeton, cago. It’s getting colder by the day. termediate grammar and language NJ to develop the National Board Cer- We teach Spanish at the undergradu- courses, plus a course in Latin Ameri- tification assessment for World Lan- ate levels and at the senior level, I teach Continued on page 9 4 RLL News NEW & NEWEST FACULTY

Montserrat Alás-Brun, Assistant undergradu- Theresa Antes, Assistant Professor Professor of Spanish (Ph.D., Univer- ate work at of French (Ph.D., Cornell University, sity of Virginia, 1992). Washington 1993) Her book University in A spe- De la co- St.Louis and cialist in media del her graduate French lin- disparate al work at NYU. guistics teatro del She has and applied absurdo fo- spent several linguistics cuses on years in (second postwar France, language comedy in teaching high acquisition Spain and school English in Poitiers and study- and peda- the Theater ing in Caen and in Paris where she gogy), she of the Ab- completed her M.A. She spent last year was em- surd. She in Paris on a Chateaubriand Fellowship ployed at has also published several studies on completing research for her newly de- Wayne State University in Detroit, MI contemporary Spanish playwrights and fended dissertation on l’Abbé Prévost. before moving to the University of Latin American novelists. Her current The theme of this work is the emer- Florida. Her current research projects research deals with the construction of gence of the modern author. In her the- include examining the development of national identity in the propaganda lit- sis, Dr. Bloom also explores the liter- learners’ reading skills in a second lan- erature of the 30’s and 40’s in Spain, ary relationship between England and guage, as well as students’ acquisition the representations of racial otherness France in this period, particularly as it of morphological features of French. in contemporary Spanish literature, affects the development of the genre She is the Coordinator of the first-year theater, and pop culture, and the ef- of the newspaper. She is very inter- French program, and will be teaching fects of censorship in the performing ested in the relationship between jour- for both the department of romance lan- arts during Franco’s regime in Spain. nalism and fiction and plans to continue guages and literatures and the program Andrew Lynch, Assistant Professor research in that area. in linguistics. of Spanish ( Ph.D., University of Min- Gillian Lord, Assistant Professor of Mary Watt, Assistant Professor of nesota, 1999). Spanish (PhD, Penn State University, Italian, (Ph.D., University of Toronto, His disser- 2001). 1998) tation fo- Her areas Watt cused on of special- came to UF Spanish-En- ization are from SUNY glish lan- second lan- Buffalo, guage use guage acqui- where she and variation sition (SLA) was a visit- among Cu- and acquisi- ing assis- ban immi- tion of sec- tant profes- grant fami- ond lan- sor. Watt is lies in Miami. guage pho- interested His special- netics and in the cross izations are phonology. temporary Hispanic lin- Lord is overlap of guistics, sociolinguistics and applied teaching in culture, ico- linguistics. Prior to coming to UF, he the RLL department and the Program nography and semiotics in medieval spent two years directing the Spanish in Linguistics, as well as directing the and modern literature. She teaches for Heritage Speakers program at Uni- program for second-year Spanish stu- courses in Italian grammar and cinema versity of Miami. Lynch’s current re- dents. Her current research focuses on as well as cross-disciplinary courses search deals with Spanish-English bi- acquisition of Spanish sound patterns focusing on the role of Rome in Italian lingualism in the US. by native English speakers, the effects literature, art, and architecture. She is Rori Bloom, Assistant Professor of of study in abroad on SLA, and the use researching the relationship between French (PhD., New York University, of technology in foreign language edu- the iconography of the cross, the cru- 2001) cation. sades, and pilgrimage in Dante’s Di- Originally from Baltimore, she did her vine Comedy. 5 Spring 2002 RLL STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS Provence, France tour, culminating with a reception in graduate after Summer A with majors Dr. Gayle Zachmann, Director of the Dauer Hall at which a commemorative or minors in Spanish. Students lived UF in Provence Programs in France, plaque was presented. A similar with carefully selected host families in is pleased to report that this innova- plaque was given to Prof. Perrone in Seville. Excursions to Madrid, Toledo, tive interdisciplinary program has now Rio at a special event in honor of the Córdoba, Granada, Cáceres, and brought well over 100 students and 8 landmark year. The UF observance Mérida enriched the program. Day different UF faculty members to Eu- was the initiative of Prof. Terry Mc Coy trips and activities included horseback rope. With two separate campuses, of the Center for Latin American Stud- riding on the beach at Mataslascañas, one in Avignon and the other in Aix- ies. bowling, “sevillanas” (dance) classes, en-Provence, the UF in Provence Pro- going out as a group for “tapas,” gram, offered an array of multidis- Rome, Italy “intercambios” with students at the ciplinary courses - between 16 and 20 Michael Paden directed the “2001 University of Seville, a day-trip to the annually - to students coming from 32 Roman Odyssey” Study Abroad Pro- beach at Cádiz and a farewell party. different majors and 7 colleges cam- gram which attracted 42 students from The program was administered in pus wide. In addition to an outstand- UF and one from out of state. The Pro- Seville by International Studies Abroad ing academic program, the program gram was a great success and the (ISA), which offered students a cen- highlights immersion in a rich cultural courses complemented the roman set- trally located site with a lending library, environment. UF in Provence coin- ting. Luca Caminati taught a course travel resource center, and Internet ac- cides with the Avignon theater festival, on Italian Cinema and cess. Classes were held at the recently and an international festival at Aix. Stu- Sherrie Nunn taught the beginning opened Instituto Mester, housed in a dents are lodged with French host Italian class. Next summer’s program converted Andalusian mansion. Class- families and participate in a number is already fully subscribed. rooms, which wrapped around an at- of cultural activities. This year, students tractively renovated central atrium, had the privilege of having Professor Seville, Spain were appointed with chandeliers, art- George Diller, teaching a site-specific RLL inaugurated new Summer Pro- work, parquet floors, grillwork balco- Provençal Literature course, and Pro- gram in Seville. Thirty-four UF students nies and shuttered windows. Last fessor Donald Ault, teaching an inno- successfully completed the first “UF in summer, Dr. Armon contributed to vative cultural studies course on Com- Seville” Summer Program during Sum- RLL’s new 6 week-summer study pro- ics and French Culture, as well as a mer A of 2001 (May 15-June 25). Four gram in Seville. Dr. Armon’s course variety of excursions to Arles, upper division courses were offered in was entitled “Women in Early Modern Marseille, St. Tropez, and Les Baux, Seville, of which students could select Seville.” Shifra Armon is spending the among others. two. Three students were able to academic year 2001-2002 in Spain. As in the summer of 2000, UF in Provence concluded with 100% of our students and our faculty saying that RLL STAFF they would recommend the program. From left to right Ann Elton (Program Assistant), Terry Lopez (Graduate Sec- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil retary), Obed Santana (Office Assis- The Summer Program in Rio de tant), and Sue Ollmann (Office Man- Janeiro in 2000 experienced excep- ager). tional growth and resounding suc- There have been several changes in cesses with Prof. Ginway at the helm. the staff this year. Obed Santana has The 2001 Program, directed by Prof. replaced Donna Rivera who took a part Perrone, again attracted the largest- time position with the College of Jour- ever contingent of student clientele, nalism. Ann Elton, who comes from both local (UF major/minors, Title VI the Department of Astronomy, has re- grad students) and national (from such placed Jeremy Anderson. Jeremy has schools as Harvard, Hopkins, Duke, taken a job with Coastal Dental. and Chicago). The business option of Veronica Foreacre took a position with the Rio Program completed its second Linguistics and Academic Spoken En- year. Most importantly, UF celebrated glish in August. We have just now the twentieth anniversary of the pro- been allowed to hire her replacement. gram at IBEU (Instituto Brasil Estados Tania Fleming will be joining us at the Unidos). In March, program directors end of March. She comes from Santa from Rio came to UF for a three-day Fe Community College. 6 RLL News FROM THE UNDERGRADUATE COORDINATORS FRENCH fully passed the written and oral exams and Seville 2002 promises to be equally A number of catalysts contributed to leading to the Certificat de Baccalauréat beneficial and enjoyable for UF stu- the success of the undergraduate Supérieur: Priscilla Chapman (Mention dents and faculty (Dr. Montserrat Alás- French program and growing interest Bien), Kathleen Donovan (Mention Brun will teach there this summer). The in French culture. Our annual October Bien), and Cheryl Rockliff (Mention second phase in our Chair’s plan to reception for actual and prospective Bien). Six students passed the test re- improve study abroad offerings in French majors and minors attracted quired for the Certificat Pratique de Spanish debuts in Summer 2002, with over 100 participants. Equally encour- Français Commercial Économique a new program in Santander, Spain aging is the continued strong interest sponsored by the Chambre de Com- (Professor Kathy Dwyer-Navajas and in the UF in Provence programs merce de Paris and administered by graduate student Christina Welch- (Avignon and Aix-en-Provence), Juanita Casagrande: Nicole Demers, Alvarez will teach classes in San- spurred by the enthusiasm of return- Christine Finch, Alexander Hurd (Men- tander). The Seville program offers ing students (see report elsewhere in tion Bien), Desiree Lomer (Mention courses at the 3000- and 4000-levels, Newsletter). A one-week film festival Bien), Peter Oddo, Andrimboara while Santander is designed for stu- which brought recent French films to a Randrianjasolo (Mention Bien). At the dents at the 2000-level. Our next phase commercial theater in Gainesville at- impressive annual award ceremony in will be UF in Guanajuato (Mexico), ten- tracted a large public, including many April, a host of students were recog- tatively scheduled for Summer 2003, students. Its generous sponsor, Mr. nized for their various achievements. with courses at the 3000-level. François Ravidat, brought along sev- Dictionaries for academic excellence The Spanish Section graduated the eral directors whose presentations and were received by Kristin Auman and following number of students during workshops raised interest in the con- Claudia Cornett. To study in Avignon, 2001-2002: Fall 2001, 8 Majors and 8 temporary French film industry and re- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Minors; Spring 2002, 23 Majors and 29 lated cultural topics. Study Abroad Fellowships were pre- Minors. Many of these young men and In 2000-2001, 17 undergraduage sented to Marie Bros, Laura Rowe, women graduated with Honors. Par- French majors received their degrees, Aneke Victoria, James Andrews, ticularly noteworthy are the cases of 1 with High Honors after successful Mayoanna Basse, and Grant King. Tina Mary Will (Thesis, Highest Honors) and completion of an honors thesis, 8 with Faris was honored with the College’s Candice Whyte (Thesis, High Honors). Honors, and 3 with a Certificat de Annual Scholarship Award (Highest At the Spring 2001 Undergraduate Baccalauréat Supérieur (BacSup): Distinction), while Nathalie Domond Awards Ceremony, the following indi- Remedios Arguello, Priscilla Chapman received an Anderson Scholarship (Dis- viduals earned special recognition: (BacSup), Sofia Dangond, Kathleen tinction). Aneesha Pretto and Cheryl Sarah Keithley and Steve Schaef (Dic- Donovan (Honors, BacSup), Jenny Rockliff were induced to the Phi Beta tionaries for Academic Excellence in Duret (High Honors; thesis director: Dr. Kappa National Honors Society. Finally, Spanish at the Intermediate Level); Bernadette Cailler), Aimee Fletcher Aneesha Pretto was also the recipient Alejandro Burgos, Jairo Rojas, Chris- (Honors), Jessica Furman, Arcelia of the Michael Hauptmann Medal hon- tina Silva, Reena Staunko, Quyen Desiree Lomer, Jessica Lutz, Benjamin oring sustained excellence as an un- Nguyen and Amber Schmale (CLAS McClure (Honors), Janice Perez Oferal dergraduate major. Dr. Raymond Gay- Study Abroad Fellowships through the (Honors), Karen Olaciregui, Aneesha Crosier. UF International Center to RLL Majors Pretto (Hauptman Medal, Honors), and Minors); Matthew D. Hill, Kimberly Maryanne L. Purcell (Honors), Cheryl SPANISH A. Davis and Benjamin P. Tyner (CLAS Rockliff (Honors, BacSup), Ellen Ruth Dr. Greg Moreland is in his second Scholars and Scholarship Winners, Schuster (Honors), Guerline Thomas. semester as Undergraduate Coordina- High Distinction); Alejandro Burgos, In addition, 13 students graduated with tor. He is pleased to report, based on Helena K. Sznurkowski, Timothy J. a French minor. The number of new data provided by the Academic Advis- Runyon and Joshua R. Kneidl (CLAS majors follows last year’s pattern, ing Center and in-class surveys, that Scholars and Scholarship Winners, peaking in January. As of September, enrollment in Spanish is flourishing. Distinction); Matthew D. Hill and Quyen 60 students are seeking a French ma- The number of Majors has increased Nguyen (University Scholars Program); jor or double/dual major and 63 stu- significantly; the number of Minors has Jennifer Bulat, Milena Jarvis, Brad Pitts dents are minoring. As before, the most jumped even more dramatically. and Rosa Rodríguez (Sigma Delta Pi, significant quantitative and qualitative Growing enrollment in Spanish New Members); Stacey Kelly, Mary Will growth is among the group of dual and classes has been accompanied by a and Stephanie Litka (Phi Beta Kappa, double majors. significant increase in the number of National Honor Society); Virginia Each spring, the French section of- students interested in studying abroad. Casanova (Michael Hauptman Medal fers two sets of special tests for quali- The UF in Seville program was a re- for Academic Excellence by Graduat- fied students. Three seniors success- sounding success in Summer 2001, ing Majors in Romance Languages). 7 Spring 2002 SIGMA DELTA PI (HISPANIC HONOR SOCIETY) Sigma Delta Pi (Hispanic Honor Society) is open to outstanding students of the Spanish language and Hispanic literature. One of the signal benefits of membership is eligibility for a summer scholarship from the national office of Sigma Delta Pi for study abroad in a Spanish-speaking country. Three members of the Beta Rho chapter have applied for scholarships for the summer of 2002. We are anxiously awaiting the results of the competition! We are pleased to list initiates into the chapter: Nidza Marichal, Soniya Keskar, Vanessa Bueno, Dea Papajorgji, Stephanie Cancho, Reena Staunko (from Fall 2001) and Amy Hammerand, Alfredo Sosa-Velasco, Adam Cohen, Liza Galindo, Violeta Lorenzo, Elisabeth Espinosa, Leslie Adams, Alicia Gier (Spring 2002).

FROM THE GRADUATE COORDINATORS FRENCH gentina, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Spain, courses restricted to graduate students During the and Venezuela. Two won Alumni Fel- now account for 75% of our graduate academic year lowships and one a Presidential Fel- students’ classes. The qualifying ex- 2000-2001, we lowship in recognition of outstanding amination was redesigned to serve as received inquir- academic promise. We have grown the initial step toward writing the dis- ies about our to an all-time high of thirty-six gradu- sertation proposal. Other improve- graduate pro- ate students, the result of several fun- ments include lighter teaching loads, gram from thirty- damental changes introduced in the higher stipends, more and better fel- four students. program since 1995. lowships, and a support for academic Seven new stu- First, a new tracking system helps travel. There are two new scholarships dents were ad- students better manage their time and for graduate students to spend six mitted to our M.A. define objectives, providing close ad- weeks in Spain, and a new summer Program and three requested deferred vising on course work, examinations program in Santander will allow a admission. Over the past year, three and thesis/dissertation proposal writ- graduate student to teach abroad. To students completed their Masters de- ing. Students progress at a defined give our Ph.D. candidates a competi- gree in French: Rochelle Soffer, Lucie pace, opening up spaces for new stu- tive edge in the job market, we encour- Viakinnou-Brinson, and Lauren Oken. dents. In 2001-02, eleven students age them to teach courses beyond the Giovanna Summerfield has been ex- passed their Comps and obtained the elementary level: second- and third- ceptionally active during the past year. MA, while seven obtained the Ph.D. year language, literature and culture She has given three papers, has pub- Second, new faculty have enhanced courses, as well as FLAC (Foreign Lan- lished two articles, a review, and a our graduate guages Across the Curriculum) sec- translation of Vivant Denon, Point de program and its tions. We provide intensive advisement Lendemain for the University Press of reputation, in- for them throughout the job search pro- America. The UF Humanities Council cluding our lat- cess. The six Ph.D. graduates who awarded her, for 2001-2002, a Humani- est additions: Dr. sought tenure-track positions for the ties Center Task Force Fellowship. Montserrat Alás- 2001-02 AY were successful in their Thanks to her initiative and organiza- Brun (Spanish search (see boxes). Dr. A. Avellaneda. tional energy, we established a UF contemporary chapter of the National French Honor literature), Dr. Society. In April, seven graduate stu- Gillian Lord dents were initiated into the Society: (Spanish Ap- Spanish M.A. Degrees, May Rachel Hart, Heather Howell, Daniele plied Linguis- 2001 Buchler, Giovanna Summerfield (Presi- tics), and Dr. Andrew Lynch (Spanish Ana Corbalán dent), Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson, Dana Sociolinguistics). Over the past two Valentina Devescovi Martin, and Suzanne Lindley. Dr. years, visiting professors also enriched Tania Fisher Karen Jones George T. Diller, Interim Graduate Co- our offerings: Dr. María Luisa Freyre Alvaro Leiva ordinator 2000-2001. and Dr. Lucía Golluscio (Historical and Nidza Marichal Theoretical Spanish Linguistics, Spring Karina Miller 2001); Dr. Alicia Genovese (Contem- Javier Omeñaca SPANISH porary Spanish American literature, Erica Oshier We welcomed thirteen new graduate Fall 2001), and Dr. Olympia González students this year, with diverse back- (Medieval and Early Modern Spanish grounds, interests, and goals. Six seek literature, Spring 2002). the MA and seven the Ph.D., with nine Finally, the Spanish graduate pro- in literature and four in linguistics. They gram has been modified to fit current join us from all parts of the U.S., Ar- academic needs. Seminars and 8 RLL News Continued from page 4 own documentary for the University of sistant Professor of Spanish at the can Literature. However my position North Carolina TV station, about the University of Texas A&M in Kingsville. includes developing a Heritage Speak- Latino Community in Wilmington. On Although a small department, it offers ers curriculum for the 2002-2003 school a personal note, María has become the an M.A. and will soon have a Ph.D. pro- year. grandmother of a beautiful girl, Ana gram in conjunction with several Texas Hilda López-Laval (Ph.D. 1993) is María. state universities, using distance learn- full professor of Spanish and Humani- Mark R. Cox (Ph.D. 1995): My wife, ing and other innovative methods. I am ties at Chadron State College, Ne- Silvia, and I had our second son, Jer- able to create my own courses, and am braska. She spent her sabbatical in emy Alexander, on October 3.Older preparing one on fiction and film about Spain last semester and, extremely brother Michael, who just turned three, the Spanish Civil War. Last October, happy and full of new ideas, came back is very happy with his little brother. I invited by the Island Council of Las to her office with 3 boxes of mail, more have received tenure and promotion at Palmas and Tenerife, I went to the Ca- than 1,000 e mails to answer and a Presbyterian College. This year I will nary Islands to participate in the semester to start. Instead of writing all have given papers at AATSP, LASA, “Jornadas Mercedes Pinto.” There I the news she decided to send regards and Brown University; I am writing lectured about Pinto, a Canary writer to her classmates, friends and profes- seven articles for a two-volume study who lived in Uruguay during the 1920s. sors, in special to Dr. Avellaneda and on contemporary Peruvian narrative to The Island Council published Pinto’s Dr. Nichols. E-mails are welcome be published in Italy next year. I con- first three books, and I will direct the [email protected] tinue as web master for the Perú Sec- volume convering her writings in Uru- María Cami-Vela (Ph.D. 1995) has tion of LASA (www.presby.edu/ guay. I am working on other projects just published her second book, lasaperu), am organizing a South Caro- on Galician literature and literature Mujeres detrás de la cámara: Entrevis- lina Latin American Studies conference writen in jail by Civil War Republicans, tas con cineastas españolas de la (www.presby.edu/sccis), and hope to the subject of my thesis. As you can década de los 90, Madrid: Ocho y spend one or two semesters in Peru see, I have not had the time to get Medio, 2001. She is also participating next year working on my book on Pe- bored. I live in Corpus Christi, and my in the production of a documentary ruvian narrative about the period of po- email address is [email protected]. video about abused women, under the litical violence in the 1980s and 1990s. Greetings to everybody, and you know direction of Isabel Coixet in Barcelona. [email protected] where to find me if you need me. In addition, Cami-Vela is producing her Liliana Dorado (Ph.D. 2001) is As-

Ph.D. Students Who Obtained Tenure-Track Positions, 2001-02 Guido Arze, Spring Hill College, Alabama Al filo de la rueda Maritza Bell-Corrales, Georgia Southern University (Ericka Ghersi) Francisco Bustamante, SUNY Cortland Liliana Dorado, Texas A&M Kingsville El afilador llama Marcela Hurtado, Central Michigan University A las puertas falsas. Krisztof Kulawik, Central Michigan University Su zampoña sopla y deja Una melodía fúnebre. Quien la escuche, Sentirá frío en los huesos, calor De pena Y angustia en el recuerdo. New Spanish Graduate Students, August 2001 Dania Abreu (M.A., Literature) Calor de triste angustia que obliga a Rayito Calderón (M.A., Linguistics) Sacar un cuchillo y llamar Al afilador Miguel De Feo (Ph.D., Literature) Erica Fischer-Dorantes (Ph.D., Linguistics) Toca el laminado filo Amy Hammerand (M.A., Literature) Toca el dolor del laminado Kandace Halladay (Ph.D., Literature) Filo, Karen Jones (Ph.D., Literature) Toca el instante de dolor Sarah Kraemer (M.A. Linguistics) Por el laminado filo. Toca Carlos Lafuente (Ph.D., Literature) Tu dolor y tu instante: Kathleen McCarter (M.A., Linguistics) Pena y angustia que sopla Aixa Said Mohand (Ph.D., Linguistics) La zampoña del afilador. Megan Smoker (Ph.D., Literature) Alfredo Sosa-Velasco (Ph.D., Literature) Karina Vázquez (M.A., Literature) 9 Spring 2002 “A RIO DIARY” BY LIBBY GINWAY The Setting In 1998, I accompanied about 12 stu- that is part of their curriculum and went Rio is in a breathtakingly beautiful dents on a trip to historic downtown Rio, on the excursions planned for students natural setting, a rare combination of in order for them to get to know the by the staff of IBEU, the language cen- mountains that rise out of the ocean, streets and neighborhoods mentioned ter where the program takes place. coupled with beaches and bays. The by Brazil’s most famous nineteenth- Excursions hotel where I stayed in the year 2000 century author, Machado de Assis, I first accompanied students to a was only a block from the Copacabana whose works we had studied the pre- beautiful turn-of-the-century restaurant beach, which I see from my hotel win- vious semester. in Rio, with high ceilings and gilt-edged dow. The rooftop bar afforded a 360- The Program mirrors, where we enjoyed the typical degree view of ocean, beach and While I directed the Rio program, Brazilian Saturday afternoon meal of mountains. I never tire of jogging or 1998 and 2000, it nearly doubled in “feijoada.” The next weekend we went walking along the beachfront in the size, from 22 to 40 students. Two-thirds on the day-long excursion to Petrópolis, morning, looking at the mountains, the to three-quarters to of the students are to see the summer palace of the Bra- ocean, the imposing buildings and ho- from universities other than the Univer- zilian Emperor Dom Pedro II. tels, and the morning exercisers and sity of Florida. Part of my job was to A group of students invited me to go sun worshippers. keep the program running smoothly to the world’s largest soccer stadium, When in Rio, I love taking the bus and to make sure that students felt that Maracanã, to see a game between Bra- around the city, to enjoy the view of their needs were being taken care of. zil and Uruguay. It was quite an expe- Sugar Loaf Mountain, and to experi- The year 2000 was also the first year rience, with large crowds and traffic ence the wild way the bus drivers race of the Rio business program, directed jams, even though once we were in- around the “aterro,” an express zone by Dr. Terry McCoy, which had seven side, the stadium seemed quite empty. between Copacabana and the down- students. Before classes started, Terry One student accompanied me to an art town area of Rio. On my regular McCoy and I met with students a hotel exhibit, and another to the National Li- agenda are trips to the nineteenth-cen- restaurant as a way for them to get to brary. Overall, the group of forty were tury plaza of Cinelândia downtown, and know each another before being di- active in planning their fun, going to the Botanical Garden, which was vided into classes, which meet every samba schools, dancing to “forró” mu- founded by Dom João VI, the King of morning for three hours. I also had sic until all hours of the night, and or- Portugal, who came to Brazil with the them sign up to eat lunch with me in ganizing their own activities, trips and Portuguese Court in 1808, fleeing Na- groups of six to eight. In addition to excursions for the weekends, all in ad- poleon. A trip by trolley up hills to the meeting with them at the morning cof- dition to their regular coursework. historic neighborhood of Santa Teresa fee break every day, I also observed affords another view of the Rio of old. classes, attended the lecture series RLL FACULTY NEWS FRENCH 2002. annual meeting of the American So- Theresa Antes was invited to or- Read Baker was on sabbatical ciety for Eighteenth-Century Studies. ganize a panel on Second Language leave in 2000- At this meeting, a special session Acquisition at the Kentucky Foreign 2001. She is was devoted to Challe and attended Language Conference in April. She preparing a by several outstanding French and also presented a paper entitled book tentatively Belgian specialists of Challe. Pro- “Tracking the Morphological Devel- entitled An In- fessor Baker’s contribution was: “An opment of Interlanguage in French tellectual Biog- Ever-Receding God: Deist Apol- as a Second Language.” In June, raphy of Robert ogetics and Absolutism in Robert she received a RLL mini-grant for fur- Challe. This Challe’s Difficultés sur la religion ther research involving nominal, ad- spring she pub- proposées au Père Malebranche.” jectival, and verbal morphological lished an article Rori Bloom presented a paper development in French as a second “Shifting Cul- entitled “Une Teinture anglaise: The language. She was invited to con- tural Tides in English Esthetic in Prévost’s Pour et tribute a chapter on pedagogical ap- Robert Challe’s Journal d’un voyage contre” at the annual conference of plications to the teaching of litera- faix aux Indes Orientales (1690- the American Society for Eighteenth- ture for a forthcoming MLA volume 1691)” in a special issue of The century Studies in New Orleans last entitled “Pedagogical Strategies for South Atlantic Review whose overall April. Her paper will soon be pub- programs in Nineteenth & Twentieth title is: “Being Global. From the En- lished in a volume of essays on Century French Studies: Dynamic lightenment to the Age of Informa- Anglo-French cultural exchanges of Dialogue.” The volume will be out in tion.” In late April, she attended the the period . At the MLA Meeting in 10 RLL News December, she presented “The Martinique, November 7-9. Her pa- Faculty of the department during the Causes Célèbres of the Pour et per is titled: “Du Musée de Carthage past academic year. In addition to his Contre: Celebrity and Judgement in au poème de Glissant: Scipion, Baal, regular classes, he gave a reward- the Journalism of l’abbé Prévost.” et la flamme du brasier [Narration et ing course entitled “Modern French She was the keynote speaker for the Symbolique - le Barbare, le Divin].” Prose of Provençal inspiration” for Festival Français at the P.K. Yonge By the end of 2001, she will have pre- the UF in Provence program at School in Gainesville. Currently she sented three papers related to a cur- Avignon, France. This course offered is very much enjoying teaching the rent project on “Carthage” for which students the occasion to study au- French Senior Seminar class on she received CLAS Enhancement thors less well read within our regu- “Masquerade in the 17th and 18th cen- funds in Summer 2000. The ENTRE lar French curriculum, including turies.” NOUS series which she has orga- Alphonse Daudet, Henri Bosco, Sylvie Blum-Reid (Romance Lan- nized and administered since Fall Marcel Pagnol, and Jean Giono. Pro- guages and Literatures with affiliation 1997 is entering its 5th AY. Speakers fessor Diller is pleased to report that with Film and media Studies and for Spring 2001 were Montserrat the Parisian publisher Hachette has Asian Studies) chaired Lauren Alas-Brun, Jean-Elie Gilles, and published his edition of Froissart, Oken’s M.A. thesis, “Masculinity in Sylvie-Blum-Reid. In Fall 2001, the Chroniques, in the “Lettres Crisis: The Buddy Films of Bertrand ENTRE NOUS community (“RLL and Gothiques” series, directed by Michel Blier” (April 2001). Dr. Blum-Reid FRIENDS”) is welcoming Donald Zink of the Collège de France. spent three-weeks during the sum- Rosenberg, Mary Watt, Barbara Raymond Gay-Crosier com- mer in Vietnam as part of the CIEE Petrosky, and Luca Caminati. pleted two international development seminar William Calin completed his ten- projects: a book and, while there, initiated institutional ure as a Florida Foundation Re- on Albert contacts between Vietnamese Uni- search Professor and spent summer Camus’s The versities and the University of 2001 at the Scottish National Library Stranger, an Florida. Her article on recent French in Edinburgh, doing preliminary re- extensive état cinema appears in the latest issue of search for his next extended project, présent of more IRIS, Revue de théorie de l’image et “The French Tradition and the Litera- than half a cen- du son. For the second year, she will ture of Medieval and Early Modern tury of research chair a special PAMLA session spon- Scotland.” Minority Literatures and on this novel (to sored by “Women in French” on the Modernism: Scots, Breton, and be published Theme of Travel. She will also con- Occitan, 1920-1990, University of this fall by Gale tribute a paper on Michel Ragon at Toronto Press, 400 pp., hardcover Research); and volume 19 of the Santa Clara University in November and paperback, came out in January. Camus series published by the 2001. She also served as a consult- Dr. Calin gave papers in California Lettres Modernes (Paris). The latter ant for the Canadian Journal of Film (UC Davis), Michigan, New York is mainly devoted to L’Homme révolté Studies. (SUNY Buffalo), and an invited lec- / The Rebel to commemorate the 50th Bernadette Cailler organized and ture at the University of Georgia in anniversary of the publication of this chaired a panel on “The Interlingual, their “Story of French” series spon- major philosophical essay. In the Intertextual, Intersemiotic Creative sored by the Center of Humanities: same spirit, he organized a special Circle (Maghreb Literature and Cin- “Textes médiévaux, approches session on this work to be held at ema)” for the 2001 Meeting of the Af- modernes.” Finally, he organized a the annual meeting of the South At- rican Literature Association, in Rich- Colloquium at UF in April on the Lan- lantic Modern Language Association mond, Virginia, April 4-8. She also guages and Literatures of the in Atlanta, November 9-11. To date, organized and chaired a panel on Pyrenees: “Barcelona, Bilbao, Bor- the critical bibliography that he main- “Tunisia in non-Tunisian Literatures deaux: Resituating the Periphery,” tains on the internet has attracted — 2: one year after Sousse”, for the which concluded with his presenta- over 20,000 visitors. Other editorial 2001 Meeting of the Conseil Interna- tion, “Robert Lafont Writes the First activities include his continuation as tional d’Etudes Francophones in Occitan ‘New Novel’: La Festa (2 assistant review editor of The French Portland, Maine, May 27-June 3. Her vols.).” Dr. Calin was elected to the Review and general editor of the Ars own paper was titled: “De Virgile à university-wide UF Graduate Coun- Interpretandi series (P. Lang, New Glissant: quels rêves, quelles cil and chaired the search commit- York). For the next five years, his at- Carthage? [Narration et Symbolique tee which recruited RLL’s newest ap- tention will be centered on signifi- - la Ville, la Femme.].” In Novem- pointment in French, Dr. Rori Bloom. cant contributions to each of the new ber, she will present a paper at the George Diller has served as in- four-volume Pléiade (Gallimard) edi- 4th International Conference on Car- terim Graduate Advisor for French tion of the complete works of Albert ibbean Literature, in Fort-de France, and as Coordinator of the French Camus. 11 Spring 2002 Carol Murphy was invited to Realism, Contemporary Culture and “Esotismo, parole, immagini. Pasolini present a paper, “Jean Paulhan et Grammar and Composition. She co- in India” in the Italian journal Nuova Jean Fautrier: re-présenter le réel,” Chaired the Graduate Awards and Prosa, “Oltre la Via Emilia e ritorno” at the Institute for Romance Studies Placement committee, was co-Chair in a volume edited by Franco Nasi at the University of London on May of Graduate studies, and a UF Sen- (La Via Emilia. Boca Raton: 4, 2001. The day-long symposium on ate Steering Committee member. Bordighera, 2000), and ”Interrogating Jean Paulhan featured speakers She spent the summer of 2001 direct- Reality: Pasolini’s Experimental Eth- from England, France, Switzerland, ing the UF in Provence program from nography in Appunti per un film and Scotland. On May 28, in the the Avignon site, where she taught a sull’India” in the most recent issue of State Capitol, she attended the sign- 6-credit Intensive Intermediate the Romance Languages Annual. He ing of a Memorandum of Understand- French course. This year, Dr. presented at the Twelfth Annual ing between the government of Zachmann’s book Frameworks for Purdue University Conference on France and the state of Florida which Mallarmé, was given editorial board Romance Languages, Literatures & will facilitate faculty and student ex- approval by the State University of Film in October 2000, at the Italian changes between France and Florida New York Press (SUNY). Her article Cultural Studies Conference October and provide scholarships for study in “Frameworks for Mallarme’s Photo- 2001, and as an invited speaker at France. On July 14, she was named Graphics” appeared in L’Esprit the Conference on the Via Emilia or- Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Createur; her article on Mallarmé and ganized by the Istituto Italiano di Académiques by the French Minis- Dance, “Offensive Moves in Cultura in Chicago in May 2000. He ter of Education, M. Jack Lang, for Mallarmé: Dancing with Des Astres” also took part in the Carnevale Car- her efforts to promote French lan- appeared with Rodopi; and her article nival Symposium organized by Pro- guage, culture and the arts in the U.S. “Overseas Engagements: The Pres- fessor Mary Watt, delivering an in- Her article, “Reassessing Marguer- ence and the Futures of Study troduction to Fellini’s classic I ite Duras” will appear in Twentieth- Abroad,” was accepted for a book vitelloni. In the past academic year Century French Studies and another entitled, Pedagogical Strategies for Luca Caminati has taught far too article, “Unheard Memories in Julien Programs in Nineteenth & Twentieth many students the “dolce suono” of Gracq’s Le Roi Cophétua” is being Century French Studies: Dynamic the Italian language, and the intrica- considered by Romance Language Dialogue, to appear with the Modern cies of cultural analysis of “weird” Notes. She continues as Associate Language Association. Italian films to the happy bunch that Dean for Academic Affairs in the followed him in Rome this past June. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ITALIAN Mary Watt had a busy time last and pursues research in her next Luca Caminati, having reached “il year. In February she headed up the book project about the encounter of mezzo di cammin di sua vita,” de- organization of the Department’s author-editor Jean Paulhan and art- fends his Ph.D. dissertation in Italian Carnevale Carnival Symposium. ist Jean Fautri. at the University of Wisconsin-Madi- Later in the spring she headed up the Gayle Zachmann had an active son in the month of December organization of the Undergraduate year teaching French Civilization, 2001. In the past year he published Awards Ceremony. This fall she helped to organize the MEMS Sym- posium on Universality. Since Janu- ary she has traveled to Chicago, Kalamazoo, Vancouver, Canada and Boca Raton to present conference papers. She spent the summer con- ducting research for her book, thanks to a generous Humanities Scholar- ship Enhancement award. She pre- sented her findings during a recent Entre Nous talk organized by Profes- sor Cailler. In August, Dr. Watt pub- lished “The Reception of Dante in the Tim of Cosimo I” in a volume on the cultural Politics of Cosimo I published by Ashgate Books. In September she completed work on “Eleonora’s Wed- Dean Neil Sullivan; Dr. Délia Mata-Ciampoli, Cultural Attaché of the French ding” which will be published this Consulate; and Professor Carol Murphy, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs spring. She is currently faculty advi- 12 RLL News sor to the Viva Italia student organi- Paulo (still on line at the Contempo- Abroad in Seville, Spain. Last aca- zation. And in her spare time, she rary Brazilian Song: MPB 1965- demic year, Prof. Alás-Brun pre- has been running . . . She will race in 1985 (Austin: University of Texas sented a paper at the SAMLA Con- the Jacksonville Marathon in Decem- Press, 1989), with rights for Italy and ference, where she also chaired two ber. Portugal also having been sold. In sessions. She also published an ar- the last year, Perrone also published ticle and a book chapter. Prof. Alás- PORTUGUESE articles in the inaugural issue of Brun was also a member of three Libby Ginway recently finished Linha de pesquisa [Rio de Janeiro], national committees of Sigma Delta book manu- Studies in Latin American Popular Pi and the Hispanic Association for script to be Culture, a volume of refereed pro- the Humanities. Finally, she gave two sent to ceedings in Brazil, and a Garland presentations at UF, one as part of Bucknell Uni- Press collection on the recently de- the Entre Nous series, and a second versity Press: ceased celebrity Jorge Amado. at the Pyrenees Colloquium. Brazilian Sci- Perrone gave several invited lec- Shifra Armon, Associate Profes- ence Fiction: tures last Spring: “Self and City in sor of Spanish, is spending 2001- Cultural Myths Paulicéia Desvairada.” a memorial 2002 on research leave in Spain. and Nation- lecture at Brown University; “Chiclete She received a grant from the Pro- hood in the com Banana: Brazilian Popular Mu- gram for Cultural Cooperation be- Land of the sic and Globalization,” at the Center tween the Spanish Ministry of Edu- Future. She for Portuguese Studies and Culture cation, Culture and Sports and United also received RLL grant for summer of theUniversity of Massachusetts; States Universities to investigate 2001 for proposal based on the con- the second inaugural lecture of the courtly interactions in the writings of cepts of ecofeminism, “The Brazilian new Center for Latin American Stud- Baltasar Gracián. In December 2001, Amazon Region as Woman,” and had ies at the University of Miami, and Rowman and Littlefield published Dr. a accepted for SAMLA Conference, “Insularity and Outreach: Contem- Armon’s first book, Picking Wedlock: Nov. 2001: “The Cyborg as Racial porary Brazilian Lyric in Trans- Women and the Courtship Novel in Other: Continuity and Change in american Perspective,” at Brazil Spain. In December 2001, Dr. Armon Brazilian Science Fiction.” She also Week, University of Texas, Austin, delivered a paper at the Modern Lan- spoke on Brazilian carnaval as a where he also was part of a panel guages Association Conference en- roundtable participant for the Car- discussion on the films Orfeu negro titled “Money: The Phantom Lady of nival/Carnevale Symposium Feb. and Orfeu. Recent conference pa- Calderón de la Barca’s La dama 28, 2001, met with external evalua- pers are “Critical Projections and duende.” In May 2002, Dr. Armon tor Dr. John Lipski to discuss the pro- Receptions of Paulicéia Desvairada,” will travel to Hungary to present the gram in Rio de Janeiro and the Por- MACHL, University of Kansas, and results of her investigations on tuguese program for the Title VI Latin “Bebop, Triphop, Kaos, Chaos: In- Gracián at the Third Congress on American Studies Center grant, ternationalization in the Origins, Hispanic Poetry in Europe and the March 1, and accompanied Title VI Practices, and Deployments of Americas. Last summer, Dr. Armon speaker Carmen Tesser, who spoke Tropicalism” at the International contributed to RLL’s new six-week on “Reading as a Productive Skill: Council for the Study of Traditional summer study program in Seville. Literature in the Context of the Stan- Music in Rio de Janeiro. After this Her course was entitled “Women in dards for Learning Foreign Lan- event Perrone continued his summer Early Modern Seville.” guages in the 21st Century” April 2, research on “transamerican poet- Andrés Avellaneda, Professor of 2001. ics” in São Paulo. Spanish American literature and Charles A. Perrone enjoyed a ban- Graduate Coordinator-Spanish, had ner year in research and publication. SPANISH two articles published in 2001-2002 He co-edited the volume Brazilian Last semester, Montserrat Alás- “Clase media y lecturala construcción Popular Music and Globalization Brun presented papers at the AATSP de los sentidos,” in Roberto Arlt. Los (Gainesville: University Press of and SAMLA Conferences, and was siete locos. Los lanzallamas, edited Florida), contributing three seg- elected chair of a session for the next by Mario Goloboff (Paris: Associa- ments. Alongwith with co-editor SAMLA Conference. She conducted tion Archives de la Littérature Latino- Christopher Dunn of Tulane Univer- research in Spain in the summer, Americaine, des Caraibes et sity, co-editors’ web sites). Perrone thanks to a Humanities Scholarship Africaine du XX siècle-ALLCA XX. also saw the publication of the Span- Enhancement Award, and submitted Colección Archivos 44); and “Argen- ish edition of his book Masters he two book chapters that have already tina,” in Censorship: An International gave a long interview in the leading been accepted for publication. Next Encyclopedia, edited by Derek Jones Brazilian daily O Estado de São summer she will direct the Program (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Lon- 13 Spring 2002 don). Two other articles by Dr. about Colo- published by John Benjamins. Avellaneda will be published in 2002 nial Latin Gillian Lord presented a paper “Evita: cuerpo y cadáver de la American entitled “Second Language Stress literatura,” in Evita: mito y represen- Texts Today Production: Rules, Analogy or Lexi- taciones, edited by Marysa Navarro (Albany, New cal Storage?” at the 4th Conference (to be published by Vergara Editor: York: State on the Acquisition of Spanish and Madrid-Buenos Aires); and “Bioy University of Portuguese, held last October at the mirando al sudeste,” for the New York University of Illinois. In November, Feschrifften. Internationalles Press, Prof. Lord went to the ACTFL Meet- Kolloquium zu Ehren von Adolfo Bioy 2002). He also published ing in Washington D.C. There, she Casares (to be published by Vervuert “Hispanismo, literatura colonial gave two workshops, one on the use at Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and latinoamericana y la tarea de los of target-language video segments in the University of Leipzig). Two doc- críticos.” Cuadernos de literatura the language classroom and another toral students successfully defended (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, on incorporating different technolo- their dissertations directed by Dr. Bogotá, Colombia). 6, 12 (2000- gies into our language classrooms. Avellaneda Martha Cuba-Cronkleton 2001): 12-41. Prof. Bolaños will also In April, she will present a paper at (“Identidades mestizasuna apro- contribute with a seminar, to be held the Linguistic Symposium on Ro- ximación a la obra de Edgardo Rivera on April 5, 12 and 19, 2002, to the mance Languages about the use of Martínez, Laura Riesco y Zein following program: “Teachers as analogy as a tool in acquiring sec- Zorrilla”); and Chris Kulawik Scholars at the University of Florida,” ond language pronunciation. Prof. (“Travestismo linguístico: el enmas- a collaborative effort including: Cen- Lord and Prof. Andrew Lynch re- caramiento de la identidad sexual en ter for Precollegiate Education Train- ceived an Online Content Develop- la narrativa neobarroca de Severo ing, College of Liberal Arts and Sci- ment grant through OIR and will use Sarduy, Diamela Eltit, Hilda Hilst y ences, Area Center for Education En- that money to create a multi-media Osvaldo Lamborghini”). Also, Karina hancement, and sponsored by the project on Spanish Phonetics and Miller successfully defended her M.A. Woodrow Wilson Foundation. The Language Variation. This project will thesis directed by Dr. Avellaneda title of his seminar is: “Spanish Con- present variations of Spanish from a (“Juan Rodolfo Wilcockla identidad quest and Colonization in the Class- phonological, morphological and syn- del caos”). room: (Un) told Stories about the En- tactic viewpoint, and discuss issues Efraín Barradas has been invited counter of America and Europe for of dialectal variation and discourse to join the Vis- Academic Consumption.” factors as well. Additionally, Prof. iting Committee Joaquim Camps presented the Lord has received a College Schol- of the Depart- paper “Aspectual distinctions in arship Enhancement grant to con- ment of Print, Spanish: The early stages of oral pro- tinue her research into second lan- Drawings and duction” at the 4th Hispanic Linguis- guage speech patterns this summer. Photographs, tics Symposium, in Bloomington, In- Greg Moreland developed and Boston Mu- diana, in November 2000. In March taught a new course, “Intermediate seum of Fine 2001 he gave an invited paper at the Spanish for Business” (SPN 2440), Arts, due to his University of South Carolina, entitled in Summer A, 2001. He participated expertise in the “Processing form and meaning in the in “Language and Culture for Inter- field of Latin input: Pronominal reference in Span- national Business: A Workshop for American Art. ish as a foreign language.” In Octo- Foreign Language Educators,” at the This committee ber 2001 he presented the paper University of Memphis, February advises the department on the “The analysis of oral self-correction 2001. In July 2001 he attended a two- guidelines for making acquisitions, as a window into the development of week Spanish Language Faculty De- and other pertinent matters. Prof. past time reference” at the 4th Con- velopment Program (in Business Barradas has been an avid collector ference on the Acquisition of Span- Spanish), sponsored by the Florida of Latin American Graphics over the ish and Portuguese. His article “Pret- International University CIBER, at the years, and a steady donor of Latin erit and imperfect in Spanish: The Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. American and American art works to early stages of development” (2000) Geraldine Nichols returned to the Museum Collection of Graphics, appeared in Spanish Applied Lin- chairing in May, grateful to Reynaldo one of the largest in the USA and the guistics at the Turn of the Millennium, Jiménez for his fine job as Acting world. edited by Ron Leow & Cristina Sanz. Chair. While on leave, she devel- Álvaro Félix Bolaños edited with His co-edited volume (with Caroline oped her research on the represen- Gustavo Verdesio Colonialism Past Wiltshire) Romance Syntax, Seman- tation of reproductive issues in twen- and Present: Reading and Writing tics and L2 Acquisition will soon be tieth-century Spanish literature. She 14 RLL News delivered four papers on the topic, Work continued on the project in the pass the Golden including one at the MLA Convention, ensuing months and the manuscript Age (she was the one for a conference at Harvard, and is now complete and in press at the secretary of the one a keynote address. As a mem- Editorial Gredos of Madrid. At the Society for Re- ber of the Executive Committee of same time Dr. Pharies was working naissance and the Association of Departments of with a team of lexicographers at the Baroque His- Foreign Languages (ADFL), she par- University of Florida (Irene Moyna, panic Poetry for ticipated in the summer seminar for Gary Baker, Erica Fischer-Dorantes) seven years), language chairs at fabled Middlebury to prepare a new edition of the Uni- Contemporary College, serving as Co-Director of versity of Chicago Spanish Dictio- Cuban Poetry, the New Chair Workshop, and deliv- nary. The team is currently engaged and contempo- ering a plenary lecture: “Apples, Or- (together with Sonia Wohlmuth) in rary Spanish anges and Rewards in the Multilin- copy editing toward a firm publica- film. Among her publications are a gual Department.” She was recently tion date of July 15, 2002. The total volume of Cuban short stories for elected President of the ADFL for UF budget for the work was over students of Spanish, and numerous 2002-03. Prof. Nichols published two $171,000. articles on the contemporary Span- articles last year. “Spanish and the Mercedes Rivas, (Ph.D. from the ish novelist Muñoz Molina, Larra’s Multilingual Department: Ways to University of Seville) was a visiting theater criticism, and Golden Age Use the Rising Tide” appeared in the professor in Romance Languages poets such as Pedro Soto de Rojas, ADFL Bulletin and was then selected and Literatures during the fall semes- Gabriel Bocángel and Antonio for reprinting in the MLA’s Profession ter. Previously, Prof. Rivas was a Hurtado de Mendoza. She also 2000. “Una vuelta a los orígenes,” postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State Uni- authored a book on the Spanish ba- published simultaneously in Spanish versity and the Consejo Superior de roque poet Pedro Soto de Rojas, a and in Catalan by Destino, was part Investigaciones Científicas in Seville, follower of Góngora. of a collection of essays on writer and also taught at the University of Carme Riera (Visiting Professor in Salamanca. She is the author of an Continued from page 1 RLL in Spring 97). important book related to 19th cen- new books by Shifra Armon, Félix Sherrie Nunn spent last academic tury Cuban anti-slavery narrative, Bolaños, William Calin, Joaquim year (2000-2001) on sabbatical in and has also written several articles Camps, George Diller and Raymond Italy where she studied Italian lan- on various Latin American subjects Gay-Crosier; receipt of the newly cre- guage, culture, and history. In May (the “Spanish chronicles” of José ated SPPP Awards (for excellence in and June, she taught Beginning Ital- Martí, Adolfo Bioy Casares’s Plan de rank) by Andrés Avellaneda, William ian I in the University of Florida’s evasión and Dormir al sol, Gabriel Calin, Raymond Gay-Crosier, Summer Study in Rome program. García Márquez’s El amor en los Geraldine Nichols, and David Pharies. Currently, Sherrie teaches and tiempos del colera). In addition, she Before signing off, very special serves as supervisor for Beginning has prepared a volume about a 17th thanks to Reynaldo Jiménez for his fine Spanish II classes. She is also the century Cuban epic poem, Espejo de leadership as Acting Chair last year; faculty advisor for Sigma Delta Pi. paciencia. While in Gainesville Prof. to Mrs. Ayleen Conner, for establish- David Pharies has maintained a Rivas taught a course on 20th cen- ing a scholarship in French, in honor very busy re- tury Spanish American fiction. Her re- of her late husband Wayne Conner, search search focused on 19th century Cu- Chair of RLL for many years; to Gayle schedule over ban literature, especially on the fa- Zachmann, who raises scholarship the past two mous author Gertrudis Gómez de funds year after year to help students years. Dur- Avellaneda. study in France; to Bernadette Cailler ing the aca- Olympia B. González (Ph.D., for her inspiration in directing the demic year Spanish and Comparative Literature, department’s research colloquim, En- 2000-2001, Cornell University), Associate Pro- tre Nous; and to Kathy Dwyer-Navajas, for organizing an exciting new discus- Dr. Pharies fessor of Spanish at Loyola Univer- sion series for RLL faculty and TAs on had the op- sity in Chicago, is at UF as Visiting teaching issues. portunity to Professor of Spanish for the Spring We always look forward to hearing write the greater part of the entries Semester of 2002. She also holds a from you and catching up on your for his Diccionario etimológico de los BA in Psychology from the Univer- news: please keep us in your loop! sufijos españoles (y de otros sity of Miami and another one in Pen- elementos finales) thanks to a re- insular Spanish Literature from Sincerely, search fellowship from the National Florida International University. Her Geraldine C. Nichols Endowment for the Humanities. interests at the present time encom- 15 Spring 2002 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 94 Gainesville, FL

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