Andrew Kauffman (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper on his current research on literary depictions of sacrifice at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico on October 15.

Francois-Nicolas Vozel (World Languages and Cultures) published an article titled, "No Trace Anywhere of Life, Perhaps: Autology and Hauntology in Imagination Dead Imagine," in the Journal of Beckett Studies (Edinburgh U.P.). The article analyzes how many of Samuel Beckett's texts rely on painterly aesthetics and techniques of avant-garde…

Arpine Mkrtchyan’s (World Languages and Cultures) abstract proposal titled, ‘’Les particularités des signes poétiques dans les textes littéraires,’’ was accepted by and presented at the 15th World Congress of Semiotics, an event organized by University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece in August 2022.  

Merci Silva-Acosta (World Languages and Cultures) published an article: "Voces feministas que trascienden épocas y continentes: 'Lección de cocina' de Rosario Castellanos y 'Carne quemada' de Rosa Montero" in El Cid: La revista estudiantil del Capítulo Tau Iota de Sigma Delta Pi, la Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica.  

Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) gave her Presidential Address at the 2022 Linguistic Association of the Southwest annual meeting at Cleveland State University on September 24. Her paper was titled, "Northwestern Amazonian Spanish as a macro-region: The roles of the (socio)-linguist."  Spanish has coexisted with many…

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) participated in a poetry readings series hosted by The Boston Readings project and presented her latest book, The Landlessness (Bezothechestvo) published in Kiev, Ukraine, in June 2022.

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) achieved recertification as a Spanish-English medical interpreter from The Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters and the National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters, the two national organizations that certify medical interpreters. 

Sergio Guzman (World Languages and Cultures) recently presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The session  How is My New OER Textbook Working Out? was based on SPAN 126, a course Guzman developed specially for UNLV. 

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) published a book of poetry, Homelandless, (Publishing House of Oleg Fedorov, Kiev, Ukraine, June 2022). She also published a selection of poetry about war in Ukraine in The New World  magazine (Toronto, Canada). Additionally, she participated in the No War: Poets Against the War …

Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) gave the keynote talk "Spanishes of Peru: Diversity and educational challenges" as part of the events of the Spanish language week organized by the Professional School of Translation and Interpreting of the Women's University of the Sacred Heart (UNIFE) in Lima, Peru.

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has been appointed a visiting fellow at Yale University's MacMillan Center for the 2022-23 academic year. 

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has authored a chapter titled "Ambiguity" in the collected volume Research Handbook on Law and Literature, edited by Cardozo Law School's Peter Goodrich, and published by the UK's Edward Elgar Press. In her chapter, Byrne offers a study of Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes' stylizing of…