Pablo Garcia Piñar Wins the Dean’s Prize for Distinguished Teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences Pablo Garcia Piñar, Ph.D. candidate in Spanish Literature, has won the Dean’s Prize for Distinguished Teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences. He graduated from Universidad de Granada completing his bachelor’s degree in English Philology. During that time he had the chance to spend two years on Erasmus exchange at Fontys Hogescholen Sittard, The Netherlands an ... read more

Diana Garvin Wins Third Prize in the Europe in the World Graduate Competition Diana Garvin, Ph.D. candidate in Italian, has won third prize in the Europe in the World graduate competition. The competition, open to all undergraduate and graduate students, asked contestants to use various artistic mediums such as music and l ... read more

Edmundo Paz-Soldán Named Distinguished Visiting Professor Professor of Spanish Edmundo Paz-Soldán has been named the 2013 Felice Massie Distinguished Visiting Professor in Spanish Literature at Washington University in Saint Louis. On Feburary 18th he gave a public lecture entitled “Roberto Bolaño’s Universal History of Infamy.” In addition he will be givi ... read more

Bruno Bosteels praised as one of the most important emerging philosophical voices at Cornell Associate Professor of Spanish Literature Bruno Bosteels has been recently praised as “one of the most important emerging philosophical voices at Cornell” for his translation of Alain Badiou’s Theory of the Subject (Continuum, 2009). Bosteel ... read more

Laurent Dubreuil has published his fourth book Laurent Dubreuil, Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature and Director of the French Studies Program, has published his fourth book, À force d’amitié (Hermann Éditeurs, 2009), “an essay on passionate friendship, fr ... read more

Simone Pinet, Associate Professor of Spanish, awarded fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Simone Pinet, Associate Professor of Spanish, has been awarded a prestigious Latin American and Caribbean Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Pinet is one of 37 artists, scholars, and scientists selected from a field of almost 500 ap ... read more