As evidence of our strengths, every year our faculty and students win numerous awards.

Our faculty had a busy year! Research faculty published more than half a dozen books on a wide variety of topics. Patrícia Amaral edited a collection on the semantics of words that correspond to English other cross-linguistically, Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change (Brill). Anke Birkenmaier edited Alejo Carpentier in Context (Cambridge UP), which discusses new revelations about Carpentier’s life and works, and how they shed new light on his role as a public intellectual in Cuba and abroad. Manuel Díaz-Campos (co-ed.) published a collection of essays delineating dialects throughout the Spanish-speaking world, Enciclopedia concisa de los dialectos del español en el mundo. A revised edition of Melissa Dinverno’s (co-ed.), Lorca and the Archive: Memory in Motion brings new archival source materials to our understanding of Lorca’s life and works (CSIC). Rhi Johnson’s monograph, Water Women: Fluxes of the Feminine in the Nineteenth Century (U Toronto P), explores water as a space for female literary figures to embody gender and agency. In The Other Fridas: The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists (Lexington Books), Luciana Namorato (co-ed.) brings to the fore understudied contemporaries of Frida Kahlo. And Darlene J. Sadlier’s and Jim Naremore’s The Haunted Cinema of Pedro Costa (Indiana UP) studies Portuguese director Pedro Costa unique contribution to the arts.

Research faculty lectures included keynote addresses by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss (Applied Linguistics Symposium, MSU) and Patricía Amaral (Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages, MSU), invited lectures by Kathleen Myers (Centro de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, and University of Seville), Gabriela Puscama (University of Illinois), and Olimpia Rosenthal (University of Michigan). Melissa Dinverno’s collaborative research team also opened the exhibit Lorca and the Archive: Memory in Motion at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid.

Grants and honors were awarded to Andrés Guzman (IU CAHI and Presidential Arts and Humanities travel grants for his work on the US-Mexico Border), Melissa Dinverno (IU Digital Arts and Humanities and the Institute for Advanced Study for her work on Lorca), Kathleen Myers (CAHI Fellowship for work in the Lilly Library’s Collections), Luciana Namorato (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal Research Fellowship and a CAHI Research Grant), Gabriela Puscama (Research Microgrant for work with Psychological and Brain Sciences at IU), and Olimpia Rosenthal (College Arts and Humanities Institute Research for travel to Poland and Ireland). This year Kathleen Myers received the IU Trustees Teaching Award and the GSAC Outstanding Mentor Award.

Teaching faculty were honored with numerous awards, grants and fellowships. Julia Calderón earned the Mosaic Fellowship, the Career Connections Fellowship, and the Active Learning Grant. Sabrina Grimberg and Robin Reeves were both awarded the Summer Instructional Development Fellowship, while Israel Herrera received the IU Trustees Teaching Award and the Be More Involved Award for volunteer service in Bloomington. Robin Reeves received the ALCOVE and First Year Seminar Faculty Fellowships. Additionally, Noraedén Mora Méndez received the Career Connections Fellowship, the Constellation Open Stage Grant for Teatro Vida, and a CLACS Faculty Research Grant. And Iraida Galarza was selected as the Second Vice-president for the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Teaching faculty also published articles and books. Allen Davis published Spanish Self-Learning Guide, Advanced Spanish Grammar (3rd ed., Jossey-Bass) and Gibrán Delgado-Díaz published Cuentos de horror para pasar los apagones (Tazas y Portadas). Noraedén Mora Méndez published two articles: “Anachronic 68: The Crisis of Media in Imagen de Caracas” (in Discourse) and ”El espacio palpitante del otro: el de-morar de Victoria de Stefano” (in Voz y escritura). Julia Calderón and Robin Reeves also participated in the College of Arts and Humanities Faculty Learning Communities.