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"The Acquisition of
locative predicates
(ser/estar/haber)
in L2 Spanish."
by Silvia Perpiñán
La Dra. Silvia Perpiñán se graduó en filología
hispánica en la Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona en 2001, completó un MA y un PhD en
Lingüística Hispánica de la Universidad de Illinois
en Urbana-Champaign en 2004 y 2010
respectivamente. Trabaja como profesora
asistente en la Universidad de Western Ontario,
en Canadá, donde imparte clases de lingüística
hispánica, lenguas en contacto, adquisición de
segundas lenguas y metodología y estadística
aplicadas a la investigación en segundas lenguas.
Sus intereses generales son la adquisición de
lenguas y la gramática universal, el bilingüismo, el
cambio lingüístico en las lenguas en contacto, la
teoría morfosintáctica aplicada a la adquisición de
lenguas, el procesamientos lingüístico.
En la actualidad tiene tres proyectos en curso,
uno sobre el bilingüismo catalán-castellano y el
catalán como L2 en Cataluña, otro sobre el
procesamiento de las oraciones de relativo, y otro,
del que hablará en la charla, sobre la adquisición
de los predicados locativos y existenciales con
ser/estar/haber en L2, y sus diferencias
microparamétricas en las lenguas romances y su
adquisición.
April 8, 2016
2 p.m.
University Center for the Humanities
Fall 2016
Lecture Series Program
The Depar tment of Spanish
To be announced…
Lecture Series
Program
2015-16
The Department of Spanish
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(269) 387-3001
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www.wmich.edu/spanish
held at
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI
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The Department of Spanish
in cooperation with
The University Center
for the Humanities
Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 Lecture Series
"La poesía actual
del Cono Sur.”
by Marcos Wasem
“Hybrid
Language
Teaching in
Practice:
Perceptions,
Reactions
and Results.”
by Carrasco
& Johnson
Dr. Marcos Wasem is a Visiting Assistant Professor
of Spanish and Portuguese at Purdue University, in
West Lafayette, Indiana. He received a BA from the
Instituto Nacional de Docencia, in Montevideo,
Uruguay in 2000. He completed an MA in Spanish
and Latin American Studies from The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem in 2004. He then obtained an
MPhil in 2012 and a PhD in Hispanic and LusoBrazilian Literatures and Languages from The
Graduate Center, The City University of New York
(CUNY), in 2013. Dr. Wasem’s research interests
focus on the poetry of the Southern Cone for which
he has published several articles and two books,
Barroso y sublime. Poética para Perlongher. (Buenos
Aires: Godot, 2008), and most recently, El amor libre
en Montevideo. Roberto de las Carreras y la
irrupción del anarquismo erótico en el Novecientos
(Montevideo: Banda Oriental, Biblioteca Nacional,
2015),which was awarded Uruguay’s National
Literature Prize in essay in 2014. He has authored two
books of poetry, Aterrizaje de primeros semovientes,
in Montevideo in 2007 (Artefato) and the broadside
La cachila blindada in 2009 (New York, Pen Press).
Dr. Berta Carrasco is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at
Hope College in Holland, Michigan. She received a BA from
the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija in Madrid in 2005. She
completed an MA in Spanish in 2007 and a PhD in Spanish in
2011, both from WMU. Her research interests focus on
women writings. Carrasco is currently working on a project
on women’s contemporary Iberian literature.
September 25, 2015
2 p.m.
University Center for the Humanities
October 9, 2015
2 p.m.
University Center for the Humanities
Stacey Margarita Johnson is an Assistant Director for
Educational Technology in the Center for Teaching, as well
as Senior Lecturer in Spanish, at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tennessee. She received a BA in Spanish and
International Studies from Union University in 1999. She
completed an MA in Romance Languages in 2002 and an
EdD in Adult Education in 2012, both from the University of
Memphis. Her research focuses on the language
requirement at the college level. Her book, Adult Learning
in the Language Classroom, details the results of a semesterlong case study of one Elementary Spanish (Spanish I)
course, exploring connections between the fields of L2
teaching and adult learning. Johnson is currently working
on a new collaborative project about the use of discussion
boards to support problem-based language learning.
“Estrategias de
(re)existencia
(resistencia) queer:
articulando
discursos alternos
en la literatura
dominicana y
puertorriqueña
contemporánea.”
by Jonathan Montalvo
Originario de Lares, Puerto Rico, Jonathan
Montalvo es un doctorando en el Departamento de
Romance and Classical Studies de Michigan State
University, Lansing, donde también imparte
cursos de español para extranjeros como doctoral
assistant. Jonathan obtuvo su maestría en Español
de Western Michigan University en 2012, y una
licenciatura en Spanish International Studies, con
un minor en Latin American Studies, de Purdue
University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana, en
2010. Su investigación actual se centra en la
literatura queer con énfasis de estudio en las
representaciones de identidades de género-sexuales y culturales--en la producción literaria
puertorriqueña y dominicana
contemporánea. Sobre este tema ha presentado
varios trabajos en conferencias profesionales, más
ha publicado una entrevista sobre el autor
puertorriqueño Max Chárriez, autor de Ojos como
de hombre (2011).
Carrasco and Johnson co-authored Hybrid Language
Teaching in Practice, a book that gives a practitioner's view of
teaching languages in a blended face-to-face/online format.
January 29, 2016
2 p.m.
University Center for the Humanities