New agreements with foreign institutions

The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages has signed several agreements with institutions overseas that will provide new seminars on specific topics of interest:

Xunta de Galicia: Annual seminar on Galician Literature and Language.
University of Buenos Aires: Annual seminar on Argentinian Literature and Culture.
Institut Ramon Llull:  Annual seminar on Catalonian Studies.
Instituto Camões:  Annual seminar on Portuguese Literature.
Junta de Castilla y León  / Fundación Siglo para las Artes:  

Professor William P. Childers Wins Prestigious MLA Award

Brooklyn College and Graduate Center Professor William P. Childers has become the first CUNY professor to win the Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs prize for his book Transnational Cervantes (University of Toronto Press, 2006). The award, presented by one of the most prestigious scholarly associations in academe, goes to an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. Read more...

The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages ranked among the best of the country

The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages ranked third in the country for the scholarly achievement of its faculty, according to the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. Further, in the 'broad' category of humanities, the Graduate Center was fourth after Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The rankings take into account scholarly publications, honors and awards and grants. The research was conducted by Academic Analytics and an overview of the findings were reported in the January 12, 2007 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Read more...

Professor Marlene Gottlieb Honored by the NYSAFLT

The New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers selected Professor Marlene Gottlieb, who is also Dean of Arts and Humanities at Lehman College, as the recipient of the 2003 Ruth E. Wasley Distinguished Teacher Award (Post-Secondary). Named after Distinguished Professor Ruth E. Wasley, a language professor at the State University of New York at Albany, the award was presented to Professor Gottlieb at the NYSAFLT annual convention on October 11 in Rochester, NY.

A summa cum laude graduate of Hunter College, Dean Gottlieb earned her master's and doctoral degrees at Columbia University, where she received the Angel del Río Prize for Best Master's Essay in Spanish, and has been a member of the Lehman faculty since 1967. Following a seven-year tenure as Chair of Lehman's Department of Languages and Literatures, she was appointed as Dean in 1997. A former Woodrow Wilson Fellow, she is a nationally renowned scholar of contemporary Latin American literature, especially the works of Chilean poets Pablo Neruda, Nicanor Parra and Enrique Lihn, as well as Cuban poet Heberto Padilla. She has written five books and over 20 articles and reviews encompassing these and other poets and has been invited to speak at numerous scholarly conferences in the U.S. and abroad.

For the past several years, she has served the New York City community by providing translations of forms, informational brochures and other materials for various metropolitan hospitals. In addition to her work at Lehman, she teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center in both the doctoral program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and the master's program in Liberal Studies/Translation.

NYSAFLT has administered the award since 1969 in honor of Professor Wasley's dedication to her profession and her students. The organization promotes the study of languages and culture and encourages articulation at all levels of instruction.