News

Congratulations to Drs. Gundela Hachmann and Carmela Mattza for receiving tenure!  

Dr. Rafael Orozco was recently interviewed by a journalist from The Bogotá Post about the evolution of Colombian Spanish. The Bogotá Post enlisted the help of Dr. Orozco to understand how words enter into a vocabulary and why Spanish in Bogotá is so neutral sounding. Click here to read the article. Dr. Orozco can be reached at rorozc1@lsu.edu. 

Dr. Elena Castro has been selected as a Fellow of the 2017/2018 SEC Academic Leadership Development Program. The mission of this program is to identify administrators who have the potential to impact all of higher education now and in the future and to prepare them for the next phase of their careers. Click HERE to view the complete roster of 2017/2018 SECU Fellows. Dr. Castro can be reached at ecastro@lsu.edu.

Dr. Raymond Stock has been quoted in the September issue of Source, the journal of the literary division of the American Translators Association. The article in which he is quoated is by Patrick Saari, "Naguib Mahfouz: Cairo, Arabic, and World Literature." Dr. Stock can be reached at rstock@lsu.edu.

Dr. Rafael Orozco has been invited to be the keynote speaker for the July 2017 Conference of the Asociación de Linguistica y Filologia de América Latina at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. This event constitutes the largest Hispanic Lingusitics conference in the world. It attracts several hundred scholars from all over the Hispanic world and beyond. Dr. Orozco can be reached at rorozc1@lsu.edu.

Ms. Lan Zhe, Instructor .of Mandarin Chinese, attained the status of being the first and only Certified Court Interpreter of Mandarin Chinese in the state of Louisiana by passing the Court Interpreter Oral Examination developed by the National Center for State Courts which included sight translation, consecutive interpreting and simultaneous interpreting. This is the highest level obtainable for a court interpreter of Mandarin Chinese in the U.S. She was sworn in and awarded the Court Interpreter Certificate at the Louisiana Supreme Court in New Orleans in October 2016. Ms. Zhe can be reached at lzhe@lsu.edu.

Dr. Raymond Stock, Instructor of Arabic, has been quoted in the Spanish journal ABC about Egypt's official neglect of the tenth anniversary of the passing of Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt's Nobel laureate in literature - many of whose works he has has translated and whose biography he is writing for Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in New York. Dr. Stock may be reached at rstock@lsu.edu.