by Haydee Taylor

 
February 7, 5:00pm, Baldwin Hall 114
Dr. José Carreño hosts a presentation, reading and book signing of Sangro tinta, the recently published first volume of Spanish poetry by  students Alexandria Hult (Spanish major) and Lydia Pearson (Romance Language major, 2017).  In his prologue, Dr. Carreño remembers his first meeting with Allie and Lydia in Introduction to Spanish Literature in the spring of 2016.  As he recalls, “ambas se destacaron por su inteligencia y por su pasión genuina por la poesía.  Sus voces críticas hechizaron de golpe mis oídos como unos labios expertos a un adolescente.  Allie y Lydia emergieron ipso facto como dos continentes poéticos en medio de un archipiélago de inteligencias sublimes recién nacidos.”

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February 13, 5:00pm, Baldwin Hall 102 (Little Theater)

Classical and Modern Languages welcomes Dr. Jurgen Kuttner, a German radio personality, theater director and author who also has a PhD in cultural studies. Dr. Kuttner is a cult figure in the Berlin theater scene for his “video snippets”.  He will present an English version of  show, of which he will present an English version in his video snippets speech performance “I Wanna Be American: A German Crisis of Identity”.  (See attached image.)  
 
February 20, 5:00 pm, Baldwin Hall 114
The Department of Classical and Modern Languages and the Department of English and Linguistics welcomes Dr. Joe Barcroft, Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition at Washington University, who will present on the topic of “Effective Vocabulary Instruction in CLT, TBI, and CBI.  From Dr. Barcroft’s CV:
 
He teaches courses on language teaching methodology, second language acquisition, grammar and vocabulary acquisition, and Hispanic linguistics. Professor Barcroft’s research interests include second language vocabulary acquisition; input processing; processing resource allocation during lexical acquisition; the role of acoustic variability in language learning and speech processing; the bilingual mental lexicon; and psycholinguistic approaches to other issues in second language acquisition and bilingualism. His articles appear in journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, Applied Psycholinguistics, Second Language Research, and The Modern Language Journal. His input-based incremental approach to second language vocabulary instruction, which is grounded in research findings on lexical input processing, is described in articles in Foreign Language Annals and Hispania.