Department of Romance Languages
Faculty News
| Campo Wins Second Teaching Award | |
We are very proud to report that Professor Roberto Campo has received the prestigious Alumni Teaching Excellence Award for 2006-2007. Each year one senior member and one junior member are selected from the entire university faculty in recognition of distinguished teaching. Dr. Campo, previous recipient of the College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Excellence Award (05-06), was also promoted to the rank of Professor in 2007. He gave the keynote talk at the Freshman Convocation on August 19, and will deliver the main address to graduates at the December commencement ceremony on December 20, 2007. Toutes nos félicitations! |
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| Dola Presented at FLANC Conference |
| Peter Dola presented "La Perspective actionnelle dans l'enseignement du français" at the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina in Winston-Salem on October 6. |
| Fein Receives Book Contract from Yale |
| An intermediate-level, literature-based textbook, a revised and expanded version of Architextes (originally published by Harcourt Brace), co-authored by Dr. David A. Fein and Dr. H. Jay Siskin, is under contract with the Yale University Press, and scheduled for publication in spring, 2009. |
| Landry Attended Conference on 17 th -Century Studies |
| Dr. Bertrand Landry attended the 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies at Yale University, November 8-10, as a member of the Executive Committee. |
| Wilkens presented film in Human Rights Film Festival |
| On September 10, Dr. Cybelle McFadden Wilkens introduced The Battle of Algiers , the first film in UNCG's Human Rights Film Festival, providing background on France's colonization of Algeria, the Algerian War of Independence, the film's importance for the revolutionary left in the 1960s and the Pentagon's screening of the film in 2003, as well as discussion of city space, gender, torture, and the negotiation and maintenance of borders in the film. |