Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures

How was your summer? This one is the last one! Profesora Chio met with our partners from Universidad de Lima. What a pleasure to meet Claudia! Do you know that in all our Spanish conversation classes you have a partner, a native speaker from Peru, to practice?

How was you summer? Sirana Jamkartanian went to DC for a workshop about teaching French in professional settings. If you are interested in French for Business, ask Sirana!

How was your summer? This summer Profesor Dani Fonfria-Perera left for family reasons. Our grad student Jorge de la Hoz went to U. Of Arizona to study his PhD. We miss our two españoles already! Also Dr. Refika Sarionder won't teach German for us because she will be teaching in Psychology. Congratulations Refika!

How was your summer? Professor Navarro worked with three Mexican students of the Delfin Research Program. They went to Nebraska to meet with other Delfines.

How was your summer? Profe Chio taught Spanish for Heritage Speakers in the Herencia program. Somos Shockers!

How was your summer? See what Julie Henderson did this summer! She went to this USD 259 recruitment event with Jorge of Alce su Voz. In the picture with Mayor Lily Wu.

Do you know Lucas Torito? Check the amazing translation our students Jorge de la Hoz and Carolina Wright did with the supervision of Julie Henderson. In the picture with Jay Price (History) and the team behind the WSU graphic novel.

These are our outstanding concurrent enrollment teachers. It was great to see you at the end of the semester! @ WSUConnect.

Congratulations to Julie Henderson for her promotion to Associate Educator. Julie is our Undergraduate Coordinator and teaches some of the Spanish core courses of translation and interpretation. ¡Gracias por todo lo que haces, Julie!

These are some pictures of our students today.

Another of our Spanish MA students who passed her oral exam a couple of weeks ago. ¡Felicidades Sandra! Sandra is from Colombia and wants to work in education.

Somos Shockers! The First Latine Graduation at WSU. Today we saw so many Spanish minors (including Iris Okere, the president of the Student Government). Here some pics of our students and also of the Herencia program. Some already signed up to study with us. ¡Bienvenidos!

We had an End-of-the-semester Party and we recognized the Academic achievement of our students of French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and German.

You can find more information about Raul in the WSU news. Here are some pictures of his oral exam. With his profes and with Dr. Mythili Menon who served in his Spanish MA committee.

Raul Rangel is one of our graduate students who will walk again through the stage this Saturday. Check this post!

Meet a Shocker: Raúl Alejandro Rangel Fernández May 6, 2024 — Raúl Alejandro Rangel Fernández learned how to juggle his commitments and his studies while earning a graduate degree in Spanish.

WSU new mural by Columbian artiat Gleo (with the support of Armando Minjarez) features former and current students of the university. One is Kariana (Nursing major, Spanish minor) who is very close to our faculty. ¡Bravo Kari! Our Spanish faculty were there and helping with the piñatas.

5 de Mayo weekend! We know that 5 de mayo is not the Mexican Inependence Day, but the Battle of Puebla. Our study abroad program is in Puebla so we love 5 de mayo! And we had a great time at Open Streets NoMar. It was great to see the Somos Shockers team.

Spanish grading party in Rsc with tamales caseros (gracias San Juanita). Casi terminamos. Vamos a extrañar a Jorge y Sandra. May the 4th be with you!

Awesome event with ASL today in Derby. Here are our instructors and our students.

We had an Inclusive Party / Fiesta Inclusiva last Saturday thanks to our grad student San Juanita. It was a great event with rain and all. Gracias for all the support to all Latine organizations on campus.

Japan Festival was a success! Thanks to all our wonderful students, our community volunteers and our fantastic instructors Jennifer Musaji and Yumi Sensei.

What a great presentation! Muchas gracias Silvia who came from Universidad R. Landivar in Guatemala. Also thanks to our interpreters and the colleagues from other departments who attended the event.

“Chante la Vie, Chante”

Chante la vie, chante! It was great. See you next year!

Miren este evento para la comunidad en que varios grupos hispanos de WSU colaboran.

El trabajo en equipo da mejores resultados🫶🥰
Gracias a las fraternidades y departamentos de la Universidad de Wichita State por ser parte de esta hermosa fiesta inclusiva🫶🦋👩‍🦽🦾🧑‍🦼👨‍🦯

Ya faltan pocos días!
Recuerda que:
🦋Es una fiesta en donde los festejados serán los niños y personas con alguna discapacidad y los invitados de honor, toda la comunidad
🦋Evento gratuito
🦋Ambiente familiar
🦋Lleno de sorpresas
🦋Juegos, pasteles, piñatas, dulces
🦋Sensibilización
🦋Información y recursos para todos

¡Te esperamos! 🫶🦋🧑‍🦼🦾👩‍🦽‍➡️👨‍🦯

Jorge after his oral exam. In the picture with Dr. Fonfria Perera, Dr. Chávez and Dr. Roussel, who was in charge of his specialization. He is starting his doctoral journey in August (not so far from here!)

French Film night with ASL! La Famille Belier is a French movie that uses French Sign Language. In the picture, Prof. Roussel with Prof. Sirana with the interpreter Prof. Molly, one of our ASL instructors. What a great afternoon!