Department News 

• Congratulations to Dr. Gundela Hachmann who was granted HSS funding to bring notable University of Virginia scholar Rita Felski to campus for an October 15, 2024 graduate student workshop and public lecture. 
  
  
• Hispanic Studies welcomes Dr. Eliseo Fernández Barrionuevo, Spanish Education Advisor to the Consulate of Spain. Dr. Fernández Barrionuevo will speak about the North American Language and Cultural Assistants Program in Spain. The presentation will take place September 27, 2024 in Room 424 Hodges Hall, 10:00am to 11:00am. 
  
  
• Language Lab Director Dr. Michael Dettinger will be featured in the September 18, 2024 LSU Postdoc Appreciation Day discussing how the language lab is helping students with language study through AI and other technology. 
  
  
• Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Morris for her promotion to full professor. 
  
  
• Congratulations to Drs. Gundela Hachmann and Gang Zhou for receiving Provost's Funds for Innovation in Research - Scholarly & Creative Activity for the Arts. This award is granted to faculty whose research is focused on LSU Scholarship First priorities. 
  
  
• Dr. Gundela Hachmann, Associate Professor of German will be starting a new service position as book editor for literature, film, and culture at the German Studies Review,  journal of the German Studies Association.