CMLLC achievements, awards and milestones 2016
CMLLC faculty, staff, and graduate students have been recognized for a host of accomplishments over the academic year 2015-2016. Here are a few of the many notable achievements of the CMLLC department, for which we offer our heartfelt congratulations!
Professors Alina Cherry (French) and Abderrahman Zouhir (Near East) were awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of associate professor.
Dr. Julie Koehler and Professor Anne Duggan, chair of CMLLC, with Dr. Shandi Wagner and Ph.D. student Adrion Dula, won a President's Research Enhancement Program Award in the Arts and Humanities for their planned anthology of French, German, and English fairy tales.
Professors Victor Figueroa (Spanish) and Kate Paesani (French and MALL) were awarded Board of Governors Awards recognizing the excellence of recently published books. Figueroa's book, "Prophetic Visions of the Past: Pan-Caribbean Representations of the Haitian Revolution" (2015), was published by Ohio State University Press, and Paesani's co-authored "A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching" was published by Pearson (2016).
Professor Michele Ronnick presented her research to the Wayne State University Board of Governors. Professor Ronnick's second book, "The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship, edited, introduced and annotated" (Wayne State University Press, 2005), was selected for this year's Read-In at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.
A book by noted literary critic Yair Mazor was published about Edith Covensky's poetry, titled "Under a Silky Sky: The Symbolist Poetry of Edith Covensky" (HenschelHaus, 2015). Since 2006, Covensky has edited an Israeli journal focusing on writers of Hebrew poetry and on Hebrew poetry in English-speaking countries.
Professor Alina Cherry was awarded a Teaching Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Professors Alina Cherry (French), Nicole Coleman (German), and Hernan Garcia (Spanish) won Humanities Center Faculty Fellowships for next year's topic of "Mobilities: Velocities, Rhythms, and Flows (Practices, Spaces, Agents)."
Professor Jorgelina Corbatta (Spanish) was appointed Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellow and won an Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award.
Dr. Laura Kline (Russian) won CLAS Online Teaching Fellowship for Summer 2016 and also received a grant to participate in a six-week teacher's training program in Moscow for US teachers of Russian this summer. The training is organized by the American Council for Teachers of Russian and funded by Fulbright-Hays.
Professors Michael Giordano (French) and Kenneth Brostrom (Russian) were recognized for forty years of service to Wayne State University. Dr. Mark Ferguson (German) was recognized for twenty-five years of service.
German Ph.D. student Corrina Peet was awarded both the Graduate Professional Scholarship and the King-Chavez-Parks fellowship for the academic year 2016-17.
French Ph.D. student Mandeta Gjata won the Schindler Award for Teaching and has also been awarded the Rumble Fellowship for 2016-17.
Spanish Ph.D. student Paula Silvana Fecay was awarded the Candace Beutell Gardner Endowed Scholarship for 2016.
Spanish Ph.D. student Erika Lile received a Rumble Fellowship for graduate studies for 2016-17.