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SPS Seeks Candidates for Opening in Second-Language Acquisition
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies of the University of Florida is seeking a specialist in Spanish second-language acquisition for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor. Qualifications: Ph.D., excellence in teaching and research, native or native-like proficiency in Spanish and English, commitment to program-building and professional service. Interested applicants should submit a letter of interest, CV, and a placement file with at least three letters of recommendation to: Spanish Linguistics Search Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, P.O. Box 117405, Gainesville, Florida 32611. Application deadline: December 1, 2009. Start date: August 16, 2010. Reference # 00025436. The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution dedicated to building a broadly diverse and inclusive faculty and staff.
(Please visit http://www.hr.ufl.edu/job/datacard.htm to complete a voluntary Applicant Data Card.
New Faculty Appointments
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies is pleased to announce two new faculty appointments for AY 2009-10.
Ana de Prada Pérez, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at Pennsylvania State University in March, will join the faculty as Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics. Her dissertation, which was directed by Prof. Jacqueline Toribio, is entitled: Subject expression in Minorcan Spanish: The syntactic and pragmatic consequences of contact with Catalan. Ana is an expert on bilingualism and language contact phenomena.
Carina González, who received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 2007, will be Assistant Professor of Spanish-American Literature. Her dissertation, which was directed by Prof. Saúl Sosnowski, will soon be published as a book entitled Ficciones de lo raro. Dispersion y desaparición de Juan Rodolfo Wilcock. She is currently teaching at the University of Pittsburgh.
Grant Awarded
SPS Graduate Student Healther Kaiser has been awarded a 2009 Research Grant by Sigma Delta Pi, a national honorary society that supports the study of Spanish. Heather will use the funds to conduct linguistic research in Uruguay. Congratulations, Heather!
Publication Announcement
Congratulation to Dr. Gillian Lord on the publication of her book, The Next Generation: Social Networking and Online Collaboration in Foreign Language Learning, co-edited with Lara Lomicka. You can read more about this important new contribution at Calico.org.
About SPS
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies is constituted by faculty who study and teach the languages, cultures and literatures of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries of Europe and the Americas.
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