LANGUAGES, LITERATURES,
AND CULTURES NEWS
SPRING 2013
Congratulations...
Congratulations to our student scholarship
and award recipients! If you are interested
in contributing to one of our many study
abroad scholarships or other awards, please
visit our website for a list of our
scholarship accounts http://
artsandsciences.sc.edu/dllc/sites/default/
files/foundation%20accounts%202013.pdf
and then visit USC’s Carolina’s Promise
Campaign site http://giving.sc.edu/ to
give. Or contact (803)-777-9734 for more
information.
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A word from the chair…
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Did you know…..
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This has been an exciting
y ear
in
Lan g u ag e s ,
Literatures, and Cultures.
We are continuing to
recruit first class faculty
from around the world and
plac e
our
gr ad u ate
students in top-flight institutions. This
year, we hired faculty members in
Spanish and Chinese, and our current
faculty continue to be extraordinarily
active in teaching and research,
publishing with top-flight presses and
winning grants and awards. We are
also particularly proud of our
dedicated staff who now for two
years in a row have been recognized
with excellence awards by the
university.
Dr. Nicholas Vazsonyi, Interim Chair
Dept of Languages, Literatures &
Cultures
Jesse Chapman Alcorn Memorial
Professor of Foreign Languages
Professor of German & Comparative
Contact Us:
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Department of Languages, Literatures
and Cultures
1620 College Street; Welsh
Humanities Office Building
Columbia, SC 29208
Ph: 803.777.4881
Fax: 803.777.0454
Department Chair: Allen Miller
Assistant Chair: Mark Beck
Summer 2013 Study Abroad
Awards
Graduate News…
Marc Demont has earned the Harriet
Hampton Faucett Award from the
Women’s and Gender Studies
Program.
Shannon Gowe received the Albert
Ross Garner Award given to an
outstanding graduate student who
intends to pursue a career in teaching
French.
Jennifer Slobodian earned a
certificate after completing the
course “Preparing Future Faculty,”
administered by the Center for
Teaching Excellence and established
by the Council of Graduate Schools.
Jennifer also earned a highly
competitive fellowship to finish her
dissertation this summer.
Christiane Steckenbiller successfully
defended her dissertation, “Putting
Place Back into Displacement:
Reevaluating Diaspora in the
Contemporary Literature of
Migration.”
The following students have
successfully defended their MA theses
this semester:
Leigh Buches, MA German, “The
Conflicted Artist: An Analysis of The
Aesthetics of German Idealism in E. T.
A. Hoffmann’s Artist”
Jade Mathieu, MA French, “La Quête
d’identité à travers la quête de l’autre
dans le cinéma de Cédric Klapisch.”
Paula Rivero, MA Spanish, “El rol de la
cultura visual en el desarrollo de una
nueva espacialidad en la literature
argentina.”
Whitney Waites, MA Spanish,
“Recuperando la memorial de la
Guerra Civil Española en Luna Lunera
y la huguera.”
Retiring
Mission Statement
The Department of Languages
Literatures and Cultures (LLC) has a
threefold mission: 1. to provide high
quality instruction in languages,
literatures and cultures to all
students at the University of South
Carolina; 2. to train the next
generation of teachers and
researchers through excellence in
graduate education; 3. to be an
internationally recognized center of
excellence for the creation and
dissemination of new knowledge
about languages, literatures, and
cultures.
Adrianne Woods, MA Spanish,
“Female Character Development in
Select Works by Lope de Vega, Maria
de Zayas and Calderón de la Barca.”
Farewell…Shaniqua Livingston is
graduating this spring with a degree
in Psychology. Shaniqua has been a
Work Study Student in our
department since January of 2010 and
has served us all
with her cheerful
smile and willing
attitude. Shaniqua is
currently
seeking
f u l l
t i m e
employment
with
plans to attend Grad
School in the future.