Hollywood Representations of Femininity (INGL 3300)

L³ Workshop on Tuesday September 30, 2008

UPR Graduate School Visit on Tues. September 30, 2008

Active in Puerto Rican Studies

Our Department says “presente” at PRSA!

Six faculty members and two graduate students from the English Department will be presenting at the 8th Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) Conference, titled “Cartographies of Identities: Puerto Rico(ans) in the 21^st Century.” The interdisciplinary encuentro will take place at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, October 1-4.

Here’s a preview of what we will present:

English faculty members Catherine Mazak, Rosita Rivera and Nancy Vicente will join Teresita Santiago (Penn State) and Jorge Schmidt (Social Sciences, UPRM) on a panel titled Teaching and Learning English on Contested Ground: Language, Identity and Education in Puerto Rico. (10/3 @ 10:15 a.m.)

English faculty member Liz Dayton and Hispanic Studies faculty member Doris Martínez will present a paper titled Communities in Contact: Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the Geographical Spaces of New York City and Puerto Rico. (10/3 @ 2:45 p.m.)

English faculty member Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas and MAEE students Irmaris Rosas and Fabiola Barrera will join Luis Daniel Cruz (undergrad, Social Sciences, UPRM), Carlos Delgado, Tania Delgado and Alfredo González (all Aguadilla community leaders) and Héctor Bermúdez (Museo de la Mujer y el Hombre Negro de Puerto Rico) on a roundtable discussion titled Historia oral afropuertorriqueña: una misión y una visión (Afro-Puerto Rican Oral History: A Mission and a Vision). (10/3 @ 4:30 p.m.)

English faculty member Mary Sefranek will present a paper titled The Production of Digital Narratives in Rural Puerto Rico: Technological Panoramas, Prospects and Im/Possibilities in English Education. (10/4 @ 2:45 p.m.)

For more information about the conference and to view the voluminous conference program, go to: http://www.puertorican-studies.org/

Join us on October 8, 2008

engl 6006 guest speaker series

8 October 2008

Research in Action

Democratizing Knowledge at UPRM

Dr. Rima Brusi

Department of Social Sciences

Center for Applied Social Research

UPR-Mayagüez

CHARDÓN 318 @ 6:30 p.m.

ABSTRACT:

Our work is framed by an action research tradition, and uses qualitative and quantitative data. We seek to better understand the connection between low socio-economic status (SES) and access to higher education, specifically at UPRM, in order to generate multiple research and action-oriented projects.

This presentation provides an overview of our research and outreach activities, explores the combined use of qualitative and quantitative data from various disciplines, presents some results of our work in progress, and discusses some of the methodological implications of our model.

INFORMATION: Contact Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas (787-832-4040 ext. 3096/3064;  jgeliga at uprm.edu)

L³ Society September Newsletter

The first edition of the L³ Society’s September 2008 Newletter is hot off the presses!

This newsletter, created by and for students is focused on the study of language, literature, and linguistics.

The L³ Society’s editors in chief are Adriana I. Caraballo and Angel Matos Caro.

In this edition, the writers for the Lx newsletter include Kimberly Santiago Vega and Wilmary Rivera Flores. The writers for the Literature newsletter are Marshley Márquez, Alexandra Morales, Larrisa I. Ramos, and Odette M. Ortiz.

Links to the newsletters may be found below.
Congratulations to our students for their innovative intellectual endeavors!

Lit Newsletter Sept 08
Lx and Language Newsletter Sept 08

Dr. Mary E. Sefranek Receives NCTE Research Foundation Grant

Dr. Mary E. Sefranek recently received notice that she was awarded a $7,500 National Council of Teachers of English Research Foundation Grant for the research project, “Sowing and Cultivating Local 21st Century Literacies and Language in Rural Puerto Rico”. With this grant, she will implement an interdisciplinary, digital, bilingual book-making project with third grade students and teachers at the Escuela Nueva Elemental Urbana in San Sebastián that focuses on the historical and contemporary production of coffee in that municipality, as well as its impact on the local environment.

This project will bridge students’ studies of English, Spanish, Technology, Science, and Social Studies, enabling them to make significant connections between disciplines that are too frequently taught in isolation. In addition, it will require collaborative planning between the three participating teachers and the researcher, and draw on a number of local community resources, including the Museo Agrícola of San Sebastián, a local coffee plantation, and the Colegio’s own Extensión Agrícola.

This project will be implemented in the current 2008-2009 academic year and will build upon prior research at the same school site that was made possible thanks to the award of seed grant funding from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in June of 2007.

For further information about the 2007-2008 digital book-making project, please refer to the weblog http://digitalnovillabook.wordpress.com/

UG Gathering: Getting to Know your Department

Please join us on Thursday, September 18!

MAEE Deadlines

MAEE Deadlines 

Please see above link for Office of Graduate Studies deadlines, Fall 2008.

MAEE Meet & Greet

Graduate Students and Faculty:

Please join us on Friday, September 12, 2008 at 4:30 pm in Ch-326 for our bi-annual MAEE Orientation and Reception!

For more information, contact J. Géliga (jgeliga@uprm.edu) or the Department of English (ingl@uprm.edu)