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)

Join us on 9/17/08

engl 6006 guest speaker series

17 September 2008

“Flexible Like Water”:

The Bruce Lee School of Linguistic Inquiry

Dr. Shannon T. Bischoff

Department of English

UPR-Mayagüez

CHARDÓN 318 @ 6:30 p.m.

ABSTRACT: In the summers of 1927 through 1929 Gladys Reichard, at the request of Franz Boas, recorded some forty narratives of Tom Miyal and Dorothy Nicodemus, the last speakers of the Coeur d’Alene language, and edited the materials with several Coeur d’Alene community members. Unfortunately, the narratives were never fully analyzed, published, or made accessible at the time. This talk discusses recent efforts to make these materials available to the Coeur d’Alene community for revitalization purposes and to the linguistic community for research purposes. The presentation focuses on the link between revitalization efforts (a largely applied linguistic, socio-linguistic, and language policy task) and research strategies employed primarily within the following three sub-fields of linguistics: anthropological, theoretical, and computational. It also discusses a number of unexpected challenges which, in the words of Bruce Lee, require one to be “flexible like water.”

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

Casa Abierta

On March 14, 2008, the institution opened its doors to 9th, 10th, and 11th graders of Puerto Rico’s private and public schools. Over 2000 students from around the island were welcomed into Coliseo Mangual to learn about the diversity of our faculties and departments.

Representation from the Department of English was immense and faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduate students collaborated in making this all-day event an overwhelming success!

Amongst the English faculty members were Roberto López, Iris Toro, Myrna Rivera, Carmen Maldonado, Betsy Morales, Stephanie Cardona, Raymond Knight, Waleska Morciglio, Gayle Griggs, Rosita Rivera, Sandra Ríos, Mary Leonard, Jocelyn Géliga, and Aixa Rodríguez.

Way to go, Department of English!

Honor Roll Ceremony

This past Thursday, March 27, 2008, exemplary students from Arts & Sciences received special recognition for their academic excellence.

Please help us to congratulate the following students from the Department of English who, through their hard work, are on the Honor Roll!

Isabel Abón, Emily Aguiló, Adriana Caraballo, Christopher Hernández, Marshley Márquez, Angel Matos, Leslie Mendoza, Juan Ñeco, Yolanda Padilla, Ileana Pagán, Lorianne Ramírez, Gabriel Romaguera, Katherine Rosa, Astrid Sambolín, Julio Vega, and Roxana Velázquez.

CINE Film Clips

UPR Arecibo-Primer Congreso de Educación General

First General Education Congress

Please see above link for information about the Primer Congreso de Educación General, which will take place April 4 & 5, 2008.

The Politics of Language Education

On March 13 at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Jorge Schmidt will be giving a talk titled The Politics of Language Education as part of the ENGL 6006 Guest Speaker Series.

We hope to see you there but ask that you please RSVP. Thanks for your continued support to this initiative.

Documentary Film: “Las Mujeres No Esperamos”

Documentary Film Flyer

For the first time in Puerto Rico, the documentary film “Las Mujeres NO Esperamos: Acabemos la violencia contra la mujer y el VIH/SIDA Ya” will be presented.

Date: March 6, 2008

Time: 10:30 am

Place: Biology amphitheater

Sponsored by:   “Proyecto para la Prevencion de Violencia Contra las Muejeres” of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.

We will be recruiting volunteers to work on the project.  Don’t miss it!