Modern Languages in the News

Latest News on Modern Languages

Stay up-to-date on all Modern Languages happenings. Have a UD Modern Languages news item? Send it to Dr. Anthony Nussmeier, Chair of Modern Languages, at anussmeier@udallas.edu. 

• Alumna and current University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston student Laura "Gracie" Geddie (Spanish '24) awarded the Michael H. Malloy Award in Medical Humanities for her essay "Hand in Hand."

• Dr. Laura Eidt will be a featured presenter at the “Biduum Baylorense," a spoken Latin workshop hosted by the Department of Classics at Baylor University (October 11-12). 

• Alexa Hassell (Italian and Politics '23), currently a student at Notre Dame School of Law (J.D. '26), named Staff Editor on the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, August 1, 2024. 

• Italian Concentrator Anthony Jones (Philosophy '23) joins Catholic Institute of Technology in Rome as Cardinal Newman Fellow, August 16, 2024. 

• Spanish Majors and Concentrators, accompanied by Dr. Irina Rodriguez, spend part of the summer at the Catholic University of Avila, August 4, 2024.

• IPS student Melissa Dow successfully defends her PhD dissertation on Dante, Arriving at Dante's Moderate Vision of Politics, July 26, 2024.

• Saraih Mendoza (Spanish '24) receives competitive scholarship  from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar Program, 25 June, 2024. 

• Italian Major Clare Boguski (Italian '27) spends the summer teaching at an English-language camp in Lombardia, 23 May, 2024.

• Former Associate Professor  of Spanish José Espericueta featured in "Humans of UD: Dr. Espericueta", The Cor Chronicle, May 16, 2024.

• Affiliate Assistant Professor of Modern Languages Dr. Irina Rodriguez brings group to Vietnam, "Bonding in the Jungle," April 29, 2024.

• Italian Program Director Anthony Nussmeier interviewed, “Eclipse”, Aleteia, 8 April 2024.

• Modern Languages hosts "Music and Modern Languages," April 3, 2024.

• German alumna  Stephanie Stoeckels, PhD teaching at Franciscan University, "Constantin Alumna Teaching German at Franciscan University of Steubenville," January 31, 2024. 

• Marlena Figge (Italian '20) publishes "Poetry: Giacomo Leopardi’s ‘The Infinite’ (‘L’infinito’), in The Epoch Times, July 12, 2023.

• Alexa Hassell (Italian '23) featured in "Senior Story 2023: Captured by the Classics", May 25, 2023.

• Italian Program Director Anthony Nussmeier publishes “Texas in Italy, Italy in Texas: Irving’s Italian Sister City,” The Cor Chronicle, April 19, 2023.

• Marlena Figge (Italian '20) publishes "‘Canticle of the Sun’: St. Francis of Assisi and the Art of Praise", in The Epoch Times, April 19, 2023.

• Italian Program Director Anthony Nussmeier interviewed by the New York Times: “My College Students are not OK”, New York Times, May 13, 2022.

• Modern Languages hosts symposium, "El/Il Sonet(t)o, April 26, 2022. 

• German Program  Director Dr. Ivan Eidt publishes "How a German Jew inspired an annual celebration of German heritage in Texas," Dallas Morning News, October 6, 2021. 

• German Program Director Dr. Ivan Eidt publishes "Learning a foreign language is more important than ever," Dallas Morning News, November 13, 2019.