Department of Languages

New faculty, Spring 2017

Alma García

The Department of Languages welcomed the following new faculty members at the beginning of the Spring 2017 semester. Alma García Rodríguez, Lecturer of Spanish Alma, a native of the Dominican Republic, earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Spanish at St. John’s University in New York. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of […]

Faculty member joins Provost’s global learning task force

Mónica Rojas de Massei

Associate Professor of Spanish Mónica Rojas de Massei has been appointed to the Provost’s Global Learning Task Force. Read the announcement from Inside Clemson below. Provost convenes global learning task force By Sharon Nagy, Ph.D. Vice Provost for Global Engagement To support the implementation of the ClemsonForward call to infuse global learning throughout the curriculum, Provost Bob […]

Department hosts International Forum for German and Spanish in the Professions

IFGSP Roundtable

The Department of Languages and the German and Spanish Programs hosted the International Forum for German and Spanish in the Professions on September 28, 2016. This conference, the sixth in the annual German conference series, was held in the Hendrix Center Ballroom on the Clemson University campus. German companies from the region with markets and investments […]

Faculty member Stephen Fitzmaurice receives award to establish South Carolina Educational Interpreting Center

Stephen Fitzmaurice

Jeannie Davis, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities September 19, 2016 Stephen Fitzmaurice Image Credit: Clemson University CLEMSON — Stephen Fitzmaurice, assistant professor of American Sign Language interpreting at Clemson University, has been awarded $1,011,547 from the South Carolina Department of Education to establish the first South Carolina Educational Interpreting Center at the University Center […]

New faculty, Fall 2016

Michael Barrett

The Department of Languages welcomed the following new faculty members at the beginning of the Fall 2016 semester. Michael (Mikey) Barrett, Lecturer of American Sign Language Mikey grew up in the southwest suburbs of Chicago and graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, and he earned a Master […]

Department welcomes new faculty member with joint tenure-track appointment

New assistant professor Arelis Moore de Peralta. Photo courtesy of Arelis Moore de Peralta.

The Department of Languages welcomed new assistant professor Arelis Moore de Peralta on July 1. She begins a joint tenure-track appointment with the Department of Youth, Family and Community Studies, where she has served as a research assistant professor with the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life since 2011. In her new interdisciplinary role, Moore de Peralta will […]

Department of Languages sponsors symposium on Russia and China

The Department of Languages served as a sponsor of the International Symposium on Comparative Intellectual History: Russia and China, a three-day event held in June at the Beijing Center of the University of Chicago in Beijing, China. Other sponsors included the Capital Normal University in Beijing and the University of Chicago. The conference featured plenary speakers from […]

Three long-serving faculty celebrate their retirement

Congratulations to Alton Brant, Joan Bridgwood, and Toshiko Kishimoto on their retirement! A party was held in their honor at the end of the Spring 2016 semester. Dr. Alton Brant (Professor Emeritus, 1998-2016) developed the American Sign Language (ASL) program at Clemson University, the first and only public college/university in the State of South Carolina […]

Emeriti update – Ed Arnold

Ed Arnold

Ed Arnold, professor emeritus of German, taught at Clemson from 1968 to 2000. Prior to joining the faculty, he taught for 10 years at A.C. Flora High School in Columbia, SC, and he also taught high school in Nabburg, Bavaria, during the 1973-74 school year. Among his many projects and accomplishments, Arnold translated two books dealing with […]

Students honored at annual CAAH awards ceremony

The following Department of Languages students were honored at the 2015-2016 College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities (CAAH) Honors and Awards Ceremony on April 8 in the Brooks Center Theatre. Congratulations! Jane Kuebler – American Association of Teachers French Award Ana Montoya – American Association of Teachers Spanish & Portuguese Award Hanna Denney & Jamie Gillespie – Carlton Moore Award […]