Newsline: Modern Language Department Faculty and Staff

• August 2004 Spanish professor Terrence Mannetter received the Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year Award in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  
  
• Fall 2005 French professor Kristine Butler published the article "1945: Movies and the March Home." American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes and Variations, ed. Wheeler Winston Dixon. Rutgers University Press, 2005: 140-161.
  
  
• Fall 2005-Spring 2006 Spanish professor Terrence Mannetter served as the Wisconsin Teaching Scholar from UW-River Falls through a UW System grant.
  
  
• Fall 2005-Spring 2006 Spanish professor Terrence Mannetter served as the Don Quijote in Wisconsin representative from UW-River Falls through a grant from the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison.
  
  
• March 2006 Spanish professor Terrence Mannetter published the Text and Concordances of the La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes: y de sus fortunas y adversidades (Medina del Campo: Mateo & Francisco del Canto, 1554) (New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 2006)..
  
  
• September 2007 Spanish Professor Terrence Mannetter published an article in the Fall 2007 issue of The Voice of WAFLT" entitled "Assessing the Life-Changing Experience of a Study Abroad Program."
  
  
• October 2007 Spanish Professor Terrence Mannetter was named UWRF Faculty Representative to the UW System Office of Professional Development (OPID) Council.
  
  
• October 2007 Spanish Professor Terrence Mannetter participated in a conference entitled, "Al-Andalus: Cultural Diffusion and Hybridity in Iberia 1000-1600" at UW-Madison.
  
  
• November 2007 German Professor Peter Johansson presented a paper at the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers in Appleton, WI on November 2nd 2007 entitled, "What I Have to Know About the UW German Placement Test."
  
  
• 2008 (forthcoming) French Professor Kristine Butler is publishing “The Man of Heightened Faculties: Aurality, Female Voice and Artistic Identity in Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s L’Eve Future.” Modern Language Studies.
  
  
• June 25, 2008 Retired Spanish Professor Donald "Doggie" Berg passed away unexpectedly in River Falls Wisconsin at the age of 78.
  
  
• November 6, 2008 Spanish Professor Terrence Mannetter presented a paper entitled, "Critical-Incident Journals: Reflecting on Study Abroad Experiences" at the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teacher's Conference in Appleton Wisconsin.
  
  
• Fall 2009 Dr. Juan Carlos Chaves has been hired as Assistant Professor of Spanish, and is teaching classes in Spanish language beginning September 2009.
  

• Fall/Winter 2009 Spanish professor Terrence Mannetter will be directing the 2009-2010 Fall Semester Winter Interim in Mexico class and J-Term trip. Tentative dates of travel to Mexico are: December 28, 2009 through January 18, 2010. For more information, please contact Professor Mannetter at 425-3121 or the Global Connections Office.
  
  
• Summer 2010 Spanish professor Terrence Mannetter will be offering an intensive summer Spanish program consisting of Spanish 101 and Spanish 102. The sequence runs from mid-June to mid-August 2010. For more information or placement questions, please contact Professor Mannetter at 425-3121.