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. 

• 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 Ph.D. 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, Ph.D. 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.