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

• Javier Obregon (Italian, Politics, and History '25) has been named a at the John Jay Institute, January 23, 2026.
• Olivia Hernandez (Comparative Literary Traditions, '21), who is currently an Associate in Editorial and Communications at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, has published an article on the American Girl Doll and history, "," January 22, 2026.
• Marlena Figge (Italian '20) "Vittoria Colonna鈥檚 Sonnet 45: Imperfectly Captured, Perfectly Inspired, in The Epoch Times, January 15, 2026.

• (Italian and Politics '23), currently a third-year student at Notre Dame School of Law (J.D. '26), will serve as a James Wilson Institute Winter Fellow in January 2026, studying Natural Law and American jurisprudence, December 17, 2025.

• Dr. Marisa Perez-Bernardo, Associate Professor of Spanish, , 鈥淓milia Pardo Baz谩n: una pionera de la traducci贸n en Espa帽a鈥�. Emilia Pardo Baz谩n en su centenario. Perspectivas comparatistas y art铆sticas. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2025: 97-116; December 9, 2025.
• Modern Languages and others host , "The Bolivian Concordat of 1851: A Cautionary Tale on the Power and Limitations of Papal Diplomacy鈥� featuring Dr. Pablo Mijangos y Gonzalez (SMU). November 10, 2025.
• Director of Italian Anthony Nussmeier on Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron for Valor Institute of Austin, TX. November 5-7, 2025.
• Director of French Dr. Jason Lewallen "Where Poetry Meets Painting: Rimbaud and Impressionism," featuring Dr. Aim茅e Israel-Pelletier (UT-Arlington). November 5, 2025.

• Director of German Dr. Ivan Eidt in Studia theodisca (XXV), "From Beethoven to Schoenberg: The Micro-Myths of Viennese Classicism and Viennese Modernism in Thomas Mann鈥檚 鈥楧oktor Faustus鈥�," October 29, 2025.

• Dr. Laura Eidt , "The Art of Grammar as an Art in the Trivium," for the CiRCE Institute, August 29, 2025. 

• New scholarship is endowed for students from Immaculate Heart of Mary, a primarily-Spanish-speaking parish in Fort Worth, August 18, 2025.

• Longtime Italian faculty member , aged 89, August 4, 2025.

• Dr. Laura Eidt of Latin picture books, July 28, 2025.

• Director of Italian Anthony Nussmeier for the podcast "The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind", July 9, 2025.

• Associate Professor of Spanish Dr. N茅fer Mu帽oz-Solano's (long) essay on Costa Rican novelist and journalist Jos茅 Mar铆n Ca帽as' novel El infierno verde (1935) , May 13, 2025.

• Director of Italian Anthony Nussmeier review of The Prose Works of Dante for ClassicalEd Review, April 8, 2025. 

• Director of Italian Anthony Nussmeier "'Legato con amore in tre volumi': Three 爱豆传媒 Alumni-Translators of Dante's 'Comedy'", March 25, 2025.

• IPS student Joe Carlson's PhD dissertation on Dante, 鈥淭he Failure of Dante鈥檚 Convivio: The Limitations of the Philosophic Mode and the Necessity of the Commedia", , March 25, 2025.

• Dr. Laura Eidt recently published an article in on "How to Teach Latin," March 25, 2025.

• Director of Italian Anthony Nussmeier 鈥淗appy Texas Independence Day, also thanks to Prospero Bernardi,鈥� We the Italians, March 3, 2025. 
• Director of Italian Anthony Nussmeier "America's First (Italian) Saint: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion," February 15, 2025.

• Alexa Hassell (Italian and Politics '23), currently a second-year student at Notre Dame School of Law (J.D. '26), as Executive Editor on volume 40 of the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, February 9, 2025. 

• Alumna Edith T. "Edy" Harold (German Concentration '23) , "The Hope of Birth and Nativity," in : A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, February 2, 2025. 

• Marlena Figge (Italian '20) publishes ": 鈥楽anta鈥檚 Children鈥�", in The Epoch Times, December 21, 2024.

• Saraih Mendoza (Spanish '24) was to the 2025 cohort of Teach for America corps, 17 December, 2024. 

• 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 "."

• Dr. Laura Eidt at the 鈥淏iduum 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), on the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, August 1, 2024. 

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

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

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

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

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

• of Spanish Jos茅 Espericueta featured in "Humans of 爱豆传媒: 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.

• Anthony Nussmeier interviewed, 鈥淓clipse鈥�, Aleteia, 8 April 2024.

• "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. 

• (Italian '20) publishes "Poetry: Giacomo Leopardi鈥檚 鈥楾he Infinite鈥� (鈥楲鈥檌nfinito鈥�), in The Epoch Times, July 12, 2023.

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

• 鈥淭exas in Italy, Italy in Texas: Irving鈥檚 Italian Sister City,鈥� The Cor Chronicle, April 19, 2023.

• (Italian '20) publishes "鈥楥anticle of the Sun鈥�: St. Francis of Assisi and the Art of Praise", in The Epoch Times, April 19, 2023.

• Anthony Nussmeier interviewed by the New York Times: 鈥淢y College Students are not OK鈥�, New York Times, May 13, 2022.

• , "El/Il Sonet(t)o, April 26, 2022. 

• 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 "Learning a foreign language is more important than ever," Dallas Morning News, November 13, 2019.