This is the news portal. Here we show you everything that is happening within the modern language department at Hanover College.

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• 2026–2027: Alejandra Rodríguez Villar to guest edit double issue of Comedia Performance. 

• 2025, June 5: Alejandra Rodríguez Villar wins Yeses Recognition Award for playwriting at the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid.  

• 2025: Alexis B. Smith named Outstanding Club Advisor

• 2025, October 18 - Premiere of "The Jealous Old Man" by The Barrack, directed by Dr. Alejandra Juno Rodríguez Villar and Elizabeth Winters

• 2025: Alexis B. Smith receives Heidelberg University professional development scholarship (August)

• 2024-2025: James Buckwalter hosts "¡Almorcemos!" twice per month. 

• 2024: Alejandra Rodríguez Villar receives David Gitlitz Comedia Prize in Pedagogy and Mentorship

• 2024: NEH Spotlight grant backs Hanover Center for Digital Humanities led by Professors Dr. Alejandra Juno Rodriguez Villar and Dr. Paul Battles.

• 2024: Special issue edited by Alejandra Rodríguez Villar published in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies

• 2024, March 29: Dragoncillo residency funded by Hanover Enrichment Series Grant, an event hosted by Dr. Rodríguez Villar

• 2024: Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz expands public scholarship on Silvina Ocampo (essay and symposium conversation)

  

• 2024: Alexis B. Smith named AATG Collegiate Teacher of the Year

• 2023, June 3 - Premiere of "The Cave of Salamanca" by The Barrack, directed by Dr. Alejandra Juno Rodríguez Villar and Elizabeth Winters - Hanover Spanish

• 2023: Alejandra Rodríguez Villar wins Daryl R. Karns Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity

• 2023: Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz releases monograph Motherhood and Childhood in Silvina Ocampo’s Works (University of Wales Press)

• 2022: English translations of Elsa Asenijeff short stories published by Alexis B. Smith and Eva Hoffmann

• 2021, June 3 - Premiere of "The Devoted Guard" by The Barrack, directed by Dr. Alejandra Juno Rodríguez Villar and Elizabeth Winters - Hanover Spanish

• 2021 - March 21 - Interview with Emma Jones '19 and Dr. Rodríguez Villar about their translation into English of Life is a Dream, auto sacramental, by Calderón de la Barca - Trafika Europe Radio Theater 

• 2019, May 25 - Premiere of the show "The Marvellous Pageant" by The Barrack, directed by Dr. Alejandra Juno Rodríguez Villar and Elizabeth Winters - Hanover Spanish

• 2019: Rodríguez-Villar earns Hanover Competitive Innovation Grant

• 2019, April 4: Owen Flanagan delivers campus lecture "The Meaning of Life" hosted by Rodríguez-Villar

• 2016: Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz contributes Silvina Ocampo entry to The Literary Encyclopedia

• 2010: James Buckwalter-Arias publishes book Cuba and the New Origenismo (Boydell & Brewer)

• 2005: James Buckwalter-Arias appears in PMLA with article on Cuban narrative