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​Congratulations to Professor McEnaney, who is quoted in a recent article in ​TheNew York Times, "What Do We Hear When Women Speak?" (11/20/19).  The article, which focuses on perceptions of women's voices in the context of the most recent Democratic presidential debate, draws on Professor McEnaney's research and teaching in the emerging field of Sound Studies:

The Languages of Berkeley is an online exhibition that features more than 70 languages taught and studied at UC Berkeley and includes entries by Ana-Belén Redondo-Campillos, Emilie Bergmann, and Nasser Meerkhan.

Congratulations to Holly Jackson, who will begin as an Assistant Professor in Northern Arizona University in Fall 2019. In her dissertation, Writing Spain: Race, Migration and the Construction of the Pueblo (1937-2011), Holly focuses on twentieth-century Spanish literature as a territory of doubt, arguing that literary critique of Spain's official national narratives happens across and beyond the historical and geographical borders of the modern-day nation. Muchas felicidades, Holly!

We are pleased to announce that Ph.D candidate Yairamarén Román Maldonado has been awarded the Ford Foundation 2019 Dissertation Fellowship. This prestigious fellowship is sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Congratulations, Yaira!!