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Autumn 2011

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, 10-11 November 2011 ( 2011 Conference Programme )

( 2011 Conference Registration Form )

Spring 2010

• Congratulations! to Louise Haywood (Cambridge) on being awarded AHRC Research Leave to complete her book on textual community and the poetics of vision in a fifteenth-century songbook

• Congratulations! to María-José Blanco who was awarded her PhD in February and is now a Lecturer in Hispanic Culture at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies

• Congratulations! to Olivia Vázquez-Medina on the award of her PhD

• WISPS 2010 Conference will be held in Swansea. See the 'Conference' page for the call for papers.

• Conference! María-José Blanco, Jessamy Harvey and Mercedes Carbayo-Abengozar are organising a conference on Carmen Martin Gaite to be held in December 2010

Autumn 2009

• A very big thank you to the outgoing members of the exec: Claire Williams (outgoing President), Kathy Bacon (outgoing Secretary), Mary Green (outgoing Treasurer), Carmen Herrero (outgoing Member without portfolio), and Claudia Pazos Alonso and Xon de Ros (2009 Conference Organisers). Details of the new exec can be found on the Executive page.

• Congratulations! to Manucha Lisboa (Cambridge) on her promotion to Professor of Portuguese Literature and Culture!!

• Congratulations! Raquel Ribeiro (Liverpool) on the award of her PhD!!

•WISPS invite contributions to the tenth anniversary volume on the subject of the 'noughties' in the Hispanic and Lusophone world. Call for Papers

• Congratulations! to Anna Vives on being awarded the AHGBI/WISPS Dorothy Sherman-Severin Research Fellowship

Summer 2009

• Congratulations! to Dorothy Severin on being selected by the Real Academia Española as one of three Correspondientes Académicos from the UK. Another 'first' for a woman in the UK! Details of all of the académicos correspondientes can be found at:

Real Academia Española

• Congratulations to Idoya Puig on the publication of 'Tradition and Modernity: Cervantes’s Presence in Spanish Contemporary Literature' (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009) Click here for further details

Spring 2009

• Reminder! – Please renew your membership for 2008-09. See Join WISPS for information about updated membership charges.

• Making Waves Anniversary Volume: Women in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies
Ed. Ann Davies, Par Kumaraswami and Claire Williams Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008

Contributors:
Dorothy Sherman Severin; Helena Miguélez-Carballeira; Susana Lorenzo-Zamorano; Kirsty Hooper; Hilary Rollin; Mercedes Bengoechea; Claire Taylor; Jill Ingham; Emilie Bergmann; Erica Segre; Margaret Anne Clarke; Maria Manuel Lisboa; Ana Margarida Dias-Martins

See the flyer and buy the book here!

• Congratulations! to Hayley Rabanal (Sheffield / Liverpool) and Diana Cullell (Manchester / Liverpool) on being awarded their PhDs

• Congratulations! to Margaret Clarke (Portsmouth) on winning the University of Ulster's Multimedia Digital Language Lab Teaching Award for 2008/2009

Autumn 2008

• IX WISPS Conference was held at Dublin City University, 31 Oct – 1 Nov 2008. See here for the Programme

Summer 2008

• Congratulations to Victoria Ríos Castaño on the award of her PhD at the University of Nottingham!!!

• Congratulations to Eavan O’Brien on the award of her PhD at Trinity College, Dublin!!!

• Congratulations to Abigail Loxham on becoming the second recipient of the AHGBI/WISPS Dorothy Sherman-Severin Research Fellowship!!!

• Congratulations to Claire Williams (Liverpool) and Helena Buffery (Birmingham) on their promotions to Senior Lecturer!!!

Spring 2008

• Congratulations to Xon de Ros on the publication of her book 'Primitivismo y modernismo: el legado de María Blanchard' (Peter Lang)!

• Congratulations to Sarah Bowskill on the award of her PhD at Manchester University!

Winter 2007

• Congratulations to Jill Ingham on the award of her PhD at the University of Wolverhampton!

• Congratulations to Hilde ten Hacken on the award of her PhD at the University of St Andrews!

Spring 2007

• The inaugural AHGBI/WISPS Dorothy Sherman Severin Research Fellowship has been awarded to Helena Miguélez-Carballeira of the University of Wales, Bangor. Congratulations to Helena!

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