Lily Johnson Archives

Aug 16, 2024
  • Lily Johnson

Congratulations Dr. Ford and welcome to the helm Dr. Smith!

On September 1st, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures said, “Farewell!” to department chair, Katherine Ford, who has recently been appointed Associate Dean of the Honors College and director...

Aug 16, 2024
  • Lily Johnson

Congratulations to our new Assistant Professor!

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Dylan Jarrett as our newest Assistant Professor! Some of Dylan’s areas of interest include historical syntactic and semantic change in Romance, language variation and change...

Aug 15, 2024
  • Lily Johnson

Two Faculty Members promoted to Professor

The chancellor has signed; it is official!  Dr. Javier Lorenzo and Dr. Jill Twark were promoted from Associate Professor to Professor this Spring. Congratulations to them both on achieving this...

Aug 15, 2024
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FLL Honor Societies inducts new students

FLL graciously welcomed Hispanic Studies Alumni Becky Leon who gave this year’s welcoming speech before we celebrated academic excellence and passion for foreign languages and cultures as our most outstanding...

Aug 15, 2024
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Dr. Araceli Hernández-Laroche visits as Linda E. McMahon Distinguished Guest Speaker

We had the absolute pleasure of hosting Dr. Araceli Hernández-Laroche on Wednesday, April 3rd, at our Linda E. McMahon Distinguished Guest Speaker Series. Her speech emphasized the importance of building...

Aug 15, 2024
  • Lily Johnson

Student Employees Recognized during Student Employee Appreciation Week

Did you know this week is Student Employment Appreciation week East Carolina University? We are thrilled to shout out aaarghmazing student employees Vanessa and Alyssa. Alyssa was nominated as for...

Aug 15, 2024
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Students visit Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA

Students from German Club and Dr. Jill Twark’s Holocaust class (GLST 2600) visited the Holocaust museum in Richmond, VA earlier this month. For information about our GLST 2600 course visit...

Aug 15, 2024
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Faculty Member announced as Inaugural Winner of Premio Alambique

We are thrilled to announce Dr. Dale Knickberbocker as the inaugural winner of the Premio Alambique! His groundbreaking work, “Spain is Different? Historical Memory and the ‘Two Spains’ in Turn-of-the-Millennium...

Aug 15, 2024
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Faculty Granted an Outstanding Teaching Award

Let’s give a big round of applause to Dr. Jennifer Valko for being honored with the Outstanding Teaching Award by the ECU Alumni Association and Robert L. Jones Awards! The...

Aug 15, 2024
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Interim Chair and Associate Professor of German recognized at Carnegie Hall

Dr. David Smith, Interim Chair and Associate Professor of German in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, was recognized at Carnegie Hall on April 18 with the “Mid-Career Professional...