Faculty Corner

  FACULTY BOOK PRESENTATION    DATE: 25 October (T), Civic W510  AT 3:30–4:30PM  PRESENTATION:    Accessibility and Agency via Language Choice: Michele Savonarola’s Mothers Manual for the Women of Ferrara   SPEAKER: Dr. Martin Marafioti, Modern Languages and Cultures  Martin Marafioti has been a faculty member in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Pace University since 2004. His area of specialization is Italian Medieval and Early Modern literature and the...

MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES PROF QUOTED IN WSJ Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures Andriy Danylenko, Ph.D., was quoted in an article for The Wall Street Journal discussing the difference between the spellings and pronunciations of the Ukrainian capital. The article mentions that most Americans are familiar with “Kiev,” used in the Russian language and retired by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 2019. However, the Ukrainian “Kyiv” has been the preferred spelling since...

Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures Andriy Danylenko, PhD, and Clinical Associate Professor of Economics Mark Weinstock, CBE, were interviewed on News12 Westchester, discussing the implications of the Russia-Ukraine Crisis. Danylenko, a native of Ukraine, said he’s been in constant contact with a family member who is in the heart of the attacks and who is concerned about protecting the women and children in his family. “There are people who do not know what is going on,” Danylenko...

The MOL department is delighted to announce that two of our MOL faculty have been selected for the prestigious Book and Performance Completion Award 2022 that is offered annually through our Provost Office. Congratulations!      Received the award for her project titled "Strategies of Transgression: "Disabled Figures in Nineteenth-Century Women's Fiction"    Dr. Andriy Danylenko received the award for his project “Linguistic Russification of Ukraine: Languages, Imperial...

Oksana Lebedivna is a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine (expected 2022), and a Fulbright Researcher at Pace University, New York (March 15–December 15, 2021). Liudmyla Dyka (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) and Andriy Danylenko (Pace University) are her Ph.D. advisors. For more info about her research project please visit: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/11/15/nypl-researcher-spotlight-oksana-lebedivna    

staged reading of white on white STAGED READING OF White on White (Blanco sobre blanco) by Nani de Julián, translated by Iride Lamartina-Lens, directed by Reginald Douglas at the Embassy of Spain, Washington DC, October 5, 2021.​

Distinguished Professor Award     DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR AWARD Iride Lamartina-LensProfessor, Modern Languages and CulturesDyson College of Arts and Sciences Iride Lamartina-Lens is a Professor of Spanish language, literature, culture and translation in the Department of Modern Languages, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences of Pace University on the New York City Campus. She received a BA from Brooklyn College and MA and PhD from Rutgers The State University of New Jersey. She is the...

Mariana Graciano  Has been selected for a Pace 2021 book completion award! Dr. Graciano is a lecturer of Spanish. She will use this award to prepare the manuscript of her new novel, O AR: A Memoir About the Air, inspired by her family history. For more info about Dr. Graciano's work, please visit her new website at:  www.marianagraciano.com Congratulations!  

In partnership with Estreno Contemporary Spanish Plays by Luís Fernando de Julián (Spain) Translated by Iride Lamartina-Lens Directed by Beatriz Cabur Cast: Emma Bakare, Penny Black & Tony Naumovski Photography: Michael Loos White on White [Blanco sobre blanco] (2018) takes place in an isolated station in the Arctic. In a rapidly defrosting wilderness, two conflicting characters—Dimitri, an aging misanthropic meteorologist, and Carla, a young documentary filmmaker from Guinea–observe and...

Iride Lamartina-Lens—Her translation of The Russian Plan [El plan ruso] by Aurora Mateos is featured in the Third Micro-Theater Festival at The Tallahassee Hispanic Theater, March-April 2021. Event is streaming at: www.tallahasseehispanictheater.org

Iride Lamartina-Lens—Two of her translations Scarred by the Wind [Las heridas del viento] by Juan Carlos Rubio and Darwin’s Tortoise [La tortuga de Darwin] by Juan Mayorga are part of the Spotlight on Contemporary Spanish Theater program sponsored by the Embassy of Spain, Washington DC, January-March, 2021. Event is streaming at: https://www.spainculture.us/city/online/spotlight-on-contemporary-spanish-theater-2021/

Iride Lamartina-Lens-- Staging of her translation, Scarred by the Wind [Las heridas del viento] by Juan Carlos Rubio, Ryan Repertory Company at The Harry Warren Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, January 15-30, 2021.

Estreno Contemporary Spanish Plays Streaming of Scarred by the Wind [Las heridas del viento] by Juan Carlos Rubio and Q& A with the translator Iride Lamartina Lens On Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021 after the 7:00 PM Streaming of Iride Lamartina-Lens translation of Scarred by the Wind [Las heridas del viento] by Juan Carlos Rubio for the next three weekends. This poignant play takes us beyond the politics and marketing of love, and the frenzied consumerism of romance, passion, and sex. Instead,...

Antonia Garcia-Rodriguez Antonia Garcia-Rodriguez is a professor of Spanish and French in the Department of Modern Languages & Cultures in New York. She has served as chair and bi-campus chair (NY and PLV) of the department and is co-creator of the Latin American Studies program at Pace University. Her publications include articles on gender, race, ethnicity, class, transnational identity and mother/daughter relationships in the texts of women writers of Latin America, especially the...