Modern Languages News

Catherine Porter, president of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA), an international organization serving English and foreign language teachers, will deliver the keynote address during SUNY Cortland’s first International Education Month, which runs from Tuesday, Oct. 27-Thursday, Nov. 19.

Americans from two SUNY colleges and Europeans from two European universities will soon travel across the Atlantic to study at each other’s universities, thanks to a nearly $400,000 grant awarded by the U.S. government and the European Union (EU). The four-year Atlantis Mobility Project grant provides scholarships to study public administration and public policy.

Jean W. LeLoup, who has served SUNY Cortland for 16 years, will retire on Aug. 31. She has earned the designation of professor emerita of Spanish. LeLoup is on a leave of absence from SUNY Cortland since the 2007-08 academic year to serve as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., a role she also fulfilled from 1995-96.

Tonia St. Germain, assistant professor and Gender Studies Program coordinator at Eastern Oregon University, will discuss wartime sexual violence, on Thursday, March 26, at SUNY Cortland.