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Stay up-to-date on all Modern Languages happenings. Have a 吃瓜网 Modern Languages news item? Send it to Dr. Anthony Nussmeier, Chair of Modern Languages, at anussmeier@udallas.edu. 

• Director of German Dr. Ivan Eidt in Studia theodisca (XXV), "From Beethoven to Schoenberg: The Micro-Myths of Viennese Classicism and Viennese Modernism in Thomas Mann鈥檚 鈥楧oktor Faustus鈥�," October 29, 2025.

• Dr. Laura Eidt , "The Art of Grammar as an Art in the Trivium," for the CiRCE Institute, August 29, 2025. 

• New scholarship is endowed for students from Immaculate Heart of Mary, a primarily-Spanish-speaking parish in Fort Worth, August 18, 2025.

• Dr. Laura Eidt of Latin picture books, July 28, 2025.

• Director of Italian Anthony Nussmeier for the podcast "The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind", July 9, 2025.

• Associate Professor of Spanish Dr. N茅fer Mu帽oz-Solano's (long) essay on Costa Rican novelist and journalist Jos茅 Mar铆n Ca帽as' novel El infierno verde (1935) , May 13, 2025.

• Director of Italian Anthony Nussmeier review of The Prose Works of Dante for ClassicalEd Review, April 8, 2025. 

• IPS student Joe Carlson's PhD dissertation on Dante, 鈥淭he Failure of Dante鈥檚 Convivio: The Limitations of the Philosophic Mode and the Necessity of the Commedia", , March 25, 2025.

• Dr. Laura Eidt recently published an article in on "How to Teach Latin," March 25, 2025.

• Alexa Hassell (Italian and Politics '23), currently a second-year student at Notre Dame School of Law (J.D. '26), as Executive Editor on volume 40 of the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, February 9, 2025. 

• Alumna Edith T. "Edy" Harold (German Concentration '23) , "The Hope of Birth and Nativity," in : A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, February 2, 2025. 

• Marlena Figge (Italian '20) publishes ": 鈥楽anta鈥檚 Children鈥�", in The Epoch Times, December 21, 2024.

• Saraih Mendoza (Spanish '24) was to the 2025 cohort of Teach for America corps, 17 December, 2024. 

• Alumna and current University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston student Laura "Gracie" Geddie (Spanish '24) awarded the Michael H. Malloy Award in Medical Humanities for her essay "."

• Dr. Laura Eidt at the 鈥淏iduum Baylorense," a spoken Latin workshop hosted by the Department of Classics at Baylor University (October 11-12). 

• Alexa Hassell (Italian and Politics '23), currently a student at Notre Dame School of Law (J.D. '26), on the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, August 1, 2024. 

• (Philosophy '23) joins Catholic Institute of Technology in Rome as Cardinal Newman Fellow, August 16, 2024. 

• , accompanied by Dr. Irina Rodriguez, spend part of the summer at the Catholic University of Avila, August 4, 2024.

• successfully defends her PhD dissertation on Dante, Arriving at Dante's Moderate Vision of Politics, July 26, 2024.

• (Spanish '24) receives competitive scholarship  from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar Program, 25 June, 2024. 

• Clare Boguski (Italian '27) spends the summer teaching at an English-language camp in Lombardia, 23 May, 2024.

• of Spanish Jos茅 Espericueta featured in "Humans of 吃瓜网: Dr. Espericueta", The Cor Chronicle, May 16, 2024.

• Affiliate Assistant Professor of Modern Languages Dr. Irina Rodriguez brings group to Vietnam, "Bonding in the Jungle," April 29, 2024.

• Anthony Nussmeier interviewed, 鈥淓clipse鈥�, Aleteia, 8 April 2024.

• "Music and Modern Languages," April 3, 2024.

• German alumna  Stephanie Stoeckels, PhD teaching at Franciscan University, "Constantin Alumna Teaching German at Franciscan University of Steubenville," January 31, 2024. 

• (Italian '20) publishes "Poetry: Giacomo Leopardi鈥檚 鈥楾he Infinite鈥� (鈥楲鈥檌nfinito鈥�), in The Epoch Times, July 12, 2023.

• Alexa Hassell (Italian '23) featured in "Senior Story 2023: Captured by the Classics", May 25, 2023.

• 鈥淭exas in Italy, Italy in Texas: Irving鈥檚 Italian Sister City,鈥� The Cor Chronicle, April 19, 2023.

• (Italian '20) publishes "鈥楥anticle of the Sun鈥�: St. Francis of Assisi and the Art of Praise", in The Epoch Times, April 19, 2023.

• Anthony Nussmeier interviewed by the New York Times: 鈥淢y College Students are not OK鈥�, New York Times, May 13, 2022.

• , "El/Il Sonet(t)o, April 26, 2022. 

• Director Dr. Ivan Eidt publishes "How a German Jew inspired an annual celebration of German heritage in Texas," Dallas Morning News, October 6, 2021. 

• German Program Director Dr. Ivan Eidt "Learning a foreign language is more important than ever," Dallas Morning News, November 13, 2019.