Thirteen UHart Faculty Participate in DTH Summer Workshop

Thirteen UHart faculty participated in the workshop “The Politics of Language: History, Identity, and Plurality” from June 6-8, with Rosina Lozano, associate professor of history at Princeton University. The workshop was organized by Nicholas Ealy, Distinguished Teaching Humanist for 2022-24, with help from Donna Galin, office coordinator for English and Modern Languages.

This year’s participants included:

TJ Bellama (ENHP)

Kristin Comeforo (A&S)

Marco Cupolo (A&S)

Chris Douçot (UIS)

Phil Estes (A&S)

Barb Haines (UIS)

Bharat Kolluri (Barney)

Valerie Lyons (HAS)

Mala Matacin (A&S)

Sarah Miner (A&S)

Karen Tejada (Hillyer)

Nicole Kurker-Stewart (International Office)

Zee Onuf (HAS)

In preparation for her visit, participants read Prof. Lozano’s book, An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States (University of California Press, 2018), which traces the history, politics, and culture of the mostly monolingual Spanish speakers of the American Southwest who became US citizens in the 1840s after the Mexican-American War and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Topics of discussion during the workshop included: how to define the “politics of language,” the history of indigenous and settler/colonizer languages in the US, state laws and language politics, the history of Spanish in Connecticut, and the present-day politics of multilingualism in the US.

The DTH Summer Workshop occurs every year at UHart and is open to all full and part-time faculty. For more information, contact Nicholas Ealy at ealy@hartford.edu.