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OU Professors Jose Juan Colin, Marcelo Rioseco, and Grady Wray and GTAs Estrella Morales, Carolina Sitya-Nin, and Angel Hidalgo at the CILH International Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, In March 2017. 


Pamela Genova participated in and provided an interview for an international project by Amber Fuentes. The film, Apres le Livre, is about the work of Andre Gide, a Nobel-prize winning French Author. More information about the film can be found here. 

The Cecil M. Woods Memorial Award

This award, established by William Woods and Martha Nell Woods Fentriss, honors excellence in the teaching of modern languages. You are invited to nominate any faculty member in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics whom you feel is deserving of this award. All full-time faculty members (tenured, tenure-track, or multiple-year renewable term) are eligible for the nomination. Please limit your recommendation to one page and specify the reasons for which your candidate should receive consideration. There is a substantial monetary gift and a substantial plaque which accompany the Award.

Many of our faculty have also been awarded the Cecil Woods award, a list of previous winners can be found here: Woods Awards winners (docx).

You can also download a nomination form for the Cecil Woods award from the forms webpage, Woods Nomination Form (link).

Congratulations to the 2023 Cecil Woods award Winner