Summer Trips Successful

This past summer, thirteen trips from various departments inside the College of Arts and Sciences participated in a cross-cultural experience.  Dr. Jeffrey Sargent co-led the third annual Psychology trip to Europe with Dr. Heather Quagliana.  Twenty-nine students visited Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, and were able to see the salt mines of Germany, visit Freud’s office, and [...]

Steffanell Publishes Article About Spanish American Mystic

Alexander Steffanell recently discovered that his article about Jeronima  Nava y Saavedra, a female mystic writer from the Colonial Spanish American period.  The article was published in the Latin American Women Writers Encyclopedia (Eds. Maria Claudia Andre and Eva Paulino) in 2008.  
The article centers around the “spiritual autobiography,” Autobiografia de una monja venerable, of [...]

Steffanell Publishes Article in Romance Quarterly

Alexander Steffanell recently published an article in the Romance Quarterly, a scholarly journal from the University of Kentucky Foreign Languages department.  The article is entitled, “Violencia sexual y la construccion del otro: el caso de la madre Castillo, una mistica del Nuevo Reino de Granada.”  Steffanell presented the article as a paper (a chapter from [...]

Sigma Delta Pi Honors the end of the Spanish Civil War

“My paternal grandfather and two of my aunts are the only survivors of the Spanish Civil War in my family,” said Lee University professor Sara Ortega in her opening speech. “The others are gone, and may they rest in peace.”
“Their voices have been silenced forever, but their message is still heard today. We will carry [...]