Literature Department Research Articles

Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions of Virtual Teaching

Abstract Following the first Covid-19 cases in Greece, the Ministry of Education decided to close all educational institutions on 10 March 2020. On 12 March, the Chancellor of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where the author currently teaches, urged the academic community to create virtual classrooms and begin distance learning. The purpose of this contribution is to investigate undergraduate students’ perceptions of virtual classrooms and distance learning. To this end, a qualitative research was conducted, including 50, third year undergraduate students of the Department of French Language and Literature. Students’ perceptions, were investigated through a mini-interview. Responses were recorded, transcribed and categorised according to specific criteria. Students compared in-person and distance lessons, referred to the pros and cons of both types of teaching to support their arguments focusing on the content of the lecture or seminar, the type of activities as well as the lecturers’ ability to use technology. Finally, in this paper a section of lessons learned from the teacher’s point of view are included.

Philological study programs in the digital age: A comprehensive analysis of Moodle integration and utilization

Abstract Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is used by educators and institutions around the world and is an effective solution for creating and delivering engaging online courses. Moodle has also gained popularity in universities across Slovakia which have adopted it as their preferred Learning Management System for managing and providing e-learning content. The use of Moodle courses in university education in Slovakia has several benefits, including increased access to education for students, improved engagement and interaction between students and instructors, and greater flexibility for students in terms of when and where they can complete coursework. The paper aims to investigate the integration of this learning/content management system in the area of philology (linguistics/applied linguistics, translation, culture, literature, didactics) by analysing Moodle courses offered by the Department of English Language and Literature at Trnava University’s Faculty of Education. The study analyses existing Moodle courses from multiple perspectives to identify digital service advancements in philological study programs, including teacher and non-teacher training programs. The study examines various features of Moodle courses, including the number of courses offered, the subjects covered, course structure, learning materials employed, methods of assessment and feedback, communication and collaboration tools utilised, and integration of online and multimedia resources. The paper presents the essential findings and provides insights into the current situation. Identifying gaps in the existing state and suggesting areas for further research, aims to advance understanding in the field.

향파 이주홍 書畵의 미학적 고찰

Lee Juhong(1906-1987) was a writer, educator, and artist, born in Hapcheon, Gyeongsangnam-do, and worked in Busan. This paper is a study of his calligraphy, poetry, and painting. He experienced various hardships during his life of 80 years, including Japanese rule and the Korean War. Therefore, he expressed human agony and the fundamental essence of his difficult life through various genres of art, including literature. He led students to culture and art during his entire life as a professor of the Department of Korean Language and Literature at the National Fisheries University of Busan, integrated by Pukyong National University in Busan afterward. In addition, he was a comprehensive artist who engaged in artistic activities in a variety of genres, including poetry, novels, essays, plays, and criticism, as well as children's poems, fairy tales, juvenile fiction, calligraphy and painting, folk paintings, comics, book designing and binding, and theater directing. He also wrote collections of literary works and translations that amount to about 300 volumes.
 I analyzed and examined Hyangpa Lee Juhong’s calligraphy and painting by classifying them into literary communication aesthetics of calligraphy and painting and authentic East Asian aesthetics of calligraphy. The simple beauty, humorous beauty, and natural beauty abstracted from the literary communication aesthetics of calligraphy and painting help the aesthetic emotions organically linked in Hyangpa’s poetry, painting, and calligraphy to communicate through the integrated empathy of creation and appreciation. Therefore, I confirmed that simple, humorous, and nature-friendly works become communication aesthetics that heals complex minds.
 I summarized the authentic East Asian aesthetics of calligraphy into five beauties.: The first is the simple and gentle beauty that looks smiling. The second is the beauty that to have and to lack generate each other, and the third is the beauty that expresses a neat yet majestic aura with flowing strokes. The next is the beauty that is plain but not sick of, and the last is the magnanimous beauty while remaining faithful to nature without restraint. He used diverse genres of literature and various fields of art. He attempted many experimental things in calligraphy, so we could evaluate that he created a new style and method of calligraphy. In addition, the humanistic, literary, and aesthetic sentiments accompanying Confucius's humanism and Zhuangzi's vital freedom at the bottom of Hyangpa art formed his view of literature, art, and life. Thus, they elaborately emerged in Hyangpa’s calligraphy and painting.

Flaws in the Authenticated Lesson Plans in the Department of Literature and Languages through the Lens of Trainee Teachers in Zambian Secondary Schools

The paper presents common flaws in the lesson plans which were authenticated by Heads of Department (HoDs) in the Department of Literature and Languages across Zambia for student teachers from Kwame Nkrumah University who underwent their teaching experience in 2020 and 2022. A flaw is synonymous to defect, fault and pitfall which should be viewed as a challenge or problem which requires immediate attention and possible solutions. Teaching experience allows trainee teachers to apply theoretical knowledge and skills gained during their course of training. The study employed Critical Discourse Analysis framing to account for flaws in the authenticated lesson plans. Qualitative approach, observation and document analysis methods were adopted. Thematic and descriptive concepts were used to analyse the data. The study shows that some mentors of students on teaching experience did not guide the trainee teachers well. In addition, some HoDs did not take keen interest to check the nature of lesson plans before authenticating them. Lesson plans lacked brainstorming during introductions, had disoriented developments which lacked class and individual activities. It is recommended that HoDs conduct thorough discourse analysis of what they authenticate.

Ideational Metaphor in Saudi EFL Students’ Academic Writing: A Systemic-Functional Linguistic Analysis

Over the past decade, there has been an upsurge in studies on the quality of EFL students' English academic writing. However, research on grammatical metaphors in academic writing by EFL students is limited. As such, the purpose of this research is to identify the occurrences of ideational metaphors in students' academic writing essays. In this research, the qualitative descriptive approach was applied. This study included 20 undergraduate students from the English Language and Literature Department at the College of Science and Humanities in Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia, Essay Writing course in the fourth level. Students were to write 350-word essay on the subject of "Learning Difficulties During the Coronavirus Pandemic". The data corpus for the study totals 8,482 words. According to the findings, the students' essays include 408 sentences that comprise the ideational metaphor. It is considered insignificant in contrast to the corpus's full data set of 8,482 words. The occurrence of ideational metaphors is dominated by material processes, followed by mental processes, relational processes, behavioral processes, and existential processes. This conclusion shows that EFL students' essay structures are unlikely to have a high number of good grammatical metaphor clauses. For EFL students, lecturers, teachers, and other educational professionals involved in instructing English academic writing, this study has pedagogical implications; it sheds light on how grammatical metaphors in writing texts can serve as a stand-in for the caliber of writing used in academic and scientific literature.

On the Edge: New Research on Gender and Love

A roundtable discussion featuring Serena Petrella, Associate Professor of Sociology, Gender and Women’s Studies at Brandon University, Canada; Amanda Gouws, SARChI Chair in Gender Politics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa; and Danai Mupotsa, Senior Lecturer in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.<br /> Hosted by Dr Wernmei Yong Ade (Mei), formerly from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, now living in the US; Professor Deirdre Byrne (Deirdre), University of South Africa, and Dr Kelly Gardiner (Kelly), La Trobe University, Australia. The roundtable discussion was held online and recorded on 2 February 2023.

«…Я всю жизнь ждал радикального изменения в образе моей жизни»: переписка академика И.И. Мещанинова с В.В. Виноградовым 1942–1958 гг.

The article is dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian scientist, organizer of Soviet science, first academician-secretary of the Department of Literature and Language of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor I.I. Meshchaninov (1883–1967). It reflects little-known events in Russian linguistics of 1942–1958. The letters of the greatest linguists of the XX century — academician I.I. Meshchaninov and professor (later academician) V.V. Vinogradov are published for the first time. They set out the facts of the personal life of scientists and the activities of academic institutions during the evacuation and peacetime. The presented selection of epistolary materials tells about the work of V.V. Vinogradov in Tobolsk: an attempt to found there a Research institute for the study of languages, folklore, literature and history of the peoples of Siberia and I.I. Meshchaninov’s response to this idea, about a new book on lexis and phraseology, conveys the scientist’s anxiety about his wife’s Moscow apartment, etc. The prospects of V.V. Vinogradov’s relocation to other cities and his restoration in the staff of the Institute of Language and Thinking of the USSR Academy of Sciences are discussed. Judging by the events described, I.I. Meshchaninov took a lively part in the fate of a disgraced colleague and tried to help him overcome hardships. The letters of the 1950s describe events related to the preparation for the elections of academicians and corresponding members of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The epistolary also includes the names of many famous philologists whose destinies were somehow connected with the personality of I.I. Meshchaninov: S.P. Obnorsky, V.F. Shishmaryov, D.V. Bubrikh, A.V. Mirtov, etc. The published documents are of interest to historians of Soviet linguistics, linguoculturologists, sociolinguists. The letters reveal the rare circumstances of the work of research teams in a difficult time for the country, show linguists from an unusual side, report new biographical details, filling in the gaps in the historiography of the XX century. The article focuses the attention of modern researchers on the need to study archival data and introduce original materials into the theory and practice of general linguistics in order to recreate the annals of Russian science.

영문학 수업 확장을 위한 스토리텔링 『세일즈맨의 죽음』을 중심으로

This paper aims to study “storytelling through English literature works” as a way for students in the English literature department to build their major knowledge and understand the community, society, and culture. This study focuses on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman to find the points not only with an understanding of the background of the times but also with aspects of social phenomena at the time, such as social systems, personal conflicts, a conflict of values, and the collapse of community.
 Through this course, English literature learners can be interested in the storytelling of Death of a Salesman to understand American society and expand their gaze to other people's lives and their community to develop insights to look at and understand the world. Storytelling through the text can experience the growth of the self that can be obtained by establishing social relationships. This is the power of literature.

Speaking Anxiety Experienced by The Fifth Semester Students of English Literature Department: A Case Study in Public Speaking Lesson


 
 
 
 
 This study is aimed to investigate the factors that contribute in speaking anxiety that experienced by the fifth semester students and the type of speaking anxiety in order to get the broader understanding about this phenomenon. This research is categorized as descriptive qualitative research. It involved the fifth semester students of English Literature Department 2022-2023 academic year as the participants. The data was collected through the interview. The findings of the research describe four factors that contribute in speaking anxiety and three types of anxiety. There were four factors based on Horwitz and Cope (1986) theory, the first factor is fear of negative evaluation (unconfident and overthinking) which made the student avoid do public speaking in English. Students were afraid because their mentality. The second is test anxiety (fear of performance in front of audience) which made the student avoid and afraid do the public speaking English. The third is communication apprehension (low speaking skill) which commonly happened on lack of vocabulary and unable to arrange the sentence and also stag in their mind. The fourth is new material which commonly happened on lack of understanding of new material. There were three types based on Horwitz (1986) theory, the first type of anxiety was trait anxiety it happened related when students fell unconfident and overthinking. The second type of anxiety was state anxiety. It happened relate on external factor and when someone feels being threatened. The third type was situation-specific anxiety. Due to low speaking skill seems like the students were afraid of being evaluated.
 
 
 

Identity and alienation in Coming From Behind: a Jewish intellectual in academy

This study analyzes Howard Jacobson’s campus novel, Coming From Behind (1983) in terms of its protagonist’s struggle in academic life and the reasons and outcomes of that struggle. The protagonist, Sefton Goldberg is a Jewish British academic of English literature. His disappointments in his career and his relationships with other academics and his students, when evaluated through an existentialist point of view, as this study suggests, reveal much about a Jewish intellectual’s psychology and his position in academic world, as well as the condition of humanities and literature departments and how they are viewed in the contemporary university life. As a Jewish scholar and an intellectual, Goldberg is sure that his identity plays an important role in his academic career, personal relationships and psychology. Goldberg believes that his identity is the main reason behind his supposed alienation in the academic world. This study examines whether Goldberg has the standards that an intellectual should have according to philosophers and authors like Antonio Gramsci, J.P. Sartre and Edward Said. Secondly, the study focuses on how this intellectuality of Goldberg helps him to cope with the supposed alienation he faces because of his identity. Finally, this study sheds light on the problematic academic life of a Jewish British scholar through the lens of an existentialist view and argues that Goldberg’s identity can only be a hindrance on his path to success and happiness, not an absolute obstacle.

Translanguaging in English-medium instruction (EMI): Examining English literature content classrooms

Recently, translanguaging has begun challenging and replacing English-only policies in English-medium instruction (EMI) contexts, advocating that bi/multilingual learners may better internalise information in two or more languages. Within this perspective and using linguistic ethnography as the framework, this case study examines the translanguaging practices used by the instructor and the students in English literature classrooms and how/whether these practices mediate learning when multilingual resources are used for pedagogical purposes. The data for this study comes from the researcher, as the instructor, observing and recording their two content classrooms in an English Literature department, namely Contemporary British Novel and Discourse Analysis courses. These observations and recordings were analysed from a pedagogical translanguaging lens to identify the instructor’s input and the students’ output in terms of their display of linguistic repertoires in English (the language of instruction) and Turkish (the shared language in the classroom). The results provide implications for research and practice, offerings suggestions for how/whether a pedagogical translanguaging lens might be adopted in content classrooms.

Utilization of Chatbot Telegram AI to Promote Students' Creative and Innovative Entrepreneurship in Learning Context

The development of technology in the current era is advancing very rapidly. Along with digital learning materials, they can increase verbal communication and various visual, audio and motion texts. This study aims to develop students' 4C competencies (Creativity and Innovation, Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving, Communication and Collaboration) in 21st-century learning through creative entrepreneurship learning materials of the Telegram Chatbot Artificial Intelligence with Natural Language Processing (NLP) Method. The scope learning materials are focused on Personal Business Plans, Customer Interviews, Customer Observation, Selling Products, and being a Creative Entrepreneur, which will be uploaded to the Telegram Chatbot as e-learning students' material. This research will use the Research and Development approach of Borg and Gall (1983). The series of research and development steps are carried out in stages, and each action will be taken to the results of the previous step until a new development product of learning materials is finally obtained. Product development design of the preliminary stage needs analysis is carried out by collecting related data and developing Creative Entrepreneurship learning materials for the Telegram chatbot model. The Creative Entrepreneurship learning program will involve 50 students of the English Literature Department, Universitas Negeri Medan, to analyze the feedback from the questionnaire Google form.

Assessing Iraqi Learners’ Perceptions and Attitudes through Reading Literary Texts

The purpose of this paper is to assess how reading literature has affected the cultural experiences of Iraqi students. This study was conducted among third-year students at the department of English and literature to evaluate their cultural background in reading literature. The responses of the students to reading literature were compiled using a survey to gather data. The study involved asking a minimum of 42 Iraqi students, with 86% of the respondents being female and 14% male. The researcher employed closed-ended questions from a questionnaire in order to gather information about the students' literary reading experiences. A variety of statistical tools were used to analyze the data. The study's outcomes (Mean=3.63) show that Iraqi students' experiences and attitudes were accepted to a full degree as a result of reading literary texts. According to the results of a survey on the cultural experiences and personal information through reading literature, the majority of Iraqi students have favorable attitudes and positive perceptions toward reading literature. The majority of students choose literary texts over non-literary ones when reflecting on their own experiences, attitudes, or observations, as well as on past experiences, present needs, and connections to the text's ideas.

Analisis Fungsi kakujoshi de dalam Aplikasi Todai Easy Japanese News

Analysis the function of kakujoshi de In Today Easy Japanese News Application. Thesis. Padang: Japanese Language Education Study Program, English Language and Literature Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Padang State University. In general, joshi can be divided into four types, that are setsuzokujoshi, fukujoshi, kakujoshi, fukujosi, and shuujoshi. Kakujoshi is a particle in Japanese which is a link between noun and predicate. Kakujoshi has various functions and meanings, in a sentence kakujoshi there are several different functions. The researcher appraise that the importance of research analyzes kakujoshi in the Today Easy Japanese News application, so that there is no misunderstanding of students. The aims of this study is to describe the function of kakujoshi in Today Easy Japanese News application. This study uses descriptive qualitative design. The data in this study are sentences that use kakujoshi function in Today Easy Japanese News application according to Sugihartono's theory (2001). The data source in this study is the Today Easy Japanese News application. The instrument of this research is the research itself. Based on the results of the research conducted, researcher found seven functions of kakujoshi de in the Today Easy Japanese News application based on Sugihartono's theory (2001). Kakujoshi function that is not found in Today Easy Japanese News application is the function of showing the “most” at a certain scope/group in revealing something.

Межкультурный диалог: каким видится герой нашего времени из Москвы, Минска и Дели?

The international roundtable discussion on the problems of literary studies, comparative studies and intercultural communication “Delhi ‒ Minsk ‒ Moscow: The hero of our time in world and national literature” was held online on April 28, 2023. The organizers of the discussion on the subject were the Department of Foreign Literature of the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature and Creative Writing, the Department of World Literature of the Institute of Philology of the Moscow State Pedagogical University and the Department of Translation Theory and Practice of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Communications of the Belarusian State University. The target audience of the online forum were teachers, graduate students and students of the above-mentioned universities, as well as literature teachers from the listed countries. The aim of the international roundtable was to identify the key features of the hero of our time in the global (world) and local (national) contexts. The participants of the roundtable were invited to discuss types, archetypes, timeless images, characters in world literature representing a mould from the hero of our time, to identify the dominant images of modern literature, to capture the universal in the variety of manifestations of human characters and the rich colours with which authors of different nationalities paint their characters, to see unfading patterns in the heroes of the past, to trace the transformation of notions about the ideal hero, the congruent in the dynamics of historical and social processes, religious, aesthetic and cultural attitudes. The scientific novelty of the study lies in a comprehensive analysis of protagonists in the literatures of the modern multipolar world, which develop under the influence of a number of geopolitical factors. As a result of the discussion, it was proved that the creation of the image of the hero of modern literature is inextricably linked with the author’s worldview, his/her social position and the system of ethical and aesthetic views, which leads to the dominance of certain types in modern literature, newly created images and recreated archetypes alike.

Comparison of reading interest on printed textbook and digital textbook on the second semester students of Bahasa and literature department of FKIP Mataram University

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh masih rendahnya minat baca masyarakat Indonesia. Salah satu alasan rendahnya minat baca tersebut adalah keterbatasan bahan bacaan. Namun, seiring perkembangan teknologi, upaya untuk mengatasi keterbatasan bahan bacaan ini adalah dengan diadakannya bahan bacaan dalam bentuk elektronik atau digital (e-book). Buku digital atau e-book ini diharapkan dapat meningkatkan minat baca masyarakat karena dapat diakses dengan mudah dan dengan biaya yang lebih murah apabila dibandingkan dengan biaya yang harus dikeluarkan untuk membeli buku fisik/cetak. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah keberadaan buku digital ini telah menggeser minat baca menggunakan buku cetak, terutama bagi para mahasiswa. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga membahas alasan pemilihan bentuk bacaan (buku digital atau buku cetak), genre bacaan yang diminati, dan teknik membaca yang digunakan. Sasaran dalam penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa semester II prodi Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia FKIP Universitas Mataram yang mengikuti mata kuliah Keterampilan Membaca sebanyak 127 orang yang berasal dari enam kelas. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan kuisioner dan wawancara. Data dianalisis dengan menggabungkan analisis isi kualitatif dan kuantitatif sederhana. Hal ini diperlukan karena data yang sebelumnya berbentuk verbal diubah menjadi bentuk angka untuk mengetahui jumlah dan persentase perbandingan. Data disajikan dalam bentuk diagram berisi angka yang dijelaskan dengan teks deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada beberapa temuan. Temuan utama adalah ternyata kemudahan akses buku digital tidak serta-merta menjadikan buku digital lebih diminati. Temuan-temuan lainnya yaitu kurangnya minat mahasiswa dalam membaca buku pelajaran (nonfiksi), membaca intensif lebih sering dilakukan dibandingkan membaca ekstensif, serta alasan memilih buku digital antara lain yaitu a) lebih ekonomis karena tidak perlu membeli buku cetak yang harganya relatif mahal, b) lebih praktis dan mudah dibawa, c) ramah lingkungan karena memerlukan lembaran kertas, dan d) tampilan lebih menarik, sedangkan alasan memilih buku cetak antara lain karena a) membaca buku digital pada gadget membuat mata lelah (pengaruh cahaya ponsel), b) tidak mudah terdistraksi (adanya notifikasi pada gawai membuat aktivitas membaca terganggu, dan c) lebih personal karena merasa memiliki.

MODULATION PROCEDURE ON TABOO IN ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL

This study discusses the translation procedure of taboo words and the acceptability aspects of translation in the Indonesian translation novel Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. This study applied a descriptive-qualitative approach using Vinay Darbelnet’s modulation theory and Nababan’s acceptability concept. As a result, 92 translation procedures of unfindable words, 30 fixed modulations, and 62 free modulations were found. Those 92 taboo words were classified into Jay’s classification of taboo terms, which consisted of 22 data on sexual reference, 11 data on profane, 7 data on scatological referents, 7 data on animal names, 10 data on ethnic-racial-gender slurs, 4 data on insulting references, 5 data on ancestral allusions, 2 data on substandard vulgar items, and 24 data on offensive slang. For the acceptability analysis, this study took eighteen samples from Jay's nine types of taboo terms to be rated by the respondents. The respondents were final-year English Literature Department students of UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. The results showed that the translation results tended to be acceptable.

The Role of Universal Grammar in Second Language: English Adjective Phrase by Saudi Learners

English is the primary second language learned in Saudi Arabia. Many Saudi students are learning English as a second language for several reasons. Still, almost all English second language learners in Saudi Arabia are willing to learn English proficiently as English natives. Chomsky’s Universal Grammar is one of the primary theories that has discussed the idea of learning a second language. The primary purpose of this study is to develop an understanding of the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition by investigating how Saudi Learners of English use the English Adjective Phrase Structure. This research adopts the Full Transfer/Full Access Model as its model. This study used an online questionnaire method design and both quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyze data. This study assigned 118 participants from undergraduate students in Level Two and Level Five at English Language and Literature Department at Prince Sattam bin Abdul-Aziz University. The primary findings of this study indicate that native-like proficiency can be reached due to the fact there is full access to Universal Grammar when learning a second language. This study also found that Arabic as a first language plays a significant role in the beginning stages of learning English as a second language. Furthermore, the findings reveal that the effect of the first language on the second language can be overcome with more input the learner gets.

Meaningful “Protests” in the Kitchen: An Interview with Judith Butler

Judith Butler’s work represents a major contribution to contemporary theoretical criticism.At the same time, she has been an influential political activist for more than twenty years. Butler is, at the present, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been professor at Wesleyan University and John Hopkins University. Her work has significantly influenced the fields of gender studies, feminism, political philosophy and ethics. Her ideas are at the origin of what today is known as Queer Theory, fundamentally a performative theory, according to which sex and sexuality, rather than being something natural, are, like gender, something culturally constructed. Butler’s proposition is the de-naturalization of concepts such as sex, gender, desire, as long as they are understood as constructions that constitute cultural norms which force and violate the will of all those subjects who do not conform to them.

In Memoriam María Ester Martínez Sanz

After her first studies at the UC, Professor Martínez obtained Master of Arts (1971) at the University of Wisconsin- Madison and a PH.D (1988) at the University of Indiana. Her solid formation and passionate and generous spirit allowed her to play a fundamental role in the creation of the Instituto de Letras UC in 1971, and in its subsequent transformation into a faculty.Academic Secretary of the Instituto de Letras UC in three opportunities and of the Facultad de Letras from 1991 to 1996, she also directed the Literature Department, actively participated in the creation of the academic journal Taller de Letras, being its Director during more than a decade. She obtained the support of the Fulbright Fundation in order to create the programme of MA in American Literature and Civilization in our university, being also its first director. She endeavoured to establish the prestigious prize José Nuez Martín, currently given to a renowned writer every year.