June 25, 2009

Dellita Martin-Ogunsola.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees appointed University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Professor Dellita Martin-Ogunsola, Ph.D., as a Professor Emerita of Spanish at its June 19 meeting.

Martin-Ogunsola teaches Spanish and Spanish literature in the UAB Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. She specializes in Latin American literature with an emphasis on writers of African ancestry in the Caribbean. Martin-Ogunsola also is interim director of the UAB African-American Studies Program.

She joined the UAB faculty as an assistant professor in 1976. She later translated and compiled the book The Best Short Stories of Quince Duncan in 1995. She edited The Collected Works of Langston Hughes - Volume 16, The Translations: Federico Garcia Lorca, Nicolas Guillen and Jacques Roumain in 2003 and published The Eve-Hagar Paradigm in the Fiction of Quince Duncan in 2004. She was chairwoman of the UAB Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures from 1993 to 2002.

Martin-Ogunsola has received numerous awards, including the UAB School of Arts & Humanities Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1997, the UAB Honors College Outstanding Faculty Award in 1998 and the College Language Association Convention Local Host Institution Award in 2006.

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