Accomplishments: Department of World Languages and Cultures
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented an invited public lecture titled "Early Modern Aesthetics: A Missing Link" at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. In her talk, she analyzed the role of creative authors and writers in 16th c. Spain as part of the historical arc of changes in artistic and aesthetic developments.
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented "Cervantes' Poetic Contributions to Philosophical Change" at the Cervantes Now/Ahora conference held in Albuquerque, NM on September 19-20. Byrne's paper situated the creative author's thought in the trajectory of historical intellectual developments that would create a foundation for later…
Kathy Callahan (World Languages and Cultures, German Studies) received a grant from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany for its “Germany on Campus” initiative. The grant will be used to showcase academic and economic partnerships between Germany, Nevada and 51ԹϺ through a series of events to be held October 8-10. The upcoming events…
Margaret Harp (World Languages and Cultures) was elected president of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association for the 2026-2027 term. This 56-year-old organization is dedicated to the advancement of learning in global medieval and renaissance studies. It promotes the interchange of ideas among various fields of specialization…
Margaret Harp (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Henry VIII and François I: The Emblematic Field of the Cloth of Gold," at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. The paper analyzes the imagery found in two poems written by the French Renaissance poet, Clément Marot, in 1520 and the opening…
Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) was granted a scholarship to participate in the inaugural professional development training program BELC États-Unis from July 10-14 at San Diego State University (SDSU). Organized by the Embassy of France in the United States, in partnership with the Embassy of France in Canada and the…
François-Nicolas Vozel (World Languages and Cultures) published an essay titled "Under the Cobblestones, Prehistory! Maurice Blanchot, Marguerite Duras, and the Afterlife of May ’68" in Romanic Review 115.1: 190-212 (Columbia University / Duke U.P.).
The essay investigates how Blanchot and Duras experienced May ’68 as a miraculous…
Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) was selected by George Washington University with the French Embassy in Washington D.C. and the Paris Ile-de-France Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the French for Professions training program from May 21 to 24 at George Washington University. This is a hands-on training session …
Ileana Jara Yupanqui (Linguistics), Miriam Melton-Villanueva (History), and Blanca Rincón (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) were selected to receive a 2024 Faculty Opportunity Award (FOA) for project entitled "A Planning Grant for NEH: Mural of Knowledges."
Andrew Kauffman (World Languages and Cultures) published a research article titled, “Anticipatory Self-Martyrdom: The Image of Christ’s Crucifixion in Ai Qing’s Poetry” in the forthcoming issue of the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. The article explores how one of modern China’s most famous poets, Ai Qing, employed crucifixion…
Andrew Kauffman (World Languages and Cultures) chaired a panel and presented a paper at the 2023 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention in Denver, CO. His paper was titled, "Representations of Aging and Old Age in Zhou Daxin's The Sky Darkens Slowly."
Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) presented “Exploring Present Perfect Grammaticalization in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish” at the Linguistic Association of the Southwest annual meeting at the University of Colorado Denver. This study analyzes verb forms in sociolinguistic interviews and explores language variation in an Amazonian Spanish…