Tag: modern languages literatures and cultures
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Faculty Spotlight: Dario Sanchez-Gonzalez
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Darío Sánchez-González (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) taught a virtual guest class at the Julliard School in Shana Komitee’s course “Vibrant Legacies in Theater.” The class, centered on Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca’s essays on performance and his tragedy “Blood Wedding,” was titled “Federico García Lorca: Half a Load of Bread in a Wooden Basket.”…
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Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez
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Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) received an honorable mention in the 2025 Plentitudes Fiction Prize for his short story “Ants at Rest.” Plentitudes is a quarterly international literary journal based in New York.
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Carlos Mejía Suárez, 2024-25 Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award Winner
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Carlos Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) was selected as the 2024-25 recipient of the Gustavus Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award. This award is the highest accolade a Gustavus faculty member can receive for distinguished scholarly achievements.
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Faculty Spotlight: Sharon Marquart
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Sharon Marquart (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures & Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) served as a panelist for a discussion on “Female Voices: On Progress, Setbacks, and Oppression” hosted by the Alliance Française Minneapolis-Saint Paul. The event was part of the nationwide “Night of Ideas” sponsored by the French Embassy in the United States and…
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Faculty Spotlight: Denis Crnkovic
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Denis Crnković (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, retired) is continuing his role as consultant to The Cellar Press at The Grand Center for the Arts in New Ulm, conducting a hands-on seminar in advanced letterpress history and printing techniques in September 2024.
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Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez
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Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) published with Ápeiron ediciones (Madrid, Spain) his novella La máquina de Hotefes contra las tebiras [Hotefes’ Machine Against the Tebirae] on September 9, 2024. The novel is published after receiving a positive recommendation in the Gregorio Samsa contest (Ápeiron). The novella takes place in a post-apocaliptic…
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Faculty Spotlight: Paschal Kyoore
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Paschal Kyiiripuo Kyoore (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) was invited to submit a piece on African culture, with discussion questions for educators and the general public. TED-Ed lessons feature the words and ideas of educators brought to life by professional animators. “The tale of the boy who tricked a tyrant” is a West African Dagara…
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Faculty Spotlight: Maria Isabel Kalbermatten
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Maria Isabel Kalbermatten (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) published the article “Depicting ‘La Grieta‘: The Role of Political Satire and Humor in Argentinean Polarization.” In this article, Kalbermatten explores “la grieta” in Argentine society, the deep and irreconcilable division, primarily between Kirchneristas and Anti-Kirchneristas, that fragments and polarizes the nation. It significantly shapes political, social,…
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Faculty Spotlight: Denis Crnkovic
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Denis Crnković (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, retired) recently conducted two seminars about the history, theory, and practice of letterpress printing at New Ulm’s Grand Center for Arts and Culture Cellar Press studio.
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Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez
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Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) published his novella “Antonieta de muchos nombres” [“Antonieta of Many Names”] on March 28, 2024 (Ediciones Alborismos). The novel is an imagining of Antonieta Rivas Mercado’s biography. Rivas Mercado was a Mexican writer and art promoter at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. She found herself…