Tag: modern languages literatures and cultures

Denis Crnković (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, retired) presented a seminar and hands-on workshop on the history and art of letterpress printing at the Cellar Press of New Ulm’s Grand Center for Arts and Culture, where he continues to serve on the selection committee for their Artist in Residence program.

Sharon Marquart (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) gave a talk as part of a panel on “Remembering the Occupation and Liberation of France” co-sponsored by the Alliance Française of Minneapolis-Saint Paul and the University Club of Saint Paul. Fellow participants included a Holocaust survivor and the children of French…

Sharon Marquart (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) has published an article, “Le care comme éthique du savoir: les métaphores échouées de Jamaica Kincaid” in a special issue of the Canadian scholarly journal Ethnologies on the theme of care.

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.

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…