Entries tagged with ‘modern languages literatures and cultures’
Faculty Spotlight: Denis Crnkovic
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.
Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez
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 […]
Faculty Spotlight: Dario Sanchez-Gonzalez
Darío Sánchez-González (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) recently taught a class in Shana Komitee’s course “Vibrant Legacies in Theater” at the Juilliard School in New York City. The class, “Federico García Lorca: Half a Loaf of Bread and a Book in a Wooden Basket,” focused on the Spanish poet and playwright’s views on artistic inspiration […]
Faculty Spotlight: Severine Bates
Séverine Bates (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) and Brianne Twaddle (Technology Services) co-presented at the annual Minnesota College Personnel Association conference in early March. This year’s conference theme was anti-racism, Inclusion, and belonging in higher ed, and they presented on “Employee Resource Groups in Higher Education,” with a focus on the BIPOC and accomplices Employee […]
Faculty Spotlight: Sharon Marquart and Martha Ndakalako
Sharon Marquart, (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures & Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) and Martha Ndakalako (English) co-organized the seminar “Forms and Theories of Care: Approaches for the Future” at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in Montreal, Canada.
Faculty Spotlight: Maria Isabel Kalbermatten
Maria Isabel Kalbermatten (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) co-authored the article “Tato Bores, Monólogo 2000: carnaval, sátira política y destrucción de la autoridad” (In Spanish) with Alicia Ocampo. Examining the discourse of the renowned Argentine humorist Mauricio Benjamín Borensztein (1927–1996), known as Tato Bores, the authors delve into his iconic televised political monologues from 1957 […]
Faculty Spotlight: Paschal Kyoore
Some years ago, I met Gabonese writer Sylvie Ntsame when I was invited to be an interpreter for her at the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) conference in Accra, capital of Ghana. I subsequently discovered she had published four novels. One semester, I included one of her novels in my course on francophone African and […]
Faculty Spotlight: Severine Bates
Séverine Bates (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) presented her paper “The Elephant in the Room: Blackness and the Double Bind of Representation in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Le Mariage de plaisir,” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference in Portland, Oregon.
Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez
Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) received an honorable mention for his short story “Adán y Acelia” (“Adam and Acelia”) in the third edition of the short story contest 20 años de la revista ‘Archivos del sur.’
Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez
Professor Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez, Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures recently published two short stories in different journals in Latin America. “Licantropía” was published in Revista Alborismos 10 (Venezuela) in December and it tells the story of a writer who becomes dispossessed in Paris and eventually found at […]