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  • 2021-22 Matthias Wahlstrom Lecture

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    Please join us Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at 4:30-5:30 p.m. in Beck Hall 101 for the sixth annual Matthias Wahlstrom Lecture. Paschal Kyoore, Professor of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, will present his talk entitled “Challenging the ‘Center’ in Liberal Arts Education in the USA.” President Rebecca Bergman will introduce Kyoore, and refreshments will be…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Mimi Gerstbauer and Denis Crnković

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    Mimi Gerstbauer (Political Science) and Denis Crnković (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) were interviewed for a recent Mankato Free Press piece about the local impacts of the war in Ukraine.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Denis Crnković

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    Denis Crnković (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Emeritus) has had a collection of verses, “Northern Poems,” published by The Loedengreg Press.

  • Faculty Spotlight: María Isabel Kalbermatten

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    María Isabel Kalbermatten (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) was invited to give a presentation about her current scholarship and research by the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Linguistic Association of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota. The title of her presentation was “From Monologuist Theories to a Dialogical Analysis of Verbal…

  • 2019-20 Matthias Wahlstrom Lecture

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    Please join us Tuesday, April 28, 2020, at 4:30-5:30 p.m. in Beck Hall 101 for the sixth annual Matthias Wahlstrom Lecture. Paschal Kyoore, Professor of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, will present his talk entitled “Challenging the ‘Center’ in Liberal Arts Education in the USA.” President Rebecca Bergman will introduce Kyoore, and refreshments will be…

  • Jeremy Robinson (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

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    Jeremy Robinson gave a webinar entitled “Language Learning through Interactive Fiction” as a part of the IALLT Online Learning Series (International Association for Language Learning Technology) this October. He also facilitated a half-day workshop entitled “Using and Creating Infographics at the Novice-Intermediate Level” at the 2019 Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium Conference. At the same…

  • Sharon Marquart (MLC/GWS)

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    Sharon Marquart co-organized, with Andreea Marinescu (Associate Professor of Spanish, Colorado College), a panel session on “Reclaiming the Popular: Resistant Voices from the Global Margins” at the 2019 MLA International Symposium in Lisbon, Portugal. Dr. Marquart further gave a paper on “Popular Resistance in the Second World War” as part of the panel session.

  • Angelique Dwyer (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

    Angelique Dwyer (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

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    K. Angelique Dwyer has published a total of four creative non-fiction short stories written in Spanglish through PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, edited by Paul Allatson from the University of Australia. Allatson is a prestigious Latino Studies scholar known for editing the Spanglish works of Susana Chavez-Silverman. Dwyer’s stories are entitled: “La manda;” “Simon;”…

  • Jeremy Robinson (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

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    Jeremy Robinson and students Ingrid Kubisa ’21 and Reidun Kubisa ’21 created “Mwami et Moi,” a visual novel-based game teaching about village culture in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the game, players make choices as the Mwami, or leader/tradition keeper of the village, with the goal of leading the village to prosperity, and…

  • Angelique Dwyer (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

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    Angelique Dwyer published two creative non-fiction stories written in Spanglish. The first is titled: “Gringos Mexicanos” and the second: “Doce horas: A Family Border Tale.” Both are published through PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies. Volume 16, Number 1/2. August 2019.