Tag: modern languages literatures and cultures

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 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.

Sharon Marquart published “Shit Happens,” a memorial essay for the late scholar of irony Ross Chambers, in Romanic Review.

Denis Crnkovic’s article, “On the Contexts of Edith Sodergran’s Russian Poem, ‘Tikho, tikho, tikho’” appeared in the Fall, 2018 issue of Scandinavian Philology (vol. 16, issue 2), published by the Scandinavian and Dutch Studies Department of the St. Petersburg (Russia) State University.

Maria Isabel Kalbermatten published an article, “The Role of Verbal Irony in Conflict Talk Among Relatives and Friends in an Argentinian Community” in Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (John Benjamins). This article describes specific roles of verbal irony in conflict talk among close relatives and intimate friends.

Carlos Mejía Suárez published an article,”La écfrasis del archivo visual del dolor como estrategia narrativa en la novelística de Pablo Montoya” [“The Ekphrasis of Visual Archives of Pain as a Narrative Strategy in Pablo Montoya’s novels”], that appeared in the most recent Revista de Estudios Colombianos (#51). The article studies ekphrasis as a way to…

Yuki Sakuragi published a book chapter, “Experimental Learning of Intercultural Communication through short-term study in Japan” in Promoting Multicultural Experiential Learning in Higher Education (Nakanishiya Publishing, Kyoto, 2018).