 |
|
GOOD NEWSBryant Creel (Hispanic Studies) was surprised to discover recently that without his knowledge and along with eight essays by other contemporary critics his "Palace of the Apes: The Ducal Chateau and Cervantes's Repudiation of Satiric Malice" was re-published in the volume, Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote (Ed. Harold Bloom, New York: Infobase, 2010).
Les Essif (French and Francophone Studies) wrote the preface ("Doing and Experiencing Theatre in the
Culture of the Decidedly Free") and a chapter ("Rehearsing the Uncertainty of Theatrical Art and/in Foreign Language and Culture") for the fall 2011
publication "Dramatic Interactions: Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures through Theater". Greg Kaplan (Hispanic Studies) published an article, "Los orígenes del castellano en Valderredible (Cantabria, España): Una consideración toponímica," in Medievalia and had another, "The Mozarabic Horseshoe Arches in the Church of San Roman de Moroso (Cantabria, Spain)," accepted for publication in Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture. Professor Kaplan has been invited to give a plenary lecture ("¿Qué se pretende decir cuando se habla del nacimiento de una lengua?: el caso del nacimiento del castellano") at "The Birth of Medieval Linguistic Consciousness" conference, which will be held in June at the Universitat de Lleida (Cataluña, Spain). He has also been invited to make a presentation on February 27 at the Arnstein Jewish Community Center on his latest book (Marginal Voices: Studies in Converso Literature of Medieval and Golden Age Spain). Michael Handelsman (Hispanic Studies) has a new book that was recently published in Barcelona: Género, raza y nación en la literatura ecuatoriana. Hacia una lectura decolonial. Daniel H. Magilow and Maria Stehle (German Studies), along with colleagues Monica Black (History) and Anthony Steinhoff (UT-Chattanooga, History) received a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to support the 5th Annual Southeast German Studies Workshop, to take place at UT on March 1-2, 2012. Daniel H. Magilow's (German Studies) co-edited volume Nazisploitation! The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture was the subject of a recent radio piece on RTÉ Radio 1 (Ireland). http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2012/0127/1224310803915.html Mary McAlpin (French and Francophone Studies) had an article appear in the January 2012 issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality: "The Virtues of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Marital Infidelity in Marie-Jeanne Roland's Mémoires particuliers (1795)." Natalia Kamyshnikova-Pervukhina's (Russian Studies) article "Dochki -materi i Albom dlia marok" (on the childhood memoirs in the Soviet union by Elena Bonner and Andrei Sergeev) was published in Slovo/Word, #72, 2012. LANGUAGE WORLD BUSINESSThe Language and World Business Program is seeking information on possible job and internship opportunities for our majors. We are also looking for businesses willing to serve as educational partners by providing internships, paid or unpaid. If you have such contacts or information, please contact Allison Weems, Assistant Director, LWB, jweems2@utk.edu. UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday, January 30, 2012
Every Friday NEXT MFLL E-NewsletterThe next MFLL newsletter will be published February 27. The deadline for submission of news items is 6:30 p.m., February 26. |
MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
|
|
Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures | The University of Tennessee, Knoxville | (865) 974-2311 | E-mail |
|