Tag: modern languages literatures and cultures

Maria Isabel Kalbermatten (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) published the article “Depicting ‘La Grieta‘: The Role of Political Satire and Humor in Argentinean Polarization.” In this article, Kalbermatten explores “la grieta” in Argentine society, the deep and irreconcilable division, primarily between Kirchneristas and Anti-Kirchneristas, that fragments and polarizes the nation. It significantly shapes political, social,…

Denis Crnkovi? (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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.’