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  • Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez

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    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…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Sharon Marquart

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    Sharon Marquart (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies & Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) and Elizabeth (Ellie) Hartmann ’23 were featured on the front page of the Mankato Free Press in an article on the effect that overturning Roe v. Wade is having on local young people.

  • Mayra Taylor, 2022 Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence Winner

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    Mayra Taylor (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) was selected as the 2022 recipient of the Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Presented each year at the final faculty meeting, this award recognizes a Gustavus non-tenure-track faculty member for significant contributions to teaching and learning.

  • 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 Crnkovi?

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    Mimi Gerstbauer (Political Science) and Denis Crnkovi? (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 Crnkovi?

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    Denis Crnkovi? (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…