The Bi-Weekly MFLL E-Newsletter
MONDAY, October 29, 2007
The Newsletter for Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
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• Flavia Brizio-Skov (Italian) attended the AATI-NIAF (American Association of Italian Teachers- National Italian-American Foundation) Conference in Washington, DC (10-12 Oct.) and read a paper on the latest developments in the fiction of Antonio Tabucchi.



• Nuria Cruz-Camara's (Spanish) article, co-authored with Prof. Mark D. Harmon, School of Communications, UT, "Does Affluenza Spread Quickly?: A Historical Case Study from Spain" has been accepted for publication in the "Journal of Media and Cultural Politics."



• Erin Czarra (French) will speak at Andersonville Elementary School, November 6 and 8, about French culture in honor of National French Week (AATF).



• Chris Holmlund (French) will give two invited lectures at the University of Maryland, College Park, on Nov. 8. The first, on "Queer Performance," is sponsored by the Women's Studies Department, the second, on "Marguerite Duras's India Song and Moufida Tlatli's Silences du Palais: Reframing Colonialism through Women's Eyes and Women's Song," is sponsored by the School of Languages, Literatures & Culture.

  She has also been invited by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to serve as the international member on a granting committee judging research proposals in media studies, cultural studies, and gender studies next March.




• Dan Magilow’s (German) translated, annotated, and introduced edition of "The Diary of Kitty Weichherz" is now under contract with Rutgers University Press. This photographically- illustrated edition of a baby book documents literally the entire life of a young girl: Katharina (or “Kitty”) Weichherz from her birth in 1929 until her deportation to a Nazi death camp in early June 1942. Dr. Magilow received a subvention grant from the Humanities Initiative to help offset publication costs and he is also working with colleagues and students in public history programs at Youngstown State University in Ohio and Kennesaw State University in Georgia to develop a traveling exhibition about this interesting chapter in Holocaust history.



• John Romeiser (French) will sign copies of his most recent book, "Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs" (Fordham University Press), November 10 at the Kentucky Book Fair in Frankfort. Extracts from the Whitehead diary appeared recently in Pulitzer-prize winning author Rick Atkinson's "The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944."



• Zsuzsanna Zadori Roth (German), an ABD Ph.D. candidate in German and Applied Linguistics, has written a book review for the Modern Language Journal on the textbook "On Course German," designed for college- level elementary German instruction, in collaboration with and under the supervision of Dr. Nike Arnold (German).



• Dolly Young (Spanish) will be presenting at the TFLTA next month on "Moving Beyond Products and Practices to Perspectives in FL Instruction on Culture." She will also be presenting a paper at ACTFL in November in San Antonio on "The Relationship Between Learner Variables and Performance Outcomes within a Blended Learning Program." Finally, she and Doug Canfield (Language Resource Center) received a RITE grant this academic year.

• Nov. 5, 253 Hodges Library, "La vita é bella" (1997)
• Nov. 26, 253 Hodges Library, "Ilaria Alpi- il piú crudele dei giorni" (2003)

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