The Bi-Weekly MFLL E-Newsletter
MONDAY, November 19, 2007
The Newsletter for Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
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• The University of Tennessee Center for Literacy has asked Kathryn Atkins-Roberson (French) to conduct more training seminars for ESL teachers across the state of Tennessee. After her presentation for the Academy for Instructional Excellence last summer, a follow-up study on using TPR Storytelling to teach ESL has shown dramatic results in helping students learn to speak English. She will be conducting training workshops across the state in February 2008.



• Maria Cristina Campos Fuentes (Spanish) successfully defended her dissertation titled "Pasión y deseo: del amor y la sexualidad en poemas selectos de Octavio Paz y Rosario Castellanos." She will graduate in December with a Ph.D. in Modern Foreign Languages with a 1st concentration in Spanish and a 2nd concentration in French.



• Bryant Creel (Spanish) presented an invited lecture on the novel "Don Quijote" at Ohio Weslyan University on November 14.



• Millie Gimmel (Spanish) was awarded a Chancellor's Course Release to pursue external funding.



• Michael Handelsman (Spanish) recently presented a paper in Quito at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of FLACSO, a Latin American Graduate Center for the Social Sciences with campuses in 14 Latin American countries. His paper, which dealt with interdisciplinarity, was part of a series of panels on the relationships between the social sciences, culture, and literature.



• Donghui He (Chinese) received a fellowship from the Central University of Nationalities in China and a Professional Development Award from UT this semester.



• On November 10, Daniel H. Magilow (German) presented his paper "What You See is Not What You Get: On Werner Gräff's 'Here Comes the New Photographer!'" at the New York Public Library in connection with the international symposium "Meanings of Modernity in Central Europe," sponsored by the Historians of German and Central European Art.



• Raluca Negrisanu (German) successfully defended her dissertation titled "Aspects of First Language Attrition: A Case Study of German Immigrants in East Tennessee." She will be graduating in December with a Ph.D. in Modern Foreign Languages with a 1st concentration in German and a 2nd concentration in Applied Linguistics.



• Stefanie Ohnesorg (German) presented a paper titled "Lifting the Veil: Eyewitness Reports from a 'Real' Harem" at the Annual Conference of Women in German (WiG) on Oct. 19, 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She also gave an invited paper, "Niagara on my Mind ... The Issue of 'Gender' in Depictions of Niagara Falls Across the Centuries," at the Annual Humanities Symposium on "Transforming Travel: Rewriting the World as we Know It" in Nashville at Belmont University on Nov. 13, 2007.



• The Mini-term Berlin trip that follows on the Spring German 416 course Metropolis Revisited will be supported this year by a $1,650 grant from the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. The money will be used to help lower student costs.

• You are cordially invited to attend a lecture by Professor David Tompkins (U. of Tennessee, Department of History) on the topic "Unloved Neighbors: Polish-German Relations in Historical Perspective." This event will be preceded by a short induction ceremony for Delta Phi Alpha, the German National Honor Society. A small reception with light refreshments follows. This lecture will take place today, Monday, November 19, at 4:00pm in Hodges Library 258 (the "Faculty Lounge", right next to Starbucks).



• Last Film in the Fall French Cinema Series: "Exiles" by Tony Gatlif. Wednesday Nov. 28th at 5 PM in the auditorium in the Hodges library.