The department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures prepares students to live and work in an increasingly complex society.
In courses, extracurricular activities and through a wide variety of study abroad opportunities, our students gain broader awareness of the world and their place within it.
Below you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures.
Submissions from 2022
Bing Xin as the Most Renowned Chinese Translator of Rabindranath Tagore: A Sociological Perspective, Xiaoqing Liu
Submissions from 2021
Solving the Crimes of Patriarchy: Meta-Lucidity and Middle-Aged Women in Happy Valley & Broadchurch, Terri Carney
Submissions from 2020
Berta vive": Solidaridades transnacionales y luchas interseccionales en Honduras, Irune del Río Gabiola
A Palimpsestuous Writing: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Xiaoqing Liu
Submissions from 2019
Imitation and creation: Bing Xin’s Fanxing (A Maze of Stars) 繁星and Chunshui (Spring Water) 春水, Xiaoqing Liu
Eco-Psychological and Phenomenological Approach to Sustainability, Larry Riggs and Sandra Hellyer-Riggs
The impact of college students’ motivational orientations and the social dimension of emotional intelligence in their willingness to study abroad, Juan P. Rodríguez Prieto
The long-term impact of a study trip abroad on the acquisition of regional Spanish vocabulary incidentally, Juan P. Rodríguez Prieto
Submissions from 2018
Study Abroad in the Neoliberal Academy: Shifting Geographies, Terri Carney
Submissions from 2017
The Danger of Foreignization: Ling Shuhua’s Ancient Melodies, Xiaoqing Liu
Children of Vienna: Translation, Rewriting, and Robert Neumann’s Legacy, Sarah Painitz
Submissions from 2015
Comunicación no verbal: La banda sonora de Arroz y Tartana, Linda M. Willem
Realidad, Doña Perfecta and Tormento in Dialogue with the 21st century: Fernando Méndez-Leite’s Galdosiana, Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 2014
Civilizando el carnaval: la retórica del progreso en las obras de Lola Rodríguez de Tío, Irune del Rio Gabiola
On the Dimension of Narrative: Zhang Ailing’s Self Translation of Her Novel, Spring-Sprout Song, Xiaoqing Liu
Ejemplos de jejeo salvadoreño en Cuentos de Barro de Salarrué., Juan Rodríguez Prieto
The use of clickers to assess knowledge in foreign language classes and their failure to increase reading compliance, Juan P. Rodríguez Prieto
Revolutionizing La Regenta: Parodic Transformation and Cinematic Innovation in Oviedo Express, Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 2013
How Service-Learning in Spanish Speaks to the Crisis in the Humanities, Terri Carney
Globalizing the Care Chain: Representations of Latinas in Maid in America, Irune del Rio Gabiola
A Metonymic Translation: Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Xiaoqing Liu
Observaciones Sobre el Estado del Sonido Fricativo Palatal Sordo en el Español Salvadoreño., Alexander Quintanilla
The use of email attachments to increase reading compliance in foreign language classes., Juan Rodríguez Prieto
Submissions from 2012
King Alfonso XI in Lope’s Amor, pleito y desafío: A Practical and Just Model of Kingship in a Time of Moral Ambiguity, Terri Carney
Luis Goytisolo's Teoría del Conocimiento As Postmodern Autobiography, Terri Carney
Review of Herzog, Hillary Hope, Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin de Siècle to the Present, Sarah S. Painitz
The Story Not Told: Sex and Marriage in Pardo Bazán's "Los cirineos" and "La argolla", Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 2011
From Here to InFinnerty: Tony Soprano and the American Way, Terri Carney
Still Hungover: Todd Phillips and Rape Culture, Terri Carney
From Larva to Butterfly: Sophia in Ding Ling’s Miss Sophia’s Diary and Coco in Wei Hui’s Shanghai Baby, Xiaoqing Liu
Las Dos Lunas de Miel "Goticas" de Fortunata y Jacinta, Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 2010
"Del infierno al cuerpo: La otredad en la narrativa y en el cine español contemporáneo," Katarzyna Olga Beoñom, Terri Carney
Emotional Intelligence, Motivational Orientations, and Motivational Learning Effort and Achievement in Spanish as a Foreign Language, Juan Rodríguez Prieto
Book Review: "Hocus bogus," Gary, Romain., Sylvie Vanbaelen
Book Review: "Ousmane Sembène: the making of a militant artist," Gadjigo, Samba., Sylvie Vanbaelen
Submissions from 2009
A Never Ending Journey: The Impossibilities of Home in Sirena Selena vestida de pena and Flores de otro mundo, Irune del Rio Gabiola
Forjando al hombre nuevo: cartografías de la homosexualidad en las obras de Teresa Dovalpage, Irune del Rio Gabiola
Héroes de marchas por la vanguardia y la retaguardia: reconsideraciones de la masculinidad en las obras de Mayra Santos Febres y Teresa Dovalpage, Irune del Rio Gabiola
La (des) Pluralización del Verbo Haber Existencial en el Español Salvadoreño: ¿Un Cambio en Progreso?, Alexander Quintanilla
Isidore Ducasse précurseur d'Odilon Redon. L'hypotypose en noir et blanc., Eloise Sureau-Hale
Les Chants de maldoror: plaisir de la négation, négation du plaisir, Eloise Sureau-Hale
La Africana y Galdós: De La Nación a Fortunata Y Jacinta, Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 2008
Spectres, monstres et fantômes. Les Chants Maldoror" et le spectacle de la fantasmagorie, Eloise Sureau-Hale
L'Orlanda de Jacqueline Harpman: Virginia Woolf rencontre Carl Gustav Jung, Sylvie Vanbaelen
From the Streets to the Screen: The Music of Madrid in Saura's Deprisa, deprisa, Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 2007
Moi et 'Autre: identití et diversité dans un cours sur le film francophone, Sylvie Vanbaelen and Corienne Etienne
Submissions from 2006
Comparative Cultural Perspectives for the Study of the Americas: New Work by Imbert and McClennen and Fitz, Irune del Rio Gabiola
Evocaciones: Artículos y Diario (1990-1958) Ed. Iker González Allende, Irune del Rio Gabiola
La construcción del espacio urbano en la poesía social de Gabriel Aresti: Bilbao ante la modernidad, Irune del Rio Gabiola
Un Voyage de L'oeil à L'autre ou Maldoror Traverse Le Miroir. Quelques Remarques Sur L'Identité et le Flou Dans les Chants de Maldoror, Eloise Sureau-Hale
The Music of Borgesian Destiny in Saura's "El Sur", Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 2005
La Llegada Contemplativa como Narrativa Fundacional en El Contemplado y las Cartas de Viaje de Pedro Salinas, Irune del Rio Gabiola
Stratégies pour l'enseignement du cinéma africain, Sylvie Vanbaelen
Submissions from 2004
Reaching Beyond Borders Through Service Learning, Terri Carney
La Articulación del Cuerpo Femenino como Alegoría de la Identidad Nacional Puertorriqueña en Milagros, calle Mercurio de Carmen Lugo Filippi, Irune del Rio Gabiola
Writing Dirty: Paradoxical Embodiments of Nazism in Bataille's "Le Bleu du Ciel", Sylvie Vanbaelen
Submissions from 2003
Good Intentions Aren't Enough: Intellectuals and Violence in Luis Goytisolo's Mzungo, Terri Carney
Al Niño y La Voz a Ti Debida: Dos Realidades Ideales, Irune del Rio Gabiola
La Celestina o la normatividad fallida, Irune del Rio Gabiola
Submissions from 2002
Sex, the Body, and Human Subjectivity in Luis Gotyisolo's Erotic Novel "Escalera Hacia el Cielo", Terri Carney
Rewriting Rendell: Pedro Almodóvar's "Carne trémula", Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 2001
Luis Goytisolo Beyond "Antagonía": His Search for Agency in Democratic Spain, Terri Carney
Latent Narratives: Sideshadowing in "Fortunata y Jacinta", Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 2000
Luis Goytisolo’s La paradoja del ave migratoria as Postmodern Allegory: A Critique of Absolutism, Terri Carney
Places in the Mind: Evocative Walks Through Galdós' Madrid, Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 1999
Place a la litterature dans le cours de conversation!, Corinne Etienne and Sylvie Vanbaelen
Encircling Linearity in Carlos Saura's Peppermint Frappé, Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 1998
Almodóvar on the Verge of Cocteau's "La Voix humaine", Linda M. Willem
Text and Intertext: James Whale's Frankenstein in Víctor Erice's El espíritu de la colmena, Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 1997
Highlighting the Hidden: Visual Representation in Gutiérrez Aragón's Demonios en el jardín, Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 1996
Emilia Pardo Bazan, "Cronicas en La Nacion de Buenos Aires", Linda M. Willem
Jacinta's "Vista Al Cuarto Estado": The Galley Version, Linda M. Willem
Metafictional "mise en abyme" in Saura's "Carmen", Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 1995
Lou Carnon-Deutsch, "Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth Century Spanish Fiction by Women", Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 1992
Moreno-Isla's Unpublished Scene from the "Fortunata y Jacinta" Galleys, Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 1987
Narrative Voice, Point of View, and Characterization in Graciliano Ramos's Vidas Sêcas, Linda M. Willem
The Narrative Premise of the Dual Ending to Galdós's La Fontana de Oro, Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 1984
Folkloric Structure and Narrative Voice in Bècquer's Leyendas, Linda M. Willem