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Modern Languages Faculty Scholarly Activities

Awards, Recognition & Scholarly Work

2017

Betsy Partyka

  • Partyka, Betsy, “Lo paranormal encuentra su nicho en la literature paraguaya.” Cincinnati Conference in Romance Languages and Literatures (April 1, 2017).

2016

Emilia Alonso Sameño

  • Alonso Sameño, Emilia “Cross-cultural sensitivity and target-language exposure,” Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández* and Emilia Alonso-Marks. Paper presented at ELIA Conference, Universidad de Sevilla, July 1-3, 2015.

Chris Coski

  • Coski, Chris, “Repackaging the Enlightenment Concept of Progress: Barbarism, Genius, Language and Happiness.” Scholars Program Colloquium. Ohio University, March 2016.
  • Coski, C. “Spang, Rebecca. Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution.” French Review. 89.4 (2016): 253-254.

Melissa Figueroa

  • “Theater Reminiscences: The Politics of Memory after the Expulsion of the Moriscos.” Middle East Studies Association (MESA). Boston, Massachusetts, November 17-20, 2016.
  • “Humor and Criticism: Moriscos and Amerindians in Gaspar Aguilar’s Theater.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). Lexington, Kentucky, April 14-16, 2016.
  • “Stereotypes in the Classroom: Dealing with the ‘Other’ in the Spanish Comedia.” Symposium of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). El Paso, Texas, March 31-April 2, 2016.
  • “Clandestine Performances: The Hidden Stratagems of Moriscos on Stage.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference (RSA). Boston, Massachussetts, March 31-April 2, 2016.
  • “Theater and Islam in Early Modern Spain: The Curious Case of the Moriscos.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 17-20, 2016.

Muriel Gallego

  • Gallego, M. (2016). “An Analysis of Semantic Predictors of Mood in Central Argentinian Spanish.” In Cuza, A., Olson, D. (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 16th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp 301-316). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project
  • Gallego, M. & Pozzi, R. “The role of morphological saliency in L2 Spanish mood recognition and production.” Paper presented in the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Orlando, FL, April.
  • Pozzi, R. & Gallego, M. “The development of regional features by L2 learners of Spanish in Argentina: The case of vos.” Paper presented in the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Orlando, FL, April.

Amado Lascar

  • “Challenging Cognitive Dissonance in the Teaching of History and Culture.” 14th Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities.
  • Poetry Reading. Marathon de Poesía. Teatro de la Luna. Washington D.C.
  • 2016 Berroa, Rei. Puesto el Pie en el Estribo . Colección Libros La Luna, Volúmen 11. Dominican Republic: Búho Printer, 2016, 237-267. Anthology
  • 2016 Palitachi, María. Voces de América Latina. ediciones de mediaIsla. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

Herta Rodina

  • “Faculty Learning Communities: Strategies for Success,” poster presentation, Lilly Conference on Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning, Austin, TX, Jan. 16.

Nick Sathe

  • “Traces of American Urban Youth Cinema in Umut Dag’s Risse im Beton” at the Austrian Studies Association, Annual Conference, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Barbel Such

  • “Growing Roots in Texas: The Concept of ‘Heimat’ in Lisa Kahn’s Poetry,” SGAS 40th Annual Symposium, San Antonio, Tx, April 2016.
  • “The Holocaust for Modern Times: Philipp Kadelbach’s Remake of Naked among Wolves.” 88th Annual SAMLA Conference, Jacksonville, FL, November 2016.

Daniel Torres

  • “La experimentación narrativa en Morirás lejos de José Emilio Pacheco” in the Feria Internacional de Lectura de Yucatán and UC-Mexicanistas (Merida, Mexico, March 2016)

Lois Vines

  • Justin, Henri. Contes policiers et autres. Paris: Classics Garnier, 2014. Poe Studies. In Press 2016.
  • Borges’s Poe. The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America by Emron Esplin. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2016.
  • Manuscript evaluator for: Borges’s Poe. The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America by Emron Esplin. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2016.

Maureen Weissenrieder

  • Workshop on language assessment for ACTFL

2015

Emilia Alonso Sameño

  • “Degrees of subjunctive vitality among monolingual speakers of Peninsular and Argentinian Spanish,” Muriel Gallego and Emilia Alonso-Marks. Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 3:2, 95-105. December 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/1.3.2.3129
  • “El universo estético de Isaac del Vando Villar: De la Andalucía moderna a las películas de Gardel, el jazz de Paul Whiteman, el bastón de Fred Astaire” [The aesthetic universe of Isaac del Vando Villar: From modern Andalusia to Gardel's films, Paul Whiteman's jazz, Fred Astaire's cane], Thomas R Franz and Emilia Alonso-Marks. Literatura y cine: En el bicentenario de la independencia de Iberoamérica y de la Constitución de Cádiz. Ed. Jorge H. Valdivieso and Enrique Ruiz-Fornells Silverde. 2014. 40-46. Print. ISBN: 1-931139-73-3.
  • “Mecanismos de evaluación del profesorado en Ohio University (USA) y en la Universidad de Sevilla” [Teaching Evaluation Procedures at Ohio University (USA) and Universidad de Sevilla], Emilia Alonso-Marks and María Dolores Rubio de Medina. SelectedProceedings of the II Conference on Quality of University Teaching and Surveys: Assessment of the Bolonia Plan. Ed. A.M. Chocrón-Giráldez, D. García-San José and M.T. Igartua-Miró. Secretaría de Recursos Audiovisuales. Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. 2014. CD-Rom. ISBN 9788415881711.
  • “Subjunctive use variation among monolingual speakers: A cross-dialect analysis,” Muriel Gallego and Emilia Alonso-Marks. Spanish in Context, 11:3, 357-380. December 2014.

Vera Belousova

  • Promotion to Senior Lecturer

José Delgado

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar “Latin American Theater Today.” Buenos Aires (Argentina) from June 15 to July 10, 2015. Selected.
  • “La Muy Leal” [Very Loyal.] Comisión para la Celebración de los 500 Años del Asentamiento Español e Indígena de Arecibo. [Committee for the Celebration of the 500Years of the Spanish and Indigenous Settlement in Arecibo.] Casa Ulanga, Arecibo. 10 March 2015. Invited talk.
  • “Lectura de poemas” [Poetry Reading.] 7mo. Festival Internacional de Poesía en Puerto Rico. [ 7th International Poetry Festival of Puerto Rico.] Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Cayey: Museo Pío López Martínez [University of Puerto Rico at Cayey: Pío López Martínez Museum.] 17 March 2015. Invited.
  • [7th International Poetry Festival of Puerto Rico.] Teatro Taboas, Manatí. [Taboas Theater, Manatí.] 19 March 2015. Invited.
  • [7th International Poetry Festival of Puerto Rico.] The Poet’s Passage, San Juan. 19 March 2015. Invited.
  • Delgado, José: “Imagen e Imaginario” [Image and Imaginary.] V. Congreso Internacional de Literatura [Fifth International Literary Conference.] Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Arecibo [University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo.] 19 March 2015. Accepted.
  • Delgado, Pepo. “Julepe” [Hullabaloo.] Azahares: Spanish Language Creative Literary Magazine. May. 2015: 29. Accepted.

Signe Denbow

  • Promotion to Senior Lecturer

Brigitte Moretti-Coski

  • Promotion to Senior Lecturer

Barb Reichenbach 

  • Wrote the massive NCATE reports and winning: National recognition for the Spanish, French and German education licensure programs, sponsored by the DML

Nik Sathes

  • Was awarded the Max Kade Prize for the Best Article in the Journal of Austrian Studies for the year 2014 (Issue 48). Of the 20 articles published last year, the Editorial Board unanimously chose Nik’s as the best. The article is titled: “Just in Time: Erwin Wagenhofer’s Appropriation of the Classical Western Genre in Black Brown White (2011)” and it appeared in the Journal of Austrian Studies (47.4, 2014) p 39-64.

Michael Sisson

  • Promotion to Associate Lecturer

Annette Steigerwald

  • Promotion to Senior Lecturer

Daniel Torres

  • 2014-2015 Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship Award in the Humanities

Carisa Trapp

  • Promotion to Associate Lecturer

Lois Vines

  • Professor of French and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Humanities, is the co-recipient of the Outstanding Instructor Award presented by University College and the Learning Communities Program on January 25, 2015. Candidates are nominated by students participating in the more than 200 Learning Communities at Ohio University, which are designed to engage first-year students in academic and social activities as soon as they arrive on campus. Dr. Vines created the Learning Community “Foreign Languages and Intercultural Connections” for participants studying other languages, linguistics, and any field in which they would like to continue perfecting language competence. The group of about fifteen students take a common course and a weekly seminar directed by Dr. Vines that introduces them to the many international opportunities offered on campus and abroad. They learn, for example, how to earn a Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and how to prepare to be a candidate for nationally competitive awards. During the ten years Dr. Vines has been a seminar instructor, three of her students have been recipients of a Fulbright award, a highly competitive national honor.

2014

Emilia Alonso Sameño

  • The Ann Campbell Brown Distinguished Service Award

José Delgado Costa

  • Invited. “Foguear inéditos” [Airing of Unpublished Poems] Hispanic Poetry Recital, 65th Annual University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (UKFLC), Lexington, April 10, 2014.
  • Delgado Costa, José. Forthcoming: Imaginario de luna [Moon's Imaginary] book of short stories. Isla Negra editores, San Juan, PR.
  • Franz,Tom. ”Galdós’s GLORIA: Tweaking the Paradigm of Wagner’s DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER.” New study submitted to professor at U of North Carolina-Chapel Hlil on 1-18-14 for inclusion in anthology on music theory and literature that she is editing. 23 pp.
  • Franz,Tom. ”LA RAMPA: Carmen de Burgos contra Pío Baroja” [LA RAMPA: Carmen de Burgos versus Pío Baroja." Paper delivered as part of Burgos seminar at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, 4-10-14.
  • King, Adam R. (Adi). “The Pedagogy of Pulp: Liberated Sexuality and its Consequences through the Eyes of Vicki Baum’s stud. chem. Helene Willfüer.” Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit: Studies in Modern German Genre Fiction. Ed. Bruce Campbell, Alison Guenther-Pal, and Vibeke Rützou Petersen. Rochester, NY: Campbell House, 2014. 183 – 206. Print.
  • Such, Barbel. ‘Nach zehn Jahren Widerstand gegen den American way of life habe ich endlich meinen europäischen Bettelhochmut aufgegeben...’[‘After ten years of resisting the American way of life, I have finally let go of my European beggar’s arrogance.’]: Alfred Gong’s Immigrant Experience as Reflected in his New Yorker Geschichten [New York Stories].” Society for German-American Studies 38th Annual Symposium, Milwaukee, WI, April 2014.
  • Dr. Daniel Torres has been invited to the Festival de la Palabra in Puerto Rico.
  • Torres, Daniel. “Encuentros personales y textuales con José Emilio Pacheco” [Personal and Textual Encounters With José Emilio Pacheco] at the Feria Internacional de Lectura de Yucatán [International Reading Fair of the Yucatan] (Merida, México, March)
  • Torres, Daniel. ”Aproximación crítica al El Cantar de los Cantares y Una noche de Constantino Cavafis en palabras de José Emilio Pacheco” [Critical Approximation to Song of Songs and One Night by Constantin Cavafy In the Words of José Emilio Pacheco] at the 34th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages (University of Cincinnati, March)
  • Torres, Daniel. “Encuentros personales y textuales con José Emilio Pacheco” [Personal and Textual Encounters With José Emilio Pacheco] in El postantillano, February.
  • Torres, Daniel. “Aproximación crítica al El Cantar de los Cantares y Una noche de Constantino Cavafis en palabras de José Emilio Pacheco” [Critical Approximation to Song of Songs and One Night by Constantin Cavafy In the Words of José Emilio Pacheco] in El postantillano (http://www.elpostantillano.com/pagina-0/critica-literaria/9972-daniel-t…), April.
  • Torres, Daniel. “Llega Lorca” [Lorca Arrives] “desde entonces” [Since Then] “Aquí” [Here] in Suburbano: Revista Cultural Miami, April 2014

2013

Emilia Alonso Marks

  • Director of the Institute for the Empirical Study of Languages (IESL). 2013.

Muriel Gallego

  • College of A&S Dean’s Outstanding Teacher Award. 2012-2013.
  • A&S First Faculty Learning Community. 2013.

Jaime E. Espinoza Moore and Emilia Alonso-Marks

  • “Heritage Spanish speakers in school settings: Are their needs being met?” Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st century: Building on Experience. Ed. by Christián Abello-Contesse, Paul Chandler, María Dolores López-Jiménez and Rubén Chacón-Beltrán. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2013. 299-314. Print.

Herta Rodina

  • Dean’s funding for a summer course development project for a French online class. 2013.
  • Ping Teaching Fellow Seminar Co-chair on “Taking Risks in Teaching”. 2013.
  • Bruning Teaching Academy Fellowship. 2013-14.

Bärbel Such

  • Tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. 2013.

2012

Emilia Alonso-Marks

  • Presidential Teacher Award. 2012-2016

Federico Fellini

  • “Amarcord, or Fellini’s Rumination on Fascism and Politics.” Trans. Christopher B. White. Inventory 3 (2012): 23-28. Print.

Renée Ferrer

  • The Knots of Silence. Trans. Betsy Partyka. New Orleans: UP of the South, 2012.

Muriel Gallego

  • Charles J. Ping Teaching Fellow. 2012-2013

Yolande Helm

  • Promotion to Full Professor of French. 2012

Betsy Partyka

  • “Itinerario del deseo/ Itinerary of Desire”. Book presentation. Feria del libro. Miami, FL, 2012.

Barb Reichenbach

  • Dean’s Group II Special Recognition Award. 2012

Herta Rodina

  • Dean’s Outstanding Teacher Award. 2012
  • Charles J. Ping Teaching Fellow. 2012-2013

Mila Shevchenko

  • “Post-Apocalyptic Crises in Georgi Gospodinov’s ‘And All
 Turned Moon’.” ASEEES (Association Slavic, East European, and Eurasian
 Studies) Annual Convention. New Orleans 11/15-11/18/2012.

Bärbel Such

Gong, Alfred. Der letzte Diktator. Tragödie. Aachen: Rimbaud, 2012.

Christopher B. White

  • “Totò e Carolina and the Encumbrances of Postwar Film Censorship.” Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies 1.2 (2013). Print. Forthcoming in March

2011

Emilia Alonso Marks

  • Promotion to full professor. 2011

David Burton

  • Jeanette Grasselli Brown Faculty Teaching Award in the Humanities. 2011

Herta Rodina

  • Arts & Sciences faculty development award to participate in a Social Networking Technology course. 2011

Nik Sathe

  • Dean’s Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Advising Award. 2011

Daniel Torres

  • Shrimpton, Margaret and Torres, Daniel, Eds. DIÁLOGOS EN CONTRAPUNTO: CONVERSACIONES EN TORNO ALA OBRA DE JOAQUÍN BESTARD VÁZQUEZ. Merida, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, 2011.
  • Academy of American Poets Certificate of Recognition for his “steadfast membership commitment in support of American Poets and in fostering a greater appreciation of contemporary poetry.” 1 June 2011
  • Umpierre Herrera, Luz María. I’M STILL STANDING: TREINTA AÑOS DE POESÍA/THIRTY YEARS OF POETRY . Edited by Daniel Torres and Carmen S. Rivera (2011). ISBN 978-1-257-99437-3

Lois Vines

The Office of Nationally Competitive Awards honored her with “The Ann Campbell Brown Distinguished Service Award” for “her remarkable commitment and her extraordinary support and guidance to our students.” 2010-2011.

2010

Emilia Alonso Marks

  • Grant 2010-2013. Ministry of Education and Innovation, Government of Spain: Research Project, “Percepción de los sonidos del inglés y del español por estudiantes de segundas lenguas” [Perception of Spanish and English Sounds by Second Language Learners]. PI: Dr. Teresa López Soto (Universidad de Sevilla).
  • Grant 2010-2013. Ministry of Education and Innovation, Government of Spain: Research Project, “La Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras: Tareas con Contenido” [Foreign Language Teaching: Adding Content to Task]. PI: Dr. Anthony Bruton (Universidad de Sevilla).

Vera Belousova

  • 2009-10 Dean’s Outstanding Group II Faculty Award. 2010

Mary Jane Kelley

  • 2009-10 Dean’s Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Advising Award. 2010

Adi King

  • Northeast Modern Language Association Contingent / Adjunct / Independent Scholar / Two-Year Caucus Competitive Travel Award. 2010

Betsy Partyka

  • Faculty Development Award: ACTFL Workshop on Writing Proficiency Testing. ACTFL. Boston. Nov 2010.
  • Higher Education Resource Services. Faculty Leadership. 2010.

Bärbel Such

  • 2009-10 Jeanette G. Grasselli Brown Faculty Teaching Award in the Humanities. 2010

Torres, Daniel. National Poetry Prize from the PEN Club of Puerto Rico for De Bellaqueras. 2010

2009

José Delgado

  • Jeanette Grasselli Brown Faculty Teaching Award in the Humanities. 2009