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Heather Grubbs
July 8th 2015
Catherine LeBlanc and Leah Thirkill spent last summer reading Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame). Although you may picture them sitting by the beach leisurely paging through the novel, the scene and purpose for their reading was much different. Instead, the students were on campus conducting humanities research alongside Briana Lewis,
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The Department of Modern and Classical Languages and the Association for Asian and Asian American Awareness hosted a Dragon Boat Festival in the lobby of North Village C on Thursday April 16, 2015. The festival is celebrated across China and some other Asian countries. Dragon boat festivals often include dragon boat races on lakes and
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Heather Grubbs
April 1st 2015
When students choose majors like chemistry, computer science or music, their path to a related profession can be fairly straightforward. But what about students who study the language arts? We sat down with five seniors who soon will graduate with majors or minors from the Modern and Classical Languages Department. The students are: Emma Brooker
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Cubanabooks has published a translation by Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages Barbara Riess of an anthology of María Elena Llana’s short stories, Domicilio Habanero, or An Address in Havana. A bilingual collection, An Address in Havana highlights Llana’s most critically successful stories, a mixture of fantasy and dark humor. Llana’s short stories contain
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Heather Grubbs
August 19th 2014
From as far back as she can remember, Lee Ann Streshenkoff ’17 has wanted to be a veterinarian. “I have always loved animals,” says Lee Ann, a chemistry major and psychology and Spanish minor. Since her freshman year, Lee Ann, a Pittsburgh native, has been serving as a Bonner Scholar at Tamarack Wildlife Rehabilitation &
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Associate Professor of Spanish Wilfredo Hernández attended the Fifth Annual Crossing Over Symposium at Cleveland State University on October 11 and 12, 2013. He presented “Las tribulaciones del sujeto trans en Venezuela,” a paper dealing with transsexuality in the Venezuelan film A House for My Mother (2010) by Eduardo Barberena.
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Associate Professor of Modern Languages Barbara Riess presented a paper at the 3rd International Conference on Caribbean Studies at Marquette University in Milwaukee in April 2013. Her latest publication, “Counting Women, Women Who Count: A Cultural Measure of the ‘Revolution within the Revolution,’” appears in the journal Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, a special edition dedicated to the status of
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