The Polyglot Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Fall 2021—Spring 2022 End-of-Year Review Alumni Newsletter
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TableofContents B.A.inTranslation 02-03 MeetWesLove 04-05 AnneFrankTreePlanting 06-07 TheCenterforLanguage&CultureLearning 08-12 Scholarships 13-15 Accomplishments 16-24 TimelineofEvents 25-28 SocialMedia 29
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Debuting in Fall 2022, the B.A. in Translation gives students a holistic education that includes hands-on opportunities in the form of workshops, internships, and study aboard. With the increasing global society, this program uniquely sets up students for success in a wide-range of professions. It is also a wonderful opportunity for students from across the Division to participant with visiting scholars in their target languages.
Q: We’ve heard there is a new BA in Translation. When will the new major go into effect? Fall 2022 .
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Q: What is a good definition of translation?
Translation is, at its essence, the process of converting meaning from one language to another. It plays a vital role in just about every facet of our increasingly global society, including literature, arts, and culture; business and communication; diplomacy and service; and science, medicine, and technology.
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B.A. In Translation
Q: Are there undergraduate students at Iowa interested in studying translation? Yes! We have strong enrollments in our undergraduate translation courses and 40+ minors in the Translation for Global Literacy program, so we’re not surprised that we already have a list of future majors eager to sign up! '21-'22
Q: What languages can students work in? The university offers 15 languages (American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskit, Spanish, and Swahili). Students who have studied one of those languages in high school or speak it natively are perfect candidates for the major. Translation majors will be required to reach theyproficiencyadvanced-levelbythetimegraduate.
Absolutely. In fact, we are encouraging all translation majors to find a complementary major. Obvious choices include creative writing, journalism, international relations, international studies, international business, and global health, or a major in the language of their choice.
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Q: What can world language alums do to help?
Q: What kinds of opportunities do students in translation go on to pursue? Translation majors are perfectly positioned to pursue graduate training in literary, legal, medical, technical, or business translation. They will find careers in the publishing industry, in governmental or non organizations,governmental and in fields such as education, business, or healthcare.
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There are only a handful of other translation programs at the undergraduate level in the US. In fact, the U of Iowa Translation Major will be the first of its kind in the country—an integrated BA degree in translation at an R-1 institution. Obviously, this new major fits perfectly with the other programs at “The Writing University.” For globally minded students interested in languages and translation, Iowa is the place to be!
First, please spread the word! If you know a high school student interested in languages, tell them about our translation program, including the minor in Translation for Global Literacy and our new Translation Major. Second, if you feel moved to make a donation to support students in this new program, please click here: X. '21-'22
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Q: How does the U of Iowa program stack up against other BAs across the country?
Q: Tell us more about the Student Ambassador program. Being a World Languages Student Ambassador is an exciting volunteer opportunity. Students majoring or minoring in our language programs get to showcase their passion for language learning by sharing their experiences with prospective and current students, Alumni, and Donors while enhancing their leadership skills. This spring 45 students apply we offered and had 26 students accepted World Languages Student Ambassador positions for fall 2022. '21-'22
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Q: What exactly is a Student Engagement Coordinator? This is a great question! This position was created to focus on recruitment and retention needs for all our language programs among several other high-impact student development and support initiatives. Some of those initiatives include supporting student clubs and organizations related to world languages and the creation of a Division-wide student ambassador program.
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Meet Wes Love
Wes Love joined the Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in August 2021 as the newly minted Student Engagement Coordinator. His previous role was the Director of Campus Life at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He holds a B.S. in Child, Adult & Family Services and a M Ed. in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies from Iowa State University.
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In a purely academic area like ours, it is less common to have student affairs professionals like myself who facilitate learning and provide services and support to students outside the classroom. However, as our area continues to grow, the need for focused support around our recruitment and retention efforts has also grown; hence, my role was added.
Q: What do you like most about working with students? As strange as it may sound, what I like most about working with students is when things don’t go right or as planned. I spent a lot of time and money to find out that is when something called “cognitive dissonance” happens. I also learned through supporting students for the past 11 years and from my own experiences too that where there is dissonance there is also really good learning going on albeit messy, scary, and sometimes smelly (I used to work in student housing…and the smelly roommate convo' is timeless let me tell you).
Q: How closely do you work with the Admissions office?
Q: Do other offices have positions like yours?
I created and launched a Division-wide World Languages Student Ambassador program this spring semester. This program is an opportunity for language majors and minors in our Division to showcase their passion for language learning and share their experiences and knowledge of their programs while enhancing their leadership skills. One project our Ambassadors will be taking on this fall will be restructuring our social media efforts to optimize its impact. One aspect they would like to improve is showcasing the work and achievements of Alumni from our programs. If you would like your story spotlighted on our social media, CLICK HERE to fill out a short questionnaire. If you have questions or would like to connect with Wes, he would love that! His email is wes-love@uiowa.edu, and his office number is (319) 467-4431. '21-'22
I work very closely and collaboratively with many colleagues in the Office of Admission. Since starting in this position last August I prioritizes building strong connections with the Director of Admissions, Sr. Associate Director in Search & Prospect Development, Sr. Director for Outreach & Recruitment, and Director of Communications & Marketing all within the Office of Admissions.
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Q:How can alumni get involved with the work you are doing?
Anne Frank Tree Planting Ceremony
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On April 29, 2022, a sapling from the original chestnut tree Anne Frank wrote about in her world-renowned diary was planted on the lawn of the Pentacrest. Due to rain, the main ceremony was moved indoors to the MacBride Hall Auditorium. The audience heard speeches, poems, and songs from prominent members of the planting committee. Luckily, the weather cleared and the audience was able to move outdoors to see the final planting. To see more information about related events or to watch the recording of the ceremony, please click on the following link: https://uiannefranktree.com/ events/planting-ceremony/ Anne Frank '21-'22
Timeline of Events Oct. 18-Why Anne Frank Still Matters—AnConversationObermann Feb. 9 SPOTLIGHT:-EXHIBITIONAnneFrank (PT I) Feb 28-WorldCanvassTeaching Anne Frank March 1 -Teaching Anne Frank -Panel Discussions and Film ScreeningMarch 2-Teaching Anne Frank -Joel Barkan Memorial Lecture March 8-The Annex, Amsterdam, and Understanding the Space of Anne Frank's DiaryMarch 9-EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: Anne Frank (PT II) March 30-Dear Kitty: The Act of Keeping a Diary April 11-Judaism in the Diary of Anne Frank: A Discussion April 28-A Conversation with Amal Kassir: Celebrating Poetree April 29-Anne Frank Tree Planting Ceremony '21-'22 Year Review Page 07
The Center for Language and Culture Learning
The Center for Language and Culture Learning has been extraordinarily busy in 2021-22. We received three large Student Technology Fund grants to develop spaces and programming for innovative teaching and learning practices; we supported peer tutoring in eight languages taught in the Division and eight less commonly taught languages; we piloted a program to help student achieve a micro-credential in language learning; we spearheaded a community-based multilingual narrative project; we invited a member of the Meskwaki Tribe to speak about their language revitalization project (about which we made a short film); we promoted language and culture learning through social media, and we hosted many events in our dynamic, including Dia de los Muertos altar, conversation clubs, film and game nights, and more.
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Area 651 VR Studio
Area 651 is a space where faculty can develop Virtual Reality projects for use in the teaching and learning of language and culture. Faculty can make use of 10 Oculus and 2 Vive headsets to lead their students on virtual tours or engage them in other kinds of extended reality opportunities. They can also learn to create their own VR experiences in the Studio.
New Spaces
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The Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Lab was created with a $180,000 University grant, which was used to completely remodel an out-of-date audio lab. We installed 24 computers equipped with Sanako software, which enables faculty to work with students on a range of innovative teaching activities, from discrete pronunciation exercises to communicative language learning drills. The Lab can also be used for film-editing, other multi-media projects, and assessment.
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Peer Education
Peer tutoring helps both tutee and tutor. Through a personalized learning experience, peer tutoring can help motivate learners and improve their attitudes towards learning, and help them achieve academic success. Tutors develop leadership, interpersonal, and time management skills. Through the Directed Independent Language Study program, we provide opportunities for faculty, staff, or students to work with a native speaker to develop basic oral proficiency skills in less commonly taught languages; in 2021-22, we supported learning in the following languages: NorwegianHindiModernGreek
The CLCL supports peer tutoring in the following languages taught in the DWLLC, and we saw over 1100 tutor visits over the course of the last year.
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Iowa Intersections
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Global seal of Biliteracy
A nationally recognized micro-credential that students can earn by taking a series of proficiency assessments, the tests measure the four skills (reading, listening, speaking, and writing). Students can earn one of two levels of fluency —Functional (Intermediate Mid) or Working (Advanced Low). In Fall 2021, we piloted a program testing 17 students, who now have a credential that they can add to their LinkedIn profiles as a digital badge.
Iowa Intersections is a communitybased digital storytelling project in which team members work with local partners to collect stories from recent immigrants and refugees in Iowa City. In Fall 2021, we collected twelve videos from students studying English at Kirkwood Community College, and will be working with Open Heartland in Summer 2022 with the Latinx families that organization serves. This initiative is a first step in creating a Division-wide Humanities Lab that will seek to engage graduate and undergraduate students in publicly engaged humanities work.
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Workshops, Events, and More
Meskwaki Language Revitalization
We conduct technology workshops for faculty on a range of tools and support their projects and outreach initiatives, including the Anne Frank Sapling Project, Spanish Open Educational textbooks, VR videos for Spanish for medical interpretation, websites, and more. We also support student engagement through events in the CLCL (conversation hours, karaoke, game nights, celebrations, etc.) and through our fantastic social media. Follow us on Spotify (clcluiowa) for constantly updated international playlists and on Instagram for fun language and culture learning activities.
In an effort to educate the University of Iowa community about the languages and cultures in Iowa, the CLCL invited Wayne Pushetonequa to give a presentation on the language revitalization efforts on the Settlement. Working with a Cinema Arts student, we made a short documentary interviewing members of the Tribe about the importance of language for cultural preservation.
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Scholarships Congratulations to all of the amazing graduate and undergraduate students who received scholarships from the Division this year! Here is a list a just a few of our recipients for the 2021-2022 academic year. Alix Bushard- Tsara Ann Hinman Award Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures Claire Hellman - Jeffrey & Sydney Guldner Russian Scholarship Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures Dominique Mbao - Mary Susan Morse Iosue Memorial Scholarship Department of French and Italian '21-'22 Year Review Page 13
Jennifer Jiman - Stanley Summer Scholarship Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and
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Emma Gullen - Stanley Summer Scholarship Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Lauren Philips - Richard J. Tyner Scholarship Department of French and Italian Maddie Godsey - Stanley Summer Scholarship Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Sam Fouts - Genevieve Davis Searle Scholarship Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Wyatt Hellman - Stanley Summer Scholarship Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and
Accomplishments Join us in celebrating some of the amazing work done by our faculty, graduate students, and staff this past year!
*Names are listed alphabetically by first name. Adelheid Bethanny Sudibyo, Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish Bethanny Sudibyo won the 2021 Obermann Humanities 3MT for her presentation “Imperial Imaginings: Representations of Religion, Race, and Gender in 19thCentury Spanish Philippine Novels.” Sudibyo's win earned her a place in the campus-wide 3MT finals. Bethanny was also selected by the Council on Teaching to be one of the recipients of the 20212022 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The award recognizes teaching assistants who have outstandingdemonstratedabilityasteachers at the University of Iowa. (Spanish & Portuguese, CLAS) Dr. Ana Merino, Collegiate Scholar, Department of Spanish and Portuguese “AMIGO” is a three-part novel, with the character of Inés Sánchez Cruz, a Mexican poet in her early 50s who travels to Spain in the Fall of 2019. After a lapse of several decades, Inés is back in Madrid to present the collection of her poetic oeuvre and to teach a short poetry workshop at a cultural institution. The trip to Madrid is helping the Mexican poet distance herself from an emotional breakdown she suffered several years earlier. She receives support to work on a new project in Madrid doing research on the family archive of Joaquín Amigo. Joaquín Amigo was a catholic philosopher and very close friend of the poet Federico García Lorca. Unfortunately, both were killed by opposing forces, a week and a half apart, at the start of the Spanish Civil war. The novel will focus on Joaquín Amigo’s actual archives and the fabulous materials that the family preserved. "Illustrating Spain in the US" (curator and editor) This project takes a better look at seven potential sides of the inspiring Spanish presence resulting in comic books of very diverse sophistication. Sergio García achieves this with the lines of his expansive drawings, while looking at San Agustín, Las Misiones and the Camino Real, creating an amazing map, colored by Lola Moral. Rayco Pulido has imagined drawing Bernardo de Gálvez and has brought him back to everyone's memory, focusing on the key role he played in the American War of Independence. Ana Merino is also a Guest Editor with Enrique Bordes. "El cómic como espacio abierto". I and II, Eutopías. Revista de interculturalidad, comunicación y estudios europeos. Co-published in four languages by the Department of Theory of Languages and Communication Studies (Universitat de València. Estudi General, UVEG) & The Global Studies Institute of the Université de GenèveVol.21-2021 (Summer 2021) and Vol.22-2021 (Fall 2021). (Spanish & Portuguese, CLAS)
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Claire Frances, Director, Center for Language and Culture Learning Claire invited Wayne Pushetenoqua from the Meskwaki tribe of Tama to give a presentation on the Settlement's language preservation program. She and two students produceed a video featuring Meskwaki language speakers and learners. You can watch the video here.
Becca Clark, ASL Program Coordinator Becca Clark published an article titled, "Hard Sells: Are Deaf People Used as a Commodity in Adverts or are They Seen as Potential Consumers, and How Authentic are These Representations?" in the Association of Sign Language Interpreters Newsli Magazine. The article critically analyzes deaf and sign language representation in two versions of a mainstream Facebook Portal video advertisement, one featuring American Sign Language and one featuring British Sign Language. The article includes an interview with two individuals involved in the making of the advertisements. She also developed a new course titled: Deaf Gain: Reframing Deaf People, Cultures, and Languages. The course challenges many misconceptions related to sign languages and deaf people. It explores the benefits of human diversity, helping students articulate how deaf people and sign languages contribute to society in a variety of ways. This course was featured in Iowa Magazine in July Becca2021. Clark and Brenda Falgier copresented at the American Sign Language Teachers Association Conference in July 2021. Their research explores ASL students' experience with the online video testing platform Edpuzzle. The presentation was titled, "Solving the Puzzle: Utilizing the Student Experience to Assessments".Enhance(American Sign Language, CLAS)
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Dr. Anny-Dominique Curtius, Associate Professor of Francophone Studies and DGS
Fort-de-France”, In Colonisations. Notre histoire, edited by Pierre Singaravélou, Paris : Seuil, (in press, 2022). She also spoke at numerous events both virtually and in-person. Please check out her awesome interview with Philippe Triay by clicking here (French and Italian, CLAS)
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Dr. Curtius published her book, Suzanne Césaire: Archéologie littéraire et artistique d’une mémoire empêchée, about Suzanne Césaire, a Martinican writer and activist. This book brings to light the amazing life and works of this too often forgotten figure in literary history. Dr. Curtius has also written several articles and book chapters this academic year, including: “La nudité fissurée de Zabou dans d’AbderrahmaneTimbuktu Sissako.” In Special Issue, Nouvelles Études Francophones, vol. 36, no 1-2, 2021: 137-155. “Des pieds, mon pied de Fabienne Kanor ou mémoriellel’auto-analysedelaparole des pieds.” In Fabienne Kanor in Transgression, edited by Gladys Francis, UniversityCharlottesville:ofVirginiaPress, (in press, “Tropiques2022).à
Dr. Elke Heckner, Lecturer Elke Heckner was invited to participate in the 100th anniversary commemorating the 1921 Soghomon Tehlirian trial in Berlin in October 2021. This trial was crucial in the history of the Armenian genocide and the history of human rights. An IP travel grant enabled Dr. Heckner to participate in the series of events regarding Berlin’s important contributions to the history of international law, especially to the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, sponsored by the Arbeitsgruppe Anerkennung—gegen Genozid, für Völkerverständigung e. V. (AGA; Working Group Recognition —Opposing Genocide and Promoting International Reconciliation) and the Berlin Center for Political Education (Landeszentrale für politische
Dr. Heckner presented a paper, entitled “Rothberg’s Concept of Multidirectional Memory and its Limits: The Second Historian’s Debate in Germany” at the Western Jewish Studies conference. This paper intervenes in the current debate on possibilities and limits of comparing the experience of (post) colonialism and the Holocaust in historiography. (German, CLAS)
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Dr. Heckner was interviewed by Iowa Public Radio talk show host Charity Nebbe on Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel MAUS and its significance for learning about the Holocaust. She was invited by the Center for Truth & Justice to speak at its first international conference on Human Rights and Accountability: The Aftermath of War in partnership with the American University of Armenia and the Russian-Armenian University in Yerevan, Armenia in June 2022.
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Claire has also convened a working group comprised of faculty, staff, and undergraduate students who are researching the ways in which languages were taught and learned over the past 175 years at the University of Iowa. This research will result in a digital book. The CLCL is working with multiple campus partners to explore opportunities for developing foods related courses. Teaching language and culture through cuisine is an excellent way to motivate learners to develop both linguistic and intercultural skills they need to operate in a second culture. We have convened a working group of faculty who'd like to develop foods courses, identified campus kitchens we can use for this purpose, and opportunitiesexploredfordeveloping a pop up kitchen as well as long term collaborations on an instructional kitchen. Watch this space for developments. (Divisional Staff)
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Dr. Emilie Destruel, Associate Professor French Linguistics Dr. Emilie Destruel published an article in the peer-review journal Languages entitled "The L2 acquisition of Italian,Donaldsonininferencesinterrogatives:FrenchPragmaticincleftedwh-questions",collaborationwithDr.Bryan(USCS).(FrenchandCLAS)
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Giovanni Zimotti, Director of Language Spanish Instruction Dr. Giovanni Zimotti and Binghamton University faculty member Fernando Castro Ortiz released on December 3, 2021, a unique Spanish textbook in Open Educational Resource (OER) format for use and development worldwide. This textbook, Salón de clase: Intermediate Spanish for Education Professionals, is a comprehensive intermediate Spanish open access textbook with reading, listening, speaking, and writing practice for students who have an interest in and/or intend to pursue a career in the education field. As an OER, it is completely free and available for use by other universities. Salón de clase is a modern textbook, with special care made to include salient and emerging topics such as pronoun usage in Spanish, LGBTQ+ issues, and mental health, as well as introducing fundamentals for students who want to work in education. Funding for this project was granted through the Regents Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant Program. The team was awarded $25,560. Principal investigators on the team include Giovanni Zimotti, Gabriela Olivares-Cuhat (Associate Professor and Associate Dean Graduate College at UNI), Rachel Klevar, Braeden Jones. (Spanish & Portuguese, CLAS) Hadley Galbraith, Doctoral Candidate in French & Francophone World Studies Hadley was one of twelve doctoral students at the University of Iowa to receive the Dissertation Writing Fellowship for Summer and Fall 2021. In Fall, she was awarded the university's 2021 Graduate Global Student Award by International Programs. Hadley authored two articles, "Retraverser le gouffre sur la terre: La fluidité salvatrice dans L’esclave vieil homme et le molosse" and "Re-articulating the Repertoire for a Generation Removed," that were published, respectively, in the 25th and 26th volumes Contemporary French & Francophone Studies: SITES. Finally, Hadley designed and taught a new iteration of the General Education course Texts & Contexts, entitled "The Memory of Slavery Today in Literature and Performance of the Francophone African Diaspora" in Spring 2022. (French and Italian, CLAS) Dr. Huiqiang Zheng Dr. Huiqiang Zheng published "Comparative analysis of word selection and vocabulary pedagogy based on a corpus of American published Chinese textbooks." in Culture of Chinese characters (汉 ⽂ ), Vol 6. She also created promotional videos for Chinese STARTALK program in fall, 2021, and was the faculty representative for Department of Asian and Slavic languages table in Hawkeye Visit Day. After being given a Student Technology Fee award, she assisted Dr. Tsai in Chinese Radical website recreation as volunteer in summer, 2021. Dr. Zheng was the choreographer and main performer for different dance projects at the community events, as well as the faculty advisor
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Emily Wieder, PhD student of French Emily published her first conference paper in the inaugural number of Tête-à-Tête, a graduate-student run journal based at Louisiana State University. Her paper is called "Writing Desire on the Lesbian Body: Baudelaire's Fantasies and Viven's Realities." (French and Italian, CLAS)
Accomplishments for a new student organization (Chinese Corner Club) and a Student Honors project in Classical Chinese. (Asian and Slavic Languages, CLAS) Dr. Irene Lottini Irene Lottini presented her paper "Roberto Andò and the Legacy of Leonardo Sciascia" at the 119th PAMLA Conference on November 14, 2021. She also presented her paper "The Mirror and the Mask: The Double from Roman Theater to Roberto Andò" at the 53rd NeMLA Annual Convention on March 11, 2022. Irene Lottini organized, chaired, and participated in the roundtable "'Effetto Rinascimento': The Renaissance in Contemporary Culture and Society" at the 53rd NeMLA Annual Convention. (French and Italian, CLAS) Irina Kostina, Associate Professor of Instruction Dr. Irina Kostina attended multiple conferences in Turkey and Russia, topics including: Learning to understand each other, Intercultural communication in a foreign language audience. Fifth International Conference in Istanbul, Turkey for teachers of Russian "Topical issues of teaching Russian as a foreign language in the context of global changes", and "Mechanism of implementation of the strategy of socio-economic development of the state." in Dagestan. She also co-authored a 2part textbook on the Russian language entitled, The Manual for students of Russian “Nadezhda” Dr.(Hope).Kostina developed a new course at the University of Iowa “Women Unknown: Fight for Independence”, as well as worked collaboratively with professors and students from State Russian University in Dagestan. (Asian and Slavic Languages, CLAS) Dr. Kendra Strand, assistant professor of Japanese literature and visual culture Dr. Strand is a Key Person in the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) three-year Humanities Initiatives grant, “Global Book Cultures and the Student Laboratory: Undergraduate Education at the UI Center for the Book” (Matthew Brown and Elizabeth Yale, Project Directors). (Asian and Slavic Languages, CLAS) Kirsten Kumpf Baele, Ph.D.; Lecturer of German Dr. Kumpf Baele has earned a number of awards, including the CLAS Outstanding Outreach and Public Engagement Award and the Provost’s Global Forum Award, as well as having her proposal being approved for the Anne Frank Sapling Project. She was also a nominee for the CLAS Collegiate Teaching Award. In conjunction with the Anne Frank Sapling Project, Dr. Kumpf Baele spearheaded The Anne Frank Tree: Taking Root in Iowa, a campuscommunity event that welcomed the sapling to campus. She was a presenter, panelist, and moderator for numerous events related to the project, and was interviewed by community publications such as Iowa Public Radio, The Daily Iowan, Iowa City Press Citizen, and The Des Moines Register. Check out the panel discussion Why Anne Frank Still Matters: An Obermann Conversation by clicking here. She was also awarded several grants, including the Stanley-University of Iowa Foundation / International Programs’ Special Projects Award and the Summer Research Fellowship, as well as the Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (ICRU), full-year fellowship recipient for research and creative work. (German, CLAS) Dr. Kristine Munoz, Professor of Spanish and Communication Studies Kristine Munoz received a Fulbright Research and Teaching Award to study peace education with a group of colleagues at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia for '21-'22
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Lauren Andrews, Instructional Services Specialist Lauren Andrews of the Center for Language and Culture Learning helped bring the SignAll American Sign Language (ASL) learning lab to the UIowa campus. The SignAll lab is is a compact, single user workstation that uses 3D camera imaging to accurately recognize and model individual movements on the screen so users can learn, practice, and correct their sign language. The lessons and practice sessions provide students with immediate feedback and gives teachers actionable data for tailoring instruction to meet individual needs. This is the only computer lab in the world that has digitized ASL teaching and learning. (Divisional Mackenzi McGowan, Ph.D. Student in Spanish Mackenzi was awarded a Graduate & Professional Student Government (GPSG) travel grant. With this grant she will be able to travel to Spain to present at a conference she was accepted to. (Spanish & Portuguese, CLAS)
Nicole Villanueva, Instructional Services Manager At the beginning of Fall 2021, the newly remodel CALL (computer assisted language learning lab) in 17PH opened for faculty and students. This room was completely remodeled thanks to a Student Technology Fee grant and includes 24 computers, each equipped with Sanako software, Camtasia, and Microsoft Office Suite software. Faculty frequently use this rooms for '21-'22
Accomplishments the Spring, 2022 semester. As part of that award, she also taught a graduate seminar on ethnographic research methods and delivered a lecture entitled "Education is Culture" to an interdisciplinary audience April. Kristine Munoz and her colleague Professor Daena Goldsmith from Lewis and Clark College, in Portland, Oregon, received a $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create an online repository called "Salud! To your health: Teaching Health Narratives in English and Spanish." The grant will last for three years and will encompass development of a website, creation and delivery of workshops, establishment of an online journal to publish undergraduate health narratives in Spanish, and OER texts for use in health humanities courses around the world. (Spanish & Portuguese, CLAS)
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Newell Ann Van Auken, Lecturer, DWLLC Together with Amy Huang (Art History), Dr. Van Auken co-founded the Chinese Humanities & Arts Workshop, an Obermann Working Group that brings together scholars from multiple disciplines, including art history, history, literature and textual studies, religious studies, and translation. Their group has become a sort of interdisciplinary arts & humanities lab with a focus on premodern China; together they cover nearly three thousand years (from 10th c BCE through 19th c CE). In their monthly meetings, members present in-progress research, and also read and discuss scholarly work of mutual interest. Members also include faculty from regional schools including Augustana College and Grinnell College. (Division of World Languages, CLAS)
How to Do Things with Style: Essays in Honor of Joan DeJean, the third volume in the French Review Book Series, edited by Amy S. Wyngaard and Roland Racevskis. The essays in this volume pay tribute to the scholarship and mentorship of Joan DeJean—her approaches, her subjects, her style. Drawing inspiration from her groundbreaking works on early modern French literary and cultural history, DeJean’s former PhD students elaborate new ways of looking at well-known French, paintings, and objects within their social and historical contexts. As these essays attest, DeJean’s style has made its mark on more than one generation of scholars and scholarship. (French
Associate Dean for Arts & Humanities Roland Racevskis
Accomplishments speaking and pronunciation practice, class projects and activities, testing, and more! The CLCL is please to offered students in the less commonly taught languages (Arabic, ASL, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili) peer tutoring! With our 9 peer tutors, we offer virtual and in-person tutoring to students every week. In Fall 2021, our tutors helped over 400 students practice and grow in their language learning. (Divisional Staff) Oriette D'Angelo, doctoral candidate in Spanish & Portuguese Oriette D'Angelo, a doctoral candidate in Spanish & Portuguese completing a certificate in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, was awarded the Stephen Lynn Smith Memorial Scholarship for Social Justice. This scholarship highlights the work of two students for “demonstrating a commitment to the principles of social justice and progress.” D'Angelo is interested in representations of marginalized individuals in literature, cinema, and visual arts, and her research focuses on the representation of the disappeared in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela (due to dictatorships), and Mexico (due to narco culture). Moreover, her literary career is accompanied by the advocacy of social justice, and she conceives her writing as a form of protest. (Spanish & Portuguese, CLAS) Dr. Becky Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Becky Gonzalez recently developed a new course: PORT:3105 "Linguistic Aspects of the Lusophone World." This course provides an introduction to linguistic concepts in the context of Portuguese as well as to Portuguese as a global language, including a survey of dialects spoken in Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Cabo Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. The addition of this course increases the number of scholarly fields represented in the Portuguese program by adding linguistics to complement language, cultural studies, literary studies, cinema, and creative writing. (Spanish & Portuguese, CLAS)
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Roxanna Curto published the essay, "De son sol et de son climat: National Sport and Landscape in Roland Barthes" in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites, as well as published "Édouard Glissant’s Relation and ChaosMonde in the Era of COVID" in a special issue of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites appearing in March 2022. Roxanna Curto received a Summer Research Fellowship from International Programs that she used to travel to Paris, Nice and Marseille, France in early January to conduct research on her forthcoming book, Writing Sport: The Stylistics and Politics of Athletic Movement in French and Francophone Literature. She also received an Arts and Humanities Initiative Award for her project, "The Female Athletic Body in the Writings of Suzanne Lenglen and Simone De Beauvoir." (French and Italian, CLAS) Prof. Sang-Seok Yoon Sang-Seok Yoon has contributed a co-authored paper on The Routledge Handbook of Korean as a Second Language about assessment of interactional competence in Korean. He also co-authored four Korean textbooks listed below: Anytime Korean Intermediate 2. Seoul: Kong & Park Publishing. Anytime2021 Korean Intermediate 1. Seoul: Kong & Park Publishing. Integrated2021 Korean: High Intermediate 1. Workbook. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Integrated2021 Korean: High Intermediate 2. Workbook. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2021 (Asian and Slavic Languages, CLAS)
Rosemarie Scullion, Associate Professor of French Rosemarie Scullion hosted two virtual campus visits of Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, a 2021-22 Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor. Professor Snyder visited Professor Scullion’s Fall 2021 class on the history of France under Nazi Occupation and gave a major public lecture titled “History and Freedom: The Past, Present and Future of Tyranny.” Professor Scullion was awarded an IP Special Projects Award to co-organize an IP webinar titled “Authoritairan Tendancies Across the Globe” in which a panel of distinguished international scholars discussed Professor Snyder’s lecture and considered the perils that democratic societies around the world are now facing. (French and Italian, CLAS) Roxanna Curto, DEO of French and Italian Roxanna Curto co-edited with Rebecca Wines (from Cornell College) the volume, Pour le Sport: Physical Culture in French and Francophone Literature. She also contributed the essay, "Sport as Glissantian Relation in the Works of Roland Barthes, Roch Carrier, and Fatou Diome" to a special issue of L'Esprit commemoratingCréateurthe10th Anniversary of Édouard Glissant's death.
Accomplishments
Sicheng Wang Sicheng Wang, a Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Acquisition, has been selected as a recipient of the Ballard & Seashore Dissertation Fellowship for Spring 2022. She has been awarded a Graduate College Summer Fellowship for Summer 2021. (Division of World Languages, CLAS) '21-'22
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Suzan van den Broek, Graduate Student in French and Francophone World Studies Suzan received the 2021-2022 Benhamou Graduate Scholarship, that recognizes outstanding academic achievement in a student's program of French Studies. (French and Italian, CLAS)
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Waltraud Maierhofer, Ph.D. Waltraud Maierhofer’s new book is out: “The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau.” She translated it with Jennifer Vanderbeek (BA in German). (German, CLAS) Xue He, Ph.D. Candidate in the Second Language Acquisition Program Xue He defended her dissertation about second language acquisition of Chinese directional complement constructions in February 2022. (Division of World Languages, CLAS)
Dr. Yuan Lu, Lecturer of Chinese and Interim Coordinator of Chinese Program Yuan Lu published a peer-reviewed journal article on how second language learners of Chinese recognize and produce Chinese correlative connectives from the perspective of usage-based theory: Lu, Y. (2022). L2 competence in Chinese correlative connectives: A case of discontinuous discursive formulaic sequences. Language Teaching Research. (Asian and Slavic Languages, CLAS)
Fall2021EventsTimeline
Aug. 16-Dec. 17
Cooking Class: Learning how to make Brigadeiro with Marjorie Davis Oct. 4 & 6
The Pork Belly Fallacy: Koreans and Yemenis at the Gastronomical Crossroads - A talk by Robert Ji-Song Ku, associate professor of Asian American studies at Binghamton University Oct 12 Dostoevsky: From Revolutionary Outcast to Man of God - A talk by Anna Barker Oct. 14 Dostoevsky at the Opera - A talk by Nathan Platte, an Associate Professor of Musicology Oct. 18 Why Anne Frank Still Matters—An Obermann Conversation Oct. 21
Cinematic Arts Lecture Series: Daniel Durant - a lecture and Q & A in which he discusses his barrier-breaking career from Broadway to Hollywood, the importance of authentic Deaf representation Oct 29 & 30
Picturing the Aswan High Dam: Infrastructural Modernism in Egypt - A talk by Sarah Rifky Sept. 30
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The Grand Inquisitor - Play produced by Riverside Theatre in collaboration with the Iowa City Book Festival and the University of Iowa Libraries Main Library Gallery exhibit, From Revolutionary Outcast to a Man of God: Dostoevsky at 200. Oct. 22 Panel Discussion with IWP Writers Habib Tengour (Algeria) and Salha Obaid (UAE) Oct. 29
From Revolutionary Outcast to a Man of God: Dostoevsky at 200 - Main Library Gallery exhibition Sept. 24
Lina Meruane- Reading at the Public Library Oct. 5
Critical Literacy, Agency, and Sociolinguistic Justice in Language Education - A talk by Dr. Claudia Holguín Mendoza '21-'22
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Reading by Helon Habila, an Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Nov. 3
Nov. 2
FilmScene at the Chauncey with Hector Abad Faciolince, "El olvido que seremos/Memories of my father," directed by Oscar-winner Fernando Trueba Nov. 5 Korean Studies Research Network Inaugural Conference Nov. 11
Colloquium Series in TranslationBela Shayevich Dec. 1
"History and Freedom: The Past, Present, and Future of Tyranny." Dec. 9
MFA in Spanish Creative Writing
A lecture by Timothy Snyder, an Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer Dec. 9
Presents: "Casa vacía", an anthology that brings together the remarkable writing of previous MFA students, Christian de León, Juan Díaz Ortiz, Leticia Fernández-Fontecha, and Yamila Transtenvot.
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A conversation with author Hena Kim Dec. 1
Authoritarian Tendencies Across the Globe - a roundtable of international experts As a follow-up to Professor Timothy Snyder’s Ida Beam lecture
Conversation with Hector Abad Faciolince and Horacio Castellanos Moya, discussing Latin American literature and their shared experiences as writers in exile from political violence. Nov. 4
On Making a Translation: A Talk about Pictures, Fidelity, Dr. Seuss, Readers, Wild Boar, etc., presented by Daniel Hahn Dec. 13
Spring2022EventsTimeline Feb. 1 WorldCanvass - The Global Implications of MeToo Feb. 3 Lunar New Year Celebration Feb.9 Iowa Bibliophiles "Hidden Collections: Artist Books in Spanish and South American Languages"Indigenous Feb. 10 ASL Fundraiser at Molly's Cupcakes Feb. 11 “Design Methods and Process in Contemporary Binding” - In coordination with the "Hidden Collections" exhibit, the UI Center for the Book will host a lecture and demonstration with visiting artist Sol Rébora. Feb. 18 Stanley smART Talks: Picturing "The Tale of Genji” - A talk by Kendra Strand Feb. 19 High School Linguistics College and Opportunities Fair Mar. 11 Becoming South Korean Mothersa talk by guest speaker Dr. Jeongeun Lee Mar. 22 Meskwaki Language Revitalization: Our Journey - A talk by Wayne Pushetonequa, the Meskwaki Language Preservation Director Mar. 22 Colloquium Series in TranslationFahri Öz Mar. 24 Pressbooks Book Fair **For a full list of events related to Anne Frank, please see page 07 '21-'22YearReview Page 27
Spring2022EventsTimeline April 1 Heritage Language Education: A Talk by Dr. Julio Torres (UC-Irvine) April 2 Tasks in Action! — A Workshop by Dr. Julio Torres, UC-Irvine April 4 European Studies Group LectureEsther Peeren April 5 Colloquium Series in TranslationDavid McKay April 8 No Longer Invisible: Asian and Pacific Islander Students at the University of Iowa April 11 European Studies Group LectureEsther Peeren April 14 Translator-in-Residence Talk: Andrea Rosenberg (Spanish and Portuguese) April 15 Linguistics Colloquium April 16 3rd Midwest Korean Speech Contest April 22 Taduko Workshop: A Japanese Reading Extensive Workshop April 23 2022 Iowa Chinese Teaching and Research Symposium April 26 Elianna Kan - April Editors Series in Translation April 28 Kendall Storey - April Editors Series in Translation May 4 European Studies Group Lecture - Estrella de Diego Page 28'21-'22YearReview
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