Featured Research

Featured Research by Modern Languages Faculty

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Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

Ed. w/ Scott MacKenzie and Lilya Kaganovsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.

Indigenous filmmakers, particularly women, are beginning to shatter the myth of a frozen, never-changing Arctic. School of Modern Languages Chair Anna Westerstahl Stenport is one of the world's leading academics studying their work.

Satiric TV in the Americas: Critical Metatainment as Negotiated Dissent

Oxford University Press, 2018.

Paul Alonso, Associate Professor of Spanish, discusses how satire has deep roots in literary tradition

Man-eating Monsters: Anthropocentrism and Popular Culture

Emerald Studies in Death and Culture, 2019.

Professor Dina Khapaeva puplishes new book on Anthropocentrism and Popular Culture

Staging West German Democracy: Governmental PR Films and the Democratic Imaginary, 1953-1963

New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 352 pp.

Associate Professor of German, Jan Uelzmann, published a new book after five years of extensive research on the topic of West German democracy in a post-war context.

Recent Publications

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Recent Chapters and Articles

Chapters (7 Items)

“Surrealist Aesthetics and Intertextualities in Selected Works by Hanno Millesi”

Published In: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1177342

Publication Date: July 2022

Contributor(s): Britta Kallin
A Guide to Synchronous Online Language Teaching.

Published In: Curriculum Design and Praxis in Language Teaching: A Globally Informed Approach

Publication Date: May 2022

Contributor(s): Seung-Eun Chang
Taches féminines: Menstrual Blood Stains, Shame, and Feminist Empowerment in Contemporary Female-authored Bandes Dessinées

Published In: Women and Power in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures and Societies (French & Francophone Studies series)

Publication Date: May 2022

Contributor(s): Andrea Jonsson
Foundational Narratives: West German Nation-Building Through State-Sponsored PR Films, 1953-1963

Published In: The Arts of Democratization: Styling Political Sensibilities in Postwar West Germany

Publication Date: 2022

Contributor(s): Jan Uelzmann
L’Orientale chez Flaubert, un Sphinx sans secrets

Published In: L'Histoire Feuilletée (forthcoming)

Publication Date: 2022

Contributor(s): Julie Hugonny
Digital Humor as Cultural Globalization in Latin America

Published In: Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin/x America

Publication Date: 2022

Contributor(s): Paul Alonso
Andean Metallic Abundance in Republican Times: Mariano de Rivero and his Civic Endeavor

Published In: Asymmetric Ecologies in Europe and South America around 1800

Publication Date: 2022

Contributor(s): Miguel Rosas Buendia

Journal Articles (4 Items)

The negatively biased Mandarin belief verb YIWEI

Published In: Studia Linguistica

Publication Date: July 2022

Contributor(s): Lelia Glass
Decomposing and recomposing event structure

Published In: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Publication Date: January 2022

Contributor(s): Lelia Glass; William Gantt, Aaron Steven White
Hybrid Alternative Digital-Native Media in Latin America during the Pandemic: Two Peruvian Cases of Entrepreneurial Journalism Hosted from Spain

Published In: Journal of Latin American Communication Research

Publication Date: 2022

Contributor(s): Paul Alonso
“Trendy Monsters: The Nazis, the Perpetrator Turn, and Popular Culture”

Published In: New German Critique

Publication Date: November 2021

Contributor(s): Dina Khapaeva