Research and Publications - Department of Modern Languages and Classics

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    A socio-constructivist approach to developing intercultural empathy
    (2017) Drewelow, Isabelle
    The pedagogical intervention presented in this chapter uses a recent event that received global exposure (the 2015 terrorist attack on the satirical journal Charlie Hebdo) to engage learners’ critical awareness of the subjective dimension of freedom, especially freedom of speech. To facilitate learners’ encounter with and reflection on variation of cultural frames of reference, the intervention integrates geosemiotics theory (Scollon & Scollon, 2003) within a socio-constructivist approach to learning. A collaborative engagement inside and outside the classroom is enabled with LinoIt, a digital and interactive bulletin board. The chapter begins with curricular considerations to create a participatory and empathy-generating classroom-based learning environment. A detailed description of the sequence of project-based activities and assessments designed for a third-semester French course follows. The research and creative projects can be adapted to lower or higher level L2 courses and include other culturally organized constructs. I conclude with insights into how to use the design of the learning activities and the pedagogical sequence as a model for further curricular development and for the professional development of graduate students and instructors.
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    Abajo el patriarcado: utopía lésbica en “No me llames cariño”, de Isabel Franc
    (Michigan State University Press, 2010) Corbalán, Ana
    A pesar de encontramos en los albores 􀁟el siglo XXI, la literatura lesbica contimia representando una voz minoritaria y marginalizada en la tradici6n literaria espafiola. Es imposible obviar el hecho de que la escritura y escritoras lesbianas se han vista hist6ricamente obligadas a codificar su lenguaje al experimentar una doble discriminaci6n social: por ser mujeres y lesbianas. Por lo tanto, para llevar a cabo la normalizaci6n .y celebraci6n de una comunidad identitaria 'queer que resulte subversiva frente al paradigma del heterosexismo dominante, es necesario mantener una agenda revolucionaria activa que promueva visibilidad lesbica. De hecho, la literatura y el cine, entre otros medias culturales, contribuyen a naturalizar el lesbianismo, cuestionando de este modo a cultura homofobica imperante en nuestra sociedad.
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    Actas Del XX Congreso de Literatura Española Y Latinoamericana
    (Literal Books, 2001) Cipria, Alicia; López-Luaces, Marta
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    Algún amor que no mate: Dulce Chacón ante la violencia de género
    (Visor Libros, 2008) Corbalán, Ana
    La violencia de genero es un alarmante problema social que perjudica la calidad de vida y vulnera los derechas humanos. Millones de mujeres en todo el munda son golpeadas por sus maridos, novios o exparejas en unos actos de control y coaccion de su libertad. Esta violencia se considera un asunto privado en la mayoria de las sociedades; se realiza en secreto y esta vista simbolicamente como una forma de mantenimiento del orden social y de expresion de las relaciones de poder. Segun reconocio Michel Foucault, en Discipline and Punishment, el cuerpa es un instrumenta de poder, y si alguien interviene en el para aprisionarlo, esta privanda al individuo de una libertad que constituye tanto un derecho como una propiedad (1979: 11).
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    Alternative Communities in Lavapiés: (Dis)Encounters between Spain and Cuba
    (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) Corbalan, Ana
    The district of Lavapiés in Madrid has become a multiethnic topography in which transnational migrations and intercultural encounters are promoted. This locality symbolises the centre of multiculturalism in the city, because between 1991 and 2006 its foreign population increased from 4.90% to 35.16% (Barañano et al. 2006, 61). Thus, Lavapiés exemplifies an economic, cultural, and political convergence of Spaniards and immigrants that can be understood as a synecdoche for the global movements that characterise our contemporary society. Indeed, alternative communities from different nationalities coexist in this urban space, configuring a hybrid mosaic of people and places that renegotiate sociocultural relations and interethnic dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. The inhabitants of Lavapiés distance themselves from the boundaries that originated in the underlying preconceptions of an exclusively homogeneous national paradigm, and instead open up spaces for multicultural transformations.
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    Aproximación a la imagen del musulmán en la España medieval
    (Parnaseo, 2003-03-24) Corbalan, Ana
    Este artículo trata sobre la construcción de la imagen del musulmán como el ‘Otro’ en los textos literarios de la Edad Media española. Esta imagen era totalmente estereotipada y negativa y sirvió para incrementar la hegemonía cristiana y la creencia en la superioridad del cristianismo frente a las demás creencias religiosas. Al representar al musulmán de esta forma arquetípica, se logró justificar la expulsión de los grupos minoritarios de la Península. Para llevar a cabo el objetivo de este trabajo, hemos analizado algunos poemas del Romancero Viejo y el cuento de “La doncella Teodor” y hemos llegado a la conclusión de que cualquier discurso disponible fue apropiado para defender la causa cristiana.
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    Aspecto Gramatical
    (Routledge, 2016) Cipria, Alicia
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    BITO Women's Museum
    (La Doxa, 2020) Toman, Cheryl; Kuoh-Moukoury, Therese
    A catalog plus description and history of the paintings in the BITO Women's Museum in Douala, Cameroon.
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    Book Review of Transnational Cervantes, William Childers
    (Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2008) Worden, William
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    Cervantes Transforms Ovid: The Dubious Metamorphoses in Don Quijote
    (University of Toronto Press, 2010) Worden, William
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    Cervantes, Sancho Panza, and the Literary World of Don Quixote
    (UNC-CH Department of Romance Studies, 2005) Worden, William
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    Co-Source Structures of the Suffix –tum in German
    (Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, 2007) Lightfoot, Douglas J.
    When examining derivational suffixation in German, it becomes apparent that a highly regular pattern exists, so much so that we have a strong argument for grammaticalization of the suffixizing forms. Due to the gestalt, holistic relationship between the host element and the developing suffix, it is argued that the host part plays an integral role in the grammaticalization of German -tum (cognate with English -dom, as in kingdom). This role is so salient that we can term the semantically heavy part of the construction to which -tum fuses a co-source structure. Old High German and Middle High German forms for Reichtum 'wealth' and Magettum 'virginity' are investigated from a large corpus of various texts.
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    Contradicciones inherentes a "Las edades de Lulú": Entre la transgresión y la repression
    (Michigan State University Press, 2006) Corbalan, Ana
    Este estudio tiene como objetivo problematizar la dialéctica del deseo y del placer utilizada como práctica de resistencia en Las edades de Lulú, novela de Almudena Grandes publicada en 1989 en la que se presenta en detalle lo que ha sido considerado tradicionalmente como ejemplo de las perversiones y transgresiones sexuales más peligrosas. Dado que la sexualidad es un territorio de inestabilidad problemática en la sociedad occidental, los discursos que proliferan sobre la experiencia sexual constituyen una reflexión fundamental acerca del peligro, el tabú, el deseo y el placer. El cuerpo y la sexualidad tienen muchas implicaciones sociopolíticas, porque estipulan las relaciones de poder y control que gobiernan una sociedad determinada. Como afirmó Eva Legido-Quigley, "el impulso de ruptura se origina porque existen unas leyes o códigos explícitos en términos legales o implícitos en el imaginario cultural" (115).
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    Correlating speech rhythm: Evidence from two Peruvian dialects
    (Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2006-10) O'Rourke, Erin
    In a cross-dialect analysis of Spanish language varieties, the intonation features of downstep and declination ought to be considered as two important points of comparison. For a given utterance, a number of peaks may be observed that are associated with stressed syllables. The first peak may be relatively high, near the top of the speaker’s range, while the following peaks tend to each be lower than the previous one. The term downstep is used to describe the successive lowering of pitch at specific tonal events according to position within a pitch contour; declination is considered a time dependent phenomenon in which pitch is lower according to the progression of the phrase along the time-axis (Liberman and Pierrehumbert 1984) (see Figure 1). Downstep may operate over the whole utterance, or over a portion of the utterance. However, the domain of declination is considered to be over the entire utterance.
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