Susan Byrne (World Languages & Cultures) chaired a panel of scholars presenting papers on Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes during the Renaissance Society of America's annual conference, held this year in San Francisco, CA. The panel's speakers came from the USA, Canada, France and Ireland to critically analyze numerous aspects of the works…

Margaret Harp (World Languages and Culture) presented a paper, "Blindness as Motif in Montaigne's Librairie," at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America on February 20, 2026 in San Francisco, CA.

Mayumi Ajioka, Ph.D., (World Languages and Cultures), co-presenting with Yumiko Kawanishi, Ph.D., (UCLA), presented a practice-oriented paper titled, “A Path to Confident Conversation Participants Using PBI Class Activities,” at the 2025 ACTFL Convention in New Orleans on Nov. 21, 2025. The presentation introduced practical classroom activities…

Margarita Jara Yupanqui (World Languages and Cultures) served as the lead editor of the Letras volume published by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru), titled "Amazonian Spanish: Studies on the Diversity of Contacts in the Amazon, Toward a Regional Contextualization and the Delimitation of Monolingual Dialects."  This…

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has been selected and invited to present her article at the 51st Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, organized by University of Nevada, Reno, from October 30 to November 1, 2025. Mkrtchyan has presented her article titled “Altérité et perception poétique chez Victor Hugo: Analyse en…

For the second consecutive year, Kathy Callahan and Kirsten Barnstorf-DeBord (World Languages and Cultures) received a grant from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington, D.C., for its “Germany on Campus” initiative. This year's program explores the theme “Boost Your Career with German,” Sept. 29-Oct. 3. Events include a…

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) published a book chapter (with Julia Herschensohn), "Methods and Approaches in Plurilingual Research," n the volume Acquisition of French as a Second Language, edited by Martin Howard (Routledge).  

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) presented a conference paper (with Julia Herschensohn), "Methods and Approaches and Use of an L3/Ln:  Psycholinguistic, Linguistic, and Didactive Perspectives," at the conference, Acquisition, Processing, and Use of an L3/Ln:  Psycholinguistic, Linguistic, and Didactive Perspectives, at…

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) was selected to present her communication at the 16th World Congress of the International Federation of French Teachers (FIPF), held in Besançon, France, in July 2025. Her presentation, titled "La littérature dans la pédagogie interculturelle : les particularités des stéréotypes…

Margaret Harp's (World Languages & Cultures) chapter, "Humour and disability: French sixteenth-century literary portrayals of the jester Triboulet," has been published in Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture, Ed. Alice Equestri. U. of Edinburgh Press, 2025.

François-Nicolas Vozel (World Languages and Cultures) published an article titled "Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible! May-ssianic Realism in Duras’s Détruire dit-elle and Nathalie Granger,"  in Romance Quarterly (Taylor and Francis) 72-3, pp. 1-15.

Margaret Harp (World Languages & Cultures) presented a paper, "Statuary as Atonement: Funereal Expression in Le Printemps d'Yver” at the 57th annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.