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Greetings from the Chair
Dear Friends of CMLLC:
G
reetings from Classical and Modern Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures. Since the Department will
mark its 4th anniversary in October, we cannot really
think of ourselves as new any longer. It seems to me that we
are a very much established unit and a strong one at that!
More often than not, when asked a question about policy or
procedures, I have a specific answer now; I no longer turn
every question into another item on my to-do list for the Policy
Committee. In short, we have structures, we have routines, and
we have an identity as a department.
Things continue
to
change, though,
What’s inside…
both for the good
and to our detriment.
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On the very good
side is the news that
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Professor Roslyn
Research Grant
Schindler (German)
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has been serving as
Associate Chair since
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January. Her charge
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is to take the lead
on preparing for the
Schindler Scholarship
upcoming program
review, especially
in the complicated
and demanding task
of preparing a selfstudy, documenting
who we are, what
we do, and where we
want to go.
As you’ll see
in the following
pages, we have
plenty to celebrate. Three
members of the faculty
were promoted: Michael
Giordano (French) to
Professor, and both
Haiyong Liu (Chinese) and
Anne Rothe (German) to
Associate Professor with
tenure. We are proud of
them all and of the many
department recipients
of Wayne State grants
and awards, also set out
Margaret Winters
in World Talk; it was a
pleasure to attend the
Faculty Recognition ceremony and enjoy the recognition for
their achievements.
We are sorry to say good bye to Assistant Professors Annie
Higgins (Near East) and Sandra Hobbs (French) who will not be
returning. Another loss is Esperanza Ordoñez, who has been a
staff member in Romance Languages and CMLLC for over 40
years. We wish her well in retirement and the others in their
next undertakings. At the same time, we welcome Assistant
Professors Mohammed El Sharkawi (Arabic) and Hernán Garcia
(Spanish) who have joined us this fall.
This year will be a busy and, I fear, challenging one, as
we face program review and budgetary limitations. We have
many strengths, however, and those include our alumni and
other friends. Please do let us know what you are doing. And
we will be grateful too for your donations; they allow us to
support faculty undertakings and student success in ways we
cannot otherwise. I can be reached at [email protected]
or through the CMLLC office at 313 577-3002 – I’d love to hear
from you! n
Very sincerely,
Margaret E. Winters, Professor and Chair
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Casielles Explores Language Evolution and Acquisition
P
rofessor Eugenia Casielles (Spanish) has recently
published two articles on language evolution
co-authored with Professor Ljiljana Progovac:
“Protosyntax: A thetic (unaccusative) stage?,” to appear in
Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, and “On Protolinguistic
‘Fossils’: Subject-Verb vs. Verb-Subject Structures,” published
in the volume The Evolution of Language. She is also
continuing with her work on bilingualism and language
acquisition. She recently presented her research on the
acquisition of subjects at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
and Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese
at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and was invited
to give a talk on this topic at the International Conference
on Language Contact and Bilingualism organized by the
University of Wuppertal. Casielles is currently working on the
use of code-switching in bilingual texts and has presented this
work at the XXIII Conference on Spanish at the University of
California-Davis. n
Carole Verhelle Retires
After 36 years of service to Wayne State
University, Carole Verhelle (French) has
retired. Carole came to the university in
1974 and worked in an administrative
capacity prior to joining the French
language area. In soft and reflective tones,
she spoke of her youth, and experiences
growing up on a farm in South Dakota.
In high school, French was not offered
as a language, so she studied Latin. Her
exposure to and eventual love of French
language and culture would occur at
Mount Marty College, a Catholic institution
in South Dakota where she graduated
Magna Cum Laude. Carole subsequently
attended Purdue University where she
earned a Master’s degree, and met the
man she would eventually marry. She
later spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris
pursuing further study.
At WSU, Carole served as Assistant
Registrar for nearly four years prior to
accepting a position to serve as a lecturer
in French. Popular with colleagues and
students, she has served as the Coordinator
of the Basic French Language Sequence
and French Club advisor, in addition to
involvement with course and curriculum
development. In 1998, she was the
recipient of the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences award for “Excellence in
Teaching,” in recognition of her dedication
to students and to innovative pedagogy.
Verhelle said that when she began teaching
French, she wanted to share her love
and passion for the French language and
culture with her students. “It is especially
gratifying” she said, “to have students tell
you that you have touched their lives.”
What lies ahead for Carole? She is
looking forward to traveling throughout
the United States, as well as France and
Europe. She also plans to pursue her
interests in music, walking, and going to
the gym. Perhaps, she might even return to
visit South Dakota. n
CMLLC Hosts Advisor Luncheon
In April, the Department of Classical and Modern Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures hosted a luncheon for advisors
from the University Advising Center (UAC). After enjoying
a potluck which featured dishes such as homemade pierogi,
stuffed grape leaves, and Khachapuri (cheese bread from the
Caucasus), CMLLC undergraduate advisors made presentations
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highlighting some of their courses and programs, followed
by a question-and-answer period. This event was a valuable
opportunity for two sections of the university with closelyrelated goals to meet in person and exchange information and
ideas. It was also a lot of fun, and we look forward to seeing
the advisors again next year. n
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Elena Past Receives University Research Grant
E
lena Past was awarded a 2011 University Research
Grant for her project Ecomedia and Italian Cinema,
which examines a body of contemporary films through
the lens of the growing theoretical field of “ecomedia”
studies. Professor Past theorizes the ways in which the
practice of making a film can contribute to its interpretation.
Each cinematic text, she argues, is the result of a period of
the production’s “cohabitation” with a biotic community that
subsequently becomes part of the onscreen narrative. She will
use her grant to conduct research in Italy this summer. n
CMLLC Represented at Faculty Fellows Conference
Annie Higgins
Since the introduction of feminist theory
to the academy in the 1970s, studies
of gender and sexuality have become
among the most rapidly evolving
and influential areas of scholarly
inquiry and activism. Sponsored by
the WSU Humanities Center, the 2011
Faculty Fellows Conference Gender
and Sexuality, brought humanists of
diverse talents and interests together for
conversation and collaboration, with
the intent of fostering innovation and
creativity across humanistic disciplines.
The 2011 Conference featured
three CMLLC participants. Dr. Annie
Higgins (Arabic) presented a paper
titled “Exchange and Gender: Tell
the Women at the Battlefields.” In
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her study, Higgins found that women
were significant actors in the Shurat
religious minority which developed
alongside evolving Sunni and Shia
interpretations of Islam. Although the
ideological descendents of the Shurat
are a religious minority today, some of
the ideas they promoted, such as gender
parity and racial equality, took root
in a wider field of intellectual growth.
According to Higgins, women played
significant roles as expressed in poetry
by and for them. As a result, their
cultural production contributed to a
legacy of interpreting what constitutes
legitimate Islamic practice.
Dr. Jennifer Sheridan Moss (Classics)
investigated the problematic use of
Plutarch’s Life of Antony as a source
for the historical Cleopatra. In a
presentation titled “Plutarch’s Invention
of Cleopatra,” Moss suggested that
Plutarch chose to portray Antony as
“an exemplar of a fall from grace,”
a great man who, because of various
personality flaws, did not live up to his
potential. Cleopatra, who dominates the
biography, was a literary invention of
Plutarch, a concoction of stereotypes,
misogyny, and tabloid journalism,
created to explain the otherwise
incomprehensible failures of Antony. In
spite of the obviously contrived quality
of Plutarch’s account, said Moss,
scholars to this day conform discussions
of Cleopatra to his narrative structure,
which keeps observers perpetually
distanced from an understanding of her
reign.
In “The Queering of the French
Revolution: Lady Oscar and the
Tradition of the Girl-Soldier,” Dr. Anne
E. Duggan (French) focused on Jacques
Demy’s Lady Oscar (1979), a filmic
adaptation of the popular Japanese
shojo manga, The Rose of Versailles
(1972-73) by Riyoko Ikeda, who draws
from both European and Asian folklore
about maiden warriors. For Duggan,
both The Rose of Versailles and Lady
Oscar are distinguished from “classical”
models of the maiden warrior. In Lady
Oscar and The Rose, the heroine does
not follow the typical pattern of living
as a girl, donning the clothes of a
soldier to save her family honor, only
to return to the unambiguous status of
“female.” Instead, Lady Oscar inhabits
an ambiguous gender position. She has
embraced the masculine identity of a
soldier, which she cannot easily shed
at the end of the story. Both Ikeda and
Demy maintain the gender ambiguity of
their heroine from beginning to end by
exploring non-heteronormative forms
of sexuality. n
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Figueroa Receives Career
Development Chair Award
V
ictor Figueroa (Spanish) has been
awarded a Career Development Chair
Award for Associate Professors. Seven
awards were made as part of the university’s
program to support outstanding tenured faculty
members in the early stages of their careers.
Each award recipient receives an honorarium
and unrestricted research support. n
Hebrew Poet’s New Publications
Edith Covensky has recently published On The Existence Of
Love, a bi-lingual edition (Hebrew-English), and a tri-lingual
volume, Love Embraces Love (Hebrew-Arabic-English). Poet
and English translator Eduard Codish writes in his preface to On
The Existence Of Love: “Edith Covensky has written a collection
of poems almost designed to justify Andre Breton’s claim, that
love is the fusion of existence and essence. These are not the
only poles, however, she insists on. The volume is a series of
interrelated dialectics, often unresolved. This is difficult poetry
which repays our reading by giving us hard won wisdom.”
Naim Araidi, noted Druze poet, and Arabic translator of Edith
Covensky’s second new volume, Love Embraces Love, insists on
the universality of Covensky’s poetry, aesthetically sculpted with
both “penetrating might and subtle sensitivity.”
A third volume, Fuges, has been translated by Ed and Susan
Coudish. Fuges, the translators say, is an “autumnal collection of
poems, autumnal both as Keats’ season of mists and fruitfulness,
and in Stevens’ more somber auroras. Poem after poem concerns
itself, and us, with time. Edith Covensky writes about it with
originality. For her the centrality of time is night sweeping her
into its chasm, where she later wonders on its edge wishing to
curl in its womb.”
Covensky teaches Hebrew language, literature and Israeli
Studies. She has received many honors for her work including
the International Poet of Merit award in 1996 and Editor’s
Choice Poet medallion by the International Library of Poetry
in 2009. n
CLAS Teaching Award Recipients
Congratulations to Saeed Khan (Near
Eastern Studies), Michele Ronnick
(Classics), and Haiyong Liu (Asian
Studies), who were recently honored for
teaching excellence by the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences. Each recipient
received a certificate of recognition
and stipend presented by Dean Robert
Thomas. n
Higuero Publishes Book
From the very beginnings of modernity until the mostly
recent philosophical spurs, the argumentative discourse of ideas
has had as a point of departure-the notion of subjectivity,
including the experience of doubt. In Racionalidad Ensayistica:
De Montaigne a Richard Rorty (Ediciones del Orto, Madrid),
Professor Francisco Javier Higuero examines the writings of
philosophers ranging from Descarte and Montaigne to William
James, Bergson, Sartre, Popper, and Richard Rorty. The result
of Higuero’s work is a valuable contribution to the knowledge
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of philosophical discourse expressed under the literary form
of essay. It should assist scholars not only in the technical
fields of philosophy (including pragmatism, phenomenology,
existentialism, conceptual analysis, and hermeneutics), but also
in the humanities and social sciences disciplines (including
literary criticism, political theory, and post-modern studies).
As Higuero mentions in the concluding pages of his work, this
kind of research is opening new approaches and development
to the discourse of ideas and philosophical thought. n
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Felecia Lucht Receives University Research Grant
Felecia Lucht, Assistant Professor of German and Coordinator
of the Basic German Language Sequence, was awarded a 2011
University Research Grant for her book project, Life after
Language Death: Language Variation, Shift, and Change in
a German-American Community. Lucht’s work documents
language use in the community, traces the shift from German to
English, and examines language change within the varieties of
German and English spoken in the area. One of her objectives
for the summer is to examine the contents of a regional Germanlanguage newspaper read widely from the mid 1800s to 1900s
in the community under study to find articles which discuss
language-related issues and help create a community portrait of
language attitudes, while further adding details to the timeline of
language shift that is emerging from the data. n
Jorgelina Corbatta Author and Guest Speaker
Giordano Receives Board
of Governors Award
P
rofessor Jorgelina Corbatta (Spanish) has been very
active in the past year, writing papers, authoring a
book, and serving as an invited speaker and conference
presenter. In the fall, Corbatta served as guest speaker at the
Open House of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute in Ann
Arbor where she delivered a paper titled “Psychoanalysis
and Literature.” She was later featured as a special guest on
a program by Radio Mitre (Buenos Aires, Argentina) where
she spoke about her book on Juan Jose Saer. Most recently,
Corbatta was invited by the Hispanic Outreach Committee of
the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center to speak on: “The Literary
Work of Manuel Puig: Its Significance for the Study of Culture
and Psychoanalysis.” She is also revising her book manuscript
on Jorge Luis Borges titled: Borges y yo/Borges y los otros
(under contract with Editorial Corregidor, Buenos Aires), and
she presented two papers at the Annual Convention of the
Midwest Modern Language Association titled: “Representation
of Repression and Censorship in Two Argentine Films,” and
“Sexuality, Normality, and Terror: XXY by Lucia Puenzo.” n
Professor Michael
Giordano (French) has
been awarded the Board
of Governors Faculty
Recognition Award for
his book The Art of
Meditation and the
French Renaissance
Love Lyric. The award
is given annually by
the University’s Board
of Governors for
outstanding contribution
to scholarship and
learning. Professor
Giordano received a citation, engraved plaque, and a grant
in recognition of his accomplishments at the Wayne State
University Academic Recognition Ceremony in April. n
Laura Kline Wins Excellence in Teaching Award
Dr. Laura Kline (Russian) has been
awarded the President’s Award for
Excellence in Teaching. The award is
given annually in recognition of superior
teaching at Wayne State University.
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Associated honors include an award
of $2,500 and a citation which was
presented at the Wayne State University
Academic Recognition Ceremony held on
April 28. 2011.
Dr. Kline’s research interests include
Russian writer Varlam Shalamov, the
literature of the Gulag, and language
pedagogy. n
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Slavic Studies Opens the Door to Opportunity
by Laura Kline and Alina Klin
transplants. Maxim Ermakov received the Delta
Sigma Pi Scholarship Key, which is presented to
the graduating student with the highest cumulative
grade-point average (4.0) in the School of Business
Administration. He has accepted a position with
Ford Motor Company as a financial analyst. Yuliya
Harris was accepted into the Center for Academic
Excellence for National Security Intelligence
Studies at WSU. Nicholas Krol, who will spend the
next year studying Polish in Krakow, is a recipient
of an ACPC Scholarship for Summer Study in
Poland, as well as an FPA Fine Arts scholarship.
Katherine Nolde was accepted to the prestigious
American Councils Summer in Russia study
abroad program and will be studying at Herzen
University in St. Petersburg. Michael Chrusciel,
Mariola Koplejewska, Rebecca Magerovskiy, Raffi
Nersessian, and Shugmi Shumunov all received
nly seven years ago, the WSU Slavic faculty created
WSU Slavic Scholarships.
the Slavic major with concentrations in Polish and
We are also very pleased that more and more of our students
Russian and minors in Polish and Russian. Since that
continue their studies in graduate and professional programs in
time the number of students choosing these degree programs
the US and abroad. In the fall Jonathan Ciarkowski (‘09) will go
has continued to grow, as have the number and variety of
to Krakow, Poland to pursue a master’s degree in Transatlantic
courses we offer. Among the new courses introduced this year is Studies, while Kelly Kietur (cum laude ‘09) will go to Glasgow,
Topics in Slavic Studies (SLA 3800). Under this heading we have United Kingdom to study Information and Library Management.
offered Literature, Art, and Song of the Gulag, Advanced Russian Eric Szydlowski (’11) was admitted to the WSU School of
Reading (both will be taught again this fall), Russian and Polish Pharmacy. Alison Christy (cum laude ‘07) is completing
Drama, and Pierogi and Beyond: Issues in Contemporary Polish
a master’s in drama at the University of Houston and has
Literature and Culture.
been accepted by the Ph.D. program in Theatre Studies at the
The growth of our program is also due to the enthusiastic
University of Kentucky on a Russian Theatre Fellowship. Lauren
efforts of our dedicated part-time faculty: Anna Huk-Gleaser
Gillis (‘09), who has been studying in the master’s program at
and Izabela Nychter in Polish, Olga Blum and Tatyana Sherman the European University in St. Petersburg, will be attending the
in Russian, and Natalia Mayorchak in Ukrainian. Olga Blum led
Transnational Security Studies program at George Washington
our newly created Russian Culture Study Abroad Program to
University for Fall 2011. Richard Kruczynski (magna cum laude
the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and to the village of
‘04), currently pursuing a Master’s in Business Administration at
Borovsk. Natalia Mayorchak, who joined us last August, recently WSU, was recently recognized for Academic Excellence by the
designed a new course, Ukrainian Conversation (UKR 2030),
Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. He also received a School of
which will be offered for the first time in Winter 2012.
Business Administration Scholarship. Janusz Krupa (cum laude
We are very proud of the achievements of our students. Here
‘09) was accepted to Ross University School of Medicine in NJ.
are some of their recent accomplishments. Michael Chrusciel
The 2010–2011 academic year in the Slavic area was again
was awarded a Frank Filipek FPA scholarship, as well as an
full of exciting events that enriched the cultural life on the WSU
Undergraduate Research Grant to conduct research in Poland on campus and the Greater Detroit area. We organized lectures,
the attitudes of Polish medical students toward cell and organ
film screenings, traditional Slavic celebrations, workshops,
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Adrina Garbooshian - Alumni Update
and outings to concerts. The Slavic
Club again did an outstanding job this
year helping with the majority of the
Slavic events and also putting together
some events of their own, including
fundraisers.
By far the most exciting undertaking
for Polish-language students was their
involvement in creating the “Solidarity”
Exhibit at the WSU Walter Ruther
Library. Students and faculty translated
the panels for the exhibit and attended
the official opening ceremony, where
they had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
to meet Lech Walesa, the first leader of
the Solidarity movement and former
president of Poland.
Accomplishments of our full-time
faculty include Ken Brostrom’s editorial
work on Guy Stern’s translation of
Susanna Piontek’s Have We Possibly
Met Before? and Other Stories (Culicidae
Press, 2011). Alina Klin and Laura
Kline each received FLTC Minigrants
to develop courses this summer. Laura
Kline is writing a new third-year Russian
textbook; the grant will be used by Olga
Blum to design online exercises for it.
Alina Klin, in collaboration with Izabela
Nychter, will be creating online materials
for teaching Polish medical terminology.
Laura Kline also received the President’s
Excellence in Teaching Award.
For a complete description of the
Slavic area’s activities and achievements
this past year, go to: http://www.clas.
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drina Garbooshian received
her PhD in Modern Languages
at Wayne State University in
2006. In her words, she felt fortunate
to have Professor Donald Spinelli (now
Emeritus) as chair of her dissertation
committee. The experience allowed
her to write a dissertation that focused
on her interest in French literature,
American history, and the history
of ideas. The professors she studied
with helped her to perfect her skills in
French language and literature, and
provided opportunities to delve into
historical research using a wide range
of primary source material. It was this broad skill set that landed her a job as
postdoctoral associate at the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University, in
2007. The following year she was promoted to Assistant Editor, a title which
she currently holds.
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin has published 39 volumes, and will publish
the total corpus of Franklin’s extant papers. In her position, Dr. Garbooshian
transcribes documents, proofreads letters, and writes annotation. She has
also taken trips to the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia) and to
the Library of Congress, where she has viewed the original manuscripts to
verify the accuracy of the Franklin typescripts. Garbooshian and staff are
currently working on the period in which Franklin was serving as a diplomat
in France; she was hired to help annotate much of the French correspondence.
The emphasis that the program at Wayne State placed on grammar skills, she
feels, greatly helped her to make sense out of some difficult letters written
in phonetic French. She has worked on correspondence between Franklin
and French scientists, physicians, and artists, including Félix Vicq d’Azyr
(secretary of the Société royale de médecine in Paris) and the sculptor, JeanAntoine Houdon. Furthermore, she has written headnotes summarizing letters
by Europeans who desired to emigrate to the United States and who requested
Franklin’s help in these endeavors. In the past year, she has gone on to
annotate letters by British and American correspondents as well, including
George Whatley, the treasurer of the London Foundling Hospital, Thomas
Jefferson, and Mason Locke Weems, an Episcopal minister from Maryland.
According to Garbooshian, the research she conducted for her dissertation,
which treated both the French and American Enlightenments, allowed her to
learn about new sources which she currently uses regularly, and thus prepared
her for the extensive research she undertakes each day.
Dr. Garbooshian spoke warmly of her WSU experience. “The success I have
enjoyed in my present career is largely due to the dedicated and open-minded
professors in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages. They opened
up new horizons and supported my enthusiasm for learning.” n
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Jerry Klaft - Alumni Update
Jerry Klaft is currently employed
as an adjunct instructor in Spanish at
Alpena Community College. A 1994
graduate with an M.A. in Spanish,
he retired from Comerica Bank in
2004. Jerry currently spends his
summers in Rogers City, and winters
in Boynton Beach, Florida. “I have
fond memories of many wonderful and
helpful colleagues. I hope to be able
to read and hear about their news in
a future newsletter. I miss them and
wish everyone the best.” Jerry’s e-mail
address is [email protected]. n
Margaret Winters Participates in Far Eastern Conferences
Professor Margaret E. Winters (French,
CMLLC Chair) recently presented two
papers at linguistics conferences in
the Far East. The first titled “Syntax:
Symbolic or Autonomous,” was
presented at the Eleventh International
Cognitive Linguistics Conference in
Xi’an, China. The second presentation
titled “Prediction and Language Change,”
was presented at the International
Conference on Historical Linguistics in
Osaka, Japan, with Dr. Geoffrey Nathan.
This was Professor Winters’s first visit
to these countries, and she appreciated
the opportunity to experience first-hand
some aspects of two cultures which
form part of the Department’s degree
offerings. n
Ann Mandelbaum - Alumni Update
Ann Mandelbaum (Spanish) received her Ph.D. in 1987. A
resident of Franklin, MI, she is Director of the Hispanic Education
for Lifeskills Project. The Lifeskills Project is a free, all-volunteer
program, and teaches English to the Hispanic community in the
city of Pontiac and greater Oakland County (MI). n
Near Eastern Studies Faculty Participate in
National Conference Roundtable
A
re you Shi’a or Sunni?” This was just one of the
subject areas covered in a roundtable discussion for
Islamic Studies instructors at the Middle East Studies
Association annual meeting in San Diego. Organized by Saeed
Khan, with participation from Near Eastern Studies colleagues
May Seikaly, Soraya Saatchi, and Vanessa DeGifis, the session
explored the challenges that Islamic Studies faculty experience
in approaching the subject of Islam. According to the
participants, the past decade has witnessed an unprecedented
interest in Islamic Studies, though this interest has been
fostered in a polarized world. Today’s instructor, they maintain,
must confront the preconceived notions about Islam among
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Muslim and non-Muslim students. There may be instances
when instructors face direct challenges to their authority from
students suspicious of an instructor’s political or religious
orientations. “The dynamics within the classroom are often
directly influenced by public discourses on gender, human
rights, law, war, citizenship, and identity politics,” according
to Khan. How then can an instructor navigate the contentious
fault lines that may exist in the class room and still provide
a healthy class environment on a social phenomenon such as
Islam? The design of the session was intended to create an
ongoing dialogue. Hopefully, it will continue into the future,
addressing both challenges and potential solutions. n
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Italian News
by Silvia Giorgini-Althoen
T
he Italian program enjoyed an
exceptional year, filled with many
activities and celebrations. In
October, we celebrated the 10th Annual
Settimana della lingua italiana nel
mondo, “Week of Italian Language.” It
is a worldwide event inaugurated by the
Italian Foreign Ministry in collaboration
with the prestigious Accademia della
Crusca. Each year the Minister of Foreign
Affairs selects a topic relevant to the
exploration of Italian language and
culture. Last fall the topic was L’italiano
nostro e degli altri (Our Italian and the
Others’). Language faculty and students
concentrated on the linguistic differences
of Italian dialects, and the use of dialects
in movies. There were fascinating
presentations by our Chair, Professor
Margaret Winters, and Professors Raffaele
De Benedictis and Elena Past. On the
second day, we talked about our Study
Abroad Program in Abruzzo, and enjoyed
presentations by Margaret Ogg and
Raffaella Medoro, along with stories and
photos from students who attended the
program in Italy.
2011 was a landmark year for Italy, as
Italians celebrated the 150th anniversary
of the country’s unification. Wayne State
joined in the celebration by hosting a
conference with a descendant of one
of the most prominent figures of the
Risorgimento – Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Our special guest was Mr. Francesco
Garibaldi-Hibbert, great-great grandson
of Giuseppe, who talked about the “Myth
and Paradigm of the Hero of the Two
Worlds.” This event was sponsored by
COMITES, the NOI Foundation, and Dante
Aligheri Society of Michigan, under
the auspices of the Italian Consulate in
Detroit. The program also featured Italian
language students who read excerpts
from some of the most celebrated
poets and writers of the Risorgimento,
including the famous “Giuramento della
Giovine Italia” (Oath to the Young Italy)
by Giuseppe Mazzini. Invited guests
included Mr. Garibaldi-Hibbert, and the
Consul of Italy, along with their families
and friends. The student participants were
Jessica Versichele, Nancy Jensen, Nilda
Dervishaj, Nino D’Onofrio, Alex Kappaz,
and Clayton Kendall.
Our students continued to be very
active and involved with the Circolo
Italiano, providing tutoring and
conversation skills at all levels, and
welcoming all students. Words are not
sufficient to thank this excellent group of
young people who have been so devoted
to Italian language and culture. This year
they even contributed to the Italian Film
Festival, donating a portion of their Bake
Sale proceeds to support the event.
In April, Professor Elena Past was
invited to WDET and spoke about the
annual Italian Film Festival. Another
organizer, Mr. Enzo Paglia, also had
an interview on Fox 2 News. This
publicity contributed to the festival’s
steady growth. In the first three weeks of
screenings, nearly 1,000 people viewed
a wide array of contemporary films at
the Detroit Film Theatre, the University
of Michigan, Wayne State University,
and Henry Ford Community College. The
opening night at the Detroit Film Festival
presented the Italian selection for the
2011 Oscar, “La prima cosa bella” – “The
First Beautiful Thing,” by director Paolo
Virzi. The closing night took place at
Macomb Community College’s Lorenzo
Cultural Center with the movie “Russo
come il cielo” (Red Like the Sky) by
director Cristiano Bortone.
Each spring the Italian language
area hosts the Pucci Award ceremony
to recognize outstanding students and
volunteers. Nancy Jensen was the 2011
recipient of the Pucci Prize. The event
witnessed an incredible crowd, with
alumna Maria Costantini presenting her
new book of translations of poems by
Ada Negri, some of which were read by
students. The Consul of Italy, Dr. Marco
Nobili, was extremely pleased with our
students and program. n
Cobbs Speaks at Longwood University
Professor Alfred L. Cobbs (German Studies) recently presented a
talk, “Identity and Cross-Cultural Conflict in German Migrants’
Literature,” in the Cormier Honors Lecture Series at Longwood
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University (Farmville, VA). His talk focused on the identity issues
treated in Fatih Akin’s films “Gegen die Wand” (“Head-On”) and
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Faculty Receive FLTC Mini-Grants
Congratulations to Laura Kline, Randy
Schantz, Silvia Giorgini, Alina Klin, and
Jie Billinger who have been awarded
Foreign Language Technology Center
(FLTC) mini-grants.
Laura Kline will be creating vocabulary
and grammar exercises, quizzes, chapter
tests, and final exams on Blackboard
Silvia Giorgini
for her third and fourth year Russian
students. She will also have audio
recordings and video material as part of her content.
Randy Schantz will be creating a repository of German-language
cultural artifacts for the basic German language courses. Artifacts
will include images, texts, online resources and sound recordings,
and will be available on Blackboard.
Silvia Giorgini will be introducing online testing components in
the basic Italian courses. She will be moving quizzes and exams
from a paper-based format to the Blackboard environment.
Alina Klin will be creating online content modules on medical
Polish in Blackboard and will be integrating these modules into
her current intermediate and advanced Polish courses.
Jie Billinger will be creating “mini voice threads,” audio and
video vignettes that will be used in the Chinese 1010 courses.
Grant recipients will be developing their technology-based
instructional material over the summer and will implement their
projects into their courses beginning in Fall 2011. They will also
be showcasing their projects at FLTC Brown Bag presentations in
the Winter 2012 semester. n
Ronnick Speaks at Howard University
Professor Michele Valerie Ronnick
(Classics) recently delivered the 9th
Annual Frank M. Snowden Jr. Lecture
titled “Celebrating Black Classicism at
Howard University: The Early Years.”
Sponsored by Howard University’s
Department of Classics and the College
of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Ronnick
appeared in the Browsing Room of the
Founders Library in Washington, D.C.
Frank M. Snowden Jr. was Professor
Emeritus of Classics at Howard
University, and one of the foremost
authorities on the black experience in
classical antiquity. n
Schindler Addresses Association for Integrative Studies Conference
In October, Professor Roslyn Abt Schindler presented a paper
at the Association for Integrative Studies Conference titled:
“The Resurgence of Jewish Life in Post Holocaust Poland:
Issues of Ethics and Sustainability.” Offered as a researched
photographic presentation, it focused on the remnants of
former Jewish life, and death, in the cities and the “Shetls” in
Poland. Earlier in May 2009, Schindler had the privilege of
attending an international conference on the Holocaust, hosted
by The Jagiellonian University in Krakow. While there, she
took the opportunity to explore her connections to Poland, the
land where her parents were born: “My mother and several
family members were in a Nazi forced labor camp, (and)
numerous relatives died in ghettos and concentration camps.
It was, for me, all about enduring connections and, very
concretely, about sustainability and ethics.”
It was in search of those distant and meaningful
“connections” that Schindler began to frame her inquiry. What
remnants of the former life remained in the cities? Was there
a resurgence of Jewish life in Poland? If so, where, and what
characterized it? How was the intersection of sustainability and
ethics at work in such a context? Perhaps, the answers are to
be found in the title of her work. n
Cornetta Lane Wins McNair Scholars Award
Cornetta Lane (Near Eastern Studies)
recently participated in the McNair
Scholars Undergraduate Research
Conference at North Carolina A&T
University. Her presentation titled:
“Controversy at Ground Zero: Freedom
of Religion versus Preservation of
Honor,” focused on how people employ
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particular American values. Focusing on
the debates surrounding the development
of the Islamic Center in New York City,
also known as Park 51, Lane explored
what influences people to use values
such as “freedom” and “honor” in their
arguments for and against the center.
Lane’s research presentation won
the “Outstanding Undergraduate Oral
Presentation” award at the conference.
About 100 students presented, but only
two won this award. According to Lane,
she owes this success to the Near Eastern
Studies faculty and her mentor, Dr.
Vanessa DeGifis. n
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Writing with Wikis: Graduate Students take
Innovative Approach to Teaching and Research
I
n April 2011, Julie
Koehler and Selina
Eid, both Graduate
Teaching Assistants in
German, presented a
joint brownbag session
titled “Using Wikis for
Collaborative Writing:
In the Language
Julie Koehler and Selina Eid
Classroom and for
Research” which
was hosted by the Foreign Language Technology Center.
Koehler and Eid demonstrated how they used the software to
facilitate students’ participation and elicit feedback on writing
assignments, including an assignment in which the students
worked together to create a fairy tale in German. In addition
to having a practical classroom application, they also showed
how the technology can be used for collaboration on research
projects. At the end of the session, participants were taught
how to create their own Wikis.
In addition to classroom activities, Koehler has used
the technology in her fairy tale research and is working
on her PhD in German. Eid is further exploring classroom
applications of Wikis in her MALL MA essay. Both Koehler
and Eid have won awards for poster presentations on their
research at the Graduate Student Exhibition, taking first and
second place in Humanities (respectively).
Faculty and graduate students interested in presenting a
future FLTC brownbag on innovative uses of technology in
language teaching should contact Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan
at [email protected]. Commenting on her experience, Eid
stated that the FLTC brownbag was “a great way to share
my experiences with the faculty and discuss ideas for future
projects.” n
Seikaly Addresses Middle East Studies Conference
Professor May Seikaly (Near Eastern
Studies) recently presented a paper at
the annual meeting of the Middle East
Studies Association in San Diego. In
“Politics of Women’s Rights in Bahrain,”
she analyzed the struggle of Bahraini
Voeks Receives Candace
Beutel Gardner Endowed
Scholarship
Ashley Voeks, a Master’s Degree
student in French, has been awarded
the Candace Beutel Gardner Endowed
Scholarship for 2011-12. The
scholarship is designed to assist
graduate students majoring in
German, French, or Spanish. Voeks
is the second recipient of the award
begun by Dr. Candace Gardner and
her husband in 2009. n
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women for the right of equality, as
specified in the Bahrain Constitution.
The Bahraini women’s struggle, she
said, is entangled in a quagmire of local
and international politics. In particular,
the conflicting pulls of western
globalization, and regional and local
retrenchment-reflect the undercurrents
of the struggle. Collectively, these
concerns have been exacerbated by
the world-wide financial crisis, and
vocalized in a discourse of religious and
ethnic alliances. According to Seikaly,
despite Bahraini women’s relative “head
start” in education and employment
(compared to other Gulf States), there is
growing evidence of the agony Bahraini
women experience due to the lack of
national protective laws, and resulting
domestic violence. While the “official”
view of the Bahrain Higher Committee
for Women confirms universal codes
to protect women, it has become an
issue used to showcase power between
the government and opposition forces.
The forces in opposition-have sought
to use the discourse of the pulpit-and
social and traditional norms, while
invoking women’s support opposing
the legislation. This has resulted in
the passing of a one-sided family law
that split the society’s legal reference,
and established a “crisis” of political
confidence, further complicated by
global politics. Using a transnational
approach and the voices of women
themselves, Professor Seikaly has studied
the struggle for equality through local,
regional, and international media, as
well as through interviews of Bahraini
women, to provide an ethnography of
the subject and illustrate the complexity
of the struggle facing women in
Bahrain. n
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Three Receive
Faculty
Promotions
Congratulations to Michael Giordano
(French) who has been promoted to the
rank of Professor, and to Ann Rothe
(German), and Haiyong Liu (Chinese),
who have been promoted to the rank
of Associate Professor with tenure. n
Fall 2011
Three Win University
Research Grants
Congratulations to Alina Cherry (French), Felecia Lucht
(German), and Elena Past (Italian) for being awarded
University Research Grants for 2011. The Research Grant
Program serves as an important vehicle for assistant
professors in their initial years at the University by
supporting research that is directed toward scholarly
publications and/or creative activity. n
Spinelli Examines Beaumarchais-d’Eon Relationship
A recent publication by Professor
Emeritus Donald C. Spinelli examines
the relationship between two of
the most interesting personages in
eighteenth-century Europe. In his article,
“Beaumarchais and d’Eon: What an
Affair,” Spinelli examines the often
tempestuous dealings of Pierre-Augustim
Caron de Beaumarchais, author of The
Barber of Seville and The Marriage
of Figaro, and the chevalier/chevalière
d’Eon, from whose name the term
“eonism” is derived.
As the result of a recent court case,
Beaumarchais had lost his civil rights,
and felt that if he could help King Louis
XVI avoid a scandal involving the
chevalier, he could get into the good
graces of the king and regain these rights.
By a close examination of some of the
unpublished correspondence generated
by various participants in this adventure,
it is possible, writes Spinelli, to explore
the whole intrigue in order to arrive at
new conclusions in this fascinating affair.
Professor Spinelli’s article may be found
in “Beaumarchais and d’Eon: What an
Affair,” The Chevalier d’Eon and his
Worlds, edited by Simon Burrows et al,
(London: Continuum, 2010), 57-71. n
Professor Haase Joins Academy Of Scholars
C
ollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences Associate Dean Donald
Haase -- Professor of German, fairy tales expert, and
longtime chair of the former Department of German
and Slavic Studies -- was recently elected to the Wayne State
University Academy of Scholars. As its name suggests, the
Academy is comprised of a select group of WSU faculty members
whose research and scholarship brings prestige to the university.
The author of numerous articles, book chapters, and papers,
Haase is the editor, most recently, of the three-volume Greenwood
Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales, and is the longtime
editor of Marvels & Tales, a fairy-tales studies journal published
by Wayne State University Press. n
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Language Students Visit Spain
W
SU language students had an opportunity to visit Spain during their recent
spring break. Led by Bruce Fox (Spanish faculty), fifteen students experienced
the charm and the beauty of Barcelona, Madrid, and Toledo. Students
visited museums, plazas, and cathedrals, and experienced native cuisine, dining in local
restaurants, and relaxing in outdoor cafes. Tiffany Suarez (sophomore) said she enjoyed
strolling the calles (streets), viewing the architecture and enjoying the many street
performers. Mehrnoosh Daneshjoo (senior) enjoyed the landscape surrounding Toledo,
and said the visit was the most memorable experience of her undergraduate years. Both
are looking into the possibilities of returning in the future. According to faculty leader
Bruce Fox, the experience in Spain enriched everyone’s appreciation of Spanish culture,
while also enhancing their language skills as they spoke Spanish entirely with one
another and native speakers on the trip. n
Students Respond to Japanese Disaster
O
n March 11 at
2:46 pm JST,
a massive
9.0 magnitude
earthquake occurred
near the northeastern
coast of Japan,
creating extremely
destructive tsunami
waves which hit
Japan just minutes
after the earthquake. The earthquake and resulting tsunami
caused extensive and severe damage, leaving thousands of
people confirmed dead, injured or missing, and millions more
affected by lack of electricity, water, and transportation. In
spontaneous fashion, hundreds of relief locations were created
to shelter victims from the worst earthquake disaster in Japan’s
recorded history. As the nation struggled with a rescue effort, it
also faced the worst nuclear emergency since Chernobyl, with
explosions and leaks of radioactive gas resulting from partial
meltdowns in three of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Station.
In response to the chaos that followed, Japanese language
students and faculty organized a bake sale to raise funds in
support of the humanitarian relief effort. “After the disaster
happened, I felt like I really wanted to do something to help out
the earthquake and tsunami relief,” said Fiona Dixon. “I talked
to my professors, and they told me about the bake sale. I was
really excited about the opportunity to help out. My roommate
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and I made brownies, and volunteered our time. We put up
posters, helped sell baked items, and told people about the event.
We enjoyed it because we knew that in this small way we were
able to help someone.”
Shaun Hicks, a fellow student said: “After hearing the
devastating news about what happened in Japan, my thoughts
and prayers went out to them. I wanted to be involved, and
when my teacher told my class about a way to volunteer to help,
I was willing to do whatever I could. The bake sale was a great
way to raise money for the relief effort. I was excited about the
idea, (and) as I went from class to class, I used ‘word of mouth’
advertising to get more people interested in helping, and visiting
the sale to donate.”
Tamika Jinbo, a
visiting student from
Japan said: “When I
first heard about the
disaster, I regretted
being so far away,
because I didn’t think
I could help from
America, but the
bake sale made me very grateful knowing how people here are
helping and praying for the people of Japan.”
Joined by family members and friends, and volunteers from
in- and outside of the department, the two-day bake sale was
a huge success. Over two days, approximately twenty-five
individuals came together as a community to raise $1,722.71,
plus 1000 Japanese yen for disaster relief in Japan. n
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Graduate Students Participate in Brown Bag Presentation
In March, Eglee Rodriguez-Bravo and
Roxana Zuniga gave a presentation titled
“Rewriting Latin American Women into
the Historical Discourse.” Sponsored
by the Program in Women’s Studies,
it was the first such Graduate Student
Brown Bag presentation at Wayne State
University. Professor Anne Duggan, from
the Department of Classical & Modern
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
and Director of Women Studies, began
this new initiative to provide graduate
students the opportunity to share their
research. Ms. Rodriguez-Bravo and Ms.
Zuniga are Ph.D. students in Spanish,
and each presented a chapter from her
respective dissertation, dealing with
the representation of Latin American
women in the official historical discourse.
Their presentation analyzed two novels,
Manuela by Luiz Zúñiga and Cenizas de
Izalco by Claribel Alegría and Darwin J.
Flakoll. In these literary works, female
characters move between private and
public spaces challenging the patriarchal
system of their time. n
Two Receive GEOC Teaching Awards
C
ongratulations to Selina Eid (German MALL) and Kate
Briske (Spanish) for receiving Graduate Employees’
Organizing Committee (GEOC) teaching awards. Sponsored
by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 6123, the
award is designed to acknowledge the dedicated work that
GTAs perform each and every day. Recipients of this award are
recognized for effectiveness in teaching, as demonstrated by
course syllabi, sample teaching materials and SET comments, plus
two letters of recommendation. n
Graduate Students Receive Rumble Fellowships
Katherine Briske and Holly Walker-Cote
have been awarded Thomas C. Rumble
University Graduate Fellowships for
the 2011-12 academic year. Briske, a
graduate student in Spanish, is planning
to use the award to complete her
doctoral dissertation, “A Latin American
Werewolf in Hollywood: Transcultural
Adaptation as a Blending of Species.”
Walker-Cote, also a graduate student in
Spanish, is planning to use her award
to complete her doctoral dissertation on
the articulation of multiple subjectivities
in the poetic works of Julia de Burgos.
Dierolf Receives
Schindler Scholarship
Daniel Dierolf has been selected as the 2011 recipient of the
Marvin S. Schindler Endowed Scholarship. Dierolf, a German
language major, is a resident of Warren, MI. The scholarship
is in memory of WSU Professor Marvin S. Schindler, former
German professor (1974-94), Chair of Romance and Germanic
Languages and Literatures (1974-83), and Director of the Junior
Year in Germany Programs (1975-1993, then including Freiburg
and Munich). n
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The Rumble Fellowship is one of the
most prestigious forms of financial
assistance at Wayne State University
offering a stipend, free tuition, and
a health plan to allow students to
expedite completion of their Ph.D.
degrees. n
CMLLC Students Participate
In Graduate Exhibition
Congratulations to Julie Kohler who won first place in the
Humanities area at the WSU Graduate Exhibition for her
poster, and to Selina Eid who won second place. A special
mention goes out to fellow graduate student Kate Briske, who
also displayed a poster, and a note of thanks to Professor Lisa
Hock who encouraged all three students to enter and provided
coaching in poster preparation. n
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9th Annual Graduate Student Conference a Success
T
he 9th Annual Classical
and Modern Languages
Graduate Student Conference
was held in the Romanian and
French rooms of Manoogian Hall
on April 2. The theme “Shifting
Identities and the (Re) discovery of
the Other,” was explored through
a broad range of disciplines,
including sociolinguistics, literature,
mythology, and geography. The
event showcased the talents of a
number of CMLLC graduate students
who presented abstracts at the forum. They were Jaclyn
Dudek, Dolly Tittle, Shyamala Mourouvapin, Colleen McNew,
Ganna Kalyanova, and Roshawnda Derrick. Robin Coleman
and Bradley Stabler from the WSU English Department, and
Judith Lechner, University of Oregon-Department of German
and Scandinavian, also delivered presentations. The keynote
speaker was Professor Idelber Avelar of Tulane University
who delivered a dynamic presentation on masculinity in
contemporary Brazilian and Argentinian literatures, provoking
a stream of questions and discussion. Professor Avelar
specializes in contemporary Latin American fiction, literary
theory, and cultural studies. With guidance from Professors
Elena Past, Victor Figueroa, Leisa Kauffmann, and Michael
Giordano, the graduate student steering committee (composed
of Kate Briske, Julie Koehler, Basma El-Bathy, Sara Wiercinski,
Dolly Tittle, Eyda Vaughn, Juan Coello Tissert, Selina Eid,
Roshawnda Derrick, Cinizia Acciani, Colleen McNew, Maissa
Sakr, Paula Olivia-Fiori and Likasz Pawelek), hosted an
exciting and successful event. n
CMLLC Students Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa
Five students from the Department
of Classical and Modern Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures were honored
for academic achievement at the 2011
Phi Beta Kappa initiation ceremony
held on campus in May. Honored for
academic excellence were Stacey Janetta
Conners, Ann M. Emanuelsen, Nadia
M. Yar, Aran Kathleen Ruth, and Mai
K. Sedki. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s
oldest academic honor society founded
December 5, 1776. It celebrates and
advocates excellence in the liberal arts
and sciences, and is a highly selective
honor. Only 10% of universities are
awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter and
no school may elect more than 10% of
a graduating class. About one college
senior out of 100 nationwide will be
invited to join each year. n
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