 Welcome to the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Assistant Professor of Spanish Andrea Morris has been selected as a 2012 CXC Faculty Summer Institute participant. This workshop provides LSU faculty with the opportunities, training, and resources needed to enhance their existing courses with Communication-Intensive pedagogy and improve students' discipline-specific communication skills.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Spanish Dorota Heneghan who received the 2012 Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award. This award recognizes faculty who have been selected by their colleges or schools as outstanding teachers.
Dr. Heneghan also submitted a top-rated ATLAS proposal to complete a monograph on “Fashion, Gender, and Modernity in Galdós, Pardo Bazán, and Picón.” The work will investigate important, complex interactions between ideas and presentations of fashion (especially clothing and accessories) and the construction of gender in modern Spanish literature.
Assistant Professor of Classics Wilfred E. Major received a Performance Review Grant during summer 2011 that enabled him to complete two publishing projects. His article, “Staging Andromeda in Euripides and Aristophanes” was accepted by Classical Journal and he is currently making revisions for publication. He completed his book manuscript, The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens which is now under contract with The Ohio State University Press.
Associate Professor of Spanish Alejandro Cortazar received a $9000 Manship fellowship award summer 2011 for his book project "Historias de amor, historias de la nación: romanticismo e identidad cultural en México" [Love Stories, Stories of the Nation: Romanticism and Cultural Identity in Mexico]. This book project studies the importance of the tragic hero’s death in Mexican romanticism as a symbolic act of freedom and redemption for the community he represents, be it the criollo, the indigenous, or the mestizo community.
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Laura M. Martins
Drawing from film theory, city and urban life studies, genre studies, Deleuze’s concept of the time-image, and critical theory, Martins argues that, within the post-Peronist process of cultural modernization, the literature written by young Argentine authors in the 50s and 60s was the condition of possibility of the era’s film production. This new dynamic interplay between literature and cinematographic production deals with the representation of equally new social, political, and urban issues. In this context, En primer plano gives account of the (post)Peronist experience and the emergence of new social subjects and identities, the changes of the representational status of the sexual subject in Argentine society at the time, the ties and tensions between body, city, and technologies of power, and the connection between literary forms and audiovisual devices. |
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