 Welcome to the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Congratulations to Instructor of Spanish Sheldon Lotten and Instructor of German/Language Lab Director Michael Dettinger for being awarded 2011 Tiger Atheltic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Awards.
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Andrea Morris, who taught Spanish 4200 during the Fall 2010 semester, received one of the highest service-learning course evaluations in the entire university. The evaluations showed that her students' service-learning experience increased their understanding of how knowledge, skills and abilities learned in the course apply to everyday life. Students also strongly agreed that their leadership skills had improved because of the experience.
Assistant Professor of Arabic, Mark Wagner, has been named the 2011 David J. Kriskovich Distinguished Professor. This award recognizes a faculty member who has made contributions to promote democracy, rule of law, and human rights in developing countries.
Retired Professor Joseph V. Ricapito has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Brooklyn College Alumni Association. Dr. Ricapito has presented over 100 scholarly papers, published three major works, and was knighted by the Republic of Italy and the government of Spain. He previously served as Chair of the Faculty Senate and Grievance Committee and as a member of the LSU Graduate Council. He currently serves as a board member of the Greater Baton Rouge American Italian Association.
Two faculty have been awarded ATLAS Grants and will be on leave this academic year.
Qiancheng Li, Associate Professor of Chinese, was awarded the grant for his project "Transmutations of Desire: Narrative and Drama in Late Imperial China"
and
Michelle Zerba, Associate Professor of English and Classics, for her project "The Dexterity of Doubt: Skepticism and Forms of Uncertainty in Antiquity and the Renaissance."
|
| 
 |  | Other Renaissances A New Approach to World Literature
Edited by Brenda Deen Schildgen, Gang Zhou, and Sander L. Gilman
Other Renaissances is a collection of twelve essays discussing renaissances beyond the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian and then pan-European Renaissance. With a prologue by Giuseppe Mazzotta about the Italian Renaissance as a “world-making” epistemology, and an afterward by Sander Gilman to summarize the cogent points of the essays, the collection proposes an approach to reframing the Renaissance in which the European Renaissance becomes an imaginative idea, rather than a particular moment in time. Essays cover the Chinese, Harlem, Bengali, Tamil, Maori, Irish, Mexican, Arab, Hebrew, and Cold War Renaissance of the US in the 1950s. |
|
|