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Autumn Quarter 2009

Publications

Professor Klopp has published profiles on "Pinocchio," "Federigo Tozzi," and "Gesualdo Bufalino" in the Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Clark and Janet Todd and available on line by subscription at www.litencyc.com. Professor Klopp also published "Il senso del religioso nella narrativa di Tabucchi, Celati, e Bufalino" in La place de la religion et le sens du religieux dans la littérature narrative italienne contemporaine (1970-2006). Cahiers d'études italiannes 9 (2009): 245-53.

Wynne Wong published: Wong, Wynne. (2009). Améliorer l'attention des apprenants L2 grâce à la mise en evidence textuelle : données provenant d'une étude sur le suivi du regard. Réflexions, 28, 19-20.

Presentations

Charles Klopp presented a paper on "Montale e il paesaggio marino della Liguria: dagli Ossi di seppia alla Bufera e altro." at a conference on Scrittori liguri verso il terzo millennio sponsored by the Center for Cultural Research and University Studies in La Spezia, Italy, on June 18, 2009 He made presentations of his edited book, Bele Antiche Stòrie: Writing, Borders, and the Instability of Identity-Trieste, 1719-2007 (New York: Bordighera, 2008) at the Caffé San Marco in Trieste on June 24 June and at "Residenze estive" a writer's conference held at the Duino Castle on June 25 and was interviewed on "Booksland," an Internet TV program hosted by Luigi Urdih. The book was also reviewed in Trieste's Il piccolo on June 24.

Wynne Wong presented "Grammar instruction in French and TA training/teacher preparation." July 2-5, 2009. Annual Convention of the American Association of Teachers of French, San Jose, CA.

Winter Quarter 2009

Publications

Sarah-Grace Heller published a review of William D. Paden and Frances Freeman Paden, trans., "Troubadour Poems from the South of France" in H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 11 (it may be found on the H-France Web site [PDF].)

Charles Klopp has published "L'odeporica euristica e sentimentale di Mario Tobino" in Terre di mare: nautica, viaggi e incontri dall'antichità all'epoca moderna, ed. Daniela Rapattoni. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2008. Pp. 51-56.

Dennis Minahen has published "Je(u d')équivoque et dysphorie du genre dans Poésies de Rimbaud." Hommage à Steve Murphy. Special issue of Parade Sauvage, Charleville-Mézières, France (October 2008): 388-403.

Dana Renga published the Introduction and all Headnotes to: An Anthology of Modern Italian Poetry. New York: MLA Texts and Translations Series, 2009. She also recently delivered the following talks: "Kinsey in Sicily," and the NeMLA convention in Boston, an invited lecture called "Marketing the Mob" at the University of New Hampshire and "National Memory and Repressed Trauma: Screening 'Confino'" at the MLA convention in San Francisco.

Wynne Wong just published: Rethinking a focus on grammar: From drills to processing instruction - data from the French subjunctive. In S. L. Katz & J. Watzinger-Tharp (eds.), Conceptions of L2 grammar: Theoretical approaches and their application in the L2 classroom (pp. 72-92). AAUSC. Boston: Cengage Learning.(2008)

Presentations

Linda Harlow presented "Listening-to-Write: Using Music in a Post-Process Writing Era," at the American Association of Teachers of French Annual Conference in Liège, Belgium, July 2008.

Dennis Minahen presented the paper, "Revolutionary Verlaine: Unmasking the Erotics of Gender," at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, 18 October 2008. He also chaired the session "Colonial Encounters II [PDF]."

Charles Klopp attended a conference on Littérature et <<Temps des révoltes>> (Italie, 1867-1980) held at the École normale supérieure of Lyon and the Université Stendhal at Grenoble where he presented a paper on "I militanti degli anni di piombo nella narrativa di Antonio Tabucchi."

Charles Klopp gave a paper on "Tabucchi, the Years of Terror, and Where We Are Now" at the Thirty-seventh Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, on February 20, 2009.

Awards/Recognitions

Heather Webb has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship for Michaelmas Term 2009 at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge.

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