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2008 Department News

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Spring Quarter

Publications

Karlis Racevskis has published a review of Jeux de construction: poétique de la géométrie dans le Nouveau Roman by Rennie Yotova, and a review of A Survey of French Literature-Volume III : The Eighteenth Century by Morris Bishop and Kenneth T. River in The French Review 81.4 (March 2008: 787-88 and 838-39).

Albert N. Mancini, Professor Emeritus, co-edited the volume Seventeenth-Century Italian Poets and Dramatists, "Dictionary of Literary Biography" N.339 (Detroit, New York, San Francisco, London: Gale Cengage, 2008) and wrote the "Introduction."

Ted Emery recently published, "The I of the Beholder: Writing the Reader in Goldoni's Memorie italiane" in Esperienze letterarie 32.3-4 (2007): 87-99."

Presentations

Sarah-Grace Heller presented "Royal Children in their Finest Velvets" at the Columbus Museum of Art April 27, 2008 in association with the exhibit "Great Expectations: Aristocratic Children in European Portraiture."

Dana Renga presented "Homosexuality and Internal Exile in Mussolini's Italy: Gabriella Romano's Ricordare (2003,)" at the North Eastern MLA in Buffalo in April, 2008.

Karlis Racevskis presented a paper, "La fonction critique des limites chez Michel Foucault" at the 20th and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University, March 6-8.

Ted Emery presented "Writing the Spectator: Author and Audience(s) in Goldoni's Mémoires." MLA, December 2007.

Danielle Marx-Scouras was the keynote speaker at the Annual French and Italian Graduate Student Conference on "Points of Contact" at The University of Texas, Austin, April 11-12, 2008. She spoke on "Zebda, Melting-Pot Rock?".

Judith Mayne presented invited lectures on Continental Films and French Occupation Cinema at Yale University (April 22 2008); at Vanderbilt University (April 10 2008) and at the University of Illinois--Champaign/Urbana (March 24 2008).

Heather Webb presented "Penitence, not Politics: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Revisions of Catherine of Siena" at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 3-5 April 2008.

Awards/Recognitions

Congratulations to Our 2008 Graduates ....

French M.A. -- Adrianne Barbo, Lisa Bevevino, Bruce Kalb, and Kelly Wright
Italian M.A. -- Briana Byers and Nadia Lucchin

French Ph.D.:
Laura Pondea-Hetel successfully defended her dissertation "Selves and Shelves. National Identity and Consumer Society in France" on 20 May. Committee members included Karlis Racevskis and Danielle Marx- Scouras, advisors, Jennifer Willging, and Fritz Graf.

Marylaura Papalas, Dissertation Title: “A Changing of the Guard: The Evolution of the French Avant-Garde from Italian Futurism, to Surrealism, to Situationism, to the Writers of the Literary Journal "Tel Quel". Committee Members, Prof. Fourny (Adviser), Prof. Mayne, Prof. Racevskis, Prof. Klopp, Prof. Mark Conroy (English)

Florian Vauleon, Dissertation Title: “Chess as philosophical systematization and the political legacy of the Enlightenment”. Committee Members, Prof. Karlis Racevskis, Adviser, Prof. Judith Mayne, Prof. Charles D. Minahen

Dana Renga has won a North Eastern MLA Summer Fellowship.

In 2008 the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 190 United States and Canadian Fellowships for a total of $8,200,000 (an average grant of $43,200). There were more than 2,600 applicants. Professor Judith Mayne has been named a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.

Elizabeth Bishop has been awarded an Eleanor Bulatkin grant in support of the presentation of her paper entitled "French Regional Movements in an Increasingly Global Environment" at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference on Saturday, April 19th.

Joyce Miller has received an Eleanor Bulatkin grant in support of a conference she will be attending in Foggia, Italy August 5-8. Joyce will be one of 10 students working with experts analyzing testimonial documents and presenting findings under their guidance. Her current work with WWII testimony in Benevento, Italy, is the impetus for participation.

Laura Bell Chamlin Jahn and Arthur C. Jahn Scholarship Award Winners Anthony Rienzi Jennifer Mastro

William S. and Marguerite C. Price Scholarship Award Winners Short-term study abroad Hannah Becker Megan Patton Victoria Schunemann Sika Dedo

Year-long study abroad
Melanie Luken
Lisa Miyake

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