ANNUAL REPORT 2013 LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND CULTURES. Submitted by Professor Karin Bauer, Chair

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1 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND CULTURES Submitted by Professor Karin Bauer, Chair June 1, 2014

2 The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures houses a diverse group of scholars conducting research in the areas of German, Hispanic, Italian, Russian, and French literature, culture, film, digital humanities, environmental humanities, and linguistics. Publication highlights include: Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Paula Menéndez-Benito Two Views on Epistemic Indefinites. Language and Linguistics Compass, 7:2, and Paula Menéndez-Benito A Note on the Derivation of the Epistemic Effect of Spanish Algún as an Implicature. In Anamaria Falaus, ed., Alternatives in Semantics, London: Palgrave McMillan. Bauer, Karin. The Politics of Gender in Herta Müller s Prose. Herta Müller. Ed. Brigid Haines and Lyn Marven. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ulrike Meinhof, Orphelia, and the Problem of Female Agency. Journal of Korea Women s Research Institute, Sungshin University (2013) Boruchoff, David. El Abencerraje de Antonio de Villegas: una revisión neocristiana. Lo converso: orden imaginario y realidad en la cultura española (siglos XIV-XVII). Ed. Ruth Fine, Michèle Guillemont and Juan Diego Vila. Madrid: Editorial Iberoamericana; Frankfurt: Vervuert, Cowan, Michael and Christoph Bareiter, Kurt Beals, Paul Dobryden, Karin Fest, Klaus Müller-Richter, Birgit Nemec eds. Hans Richters Rhythmus 21. Schlüsselfilm der Moderne. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, pp. --- Taking it to the Street: Screening the Advertising Film in Weimar Cinema. Screen 54.4 (2013), Cutting Through the Archive: Querschnitt-Montage and Images of the World in Weimar Visual Culture. New German Critique 120, vol 40, no 3 (fall 2013), Holmes, Amanda. Cruzando fronteras e identidades en los cines hispánicos. Guest editor for special edition of Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 37.1 (2012). 232 pages. (Published in Spring 2013) Jouve-Martin, José and Victor Vich. Políticas y mercados culturales en América Latina. Special Issue of Latin American Research Review. Vol. 48 (2013). Pérez Magallón, Jesús. Idealismo, racionalismo y empirismo en la literatura hispánica. Ed. Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros y Jesús Pérez Magallón. Valladolid: Verdelis, pp. ---El teatro barroco revisitado. Textos, lecturas y otras mutaciones. Actas del XV Congreso de la AITENSO. Ed. Emilia I. Deffis, Jesús Pérez-Magallón and Javier Vargas de Luna. Puebla: El Colegio de Puebla, pp. --- Jansenio, agustinismo y la batalla propagandística entre Francia y el imperio hispánico. Agustín en España (siglos XVI y XVII): aspectos de política, historia, cultura. Monographic issue of Criticón 118 (2013): Peters, Paul. Himmel der Verfinsterung: Fasschismus und Apokalypse bei Brecht und Celan, Weimarer Beiträge (lead article). Piper, Andrew. Book Was There (Italian edition). Il libro era lì. La lettura nell'era digitale: La lettura nell'era digitale. Milan: Franco Angeli Edizioni, 2013.

3 --- Egologies: Goethe, Entoptics, and the Instruments of Writing Life. Goethe s Ghosts: The Persistance of Literature. Ed. Simon Richter (Rochester: Camden House, 2013) Reading s Refrain: From Bibliography to Topology. ELH Special Issue on Reading. Ed. Joseph Slaughter (Summer 2013): Beyond E-books. The New World of Electronic Reading. World Literature Today. November Posthumus, Stephanie and Louisa Mackenzie. Reading Latour Outside: A Response to the Estok-Robisch Controversy, Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and the Environment 20.4 (2013). doi: /isle/ist084. Sinclair, Stéfan. With Stan Ruecker and Milena Radzikowska. "Information Visualization for Humanities Scholars." Literary Studies in the Digital Age, MLA: and Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, Teresa Dobson, Sandra Gabriele, Omar Rodriguez-Arenas, Stan Ruecker, Annemarie Akong, Matt Bouchard, Diane Jakacki, David Lam, and Lesley Northam. Visualizing Theatrical Text: from Watching the Script to the Simulated Environment for Theatre (SET). Digital Humanities Quarterly 7.3, and Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Kathryn Harvey, Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, Teresa Dobson, Sandra Gabriele, Alexandra Kovacs, Omar Rodriguez-Arenas and Stan Ruecker. Is There an Archivist in the Sim?: Literacy as Agency in a Postpositivist, Mixed Media Virtual Theatre Archive. Canadian Theatre Review, 156, 2013, pp and Stan Ruecker, Ali Grotkowski, Sandra Gabriele, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Teresa Dobson, Annemarie Akong, Sally Fung and Omar Rodriguez-Arenas. Abstraction and Realism in the Design of Avatars for the Simulated Environment for Theatre. Visual Communication Journal, 12/4, 2013, pp Soranzo, Matteo. Words of Conversion. Poetry and Identity in Early Modern Italy. Journal of Religion in Europe 6.2. (2013): External Research Grants: Alonso-Ovalle, Luis:(Co-investigators: Bernhard Schwarz, Junko Shimoyama): Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant, Modality in the Nominal Domain, $278,758, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Connection Grant, Exploring the Interfaces: Implicatures, Alternatives and the Semantics/ Pragmatics Interface, $16,342, Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Societé et la Culture, Établissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs, Variations entre langues dans la sémantique des groupes nominaux indéfinis: l expression de l ignorance et de l indifference, $39,600, Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Societé et la Culture, Soutien aux equipes de recherche, Les interfaces de la syntaxe, Co-applicant (Lisa Travis PI) $344,693, Cowan, Michael: SSHRC Insight Grant (individual grant), $124,794,

4 FQRSC Team Grant for Arthemis (History of Film Theory), co-investigator, $391,746, Holmes, Tove: Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, $19, (awarded 2013, postponed to 2014). Jouve-Martin, José: Forms of Conversion. Program: Partnership Grant (SSHRC) [Group member], $2,552,948, La escritura del recuerdo en primera persona: diarios, memorias y corresponedencias de reyes, embajadores y cronistas (ss.xvi-xvii). CSIC, Spain [group member], $32,670 (EUR), Parts, Lyudmila: SSHRC, Nationalism and Provincial Text in Contemporary Russian Culture, $90,498, Pérez Magallón, Jesús: SSHRC, Cervantes, la construction d un monument national, PI, $110,049.00, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Canon y nacionalismo: lecturas europeas del legado literario-cultural español ( ), Co-investigator, Piper, Andrew: Digging into Data (SSHRC, NSERC, NEH), $588,063, SSHRC Connection Grant, $30,445, Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship, $110,000, Posthumus, Stephanie. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Connections Grant, Digital Environmental Humanities: Building Frameworks, Tools, and Partnerships. $36,973, Sinclair, Stefan, Scalable Humanities Analytics and Visualization Lab, Principal Investigator, $500,000, History Visualization Lab (Director), Director, $300,000, Early Modern Conversions, Co-Applicant, $2,500,000, Art and Ideas In Motion, Co-Applicant, $493,000, Digital Environmental Humanities Workshop, Co-Applicant, $37,000, Voyeur Notebooks, Principle Investigator, $60,000, Building research capacity with First Nations and mainstream youth protection services in Quebec, Collaborator, $2,500,000, Scholarly Journal Editorships: Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (editor Jesus Perez-Magallon); Seminar : A Journal of Germanic Studies (editors Karin Bauer and Andrew Piper); Latin American Research Review (book reviews editor David Boruchoff). Milestones: Tenure-track Appointment: Tove Holmes, LLC German Studies; Faculty Lecturers: Liudmila Klimanova, LLC--Russian Studies, 3 year appointment; Alejandra Barriales Bouche, LLC--Hispanic Studies, reappointed for 3 years; Lucia Chamanadjian, LLC--Hispanic Studies, reappointed for unlimited term; Syvlia Rieger, LLC German Studies, reappointed for unlimited term; Anna-Maria Tumino, LLC Italian Studies reappointed for 3 years; Stephanie Posthumus, LLC, tenure-track, reappointed for 3 years.

5 Teaching and Learning: Seeking to harness the research strengths of colleagues across disciplines, the Department successfully pursued implementation of a minor in European Literature and Culture housed in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. The program was approved by Senate. The Department took on the administration of the new Liberal Arts Program. Professor Bolongaro is the director of the Liberal Arts Program. The Department is pursuing a Minor Program in Digital Humanities. Graduate Student Publications include: Arbolay Alfonso, Lizandro. Ovillos críticos y laberintos (para)textuales: La nota inasible de Borges. [Critical Threads and (para)textual Labyrinths: Borges's elusive footnote.] Romance Notes 53.2 (2013): Bégin, Sophie. Entre herederos y ladrones: disputas en torno a la (re)apropiación del patrimonio prehispánico en México. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 38.1: Mallet, Michel. From Heimatlos to Heimatsatt: On the Value of Heimat in Herta Müller s Atemschaukel. Heimat Goes Mobile: Hybrid Forms of Home in Literature and Film. Ed. Gabriele Eichmanns and Yvonne Frank. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, Print. Seelig, Arnim. Translation: William Boddy. Frühes Kino und frühe Werbetheorien in den USA ( Early Cinema and Advertising Theories in the United States; translated together with Christina Bartz and Monique Miggelbrink). Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 9.2 (2013): Print. Zdun, Izabela. When Image Becomes Word: On Yuri Norstein's and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's Tale of Tales, The International Journal of the Image, Vol. 3: 3 (Fall 2013) Graduate Student Awards: Schweppe, Pete. CAUTG Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper at the Annual Meeting, June Maggiori, Jasmine. Winner of CAUTG Best M.A. Thesis in German Studies in Canada submitted between October 16, 2011 and October 15, External Graduate Student Funding: Arbolay Alfonso, Lizandro SSHRC Canada CGS Fellowship. Bégin, Sophie, SSHRC CGS Doctoral Fellowship (Bombardier) Seelig, Arnim, Research Fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service (10 month), Schweppe, Pete, Research Fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service (10 month), Schwebel, Shoshana, Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship- SSHRC, 2013.