Research and Publications LLC houses a diverse group of prolific scholars conducting research in German, Hispanic, Italian, Russian, and French

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1 ANNUAL REPORT LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND CULUTRES Research and Publications LLC houses a diverse group of prolific scholars conducting research in German, Hispanic, Italian, Russian, and French literature, culture, film, digital humanities, environmental humanities, and linguistics. Highlights of 2012 include monographs by Andrew Piper and Michael Cowan and edited volumes by José Jouve-Martín and Jesús Pérez Magallón. Piper s Book Was There (The University of Chicago Press) is already in its second printing and translated into Italian and Korean. It has been reviewed in The Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post, the National Post, and others. Other significant research contributions authored by LLC members include: Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Paula Menéndez-Benito Indefinites, dependent plurality, and the viability requirement on scalar alternatives. Journal of Semantics. 30.1: Barriales-Bouche, Alejandra. Rafael Alberti in Post-Exile Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 89 (2012): Bauer, Karin. The End of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of the RAF: Elfriede Jelinek s Ulrike Maria Stuart. Zeitenwende: Österreichische Literatur seit dem Millennium. Ed. Michael Böhringer and Susanne Hochreiter. Vienna: Praesens Verlag, Boruchoff, David. Richard Hakluyt and the Demands of pietas patriae. Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe. Ed. Daniel Carey and Claire Jowitt. The Hakluyt Society, Extra Series 47. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing Co., The Three Greatest Inventions of Modern Times: An Idea and Its Public. Entangled Knowledge: Scientific Discourses and Cultural Difference. Ed. Klaus Hock and Gesa Mackenthun. Münster and New York: Waxmann, Los malvados cristianos del teatro de Cervantes: un debate intestino. ehumanista/ Cervantes 1 (2012): Cowan, Michael. Technology s Pulse: Essays on Rhythm in German Modernism. London: University of London, IGRS Books Series, 2012, 242pp. --- The Texture of the Essay Film. In: The New History of German Cinema. Ed. Jennifer Kapzcynski and Michael Richardson. Rochester: Camden House, 2012, March 1935: Hitler Attends the Premiere of Leni Riefensthal s Triumph des Willens at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo. Co-authored with Kai Sicks. In: The New History of German Cinema (see above), Holmes, Amanda. Reciclaje y homenaje en la ciudad televisia de La antenna (Esteban Sapir, 2007). Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, Images, mémoires et sons (Online). URL: --- Espacios de la identiadad: escritura, paisaje, lenguaje (co-author, Mónica Szurmuk). Entre Borges y Conrad: Estética y territorio en W. H. Hudson. Rd. Leila Gómez and Sara Castro-Klaren. Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, Jouve-Martin, Jose and José Ramón. Music and Music Making. In Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press, xml --- La muerte del rey y el fin del imperio: funerales por Alfonso XII en Roma, Madrid y

2 Filipinas. Realismo y decadentismos en la literatura hispánica. Eds. Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros y Jesús Pérez-Magallón. Valladolid: Universitas Castellae, Kroha, Lucienne. In the Aftermath: Modalities of Memory in Il romanzo di Ferrara, in R. Antognini and R. Blumenfeld, eds. Poscritto a Giorgio Bassani, Saggi in Memoria del decimo anniversario della morte. Milan: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere, Economia, Diritto, 2012, Macchi, Fernanda and Arroyo Almaraz, Antonio. La clave americana en el imaginario romántico: Ángel Saavedra, duque de Rivas." Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo Revista digital del Grupo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII. Universidad de Cádiz / ISSN / n.18 (2012): Parts, Lyudmila. That wheel could get it as far as Moscow? the Provincial Myth on the Path to National Identity // Доедет то колесо, если б случилось, в Москву? : провинциальный миф на пути к национальному самоопределению. Александр Эткинд, Дирк Уффельман и Илья Кукулин, ред. Там Внутри. Практики внутренней колонизации в культурной истории России. Москва: Новое Литературное Обозрение, 2012: Pérez-Magallón, Jesús. El médico de su honra. Edition, Introduction (167 pp.) and Notes (1011 notes) by Jesús Pérez-Magallón. Madrid: Cátedra, Realismo y decadentismos en la literatura hispánica. Ed. Ricardo de la Fuente y Jesús Pérez- Magallón. Valladolid: Universitas Castellae, pp. --- Calderón y Zamora, un barroco ilustrado? Edad de Oro 31 (2012): Vicente Riva Palacio (y Juan A. Mateos) o el teatro como militancia liberal. Vicente Riva Palacio, magistrado de la República. Una antología general. Selección y estudio preliminar Esther Martínez Luna. México DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica; Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Imágenes de Madrid a dos siglos de distancia: el espectro de Cervantes por las calles de Madrid. Conferencias sobre la lengua y cultura del mundo de habla hispana. Kyoto: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, 2011 [Published in 2012] Apologías, identidad nacional y el desplazamiento de España a la periferia de la Europa moderna. Lecturas del legado cultural español. Ed. José Checa Bertrán. Madrid: Iberoamericana, Peters, Paul. Ratschlag der Katze an die Mäuse in: Dietmar Goltschnigg (ed.) Angst: Lähmender Stillstand oder Motor des Fortschritts, Stauffenberg Verlag (Brigitte Narr), Tübingen 2012, pp Piper, Andrew. Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, Vanishing Points: The Heterotopia of the Romantic Book. European Romantic Review 23.3 (2012): Posthumus, Stephanie. Penser l imagination environnementale française sous le signe de la difference, Raison publique. 17 (2012) : Writing the Land/scape : Maie Darrieussecq s Le Pays. French Literary Studies: The Environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film, 30 (2012): Parcours météorologique, conscience climatique chez Michel Serres et Michel Tournier. La Pluie et le beau temps. Discours scientifiques et transformations littéraires, du Moyen Age à l époque moderne. Ed. Karin Becker. Paris: Herman,

3 Sibbald, K.M. Santos y mártires: transgresividad y auto-bioficción en La casa de Bernarda Alba de Federico García Lorca. Con-Textos. Revista de Semiotica Literaria, (2012): Saints and Martyrs: Transgression and Autobiofiction in The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca. Con-Texts: Review of Literary Semiotics, (2012): Sinclair, Stéfan, Stan Ruecker, and Milena Radzikowska. "Information Visualization for Humanities Scholars." Literary Studies in the Digital Age, MLA, and Geoffrey Rockwell. "Teaching Computer-Assisted Text Analysis: Approaches to Learning New Methodologies" in Digital Humanities Pedagogy. Open Book Publishers, Posthumus, Stephanie et Stéfan Sinclair. L'inscription de la nature et de la technologie dans La possibilité d une le de Michel Houellebecq. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 15/3, Rockwell, Geoffrey et Stéfan Sinclair. Acculturation and the Digital Humanities Community. Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Open Book Publishers, Sinclair, Stéfan and Geoffrey Rockwell. "Introduction to Distant Reading Techniques with Voyant Tools, Multilingual Edition." Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg University Press, p The INKE Project Team. "Designing Interactive Reading Environments for the Online Scholarly Edition." Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg University Press, pp Thaller, Manfred, Patrick Sahle, Florence Clavaud, Tanya Celment, Domenico Fiormonte, Elena Pierazzo, Malte Rehbein, Geoffrey Rockwell, Susan Schreibman and Stéfan Sinclair. "Digital Humanities as a university degree: The status quo and beyond." Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg University Press, pp Rockwell, Geoffrey and Stéfan Sinclair "The Swallow Flies Swiftly Through: An Analysis of Humanist." Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg University Press, pp Teaching and learning Teaching staff in LLC are at the forefront of innovations in teaching, opening up the traditional study of literature to new, innovative interdisciplinary perspectives, while making use of the newest technology in the classroom. LLC is revising existing programs and the newly formed LLC Curriculum Committee is seeking way to harness the research strengths of colleagues across the disciplines. We are proposing new minor programs in European Literature and Culture and in Literature and Culture in Music. LLC s language teaching team is at the cutting edge of developments in language teaching, language instructor training, and collaborative language learning. Following are some examples of teaching innovations and how instructors in LLC are integrating instructional technology into language, literature, culture, and film courses: a. LMS: Mycourses, Moodle: instructors are making increased use of online forum tools on mycourses and Moodle to give students more room for self-expression and participation beyond the classroom. For instance, Moodle allows for more self-guided learning processes on part of the students such as having students develop their own glossaries surrounding various topics,

4 creating their own databases for certain themes to share with the whole class or using wikis to create collaborative documents or whole projects. These tools help to increase student interaction and encourage students to become collaborative and self-directed learners instead of mere passive recipients in class. b. Blogs: The implementation of blogs allows students to slip into the role of authors to experiment with expressing their ideas. c. Web site creation with Weebly: For instance, in a cultural studies course on Berlin since 1989, students designed in groups as a final project a website on a topic of their own choosing in the context of Berlin since reunification. By creating their own websites, students could unleash their full creative potential and explore their interests on a deep level beyond discussing readings and various topics in class. d. Learningapps.org: This website allows for the creation of various online learning tools such as time lines, maps searches, matching etc. which makes the learning process more concrete. e. Korsakow Films: This experiment deals with non-linear story telling to challenge students saturation with linear narratives provided by mainstream media and to question the deliverance of seemingly factual knowledge. With the help of the open source software Korsakow, students can develop their own films. This project also serves as an introduction to digital, dynamic storytelling in the target language. f. Digital humanities: The course offered in digital humanities challenge students to develop research tools. Much of the teaching is based on tutorials as students undertake self-directed projects. Involvement in the community LLC researchers are involved in numerous collaborative research projects: Michael Cowan is principle investigator of the CFI Moving Image Research Laboratory (MIRL) and coinvestigator of A FQRSC Soutien aux equips de recherché ARTHEMIS with Concordia. He organized, amongst other events, a colloquium Moving Images Mobile Screens at the MIRL in September José Jouve-Martín is part of SSHRC Collaborative Research Initiative The Hispanic Baroque ; he co-organized Cities and the Baroque, an International Symposium at McGill in April 2012, and in October, he organized a conference at McGill entitled Latin America and Quebec: Past, Present, and Future. Stephanie Posthumus organized a panel discussion at the School of the Environment in September, Silent Spring at 50: Rachel Carson and Cultures of Environmentalism. Andrew Piper is co-founder and co-investigator of Interacting with Print and organized two SSHRC-funded workshop/conferences in which participants engage in collaborative writing projects. Lyudmila Parts was invited to deliver lecturers at Dalhousie University and the Segal Center in Montreal, and Karin Bauer was a discussant in a round table on Civil Disobedience at the Goethe Institute during the time of student unrest last April. Stefan Sinclair organized Public Digital Humanities, Text Mining & Visualization and other workshops and events on digital humanities at McGill last year. Jesús Pérez-Magallón is editor of Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos and Karin Bauer and Andrew Piper are editors of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies.

5 Milestones New Hires Barriales-Bouche, Alejandra, Faculty Lecturer in Hispanic Studies Berman, Anna, Assistant Professor in Russian Studies Cottini, Luca, Assistant Professor in Italian Studies Kim, Sun-Young, Faculty Lecturer in German Studies Awards Cowan, Michael. Honorable Mention, Kovacs Award for Best Essay in Film Studies. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Brigitte Weiss-Dittmann, Arts Award of Excellence for Administration and Support Staff Karin Bauer, Chair 1 June 2013