Accomplishments: Department of World Languages and Cultures
Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) was invited to participate at the biennial conference of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, held at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, from April 16 to April 18, 2026.
Her presentation, titled 鈥淔eature Reassembly and Syntactic Constraints in L2 French and English鈥
Susan Byrne (World Languages & Cultures) chaired a panel of scholars presenting papers on Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes during the Renaissance Society of America's annual conference, held this year in San Francisco, CA. The panel's speakers came from the USA, Canada, France and Ireland to critically analyze numerous aspects of the works鈥
Margaret Harp (World Languages and Culture) presented a paper, "Blindness as Motif in Montaigne's Librairie," at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America on February 20, 2026 in San Francisco, CA.
Mayumi Ajioka, Ph.D., (World Languages and Cultures), co-presenting with Yumiko Kawanishi, Ph.D., (UCLA), presented a practice-oriented paper titled, 鈥淎 Path to Confident Conversation Participants Using PBI Class Activities,鈥 at the 2025 ACTFL Convention in New Orleans on Nov. 21, 2025.
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Margarita Jara Yupanqui (World Languages and Cultures) served as the lead editor of the Letras volume published by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru), titled "Amazonian Spanish: Studies on the Diversity of Contacts in the Amazon, Toward a Regional Contextualization and the Delimitation of Monolingual Dialects."
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Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has been selected and invited to present her article at the 51st Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, organized by University of Nevada, Reno, from October 30 to November 1, 2025.
Mkrtchyan has presented her article titled 鈥淎lt茅rit茅 et perception po茅tique chez Victor Hugo: Analyse en鈥
For the second consecutive year, Kathy Callahan and Kirsten Barnstorf-DeBord (World Languages and Cultures) received a grant from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington, D.C., for its 鈥淕ermany on Campus鈥 initiative. This year's program explores the theme 鈥淏oost Your Career with German,鈥 Sept. 29-Oct. 3. Events include a鈥
Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) published a book chapter (with Julia Herschensohn), "Methods and Approaches in Plurilingual Research," n the volume Acquisition of French as a Second Language, edited by Martin Howard (Routledge).
Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) presented a conference paper (with Julia Herschensohn), "Methods and Approaches and Use of an L3/Ln: Psycholinguistic, Linguistic, and Didactive Perspectives," at the conference, Acquisition, Processing, and Use of an L3/Ln: Psycholinguistic, Linguistic, and Didactive Perspectives, at鈥
Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) was selected to present her communication at the 16th World Congress of the International Federation of French Teachers (FIPF), held in Besan莽on, France, in July 2025.
Her presentation, titled "La litt茅rature dans la p茅dagogie interculturelle : les particularit茅s des st茅r茅otypes鈥
Margaret Harp's (World Languages & Cultures) chapter, "Humour and disability: French sixteenth-century literary portrayals of the jester Triboulet," has been published in Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture, Ed. Alice Equestri. U. of Edinburgh Press, 2025.
Fran莽ois-Nicolas Vozel (World Languages and Cultures) published an article titled "Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible! May-ssianic Realism in Duras鈥檚 D茅truire dit-elle and Nathalie Granger," in Romance Quarterly (Taylor and Francis) 72-3, pp. 1-15.