Faculty Publications
The Art of Teaching Spanish
Edited by Professor M. Rafael Salaberry.
This volume explores the extent to which the art of teaching L2 Spanish has been informed by the scientific (theoretical and empirical) research on SLA (and other relevant fields) referred to in the first volume. It also investigates the types of challenges faced by initiatives to transfer findings from research to teaching and how to overcome practical problems associated with the implementation of new approaches to teaching.
Avances de Hollywood: critica cinematografica lat., 1915-1945
Author Professor Jason Borge.
Para los intelectuales latinoamericanos de las decadas de 1920 y 1930, gran parte de ellos enloquecidos por el cine y al mismo tiempo profundamente amenazados por los Estados Unidos y lo que se percibe como la vulgarizacion de la cultura en general Hollywood constituye un signosumamente problematico que se pretende resolver por los varios modismos de la escritura.
Brazilians Working wth Americans
Authored by Professor Orlando R. Kelm and Mary E. Risner.
Doing business internationally requires understanding not only other languages, but even more so the business practices and cultures of other countries. In the case of Brazilians working with Americans, a fundamental difference for all parties to understand is that Brazilian business culture is based on developing personal relationships between business partners, while American businesspeople often prefer to get down to hard "facts and figures" quickly, with fewer personal preliminaries.
Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and the New World.
Professor Chiyo Nishida has recently published a new, co-edited book, Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and the New World.
The present volume is a collection of fourteen original papers selected from those presented at the first US installment of Chronos: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality, which took place at the University of Texas at Austin in October, 2008.
Cosas de Hombres
Author Associate Professor Gabriela Polit.
Cuando todo pareceria dicho sobre la figura del caudillo en la novela latinoamericana desde estudios tematicos a apologias o impugnaciones grotescas llega Cosas de hombres de Gabriela Polit para retomar la reflexion y abrirla al debate enriqueciendola desde perspectivas nuevas. Sin descontar la significacion historica y social de estas representaciones Polit se fija menos en su relato que en el poder convocatorio de la figura sus sistematicas encarnaciones a lo largo del siglo veinte.
Crossing through Chueca, Lesbian Literary Culture in Queer Madrid
Author Professor Jill Robbins.
Crossing through Chueca examines how lesbian literary culture fared in Madrid from the end of the countercultural movement in 1988 until the gay marriage march in 2005. In examining how women’s sexual identities have become visible in and through the Chueca phenomenon, this work is a revealing example of transnational queer studies within the broader Western discussion on gender and sexuality.
Desmantelamiento de la Ciudadanía: Políticas de Terror en la Frontera Norte
Professor Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba has published a new book entitled Desmantelamiento de la Ciudadanía: Políticas de Terror en la Frontera Norte, which explores the current state of ungovernability on the US-Mexico border. “How many deaths,” the authors ask, “will finally be sufficient to unravel the network of complicity, abuses of the civil population, lack of professionalism, absolute loss of ethical sense, and the use of fear as a tool of control and self-deceit?”
Entre las duras aristas de las armas
En esta obra, con un enfoque interdisciplinario, los autores no escatiman ningun recurso analitico para profundizar en una reflexion que nos lleva a entender como estos crimenes trascienden la esfera de lo etico y permite ver la relacion entre una cultura patriarcal -y misogina- y la negligencia, oportunismo y falta de planeacion de la administracion publica; el contrastante desarrollo de los polos oriente y poniente de la ciudad y de la miseria extrema en que vive casi la mitad de su poblacion; la particular vulnerabilidad de las trabajadoras de la maquila y la estigmatizacion de sus formas de socializacion en los espacios nocturnos.
Edited by Professor Héctor Dominguez-Ruvalcaba
Frames of Referents: The Postmodern Poetry of Guillermo Carnero
Author Professor Jill Robbins.
Guillermo Carnero is one of the most important contemporary poets of Spain. The current study seeks to move beyond the limiting perspective of the Spanish generational paradigm by examining Carnero's work in the context of critical theories developed in the West following World War II.
Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border
The U.S.-Mexico border is frequently presented by contemporary media as a violent and dangerous place. But that is not a new perception. For decades the border has been constructed as a topographic metaphor for all forms of illegality, in which an ineffable link between space and violence is somehow assumed.
Edited by Professor Héctor Dominguez-Ruvalcaba
Impresiones
Co authored by Professor M. Rafael Salaberry.
For courses in Elementary Spanish. Based on the most up-to-date research in second language acquisition, Impresiones features an active learning approach that leads students to discover their communicative needs before learning and applying the appropriate communicative responses.
Language Allegiances and Bilingualism in the US. Multilingual Matters
Edited by Professor M. Rafael Salaberry.
This book analyzes the concept of language allegiances, and, more broadly, language-based identities in a multilingual society such as the US. The guiding theme of the chapters that comprise this volume is the identification of specific beliefs and attitudes towards language, and how these lead to particular actions in the spheres of language ideology, legal litigation, educational agendas, political strategies and cultural identities. The authors share the idea that, whether it is based on reality or a perception of reality, there is a privileged connection between language and identity.
Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema
Author Professor Jason Borge.
This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers and intellectuals during the first few decades of the 20th century. The film metropolis presented an ambiguous, multivalent sign for established figures like Horacio Quiroga, Alejo Carpentier and Mário de Andrade, as well as less renowned writers like the Mexican Carlos Noriega Hope, the Chilean Vera Zouroff and the Cuban Guillermo Villarronda.
Linguistica aplicada: Adqisicion del espanol como segunda lengua
Author Professor Dale Koike.
The need for qualified Spanish language and bilingual education teachers in school districts across the country presses colleges and universities to train competent, linguistically proficient teachers. Here is where Lingüística aplicada: Adquisición del español como segunda lengua, Second Edition, plays its role: to clarify to future teachers important aspects of the Spanish language, situated in their cultural context, relevant notions of second language acquisition, and issues of technology and assessment, to prepare them for the task they face in the schools.
Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America
Co-Edited by Associate Professor Gabriela Polit.
This volume addresses the proliferation of increasingly complex forms of violence, a situation now perceived to be both among the most pressing issues faced by Latin America in our times and a reality with multiple ramifications, marking the socio-political landscape of the region in decisive ways.
Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity
In this work, Domínguez-Ruvalcaba has achieved depth and scope by analyzing entire periods of Mexican nationalism through the lens of male body representations. The principal objective of this magnificent work is to explain clearly and insightfully how male body representations evolve and deconstruct themselves throughout the period from the 1870s to the present in Mexico, and to demonstrate their relationship to nationhood and Mexican modernity.
Author Professor Héctor Dominguez-Ruvalcaba
P/Herversions: Critical Studies of Ana Rossetti
Editor Professor Jill Robbins.
Ana Rossetti is a unique phenomenon in Spanish culture, a performer and writer who resists categorization within any single genre, gender, period, or medium. She began as a performer, and she has returned repeatedly to artistic performance, playfully inverting and perverting norms, continually and radically transforming her public image, and mixing high and low culture.
Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts - Methodological Issues
Professor Dale Koike has recently published a new, co-edited book, Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts - Methodological issues
Edited by J. César Félix-Brasdefer and Dale A. Koike Indiana University, USA / University of Texas at Austin, USA
Departing from Schneider and Barron (2008), representing the emerging field of Variational Pragmatics, this volume examines pragmatic variation focusing on methods utilized to collect and analyze data in a variety of first (L1) and second (L2) language contexts.
Research Design and Methodology in Studies on L2 Tense and Aspect
Author Professor M. Rafael Salaberry.
Research Design and Methodology in Studies on Second Language Tense and Aspect provides an up-to-date review of past and current methodologies for the study of the L2 acquisition of tense and aspect. More specifically, the book addresses the following issues related to the design of studies for research in tense and aspect: (1) Theoretical frameworks (e.g., Are research questions investigated within one theoretical approach incompatible with other approaches?). (2). Elicitation procedures (Do different types of tasks elicit different types of tense-aspect data?). (3). Coding of data (e.g. How are lexical categories defined and coded?) (4). Data analysis (e.g., What statistical tests are more appropriate to analyze language data?).
The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy
Editor Professor Arturo Arias.
A balanced appraisal of the bitter debate surrounding the autobiography of Guatemala's 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Guatemalan indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchú first came to international prominence following the 1983 publication of her memoir, I, Rigoberta Menchú, which chronicled in compelling detail the violence and misery that she and her people suffered during her country's brutal civil war.
Ta Iñ Fijke Xipa Rakizuameluwün - Historia, colonialismo y resistencia desde el país Mapuche
Professor Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, along with an interdisciplinary group of Mapuche scholars, has recently published a collectively edited book, Ta iñ fijke xipa rakizuameluwün. Historia, colonialismo y resistencia desde el país Mapuche (Santiago: Ediciones de Historia Mapuche, 2012).This book is a collection of 13 articles by 14 Mapuche authors, all of whom set out not only to address questions relating to the autonomy and historical perspectives of the Mapuche people, but also to manifest their determination to exercise that autonomy through the creation and production of this book.
Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America
Author Professor Arturo Arias.
In Taking Their Word, Arias complicates notions of the cultural production of Central America, from Mexico in the North to Panama in the South. He charts the literature of Central America’s liberation struggles of the 1970s and 1980s, its transformation after peace treaties were signed, the emergence of a new Maya literature that decenters Latin American literature written in Spanish, and the rise and fall of testimonio.
Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives
Edited by Professor M. Rafael Salaberry.
This volume presents a state-of-the-art descriptive and explanatory analysis of the second language development of Romance tense-aspect systems. It contains new experimental data from adult French, Catalan, Portuguese learners, and Italian children learners.
When we are the foreigners
Authored by Professor Orlando R. Kelm, John N. Doggett and Haiping Tang.
Of course it is a matter of your starting point, but as Americans, don't we usually think of the other guys as the foreigners? After all, they are the ones who talk with an accent, right? When We Are the Foreigners provides readers a new perspective, seeing international business from the vantage point of the Chinese. What is it like for them to handle working with Americans?
