Research and Active Learning

Students

2007 Honors Theses

Michelle Simon   "Two's Company - A New Historical Perspective of Father-Daughter Relationships in the Tempest and Les Miserables."
Sara Elman    "La Historia Que Se Repite: La Nacion Violenta (Argentina y Mexico)."

2007  Academic Spree Day Participation

Evamer Sano    "Music is the solution: Afro-Caribbean poems interpreted through step."
J.P. Burke
and Tomoyuki Kiga  "The Magical Hoe: A twenty-first century kamishibai."
Ryen Welker    "Cartography and meaning in Nahuatl: Speaking New Spain."
Laura DeGrush  "The paradoxical discourses of agency in La Celestina."
Sarah Elman  "Representations of violence in Argentina and Mexico."
Eva Silverman    "Exploring conflicting identity within Luis Zapat's El vampiro de la Colonia Roma: The struggle between machismo and the discourse of  la chingada."

    Read about an undergraduate who has engaged in research:

Jessica Smith '03 and the ideology of cultural representation in Mexican films in the 1940s

2005 Honors Theses

Andrea Priest    "Reading Film, Seeing Literature in the Writings of Manuel Puig"

Gloria Nunes Tavares    "Body, Politics, and Identity in Luisa Valenzuela's Cambio de armas"

Allison Trulli    "Argentine Discourse, Feminine Discourse in Luisa Valenzuela's Black Novel with Argentines"

2005 Academic Spree Day Participation

Performances
"Hispanic Dramatic Expression: Life Struggles." Ishara Casellas-Katz '06, Sarah Estes-Smith '07, Stephen Karger '07, Kevin Kennedy '07, Joseph Page '07, Laurel Polumbaum '06, & Melissa Starr '07

Panel Presentation
Questions of Gender in Modern Argentina Fiction.
"Reading Film, Seeing Literature in the Writings of Manuel Puig," Andrea Priest '05
"Body, Politics, and Identity in Luisa Valenzuela's Cambio de armas," Gloria Nunes Tavares '05
"Argentine Discourse, Feminine Discourse in Luisa Valenzuela's Black Novel with Argentines," Allison Trulli '05   PDF

2005 Fall Fest Participation

"Design Aesthetics in Urban Japan: Re-interpreting Tradition," Michael Fullerton '05

"Translating a Spanish Play from the 1960s for a Contemporary University Audience," Brendan Clancy '07

Faculty

Read about the research of some of our faculty:

Dr. Beth Gale and the portrayal of adolescence in 19th French literature

Dr. Carol D'Lugo and the Mexican novel

Dr. Marvin D'Lugo and community and identity in Basque cinema