Fall 2011 Newsletter - Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

LLL Newsletter
August 2011
Welcome back! We hope you had a great summer, and we are looking
forward to the 2011-2012 academic year. But first, we would like to share some
recent—and upcoming—events with you! Also to kick off the new year, we’d like to invite
you to our Welcome Back Reception on September 9.
Congratulations to…
Myrna García Calderón for
her successful tenure and promotion to
Associate Professor. Professor García’s
latest book, entitled Espacios de la
Memoria en el Caribe Hispánico Insular
y sus Diasporas,” will be published by
the prestigious Editores Callejón.
Professor García was also recently named
Interim Director of SU’s Latino/Latin
American Studies Program, an
interdisciplinary program based in the
College of Arts and Sciences.
Stefano Giannini and Rania
Habib for receiving a College of Arts and
Sciences/SU Humanities Center Faculty
Fellowship for spring 2012.
Professor Giannini’s project is
titled, “Maps of Absence: Modern Italian
Writers in Alexandria, Egypt. His project
probes the postcolonial debate in Italy
today and, at the same time, uncovers the
as-yet unrecognized contributions of four
Italian writers who lived and wrote in
North Africa at the end of the nineteenth
and first half of the twentieth century.
Professor Habib’s project
investigates language variation and
change in the vernacular Arabic of
children and adolescents in Oyoun AlWadi, a Syrian village. The project
initially examined the gender- and agerelated linguistic changes and differences
between boys and girls within the same
rural community. The purpose of the
current project is to compare adults’
language to that of children and
adolescents and to indicate the factors that
play a role in any differences in their
linguistic behavior, such as ideologies and
attitudes to urban features, increased
contact and commuting between urban
and rural areas, and marriage to women
from outside the village.
Emma Ticio for the publication
of her book, Locality Domains in the
Spanish Determiner Phrase, which
examines the syntax of nominal
expressions. Professor Ticio’s work
focuses on Romance languages, especially
Spanish, and her other research areas
include syntax, semantics, and first
language acquisition. Locality Domains in
the Spanish Determiner Phrase is
published by the Springer Publishing
Company, and more information can be
found at www.springer.com/education.
Kathy Everly and LeMoyne
College Professor Josefa Alvarez for
receiving $2,500 from Spain’s Ministry of
Culture for their fall event, the Spanish
Music and Poetry Conference. “Jazz and
Blues Rhythms: The Influence of
Contemporary North American Music on
20th and 21st Century Spanish Poetry.”
The conference will take place September
27-29 at Syracuse University and
LeMoyne College, and will feature poets
Francisco Diaz de Castro, Aurora Luque,
and Jose Antonio Mesa Tore. For more
details, see the Coming Up section.
Karina von Tippelskirch, Lou
Lou Delmarsh, and Karl Solibakke for
receiving a grant from the German
Embassy in Washington, DC for the do
Deutsch Campus Week event beginning
October 3. A series of events promoting
the German language and culture will take
place that week, including performances
by German rap group Pyranja and a
“Deutsch Land Bild” creative contest.
Syracuse University will be one of more
than 50 participants celebrating German
Campus Week this semester.
Amanda Brown for launching
her graduate certificate, in which students
learn how to teach English to speakers of
other languages (TESOL) or teach
languages other than English (TLOTE).
The Certificate of Advanced Study aims
to be a reflection of globalization and the
increasing need for language instruction,
as well as the growing interest in language
learning in our department and on our
campus. The 12-credit certificate is
accredited by New York State and
consists of courses ranging from
Introductory Linguistic Analysis to
Advanced Methods for Language
Teaching. In addition, students may
choose an elective course from a list of
possibilities, including Issues in
Educating English Language Learners and
Second Language Acquisition.
Welcome to…
Stephanie Fetta, the
department’s newest Assistant Professor.
Stephanie comes to us from the
University of California, Irvine, where she
received her Ph.D in Spanish with a
special focus on U.S. Latino literature.
Professor Fetta’s dissertation is titled,
“Shame and Technologies of Race in
Chicana and Latina Fictions,” and she has
also been the editor of The
Chicano/Latino Literary Prize: An
Anthology of Prize-Winning Fiction,
Poetry, and Drama.
Alvaro Llosa Sanz, Visiting
Assistant Professor of Golden Age
Spanish Literature and Culture. Professor
Llosa received his Ph.D. from the
University of California, Davis, and his
MA from the University of Nevada in
Reno. His research on 15th, 16th, and 17th
Century Spanish literature has been
published in the Hispanic Review,
Hispanófila, Romance Quarterly, Letras
Hispanas, and the journal Cervantes, as
well as in eHumanista, Hipertexto, and
Espéculo. He has special interests in
Digital Humanities, Hyperfiction and
Hypertext, in Spanish Baroque Poetry,
and in Magic and Fantasy in Spanish
Golden Age Literature.
Current Events, Additions
& Renovations
The department’s walls are now
decorated with special pieces of artwork.
They include pieces by artists such as
Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Manuel
Rivera, Joan Miro, Juan Gris, Manolo
Millares, Pablo Palazuelo, and Francisco
de Goya. The art includes paintings,
etchings, and lithographs from the
sixteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. A special thank you to
Professor Harold Jones, who is a
Spanish Golden Age literature scholar, for
donating these pieces from his personal
collection. Professor Jones originally
planned a more modest donation, but he
realized that with some additions, the
collection would be able to serve an
educational, as well as artistic, mission.
Thank you also to Karen Ames and
Helen Krauss from the SU Bookstore
for helping to select the frames for the
pieces, and to Colleen Kepler, who
helped decide where to place the art
pieces in their new locations. Professor
Jones will be preparing brochures with
information about the art
and artists, and this information will also
be posted on the department’s webpage.
The art will be formally presented to the
department on September 9th, with a
reception to which you are all invited.
The Fulbright FLTA orientation
program took place from August 14-18.
The orientation included sessions that
helped prepare the 58 FLTAs—who
represent 21 countries—to study, live, and
teach their native languages at 34 colleges
and universities across the U.S. A special
thank you to Margo Sampson, Laura
Lisnyczyj, Lori Klivak, Erika Haber,
Connie Dickey, Dennis Harrod, Eva
Phillips, Tomoko Walter, Aris
Clemons, and Tiffany Duquette for
working to make the event a success.
and laptop capability. The room will also
soon include a new conference table and
chairs. A special thank you to Karl
Solibakke for working with the Central
Office of Academic Facilities to acquire
the funds for the renovation, and to
Chris Danek, Sheila Milden, and
Teresa Crooke for making the
renovations happen.
The department web page is a
great place to find information on
programs and faculty. A special thank
you to Erika Haber for her tireless
work last year, and to Don Wagner for
keeping the LLL web pages current. To
keep the web page updated, we need you!
Please review your own personal page, as
well as your program’s page, every week.
Send updates to your coordinator, or to
the Chair and Don Wagner.
The department Facebook page
is now another useful source of
information that will inform students
about the department’s happenings. A
special thank you to Spanish
graduate student Lauren Lesce for
taking on this project, and to Don
Wagner for his Facebook support efforts.
Please send anything you would like to
post on the LLL Facebook page to Lauren
(lklesce@syr.edu) with a copy to Don
(dkwagner@syr.edu).
Coming up…
In keeping with Chancellor
Cantor’s mission of Scholarship in
Action, our department will now offer a
class taught by Emma Ticio to immerse
students in the Spanish-speaking
community. In addition to improving the
students’ language skills, SPA 400/500:
Community Outreach: Language in
Action will place students in volunteer
positions for three to four hours a week.
The course will allow students to gain
hands-on experience working in the
Hispanic community, and using technical
vocabulary within a field of expertise. The
course seeks to teach a higher level of
Spanish, while instilling a desire to help
the community.
The new teaching station in
311A HBC now includes a computer,
document camera, projector, screen,
In September
The Spanish Music and Poetry
Conference, “Jazz and Blues Rhythms:
The Influence of Contemporary North
American Music on 20th and 21st Century
Spanish Poetry.” The conference will be
held September 27-29 on the
campuses of Syracuse University and
LeMoyne College. Spanish poets
Francisco Diaz de Castro, Aurora Luque,
and Jose Antonio Mesa Tore will share
their insights, works, and experiences, and
the Gabriel Riesco Project from New
York City will perform. The event is free
for SU and LeMoyne students and faculty,
and is collaboratively funded by Spain’s
Ministry of Culture, the Department of
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics,
the Program on Latin America and the
Caribbean (PLACA), the Centro de
Estudios Hispanicos, the Lino Novas
Calvo Speaker funds, the SU Humanities
Center, the CNY Mellon Humanities
Corridor, and LeMoyne College.
Authors Christoph Keller and
Jan Heller Levi will visit Syracuse to
discuss their works and how Spinal
Muscular Atrophy has influenced them to
view the world in new—and ever-more
creative—ways. The event is being
organized by the German program and the
SU Humanities Center, and will take
place September 28 at 7:30 pm in Gifford
Auditorium. Keller, a novelist, essayist,
and playwright, has won numerous
awards for his work. Heller Levi is an
author and professor at the Hunter
College Graduate Program in Creative
Writing. The night will consist of a
reading, followed by a conversation with
the authors. The event is being cosponsored by the Department of
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics,
the College of Arts and Sciences, the
School of Education, and the Center on
Human Policy, Law, and Disability
Studies. For more information, visit
www.syracusehumanities.org/symposium.
The department will continue to
hold its “Cultures on the Quad” events for
samplings of each program’s traditional
food and music. Each program may sign
up for a day to distribute food or items
they believe to represent their country or
language, including international snacks,
desserts, and crafts. “Cultures on the
Quad” is also a great opportunity for
instructors to distribute information about
their programs.
In October
The do Deutsch Campus Week
at SU will take place from Monday,
October 3 to Sunday, October 10. The do
Deutsch week is an exciting series of
events promoting the study of German
language and culture: from food to film,
from study abroad to SU’s world partner
programs at the FU-BEST in Berlin and
the University of Graz to a concert with
the German rap band, Pyranja. Additional
events will include a Schnitzeljagd (go
figure what this is in English!) and a
creative contest “Deutsch Land Bild.” The
German Program in the Department of
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at
Syracuse University is one of over 50
participants organizing German Campus
Weeks at universities across he United
States during the fall semester 2011. The
proposal by our German Program won a
grant from the German Embassy in
Washington, DC. More information on
this campaign bringing good German
vibes to SU can be found at
www.dodeutsch.com. A detailed event
schedule will be posted during the first
week of the semester.
In a full-day workshop on
Friday, October 14, Professor Maria
Carreira, from the Department of
Romance, German, and Russian
Languages at California State University
in Long Beach, will discuss issues relating
to teaching Heritage language learners
within the second language classroom.
During this full-day workshop, Professor
Carreira will present several theories on
the subject, as well as provide practical
strategies for teaching heritage learners in
all languages. She’ll also work with LLL
faculty, instructors, and staff to help them
revise some of their fall 2011 lessons to
better address the heritage learners in their
classes.
On Friday, October 21, 2011, in
500 Hall of Languages, Symposium: A
Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures
and the Department of Languages,
Literatures, and Linguistics, in
conjunction with the Chancellor and Vice
Chancellor’s offices, the Centro de
Estudios Hispanicos, the Lino Novas
Calvo Funds, PLACA, and the SU
Humanities Center, will host a
symposium on “A Writer’s Reality:
Mario Vargas Llosa.” Held in honor of
Professor Myron Lichtblau, the
symposium coincides with the 65th
anniversary of the journal, which was
established at Syracuse University in
1946. The symposium will highlight
recent work on Peruvian writer Mario
Vargas Llosa, who was awarded the 2010
Nobel Prize in Literature "for his
cartography of structures of power and his
trenchant images of the individual's
resistance, revolt, and defeat"
(Nobelprize.org). It will also recognize
Professor Lichtblau’s contributions to
studies of Vargas Llosa in editing and
publishing A Writer’s Reality (Syracuse
University Press, 1991), based on the
series of lectures Vargas Llosa delivered
at the University in the spring of 1988.
Featured speakers include: Sara CastroKlaren, Professor of Latin American
Culture and Literature, Johns Hopkins
University; Anibal Gonzalez, Professor
of Spanish and Latin American Literature,
Yale University; Edmundo Paz Soldán,
Professor of Hispanic Literature and Latin
American Fiction Writer, Cornell
University; and Priscilla Meléndez,
specialist of Spanish-American theatre,
SUNY-Stonybrook. Members of the
Lichtblau family will be in attendance. A
display in Bird Library, organized in
conjunction with the symposium, will
give an historical overview of the journal
and will include past issues, notable
articles, and correspondence related to the
journal’s founding.
In November
Juliana Schiesari, professor of
Italian and Comparative Literature at the
University of California, Davis, will be
giving a talk entitled “Coetzee’s Disgrace:
Melancholia and Mourning Animals” on
Thursday, November 3 at 4:15pm in
Maxwell Auditorium. Some of Professor
Schiesari’s research interests include
Renaissance literature, Feminist and
Gender Studies, Animal Studies,
Psychoanalysis, Melancholia, and
Mourning and Trauma Studies. A special
thank you to Professor Allen who has
helped to organize this event, and who
thinks Professor Schiesari’s
groundbreaking work on animals will
interest audiences across many fields.
Please also keep in mind that, for
the second year in a row, we will present
the Gerlinde Ulm Sanford Memorial
Award to a member of the Department of
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
who exhibits our dear German professor’s
generosity, commitment to excellence,
and dedication to the department and to
Syracuse University. Last year, 37-year
veteran Spanish instructor, Elaine
Meltzer, was presented this prestigious
award for her kind perseverance,
diligence, and magnanimous spirit.
Throughout the year, please think of
colleagues who might possess some of the
attributes of our dear Professor Ulm
Sanford and consider nominating them for
this prestigious award.
LLL Publications
If you would like your recent publication
announced in the next newsletter, please
just let us know!
Allen, Beverly. “The Bitter Chalice.” With
Jacques Lipkau Goyard. Winner, Best Featurelength screenplay, Roma Independent Film
Festival, May 2010.
Bhatia, Tej K. 2011. Bilingualism and
multilingualism. In: The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp.
125-127.
Bhatia Tej K. 2011. Teaching language. In:
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Languages
and Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Pp. 842-845.
Bhatia Tej K. 2011 Bilingual education. In:
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Languages
and Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Pp. 122-123.
Bhatia, Tej K. 2011. The multilingual mind,
optimization theory and Hinglish. In
Chutnefying English: The phenomenon of
Hinglish, Rita Kothari and Rupert Snell (eds.)
pp. 37-52. New Delhi: Penguin Books
Bhatia, Tej K. and Mukesh Bhargava.
2011.The Dynamics and Enterpernuership of
Indian Advertising. In Advertising in
developing and emerging countries,
Emmanuel A. Alozie (ed.), Chapter 8, 139154. UK: Gower MPG Books Group.
Bhatia, Tej K. In press. Advertising and
Branding in India. English in Popular Culture.
Chapter 11, Jamie Lee and Andrew Moody.
Hong Kong University Press.
Brown, A. "Gesture viewpoint in Japanese and
English: Cross-linguistic interactions between
two languages in one speaker". Gestures in
Language Development. Ed. M. Gullberg and
K. de Bot. Amsterdam, John Benjamins,
2010. 113-134.
Brown, A. and M. Gullberg. "Changes in
encoding of path of motion after acquisition of
a second language." Cognitive Linguistics 21.2
(2010): 263-286.
Brown, A. and M. Gullberg. "Bidirectional
cross-linguistic influence in event
conceptualization? Expressions of Path among
Japanese learners of English." Bilingualism:
Language and Cognition 14.1 (2011): 79-94.
Bulman, Gail A. “Catharsis, Spectacle, and the
Post-postmodern Theatre of Lola Arias.”
Letras Femeninas 37.1 (2011): 101-12.
Everly, Kathryn. History, Violence, and the
Hyperreal: Representations of Culture in the
Contemporary Spanish Novel. West Lafayette,
IN: Purdue University Press, 2010.
Everly, Kathryn. “The Body and Imagination
in La mort i la primavera.” Congrés
internacional Mercè Rodoreda. Actes. Institut
d’Estudis Catalans. Barcelona (2010): 151164.
Habib, Rania. "Meaningful variation and
bidirectional change in rural child and
adolescent language." University of
Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistic
17.2 (To appear in 2011): . (Invited paper from
the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39
conference [NWAV 39, November 4-6,
2011]).
Habib, Rania. "Frequency effects and the
lexical split in the use of [t] and [s] and [d] and
[z] in the Syrian Arabic of Christian Rural
Migrants." Journal of Historical Linguistics
1.1 (2011): 77-105.
Habib, Rania. "New model for bilingual minds
in sociolinguistic variation situations:
Interacting social and linguistic constraints."
International Journal of Psychology Research
6.6 (2011): 707-760.
Habib, Rania. "Rural Migration and Language
Variation in Hims, Syria." SKY Journal of
Linguistics 23 (2010): 61-99.
Habib, Rania. "Word Frequency and the
Acquisition of the Arabic Urban Prestigious
Form [ʔ]." Glossa 5.2 (2010): 198-219.
Habib, Rania. "Towards determining social
class in Arabic-speaking communities and
implications for linguistic variation."
Sociolinguistic Studies 4.1 (2010): 175-200.
Habib, Rania. "Sequential Development in
Sociolinguistic Methodology."
Sociolinguistics [Languages and Linguistics
Series], Ed. Edmund T. Spencer. Hauppauge,
NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2011. 2745.
Habib, Rania. "New Model for Analyzing
Sociolinguistic Variation: Introducing Social
Constraints to Stochastic Optimality Theory."
Sociolinguistics [Languages and Linguistics
Series], Ed. Edmund T. Spencer. Hauppauge,
NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2011. 4797.
2011 J. Kornfilt & J. Whitman (eds.) Studies in
Syntactic Nominalization; special issue of the
journal Lingua (Volume 121, Issue 7);
Amsterdam: Elsevier ; 1159-1313. (Also
online: www.sciencedirect.com)
2010 J. Kornfilt Turkish Grammar; London:
Routledge (in its "Descriptive Grammars"
series); first paperback edition of 1997 book.
2011 (a) “Non-restrictive pre-nominal relative
clauses in a head-final language”, in Puzzles of
Language: Essays in Honour of Karl Zimmer;
E. Erguvanlı Taylan & B. Rona
(eds.);Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; 93102.
2011 (b) (Kahnemuyipour & Kornfilt) “The
Syntax and Prosody of Turkish ‘Prestressing’Suffixes”, in Interfaces in
Linguistics: New Research Perspectives; R.
Folli & C. Ulbrich (ed.); Oxford: Oxford
University Press; 205-221.
2011 (c) (Kornfilt & Whitman) “Afterword:
Nominalizations in syntactic theory”, in
Lingua 121:7; Amsterdam: Elsevier; 12971313.
2010 (a) (Hermon, Kornfilt & Öztürk)
“Asymmetries in the First-Language
Acquisition of Subject and Non-Subject HeadFinal Relative Clauses in Turkish”, in
Proceedings of WAFL 6; A. Yokogoshi & H.
Maezawa (eds.); Cambridge, MA: MIT
Working Papers in Linguistics; 3-26.
2010 (b) ”Remarks on Some Word Order Facts
and Turkish Coordination with Identical Verb
Ellipsis”, in Trans-Turkic Studies: Festschrift
in Honour of Marcel Erdal; M. Kappler, M.
Kirchner & P. Zieme (eds.); Istanbul: Kitap
Matbaası; 187-221.
Ríos, Alicia. “El general en su laberinto de
Gabriel García Márquez: veinte años después.”
Latin American Literary Review [Pittsburgh]
76.38 (2010): 71-105.
Ticio, ME. 2010. Locality Domains in the
Spanish Determiner Phrase. Studies in Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory , Vol. 79
Springer Publishing Company. [ X, 219 p.,
ISBN: 978-90-481-3397-0]
Wyngaard, Amy. "Defining Obscenity,
Inventing Pornography: The Limits of
Censorship in Rétif de la Bretonne.” Modern
Language Quarterly 71 (March 2010): 15-49.