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2008 Fall Semester Foreign Film Festival
Wednesday, September 17 - German - Das Blaue Licht - The Blue Light
Monday, October 20 - Spanish - Los Soldados de Salamina
Wednesday, November 19 - French - Indochine
Meetings
French Table meets in the Student Center Cafeteria every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm., during the school year. French Table is open to the entire Bradley community. Anyone who would like to come and practice speaking French is welcome.
The French Club will meet at 8:00 pm, Tuesday, October 21 in the Marty Theater. A film will be shown - title - TBA.
News
Congratulations to Danielle Samek, the Foreign Languages Department Honor Student for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for 2008. Danielle is majoring in Spanish, French and International Studies.
Dr. Melvy Portocarrero was nominated this year by the Parents’ Association for their Award of Excellence, an award that is given to faculty and staff members who make a major contribution to Bradley students. The Parent Board of Directors has presented her with a certificate in recognition of that nomination.
For an update on Michael, go to: http://buscout.com/ver5/newsarticle.php?ID=1098&date=2008-02-01
Michael Carl Budd, pictured below with the U.S. Ambassador to France - Craig Stapleton, has been named to the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year. Carl was a study abroad student in Bradley's interim London program in 2006. He spent the 2006-2007 academic year at the Bradley University CIEE affiliate program in Rennes, France. This summer he worked at the U.S. Embassy in Paris.
Carl carries dual majors in International Studies and French, and plans to study Peace and Conflict Resolution under the Rotary sponsorship. His country of study will be named within a few months.
Recent Faculty Publications
Harris, Tracy K. "Nuevas perspectivas sobre Death of a Language." Ladinar 4 (2006): 151-165.
Harris, Tracy K. "The Sociolinguistic Situation of Judeo-Spanish in the 20th Century in the United States and Israel." Revista Internacional de Linguistica Iberoamericana (RILI) 4, no. 2 (2006): 115.
Hertich, Alexander. "Philosophes et / ou voyous? The Case of Queneau and Descartes." Dalhousie French Studies 79 (2007): 71-81.
Hertich, Alexander. “Questions de solitude et de périphérie dans les romans de Jean-Philippe Toussaint et Patrick Modiano.” Pour une cartographie du roman urbain du XIXème au XXIème siècles. Christina Horvath and Helle Waahlberg, eds. Toronto: Paratexte, 2007. 197-204.
Hertich, Alexander. "Boris Vian." In Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 321: Twentieth-Century French Dramatists, edited by M. A. O'Neil. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006.
Hertich, Alexander. "Roger Vitrac." In Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 321: Twentieth-Century French Dramatists, edited by M. A. O'Neil. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006.
Sconduto, Leslie A. Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity through the Renaissance. McFarland, 2008.
Sconduto, Leslie A. "Bringing French Culture/Civilization to Life in the Classroom." The French Review 81 (2008): 720-32.
Sconduto, Leslie A. Guillaume De Palerne: An English Translation of the 12 Century French Verse Romance. Trans. Leslie A. Sconduto. McFarland, 2004.
Walker, William. "Realization of the East German Socialist Personality: The Formative Role of Women in Selected Novels of Hermann Kant." In The Image of Power, edited by W. Wright and S. Kaplan. Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 2006.
Dille, G. F. Writing From the Edge of the World: The Memoirs of Darien, 1514-1527 by Gonzalo Fernandez De Oviedo, Translated and with an Introduction by G. F. Dille, Professor Emeritus of Spanish.
Study Abroad --
Paris, France - January 2008
Dr. Hertich and his FLF 316 class in front of the Obélisque on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
Rennes, France - September 2007
Paris, France - January 2007
