RESEARCH: FACULTY
Faculty/Student Collaborative Projects
Faculty Research
Faculty Research 2008
In June, Jefford Vahlbusch gave an invited lecture titled "Hermann Hesse in Amerika: Gedanken zur Legende" ("Hermann Hesse in America: Thoughts on the Legend") at the 2008 Silser Hesse-Tage, an annual conference on the writer Hermann Hesse held at the Hotel Waldhaus in Sils Maria, Switzerland. The theme of this year's conference was "Hesses Weltweite Wirkung ("Hesse's Worldwide Influence").
Patrick Day presented a paper titled "Ceci n'est pas une vie: Life and Counterlife in Philip Roth and Patrick Modiano" at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association April 24-27 in Long Beach, Calif.
Manuel Fernández presented “Trauma, identidad y nación en música cubana del exilio: Los años setenta” at the VII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica March 3-6 in Cusco, Perú.
Faculty Research 2007
Anne Hlas and Monica Vuksanovich (University of Iowa) had their article “Computer Assisted Language Learning in Elementary School Foreign Language Classrooms: The Role of CD-ROMs” published in the December 2007 issue of Hispania, Vol. 90, No. 4, pages 769-783.
Jessica Miller presented a paper on Swiss French intonation titled "Configurations de fin de phrases en français vaudois" at the Journées PFC 2007 (Phonologie du Français Contemporain) Dec. 6-8, 2007, in Paris, France.
Nuria Hoff (Foreign Languages) and Paul Hoff (Foreign Languages/Honors Program) have had the "Aventura 1: Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises" workbook published. The workbook is the first in a series of three that the Hoffs will develop for EMC Publishing.
Anne Hlas had a book review of “Project-Based Second and Foreign Language Education: Past, Present and Future,” edited by Gulbahar H. Beckett and Paul Chamness Miller, published in the Modern Language Journal, Vol. 91, No. 4, pages 695-696, winter 2007. Hlas presented a session titled “Communication Matters: Successfully Supervising Student Teachers” with Susan Hildebrandt (Longwood University) at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages conference Nov. 16-18 in San Antonio, Texas. She also presented the session “The Assessment of Culture: Issues, Frameworks and Techniques” with UW-Eau Claire student Emily Adler at the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers conference Nov. 1-3 in Appleton. In addition, Hlas presented a session titled “What the Internet Continues to do for you and Your Students” with UW-Eau Claire alumni Pamela Larson and Trisha Koch at the WAFLT conference.
Martina Lindseth has been named a master oral proficiency tester by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. The designation is based on experience, consistency and accuracy in conducting and rating oral proficiency interviews in German for Language Testing International.
Jeff Vahlbusch helped to organize and chair three sessions on German poetry at the Midwest Modern Language Association's annual convention Nov. 8-11 in Cleveland, Ohio. In one of those sessions he also delivered a formal response to a reading by poet Bernhardt Blumenthal of Blumenthal's own German poems.
Paul Hoff is a consultant for ¡Aventura!, a new Spanish textbook series developed by EMC Publishing.
Juan Carlos Chaves received a grant from the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at UW-Madison to attend the MERCOSUR Program to be held in Argentina, Brazil and Chile May 9-21, 2008. Chaves' goal is to internationalize the Spanish for Business curriculum at UW-Eau Claire by incorporating business issues and global integration of Argentina, Brazil and Chile. The following co-sponsoring institutions are part of the CIBER consortium: Florida International University, Brigham Young University, Texas A&M University, University of Connecticut, University of Delaware, University of Florida, University of Memphis, University of South Carolina and UW-Madison.
Irene Lazda presented a paper titled "Alltag into Alltagsgeschichte at the Haus der Geschichte in Lutherstadt Wittenberg and the DDR Museum Berlin” at the annual conference of the German Studies Association Oct. 4-7 in San Diego, Calif. The paper was part of a panel titled “Re-Mediation, German Pasts, Texts and Intertexts.”
Jeff Vahlbusch has been elected to the executive committee of the Midwest Modern Language Association. His term begins in November.
Julie Adler and Beth Kozbial Ernst presented "Essential Websites for ESL Teachers" at the Joint DPI/WITESOL conference Sept. 27-29 in Madison.
Manuel Fernández's book review of "La neblina del ayer" by Leonardo Padura Fuentes appeared in Caribe: Revista de Cultura y Literatura, Vol. 9.2, winter 2006-07, pages 160-63.
Paul Hoff has been named a master oral proficiency tester by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. The designation is based on experience, consistency and accuracy in conducting and rating oral proficiency interviews in Spanish for Language Testing International.
Dominique Thévenin's book review of Yann Queffélec's "Ma Première Femme" was published in The French Review, Vol. 80, No. 6, May 2007. Thévenin also wrote the foreword to the book "Les Adolescents Dans Le Cinéma Français: Entre Deux Mondes," published by Mellen Press in July 2007.
Matt Waters' article “Media and its Discontents” appeared in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, 125.4, 2005, pages 517-533, published in June 2007. The piece is a review article of the book "Continuity of Empire: Assyria, Media, Persia," edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi, Michael Roaf and Robert Rollinger, Padova, 2003.
DeGrave, Analisa “Ecoliterature and Dystopia: Gardens and Topos in Modern Latin American Poetry.” Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura 22.2 (Spring 2007): 89-104.
Kate Mastruserio Reynolds and Dale Omtvedt Gable engaged in a marathon conferencing day April 26. They co-presented "Finding Solutions to Placement Burdens with the Compass ESL Placement Test" at the 4th Annual ACT Conference in Chicago, Ill. Later that day, they co-presented "Colloquium on Initiative in Teacher Education for Immigrant Children: Training mainstream teachers to work with English Language Learners (ELLs)" in Milwaukee at the "Immigration: Many Faces; Many Facets" Conference at the UW System Race and Ethnicity Institute.
Kate Mastruserio Reynolds was selected to receive one of the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholars Program Awards for the 2007-2008 academic year. While on sabbatical, she will be lecturing and writing in the eastern part of Ukraine at the Kharhiv National Polytechnic University in her field of scholarship and instruction, teaching English as a foreign language and American studies. She will be developing an English as a second language textbook manuscript on American studies, which she hopes to submit for publication upon her return to the United States sometime in the summer of 2008.
Kate Mastruserio Reynolds presented three sessions at the 41st Annual Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention March 20-24 in Seattle, Wash. The first was titled "Empowering Paraprofessionals in the Second Language Classroom” and was presented with Sarah Fisher Burton (Eau Claire Area School District), Dale Gable, Florina Ackley (Wausau Public Schools), Jackie Mauer (Hamilton Public Schools) and UW-Eau Claire student Allison Briski. The second was a TESOL board-sponsored session titled “Issues and Strategies for Advocacy in TESOL” and was presented with John Segota (International TESOL Inc.), Donald Weasonforth (Collin Country Community College District, Texas) and Ineza Kuceba (Renton Technical College, Washington). The third, titled “Creating User-Friendly Rubrics for the Language Classroom, " was presented with collaborator Kelly Conroy
Please note also the front page stories about Gale Crouse’s receipt of the 2007 Founders Award by the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and about our Language Fest later this week!
Manuel Fernández presented "Trauma, identidad y nación en música cubana del exilio" at the VI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica in March in Cancún, Mexico. In addition, Fernández's article "Esencialismo estratégico en Novela negra con argentinos de Luisa Valenzuela" appeared in Encuentros de viejos y nuevos mundos, the journal of the Selected Proceedings of the V Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica held in Lima, Perú, in March 2006.
Tomomi Kakegawa presented a paper titled "The development of sentence-final modal expressions in JFL e-mail correspondence" at the Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference March 27 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Dominique Thévenin's book review of Yann Queffélec's "Les Affamés" was published in The French Review, Vol. 80, No. 5, April 2007.
Jessica Miller presented a paper on early French cinema titled "Chanson Populaire in René Clair's 'Sous les toits de Paris'" at the 2007 Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference March 8-11 in Chicago, Ill.
Beth Kozbial Ernst and UW-Eau Claire student Megan Allen gave a presentation titled "Linking ESL Students to Communities Through Service Learning" at the 41st Annual International TESOL Conference March 22 in Seattle, Wash.
Patrick Day presented a paper on African fiction and cinema titled "Homeland Security: How the Community Protects the Individual from Violence in the Fiction and Films of Ousmane Sembène" at the 35th Annual French Literature Conference "Violence in French and Francophone Literature and Film" March 22-24 at the University of South Carolina.
Kate Mastruserio Reynolds and Kelly Conroy recently had their language teacher professional development philosophy article, “Only 'Real' Teachers Attend: Some Suggestions for Pre-Service Teacher Engagement in Professional Development,” published in the winter 2007 issue of the English Language Teacher Education and Development journal, which is published by the Centre for English Language Teacher Education at the University of Warwick, England.
Julie Adler and Beth Kozbial Ernst, along with Charles Schroen of Georgia Perimeter College, presented "Using Multimedia Weblogs in ESL Classrooms" at the Third International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research, held March 2-4
.Paul Hoff gave an invited presentation on the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview at the Concordia Language Villages CLVisa Workshop Feb. 2-3 in Minneapolis. The workshop was designed to compare and align the CLVisa language assessment with components of several other assessment documents, including the NCSSFL LinguaFolio, the European Language Portfolio, the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines (speaking), and the ACTFL Performance Guidelines for K-12 Learners.
Faculty Research 2006
Anne Cummings gave a presentation titled "Pedagogical and Administrative Uses of Technology in Spanish Classrooms: What Teachers Believe and Do" at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Annual Conference June 28-July 1 in Salamanca, Spain.
Analisa DeGrave (Foreign Languages/Latin American Studies), Eva Santos-Phillips (Foreign Languages/Latin American Studies) and Jeff DeGrave (Geography and Anthropology) recently had their book "Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Latin American Issues" published by McGraw-Hill/Dushki.
Eva Santos-Phillips and Analisa DeGrave gave an invited presentation on various topics related to Latin America and Latin American Studies Aug. 15 for Viterbo University’s Faculty Professional Development Institute.
Dominique Thévenin had her book review of Sabine de Muralt's "Tout un monde" published in The French Review, Vol. 79, No. 6, May 2006.
Patrick Day had his review of two books: "African Francophone Cinema" by Samba Diop, and "Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan African Film" by Melissa Thackway, published in the spring 2006 issue of African Studies Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 3, pages 58-60.
Kate Mastruserio Reynolds was selected by Wisconsin TESOL and International TESOL to represent Wisconsin ESL teachers and students on TESOL Advocacy Day, June 21, in Washington, D.C
Patrick Day's article "A Comparative Study of Crime and Punishment in Ousmane Sembène’s 'Le Docker Noir' and Albert Camus’s 'L’Etranger'" was published in the spring 2006 issue of Africa Today, IU Press, Vol. 52.3, pages 83-98.
Juan Carlos Chaves gave a presentation titled "Spanish Commercials in U.S.A. and the Fraud Behind the Language" at the CIBER Business Language Conference "Matters of Perspective: Culture, Communication and Commerce" April 5-8 at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Ga
.Julie Adler and Beth Kozbial Ernst presented a workshop titled "Using Class Blogs to Promote Writing" at the National Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference March 15-19 in Tampa, Fla. The audience was made up of secondary and higher education TESOL teachers.
Manuel Fernández presented "Esencialismo estratégico en Novela negra con argentinos de Luisa Valenzuela" at the V Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica in March in Lima, Perú.
Eva Santos-Phillips and UW-Eau Claire student Lindsey Brandrup presented a paper titled “The Process of Identity Creation in the Memoirs of Esmeralda Santiago” at the Women’s Studies Conference: Women and Creativity at March 24 at Marquette University in Milwaukee. The paper was the result of a faculty/student collaborative project. Santos-Phillips also moderated the panel “Spanish Women Writers and Representations of Spain” at the conference.
Matt Waters received the 2006 Greenfield Prize from the American Oriental Society for his article "Cyrus and the Achæmenids," which was published in the journal Iran XLII, 2004, pages 91-102. The prize is awarded every two years for the best published article in any area of semitic (ancient Near Eastern) studies published during the most recent two-year period by a scholar under 40. Waters also had his article "A Neo-Elamite Royal Family" published in Iranica Antiqua XLI, 2006, pages 59-69.
Tomomi Kakegawa presented a paper titled "U.S.-Japan E-Mail Exchange: Impact on Japanese Language Learners' Understanding of Japanese Culture and Motivation" at the Eighth Annual DigitalStream Conference March 23-25 at California State University-Monterey Bay.
Kate Mastruserio Reynolds received the 2006 Wisconsin PK-12 Leadership Council’s Promising Practice Award in recognition of UW-Eau Claire’s TESOL/TEFL Program design and outcomes. She also co-authored a chapter titled “Teaching English as a Second Language with Technology: Making Appropriate Pedagogical Choices” with I. Schaller and D.O. Gable for the book “Handbook of Research on Literacy in Technology at the K-12 Level,” edited by L. Tan and R. Subramaniam, Idea Group Inc., 2006. Reynolds also gave the following presentations at the 40th Annual Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference March 15-18 in Tampa, Fla.: Colloquium with Gergana Vitanova — “Perspectives on Teaching English Internationally”; Colloquium with Judith O’Loughlin — "Sharing ESL Methods with Mainstream Teachers, Part III”; and presentation with UW-Eau Claire student Kaaren Correll — “Analyzing, Designing, and Implementing Rubrics, Part II.”
Paul Hoff gave a presentation titled "The Changing Face of Spain" at the 2006 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages March 9-11 in Chicago.Foreign Languages Johannes Strohschänk and Eau Claire attorney William Thiel had their book titled "The Wisconsin Office of Commissioner of Emigration, 1852-1855, and its Impact on German Immigration to the State" published in 2005 by the Max Kade Institute in Madison as part of the institute's German Studies Series.
Manuel Fernández presented "Working Through the Revolution: León Ichaso's Azúcar amarga" at the 31st Annual Conference on Literature and Film Feb. 4 at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla.
Twenty-five color slides taken by Roma Hoff (emerita) following the July 15, 1980, storm in Eau Claire are reproduced in the book "Spearhead Echo — The Storm of 1980" by Eau Claire native Lukas Hoffland.
José Valero and Stephanie Zighelboim's article "Don Alvaro o la fuerza del signo" ("Don Alvaro or the force of the sign") was published in Decimononica. Journal of Nineteenth Century Hispanic Cultural Production, Vol. 3, 2006, pages 53-71. The article can be accessed online.
Faculty Research 2005
Carter Smith's article on the contemporary Spanish novelist Juan José Millás was included in the recently published "Dictionary of Literary Biography," Vol. 322: Twentieth-Century Spanish Fiction Writers, New York, Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2005, pages 215-220.
Jeff Vahlbusch had his article on Margarethe Schurz, who started the first U.S. kindergarten in Watertown, Wis., published in the multidisciplinary encyclopedia “Germany and the Americas — Culture, Politics and History,” edited by Thomas Adam, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif., 2005, Vol. 3, pages 951-953.
Analisa DeGrave presented "Palmares: Colonial Representations of a Black Utopia" at the “New Worlds Reflected: Representations of Utopia, the New World and Other Worlds” conference Dec. 9, 2005, at Birbeck College, University of London. She was awarded a travel grant from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies to attend.
Juan Carlos Chaves has co-authored the book "El Gigante: America Latina," published in September 2005 by Moglia S.R.L., Corrientes, Argentina (ISBN 987-43-9858-2). Chaves' co-author, Ana Portugal, is a retired teacher of English and Italian who lives in Argentina. The book is an examination of the inequitable distribution of wealth and related social injustices in Latin America. See the book's author biographies and prologue.
Dominique Thévenin had a double review of Yann Queffélec's "La Dégustation" and "Moi et toi" published in the French Review, Vol. 79, No. 2, December 2005.
Matt Waters presented a paper titled “Cyrus, the Medes and the Persians” at the World of Achaemenid Persia conference Sept. 30 at the British Museum in London. He also presented a paper titled “Cyrus and Elam” at a special session of the meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research Nov. 19 in Philadelphia. In addition, Waters' article "Making (Up) History" was published in the November/December issue of Archaeology Odyssey, pages 12-20.
José Valero recently had his book reviews of José Cadalso's "Anales de cinco días" (Annals of Five Days) and Jesús Pérez Magallón's "El teatro neoclásico" (Neoclassic Theater) published in "ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography," edited by Kevin L. Cope and Robert C. Leitz, Vol. 27, New York, AMS Press, 2005, pages 267-268 and 283-286.
Johannes Strohschänk presented a paper titled "Memory Lost: From Heimat as Utopia to Heimat as Illusion" at the annual meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association Nov. 12 in Milwaukee.
Roma Hoff (emeritus) gave a slide presentation titled “España en Colores 1949-57” at the meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in August 2004 in Acapulco, Mexico. A professor from the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C., determined that Hoff’s four slides of El Misterio de Elche, a 14th-century sacred-lyrical play presented annually in Elche, Spain, were the first color slides of the play. Hoff’s 36 slides taken in 1954 now are in the archives and on the Elche Web site. Roma and her son, Peter Hoff, were guests at the Aug. 13, 2005, play. They also gave a presentation comparing the 1954 and 2005 plays at the November meeting of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers held in Appleton.
Dominique Thévenin gave a presentation titled "Le cinéma français de ses origines à nos jours" at the annual conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers Nov. 3-5 in Appleton.
Martina Lindseth, Jeff Vahlbusch and Paul Hoff presented a workshop titled "Let's Give Them Something to Talk About: An Overview of the OPI and Perspectives on the Development of Oral Proficiency" at the annual conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers Nov. 3-5 in Appleton.
Anne Cummings is the recipient of the 2005 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages-Modern Language Journal Emma Marie Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Foreign Language Education. The award will be presented at the ACTFL Annual Meeting in November in Baltimore.
Eva Santos-Phillips had her article "Questioning and Transgressing in the Representations of Silvina Ocampo and Remedios Varo" published in the Hispanic Journal, Vol. 25.1-2, pages 155-170.
