Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Directory

 

PHILLIP BAILEY

Research Areas: Twentieth-Century French Literature, esp. Marcel Proust , and the study of foreign language anxiety, learning styles, and other predictors of second language learning.

Current Research Projects:  Second language acquisition and issues of cultural identity in the Francophone world.

Publications:

"White Skin, Black Masks: Teaching Francophone Culture in Arkansas."  Revista Review Interamericana, 31 (2003):  http://www.sg.inter.edu/revista-ciscla/volume31/index.html

"Foreign Language Anxiety and Student Attrition."  Anthony Onwuegbuzie, and  Christine Daley.  Academic Exchange Quarterly, 7 (2003): 304-308.

"The Role of Foreign Language Anxiety and Students" Expectations in Foreign Language Learning."  Anthony Onwuegbuzie and  Christine Daley. Research in the Schools 9 (2002): 33-50.  

"The Role of Study Habits in Foreign Language Courses." Anthony Onwuegbuzie." Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 27 (2002): 463-473.

"Maillet et Proust: A la recherche de l"Acadie  perdue."  Études francophones, 15 (2001): 7-19. 

 

DWIGHT LANGSTON

Research Areas:  Holocaust era German literature, foreign language pedagogy and literary translation.

Current Research Projects:  Translating the work of G.E. Lessing Die Erziehung des Menschengesschlechts and completing a paper on Becker's Holocaust novel Jakob der Lügner.

Publications:

"Letter Cuing in Oral Translation Exercises,"  Die Unterrichtspraxis, 1975, No. 2, 102-103.

"English-Language Cartoons in the Intermediate German Class," Schatzkammer, XIV, No. 1, (Spring, 1988), 176-178.

 "Is the Infinitive Really So 'Basic'?" Die Unterrichtspraxis, 1988, No. 2, 208-211.

"Acts, Turns and Routines: Strategies for Foreign Language Teaching Suggested by Discourse Analysis." SELECTA, Journal of the PNCFL, vol. 18 (1997), 13-22.

 

JENNIFER PARRACK

Research Areas:  20th- and 21st-century literature in Spain, particularly novels by women writers.

Current Research Projects:  Narrative devices (framing, fantasy, intertextuality) in post-Franco women's writing in Spain.

 Publications:

"Masquerade and Women's Writing in Spain: Dos mujeres by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda." Philological Review 29.1 (Spring 2003): 27-45.

Fantasía, represión y creatividad en la narrativa femenina española. Dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania, 1999.

 

JOHN PARRACK

Research Areas:  Medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature and the history of the Spanish language.

Current Research Projects:  Articles on the contingency of voice and crisis of authority in Erasmus´s "Praise of Folly" and the medieval hermeneutic of "buen seso natural" in the Libro del Caballero Zifar.

Publications:

"Identity, Illusion, and the Emergence of the Feminine Subject in La Lozana Andaluza," in Women in the Discourse of Early Modern Spain. Ed. Joan Cammarata. 

"El auge de la sujetividad moderna en El gran teatro del mundo," in Calderón 2000.  Homenaje a Kurt Reichenberger en su 80 cumpleaños.  Actas del Congreso Internacional, IV Centenario del nacimiento de Calderón.  Ed. Ignacio Arellano.

 

JAIME ZAMBRANO

Research Areas: Twentieth-Century Spanish American Narrative with emphasis on the Colombian Novel.

Current Research Projects: Violence in Central American Literature: fiction and the historical discourse. Salvadorian Literature. The works of the Salvadorian novelist Walter Raudales


Publications:


"La Violencia en Colombia: La ficción de Álvarez Gardeazábal y el Discurso Histórico", in Kathleen March’s series, Wor(l)ds of Change: Latin American and Iberian Literature. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.


“La Nueva Narrativa de Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal.” Hispamérica Revista de Literatura, vol. XXVI, nos. 76/77 (April – August 1997).