Geoffrey Skoll, Associate Professor, Buffalo State College This presentation offers a look at the trajectory of modernism to postmodernism. Using two modernist literary works—Ulysses by James Joyce and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller—it explores the neurosis of the […]

Anita Alkhas, Associate Professor of French, UW-Milwaukee Mingyu Sun, Director, Language Resource Center, UW-Milwaukee As our students become increasingly comfortable in online learning environments, their expectations regarding technology also rise. In this presentation, we will look at how the social […]

Ruth Schwertfeger, Professor of German, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature The focus of the talk will be on narratives written by German Jews about their experiences as refugees in France after 1933 and then as internees during the occupation […]

Please join us for the final colloquium of the semester! Kris Knisely, “Still a Girl’s Game: Technology and Masculinity in the American Foreign Language Classroom” Léa Cicchiello, “Celebration and Denial: The Poetry of Renée Vivien” Priscilla Charrat, “The Legend of […]

Please join us for the final colloquium of the semester! Presentations will be given by three MALLT Graduate Students: Kris Knisely, “Still a Girl’s Game: Technology and Masculinity in the American Foreign Language Classroom” Léa Cicchiello, “Celebration and Denial: The […]

Cristina Lobardi-Diop, Associate Professor of Italian Studies, American University of Rome; Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Women's Studies and Gender Studies, Loyola University of Chicago In the wake of the historic election of the first black President of the United […]

Peter Filkins, Bard College at Simon's Rock Renowned translator Peter Filkins offers a master class discussion about the challenges and rewards of the art of translation. Through examples of his own translations of Ingeborg Bachmann and H.G. Adler, as well […]

Peter Paik, Comparative Literature, UW-Milwaukee Peter Paik will be talking about the ideas, texts, and questions that stand at the heart of his book, From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe. The book is a study […]

Kristin Pitt, Comparative Literature, UW-Milwaukee Anita Alkhas, French, UW-Milwaukee What is a conference abstract? What makes an abstract effective? This workshop will explore definitions and models of abstracts appropriate for all students in language, literature, and translation. The first half […]

Kathy Figueroa, English/Spanish Interpreter at Columbia-St. Mary's Hospital Meghan McCallum, French/English, Project manager at Iverson Language Associates Amy Schleicher, German/English, Freelance business owner Considering a career in Translation or Interpreting? Join us for a discussion of career paths in the […]