Recent Scholarly Work
Across our academic disciplines and often in collaboration, our faculty, academic staff, and students conduct research that adds to the world’s knowledge base. A few examples of some of our recent scholarly work include:
"The Double and Its Theater: Technologies of Performance in Hanakurabe senbonzakura." In Handbook of Performance in Japan, edited by Katherine Saltzman-Li, Diego Pellecchia, and Rina Tanaka. MHM Publishers, Tokyo, (Forthcoming 2025).
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. "Food, Power, and Identity: Exploring Culinary Policy in Grazia Deledda's Sardinian Narrative," Journal of Literature and Art Studies, 15 (6), 439-452, 2025.
Bilić, Viktorija. “Louise Aston asserts her free personality against the Berlin press (1846). Louise Aston, My Emancipation, Expulsion, and Defense (translated excerpts).” Franzel, Sean and Michael Swellander (eds.). Cultural Journalism in Germany, 1815-1848: Literature, Politics, and History - A Critical Anthology. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture, Vol. 255. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2025, 331-341.
May-Chu, K. (2024) Border Poetics in German and Polish Literature: Cosmopolitan Imaginations since 1989. Camden House.
Book Review, review of The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present and Uncertain Future, NAFSA Global Studies Literature Review, 2024
“Censoring the Emperor: The Debut Performance of The Mikado in Japan.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Theater Censorship, edited by Graham Saunders and Anne Etienne. Palgrave, (2024).
May-Chu, K. (2024) "Reimagining the German-Polish Borderlands in Nowa Amerika and Słubfurt." TRANSIT: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World (Special Cluster: German-Polish Borderlands in Contemporary Literature and Culture, eds. Karolina May-Chu and Paula Wojcik) 14 no.1 (2024): 54-73.
Hicke, K. and K. May-Chu. Translated from Polish into English. "Excerpts from Inga Iwasiów’s novel Bambino (2008)." TRANSIT (Special Cluster: German-Polish Borderlands in Contemporary Literature and Culture, eds. May-Chu and Wojcik), 14 no.1 (2024): 140-48.
Court, J., K. May-Chu, J. Williamson, and J. Wipplinger (2023). “Expanding Access through Online Asynchronous Language Courses,” Language Program Vitality in the United States: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education. eds. Emily Heidrich Uebel, Felix A. Kronenberg, and Scott Sterling. Educational Linguistics (63), Springer.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. "Gender Emergency: Fear of the Forsaken," Journal of Literature and Art Studies, 13 (4), 215-224. DOI, 1017256/2159-5836/2023.04.001, 2023.
“Mediated Laugher and The Limits of Realism: Laughing Letter and the Kinodrama Experiment in 1930s Japanese Performance.” In Realisms in East Asian Performance, edited by Katherine Saltzman-Li and Jessica Nakamura. University of Michigan Press, (2023).
Bilić, Viktorija und Alison Efford. Radikale Beziehungen: Die Briefkorrespondenz der Mathilde Franziska Anneke zur Zeit des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. "A Mediterranean participation in the Work of Pietro Bartolo and Lidia Tilotta," Athens journal of Mediterranean Studies, (10) 8, 1-11, 2022.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. "Raccontare il neorealismo e la compassione," Rivista di Studi Italiani, 40 (2), 82-95, 2022
Bilic, Viktorija. “Deutschamerikanische Zeitungskorpora (1845–1860): Eine Kollokationsstudie” Lebende Sprachen 67.2 (2022): 311-341.
Bilic, Viktorija, and Efford, Alison C. Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. 2021.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. "Pinocchio, the Emotion of Shame and the Influence of Greek Thought," Athens Journal of Humanities & Art, 7 (2), 121-136, 2020.
Narrar lo invisible: Aproximaciones al mundo literario de Sara Mesa. Valencia: Albatros, 2020. 233 pp. [co-edited].
May-Chu, K. (2020) "Reading Germany, Europe, and the World in Abbas Khider’s Novel Ohrfeige." Colloquia Germanica, (Special Issue: Europe in Contemporary German-Language Literature, eds. Anke Biendarra and Friederike Eigler) 51 no 3-4 (2020): 363-81.
Abel, B. , Berroth, E. , Djavadghazaryans, A. , Gallagher, M. , King, A. , May-Chu, K. , Pfleger, S. , Stewart, F. , & Young, A. (2020) "Grenzenlos Deutsch: Co-creating Open Educational Resources through Feminist Collaboration." Feminist German Studies, 36(1), 1-23.
Bilic, Viktorija. “'Warum noch länger die demütige Magd, die ihrem Herrn die Füße wäscht?': Mathilde Franziska Anneke’s Feminist Manifest Das Weib im Conflict mit den socialen Verhältnissen (1847)” The Sophie Journal Vol. 5.No. 1 (2020): 1-16.
Bilic, Viktorija. “The Online Computer-Assisted Translation Classroom” Translation & Interpreting - The International Journal for Translation and Interpreting Research Vol. 12.No. 1 (2020): 127-141.
Bird-Soto, Nancy I.“"Non-Compliance and the Outsider Within: Carla Cavina's Extra Terrestres."” PolifoníaX.2020 (2020): 118-134.
Bird-Soto, Nancy I."At the Mall: Women, Specters and Spectators in José Luis Figueroa’s Te besaré toda la vida.”45. Contextos: Estudios de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. 2020: 13pp.
César Vallejo. Fabla salvaje-Edición facsimilar. Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2020. 49 pp.
Undergraduate Research
We strongly encourage our undergraduate students to explore research opportunities through the Office of Undergraduate Research or by talking with faculty in the department. Engaging in research deepens your education and helps to make you a stronger job candidate upon graduation or to enhance your application to a graduate program.
Resources for Teachers
We disseminate our research in many ways, directed toward multiple audiences, but we are always pleased to be able to share our research through pedagogical tools, presentations, and organizations that help other educators to develop and expand their curriculum on global topics and world languages.