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Research

Recent Scholarly Work

Across our academic disciplines, our faculty, academic staff, and students conduct research that adds to the world’s knowledge base. A few examples of our recent scholarly work include:

  • Sousa, Sandra and Susana L. M. Antunes, editors. Sentient Books: AI’s Impact on Creation. Quod Manet, 2025.
  • Bilić, Viktorija, translator. Deutsche in Amerika: Ein historischer Überblick. Translation of Germans in America: A Concise History, by Walter Kamphoefner. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025.
  • Bilić, Viktorija. “Mathilde Franziska Anneke: A Diasporic Life in Translation.” Translation and Diaspora: The Role of Translation in Émigré Communities in the USA, edited by Nike K. Pokorn and Brian James Baer, Routledge, 2026, pp. 229-250.
  • Bilić, Viktorija. “Louise Aston asserts her free personality against the Berlin press (1846). Louise Aston, My Emancipation, Expulsion, and Defense (translated excerpts).” Cultural Journalism in Germany, 1815-1848: Literature, Politics, and History: A Critical Anthology, edited by Sean Franzel and Michael Swellander, Camden House, 2025, pp. 331-41.
  • Chen, Jue, Zhu Gang, and Wang Rujuan. Yuan dai chanseng shi jikao 元代禪僧詩輯考 [Poetry of Yuan Dynasty Chan Monks: Collection and Study.] Fudan University Press, 2025.
  • Chen, Jue. “Chapter 2: Elite and Popular Literature.” A Cultural History of Chinese Literatures, vol. 3, Age of Consolidation (900–1400), edited by Xiaoshan Yang. Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2026.
  • May-Chu, Karolina. “Borders as Concept and Theme in Teaching German Literature.” Teaching German Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries, edited by B. Venkat Mani and David Kim. Modern Language Association, forthcoming 2026.
  • Milli Konewko, Simonetta. “Food, Power, and Identity: Exploring Culinary Policy in Grazia Deledda’s Sardinian Narrative,” Journal of Literature and Art Studies, vol.15, no. 6, pp. 439-52, 2025.
  • Momcilovic, Drago. “Miami and D.C., You’ve Got Style: The Power of Performance and the Performance of Power in The Golden Girls and 227.” Down the Road and Back Again: Critical Approaches to The Golden Girls, edited by Jill E. Anderson and Alissa Burger, Routledge, 2025, pp. 156-68.
  • Momcilovic, Drago. “Post-Yugoslav Sci-Fi Cinema: Machines, Monsters, and Traumatic Memory in the ‘Other Europe’.” Other Europes: Science Fiction Cinema Beyond the Anglosphere, edited by Débora Madrid and Antonio Córdoba, Peter Lang Ltd., 2026, pp. 135-56.
  • Momcilovic, Drago. “‘True Blue’ Humanities: Madonna’s EcoFantastika.” Italian/American Fantastika: Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction from Pinocchio to Star Trek, edited by Marc DiPaolo and Anthony Lioi, State University of New York Press, 2026, pp. 203-20.
  • Momcilovic, Drago. “Zombies in the Snow: Contemporary Visions of the Undead North.” The Global South, vol. 17, no. 2, 2025, pp. 80-100.
  • Olen, Amy, translator. Marayrasu: Stories. By Edgardo Rivera Martínez. Northwestern University Press, 2025.
  • Pitt, Kristin E. “Imagining an End to Feminicide: Failures of Solidarity in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood.” Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, forthcoming 2027.
  • Quinn, Aragorn. “The Double and Its Theater: Technologies of Performance in Hanakurabe senbonzakura.” Handbook of Performance in Japan, edited by Katherine Saltzman-Li, Diego Pellecchia, and Rina Tanaka, MHM Publishers, forthcoming 2026.
  • Quinn, Aragorn. “Situating the Shinsengumi in Space-Time.” Proceedings of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies, forthcoming 2027.
  • Quinn, Aragorn. Storymapping the Shinsengumi. Ritsumeikan University Arts Research Center, 2025.
  • Mansson McGinty, Anna, Caroline Seymour-Jorn, and Kristin M. Sziarto. Muslims in Milwaukee: Placemaking, Belonging, and Activism. Syracuse University Press, 2026.
  • Sarah Davies Cordova: Translator, Mère à Mère. Translation of Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona. Éditions Mémoire d’encrier, 2019. 
  • Sarah Davies Cordova and Antoinette Sol: “Le Romanesque: Zonzon Tête Carrée.” Présence Africaine: Revue culturelle du monde noir, vol. 199-200, 2020, pp. 27-44. 
  • Simonetta Milli Konewko: Translator, Around the Dinner Table with Grazia: Food and Cooking in the Work of Grazia Deledda, by Neria De Giovanni. UWM Digital Commons, French, Italian and Comparative Literature Faculty Books, no. 3, 2020. https://dc.uwm.edu/freita_facbooks/3 . 
  • Drago Momcilovic: “Music Video Gothic: Fragmentary Form at the Dawn of MTV.” Gothic Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2021, pp. 148-162. 
  • Drago Momcilovic: “Foul Waters: Contemporary Zombie Apocalypse Narratives and the Elemental Turn.” Apocalyptica: Journal for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2023, pp. 93-115.
  • Robin Pickering-Iazzi: Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018. UWM Digital Commons, French, Italian and Comparative Literature Faculty Books, no. 2, 2019. https://dc.uwm.edu/freita_facbooks/2/. 
  • Robin Pickering-Iazzi: Translator, Tina, Mafia Soldier. Translation of Storia di Tina, soldato di mafia by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli. Soho Press, March 2023.  
  • Aragorn Quinn: “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, pp. 143-159.
  • Aragorn Quinn: Translator, “The Crimson Cloak.” Translation of “Higoromo” by Asamatsu Ken. In Vampiric: Tales of Blood and Roses from Japan, edited by Ruselle Meade. Kurodohan Press, 2019.
  • Aragorn Quinn: Performing the Politics of Resistance in Modern Japan: Staging the Resistance. Routledge, 2019.
  • Caroline Seymour-Jorn: Creating Spaces of Hope: Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt.  Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. 2021. 
  • Demetrius K. Williams, The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience: Piety, Politics, and Protest . Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. 
  • Jian Xu: Deleuze and Chinese “Pure Literature:” Literary World From History to Becoming. Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.

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.