MODERN & CLASSICAL LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
College of Arts & Sciences
1. Description of Program: What are the goals and mission of the graduate and undergraduate programs?
MISSION STATEMENT
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures (MCLL) makes an essential contribution to the
University’s mission,
particularly in the areas of international and interdisciplinary education and in the Liberal Arts. Central to our departmental
goals
is developing competence in a second language. The Department of MCLL features course offerings in language,
literature, culture,
linguistics, critical theory, and pedagogy, as well as opportunities for study abroad. Students engaged in these will:
• achieve the language skills requisite for study or work abroad;
• understand how speakers of various languages construct meaning;
• achieve some critical understanding of their native language;
• encounter the literature and cultures of peoples around the globe—historical and contemporary;
• analyze and appreciate literature;
• develop critical thinking skills;
• gain a critical understanding of the centrality of languages and literatures in reflecting and constructing a view of one’s
own
and other cultures; and
• learn to see language as a reflector of reality.
In addition, the faculty’s research enhances its teaching and students’ learning environments. A central focus of the
departmental mission
is the enrichment of student learning experience and cultural understanding of the wider community.
STUDENT LEARNING GOALS
1. Student learning goals: (List the 5 highest priority goals. What do we want our students to know and be able to do? )
a. increase ability to communicate at appropriate level and in appropriate mode in the target language
b. live and study in a country where English is not the dominant language and where the cultural practices and
expectations are different from those to which our students are accustomed
c. develop critical thinking skills, particularly the ability to write critically about literature, culture, and history of a different
part of the world
d. increase critical understanding about how language works—the student’s own as well as the target language.
e. study in a diverse international community of faculty and students.
f. understand centrality of language and literature in constructing cultural view
MEASUREMENT OF GOALS
How do we measure or determine whether students have achieved the learning goals specified in Step 1?
a. placement in respected graduate programs
b. placement in internships
c. appropriate entering placement via exams
d. access to and success in Study Abroad and exchange opportunities
e. student presentations in undergraduate research venues
f. common final exams in multi-section language classes
g. oral proficiency interviews
MODIFICATION
What change(s) to the major or department have we made, or are we making, as a result of the findings from Step 2? At
least one of the student learning goals from Step 1 must be addressed in modifications made by the department.)
a. begin to give credit for excellent performance on placement exam (to encourage students to do well on the exam and
enter the curriculum at the appropriate level)
b. institute web-enhanced instruction in all sections of SPAN 101-102 and 201.
c. establish clear requirements (paper, presentation, exam variously among sections) for graduation with High Honors
d. maintain and increase Wintersession Study Abroad options, add Summer Semester Study Abroad opportunities
e. re-evaluate text selection as needed for greater effectiveness
f. establish a clear articulation in the first, second and third year language sequence
g. increase upper-division requirements for majors where indicated
h. offer on-line courses, such as LAT 101-102
i. enhance undergraduate advising
2. Curriculum and Faculty: What are the major subdisciplines and faculty expertise represented in the unit?
How are these represented in the scope and sequence of the curriculum?
We offer majors and minors, as well as teaching majors and minors, in Classics (Latin and
Greek), French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish as well as a minor in Chinese. We
also offer language courses, but no degrees, in Arabic, Italian, Persian (Farsi) and Turkish.
Faculty in the major and minor fields are all tenure-track and have a wide range of expertise in
the language, literature, culture, linguistics and pedagogy of their respective fields.
3. Research and Creative Activities: Summarize research and creative activities of faculty, including research
strengths, recent achievements, sponsored research support, performances.
CHINESE
Professor Timothy Bradstock has the following publications and scholarly activities:
July 2009 (Currently in press) “Paulownia Leaves Falling: The Kanshi Poetry of Inaga Nanpo (1865-1901)”
Co-authored with Judith Rabinovitch, 84 pp., Japan Review, journal of the International Research Center for
Japanese Studies (a government-sponsored institute), Kyoto, Japan.
October 2008 Internal reviewer, with Judith Rabinovitch, for Journal of Japanese Studies review board,
manuscript titled “Suffering Everlasting Sorrow,” on Japanese missions to the Chinese court during the Tang
dynasty.
Feb.-March 2008 Internal reviewer, with Judith Rabinovitch, for Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies review
board, manuscript titled “‘Men of High Purpose’ and their Chinese Poetry in Meiji Japan.”
February 2007 Poetry Reading with Q and A: With Judith Rabinovitch, Missoula, Did a book reading and
signing of our recent book, Dance of the Butterflies: Chinese Poetry from the Japanese Court Tradition:
Translated and Edited with Introductions and Commentaries, pub. 2006 by Cornell University Press, as part of
the University of Montana’s Faculty Author Series. The reading and question and answer session were video
taped and put on the UM website for a period.
2006 Book. Dance of the Butterflies: Chinese Poetry from the Japanese Court Tradition: Translated and
Edited with Introductions and Commentaries, joint pub. with Judith Rabinovitch, Cornell University East
Asian Monograph Series, xxvi + 273pp.
2002 Book. The Kanshi Poems of the Ozasa Tanzaku Collection Late Edo Life through the Poetry of Kyoto
Townsmen, joint pub. with Dr. Judith Rabinovitch, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Monograph Series, #5. Pub by International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, 201 pages
1997 Book. An Anthology of Kanshi [Chinese Verse] by Japanese Poets of the Edo Period (1603-1868):
Translations of Selected Poems with an Introduction and Commentaries, joint publ, with Judith N. Rabinovitch.
The Edwin Mellen Press, NY, 1997. 403 pages
CLASSICS
Professor Hayden Ausland has completed the following publications during the past three years:
“Socrates’ Definitional Inquiries and the Histoyr of Philosophy” in S. Rappe and R. Kamtekar, The Blackwell
Companion to Socrates, Oxford: Blackwell 2006, 493-510.
“The Mathematics of Justice” in H. Tarrant, D. Runia, and D. Baltzly, Plato’s Ancient Readers, London:
Duckworth 2006, 107-123.
“Plato’s conversation with Gorgias, the Craft Analogy and Justice” in Proceedings of the VII Symposium
Platonicum of the International Plato Society (Würzburg 2004), Sankt Augustin: Akademia Verlag
2007, 158-161.
“Socratic Induction. The Rhetorical and Poetic Background” Norsk filosofisk tidskrift 42 (2007) 25-40.
“On the Paradigmatic Dimension of Mimetic Poetry in Republic 10” Norsk filosofisk tidskrift 43 (2008) 111128.
“Proemial Prolepsis in Plato’s Politeia,” Symbolae Osloenses 83 (2008) 18-44.
Forthcoming is:
“Socratic Induction in Plato and Aristotle” in Fink, J. (ed.), Dialectic and Dialogue. The Development of
Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Professor Linda W. Gillison was on sabbatical leave in AY 2007-8. This year (2009-10), she re-assumed the
duties of Chairperson of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures.
Service with the College Board/Advanced Placement Program. During the three-year period covered by this
report, much of her scholarly professional work was focused on the various processes and projects of the
College Board in connection with the Advanced Placement Examination in Latin. In 2007-8 and 2008-9, she
served (at the appointment of the College Board) as Chairperson of the Development Committee for the AP:
Latin exams. In this connection, she met 3 times yearly with seven secondary and post-secondary colleagues
from across the country to construct two examinations for Advanced Placement Latin each year.
Professional presentations:
“Latin Advanced Placement Tests: Responses and New Directions?” American Classical League Annual
Conference, June 27-29, 2008 (Special plenary session convened to discuss and prepare for the
impending radical change in the AP Latin exams. Secondary and post-secondary faculty audience)
“The AP Latin Program: Present and Future” Classical Association of the Middlewest and South-Southern
Section Biennial Conference, November 15, 2008 (2-hour presentation to secondary and postsecondary teachers of Latin; with Mary Pendergraft (Wake Forest University), Dawn LaFon (White
Springs High School, Memphis, TN)
Co-convener (with Mary Pendergraft, Wake Forest University) of the College Board’s AP Latin Faculty
Colloquium (Chicago, November 1-2, 2008) which gathered colleagues from major college and
university Classics programs to discuss and plan the future of the AP Latin Exam. Small group
facilitator
“The AP Latin Test Development Committee Report on the AP Latin Examinations” CAMWS-SS Nov 2-5,
2006 Memphis TN (2.5-hour presentation by members of the Development Committee, reporting
statistical results and patterns of student performance on the 2006 AP Latin examinations).
“Getting your Arms Around Cicero” Advanced Placement Annual Conference, July, 2008, Seattle, WA: 1.25hour presentation and seminar for secondary school Latin teachers who want to learn how to incorporate
Cicero into their Latin curricula
“Meet the Development Committee “ APAC, July, 2008, Seattle, WA: 1.25-hour conference featuring 3
members of the Development Committee who presented on discreet elements of the AP Latin Exam
(sight reading, multiple choice, long and short essays) with pedagogical content; hands-on
Session chair: Classical Language and Literature: Latin, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association,
Tucson, AZ October 14, 2006
Reviews:
Walker, Susan and Sally-Ann Ashton. Cleopatra (Ancients in Action Series, Bristol Press) in Classical Bulletin
83.2, fall, 2007 (302-304)
LaFleur, Richard, Wheelock’s Latin. 6th Edition. for College Board’s (on-line) “AP Central” Teachers’
Resources, July, 2006
Luschnig, Cecilia, Ann Raia, Judith Lynn Sebesta. The Worlds of Roman Women: A Latin Reader for College
Board’s “AP Central” Teachers’ Resources, July, 2006
Grote, Dale. A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock’s Latin. For College Board’s (on-line) “AP Central”
Teachers’ Resources, July 2006 “Advocating the Curricular Role of Languages at UM-Missoula” The
MALT Bulletin, spring 2007 (27-31)
Editorial:
From spring 2005, Professor Gillison has served as Editor in Chief of The Montana Professor. The Journal has
a distribution of approximately 2800 and is published semiannually from UM-M. Professor Gillison
solicits articles, works toward revision with authors of accepted articles, and collaborates with the
Review Editor of the Journal.
She served as editorial reader for the American Journal of Archaeology (June 2007) for “Horace’s Priapus: A
Life on the Esquiline (Satire 1.8)
Honors and awards:
Awarded a Merit increase in the 2006-7 cycle of review
Invited faculty participant in the MOLLI series (“Classical Mythology: Stories that Shape Us” 2007,
2009
Professor James M. Scott has continued his work on the history and documents of the St. Ignatius Mission in
St. Ignatius, MT. During the period, he has co-authored (with Robert Bigart) two monographs:
A Pretty Village: St. Ignatius Mission: 1880-1889 (Salish Kootenai Press; University of Nebraska) 2007
Zealous in All Virtues: St. Ignatius Mission: 1890-1894 (Salish Kootenai Press; University of Nebraska) 2007
Associate Professor Matthew Semanoff studies the relationship teachers and students in Greek and Latin
didactic poetry. His research considers how a poet constructs a voice of authority through the use of source
texts (e.g. Aratus' use of Eudoxus' scientific treatises), the "unwritten" lessons poets teach in didactic poetry,
and poets' manipulation of literary genre for didactic purposes.
His publications include:
“Undermining Authority: Pedagogy in Aratus' Phaenomena.” in Beyond the Canon, edited by Annette Harder,
R. F. Regtuit and G. C. Wakker. Leuven: Peeters. 2006.
“Astronomical Ecphrasis.” In Musa docta: Recherches sur la poesie scientifique dans l'Antiquite, edited by
Christophe Cusset. Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne. 2006.
FRENCH
Professor Christopher Anderson has the following publication :
« L’Eau d’ici et l’eau-delà : pêche et spiritualité chez Norman Maclean et René Fallet » dans René Fallet, vingt
ans après, (Paris : Maisonneuve & Larose, 2005), 35-46.
Assistant Professor Bénédicte Boisseron has the following publications :
“Potlatch transnational dans Bleu-blanc-rouge d’Alain Mabanckou” Dalhousie French Studies (fall 2008).
« La galerie de Dany Laferrière : une poétique de l’espace créole » Nouvelles Etudes Francophones
(forthcoming, fall 2009).
« Opposition métisse : Le marron au féminin dans Rue Monte au ciel de Suzanne Dracius » (forthcoming, ed.
Yolande Helm, L'Harmattan)
Divers son: nouvelles francophones Presses (ed. Benedicte Boisseron & Frieda Ekotto, Universitaires de
Bordeaux and Mémoires d’encrier, 2009)
Professor Ione Crummy has the following publication:
Le Barde féminin comme génie national: The Wild Irish Girl de Sydney Owenson, un modèle de Corinne, ou
l¹Italie de Mme de Staël,² Cahiers staëliens 59 (Nov. 2008): 79-95.
Assistant Professor Mladen Kozul has the following publications over the past three years:
Le Roman véritable. Stratégies préfacielles au XVIIIe siècle, SVEC 2008 :8, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford,
England, 2008, in collaboration with Jan Herman and Nathalie Kremer. The second edition of this book was
published in January 2009.
« D’Holbach et les déistes anglais : la construction des « lumières radicales » à la fin des années 1760 »,
forthcoming in Stephanie Stockhorst (ed), Cultural transfert through translation, special issue of Studies on
Voltaire and the 18th Century, Oxford, England, 2009, 15p.
" Physiologie du corps érotique, imaginaire de la science", in Hélène Cussac, Anne Deneys-Tunney, Catriona
Seth (eds), Les Discours du corps au XVIIIe siècle, Presses Universitaires de Laval, Quebec, 2009, p. 11-30.
"Du roman et de la religion au XVIIIe siècle : observations sur les fictions théologiques", in Philip Stewart and
Michel Delon (eds), Le Second triomphe du roman du XVIIIe siècle, SVEC 2009/02, Voltaire Foundation,
Oxford, England, p. 227-242.
"Crise et triomphe du roman au 18e siècle: un bilan", avec Jan Herman et Nathalie Kremer ", in Philip Stewart
and Michel Delon (eds), Le Second triomphe du roman du XVIIIe siècle, SVEC 2009/02, Oxford, England, p.
29-66.
"La séduction critique : la lecture du roman entre la théologie et le libertinage", in Jacques Wagner (ed), Des
sens au sens: Littérature et Morale de Molière à Voltaire, Peeters, Leuven-Paris, 2008, p. 161-185.
"Maladies du corps, maladies de l’âme : le savoir médical dans Cleveland", in Jean-Paul Sermain (éd)
Cleveland de Prévost, l’épopée du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Desjonquères, coll. "L'esprit des lettres", 2006, p. 167179.
"Fantasme théâtralisé et théâtre baroque", in Sade au théâtre : la scène et l'obscène, Annuaire théâtral n° 41,
Printemps 2007, p. 40-50.
Faut-il prendre un parti ? Peut-on prendre un parti ?, in Cahiers Voltaire, 6, 2007, p. 162-166.
« Le paradoxe du comédien de Prévost : sensibilité et jeu théâtral dans le ‘Trait curieux de morale dans la
conduite d’un comédien’ », in Jan Herman et Paul Pelkmans (eds), Prévost et le récit bref, CRIN (Cahiers des
instituts néerlandais de langue et de littérature françaises) 46, 2006, p. 141-153.
« Les Pontifes des pamphlets anti-papaux », in Les papes imaginaires des lumières françaises, Rome, Italy,
March 13-15 2008, forthcoming in 2009.
"Fiction sadienne, ou les vertus de l'illusion", in Assiette des fictions. L’autoréflexivité dans le romanesque de
L’Astrée au Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, éd. Jan Herman et Adrien Paschaud, Louvain, Peeters, forthcoming
in winter 2009.
Professor Michel Valentin has the following publications:
The Veil in All its States. Editors: Fazia Aitel, Michel Valentin. University of Montana Press. Missoula, MT.
2008.
Barring the veil: Le voile dans tous ses états. in The Veil in all its States. UM Press. Missoula: 2008. 110-131.
Arabesques
of
Incestuous
Desires
in
Nineteenth
Century
French
Fiction
–CELAAN
(Centres d’Etudes—Littératures et Arts pour l’Afrique du Nord)--CELAAN—4 (1-2): 157
-170.
Electronic Publication of a version of “The Pacific Rim or the Jouis/trance of Capital: Transnational
Crossings” on/in Philadelphia Indy Media (http://www.phillyimc.org).-- rated as the most popular article for 3
consecutive weeks—Winter 2005.
Identity Politics Limits and Limitations Firedog Lake Political Web and The Liberator magazine online web site.
Spring 2008.
GERMAN
Professor Elizabeth Ametsbichler has the following publications:
Translation with introduction and afterword of Hedwig Dohm’s Werde, die du bist and “Die alte Frau”
(Become Who You Are and “The Old Woman”). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005 (Nov.).
122 pp.
“Anatol,” “Liebelei,” “Professor Bernhardi,” “Reigen,” and “Arthur Schnitzler” in The Columbia
Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Evfert Sprinchorn. NY: Columbia UP, 2007. Pp.
41-42, 815-16, 1103-04, 1126-27, 1195-99 respectively.
“Bernstein’s Works and the Women’s Movement.” From Fin-de-Siècle to Theresianstadt. The Works and Life
of the Writer Elsa Bernstein-Porges . Eds. Helga W. Kraft and Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. New York: Peter Lang,
2007. 59-75.
Invited Presentation: “Fräulein Else: Schnitzler’s Novella Adapted for the American Stage” at the biennial
KCTOS (Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies) Conference, Vienna, Austria, December 6-9,
2007. The conference proceedings, including this paper, currently are being prepared for publication.
She also serves as the book review editor for the German Studies Review. The GSR is the journal of the German
Studies Association (GSA) (the largest organization for Germanists internationally) and is published three times
a year (Feb, May, Oct). Around 200 book reviews are published annually.
Associate Professor Hiltrud Arens’ research has been focused on minority writers in Germany and she has
published the following articles in recent years:
“Das kurze Leuchten unter dem Tor oder auf dem Weg zur geträumten Sprache: Poetological Reflections
in Works by Yoko Tawada.” Yoko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere. Ed. Douglas Slaymaker. Lanham:
Lexington Books. 2007. 59-76.
 “The ‘Circus of Culture’ and Culture as Circus in Rafik Schami’s Reise zwischen Nacht und Morgen.”
Special Issue: Immigrant/Emigrant Experience and German Culture. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic
Studies (2006): 42.3. 302-320.
Another essay on Yoko Tawada is forthcoming in an anthology called Within Global Contexts: Literature and
Culture of German-Speaking Europe, ed. by Elke Frederiksen:
 “Yoko Tawada: Das nackte Auge or Other Ways of Seeing.”
 Also, her book ‘Kulturelle Hybridität’ in der deutschen Minoritätenliteratur der achtziger Jahre.
Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, came out in a second edition, Spring 2008.

Currently she is finishing up a manuscript on Tawada’s experimental plays and she would like to branch out and
research the plays and concepts about the theater by other contemporary female authors, such as Emine Sevgi
Özdamar and Marlene Streeruwitz to examine similarities and divergences, in terms of notions of theater and
nation/transnationality, theater and translation, and theater and (female) identity.
Assistant Professor Marton Marko’s research activity between Fall 2006 and Spring 2009 has included the
presentation of 6 scholarly papers at national and international conferences, encompassing the topics of German
film from the 1920’s to the present (focusing on topics of movement, travel and cultural identity), the aesthetics
of language and nature in post-war Austrian poetry, as well as cultural studies involving film, literature, and
architecture in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall. In this time, he also published an encyclopedia article
on the contemporary Austrian writer Peter Handke:
"Handke, Peter." The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Ed. by Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert
Sprinchorn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 580 – 581, Vol. 1.
In the summer of 2008, he received a grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to perform
research on my ongoing book project on Peter Handke covering thematic roles of the exotic played by the U.S.
and the former Yugoslavia in his works. In addition to the Handke book project, he is also presently completing
three articles currently in agreement for publication by volume editors: two on Peter Handke (one involving the
role of music in Handke’s writing, the other discussing the appearance of Native American figures and themes
in Handke’s work), and a third article on the role of nature in the postwar poetry of Austrian poet Ingeborg
Bachmann. Following research projects and publications are planned to include topics related to
interconnections between German cinema, theatre and literature of the 1920’s and 30’s, as well as the role of
movement, space and modernity in post-war Central European literature and film.
JAPANESE
Professor Judith N. Rabinovitch, Karashima Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, has the following
publications and scholarly activities:
Research Field: Classical Japanese Language, historical linguistics, and poetry written in both Chinese and
Japanese by literati in court of Heian (894-1168). With Tim Bradstock, I have published three books in the
Chinese poetry (“kanshi” written by Japanese) field since 1997 and have a monographic article on Meiji kanshi
(1868-1912) forthcoming. Previously, I have published (with Sophia University Press, Tokyo) a study of the
early war tales (9th c), a research interest of my earlier period.
I. PUBLICATIONS (Reverse Chronological Order), Selected Items:
July 2009 (Currently in Press) “Paulownia Leaves Falling: The Kanshi Poetry of Inaga Nanpo (1865-1901)”
Co-authored with Timothy Bradstock, Karashima Professor of Japanese, Dept. Modern and Classical
Languages and Literatures, The University of Montana. 84 pp., Japan Review, journal of the International
Research Center for Japanese Studies (a government-sponsored institute), Kyoto, Japan.
October 2008 “ The Kanshi Poetry of Inaga Nanpo,” a paper presented at MALT conference held in Missoula,
as part of a two-paper panel with Dr.Timothy Bradstock. Panel Subject: kanshi poetry, i.e. verse written in
classical Chinese by pre-modern Japanese poets.
October 2008 Internal reviewer, withTimothy Bradstock, for Journal of Japanese Studies review board,
manuscript titled “Suffering Everlasting Sorrow,” on Japanese missions to the Chinese court during the Tang
dynasty.
Feb.-March 2008 Internal reviewer, withTimothy Bradstock, for Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies review
board, manuscript titled “‘Men of High Purpose’ and their Chinese Poetry in Meiji Japan.”
February 2007 Poetry Reading with Q and A: With Timothy Bradstock, Missoula, Did a book reading and
signing of our recent book, Dance of the Butterflies: Chinese Poetry from the Japanese Court Tradition:
Translated and Edited with Introductions and Commentaries, pub. 2006 by Cornell University Press, as part of
the University of Montana’s Faculty Author Series. The reading and question and answer session were video
taped and put on the UM website for a period.
2006 Book. Dance of the Butterflies: Chinese Poetry from the Japanese Court Tradition: Translated and
Edited with Introductions and Commentaries, joint pub. with Dr.Timothy Bradstock University East Asian
Monograph Series, xxvi + 273pp.
2002 Book. The Kanshi Poems of the Ozasa Tanzaku Collection Late Edo Life through the Poetry of Kyoto
Townsmen, joint pub. with Dr.Timothy Bradstock, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Monograph Series, #5. Pub by International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, 201 pages
1997 Book. An Anthology of Kanshi [Chinese Verse] by Japanese Poets of the Edo Period (1603-1868):
Translations of Selected Poems with an Introduction and Commentaries, joint publication, with Timothy
Bradstock. The Edwin Mellen Press, NY, 1997. 403 pages
II. RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
Japanese Ministry of Education and Science. Invited Professor of Japanese, Shokei University, Kumamoto,
March 2005-February 2006
International Research Center for Japanese Studies Visiting Professorial Fellowship, for research in Kyoto on
the Heian Jinbutsu Shi (Who’s Who in Old Heian) group project Sept. 1, 2000 to May 31, 2001
III. GUEST LECTURES (RECENT ONLY)
Invited Guest Lecturer, in the public lecture series “Forest of Knowledge Memorial Cultural Lectures,” in
Kobaru Township, Oita Prefecture, Japan: gave inaugural lecture for new program, in Japanese, lecture titled
“The Japanese View of Nature and Aesthetics,” May 24, 2008.
Invited as Japan Forum guest lecturer (series funded by Japan Foundation and Harvard University), The
Reischauer Center for Japanese Studies, Harvard University, March 2008. Title: “Kanshi Poems and the Fabric
of Life in Edo-Period Kyoto: Resurrecting the Chinese Tanzaku of the Ozasa Kizō Collection”
Assistant Professor Charles Exley’s research interests include modern and post-war Japanese literature
(mainly 20th century poetry and prose), film studies, Japanese language pedagogy, modern and postmodern
culture around the world, and the interaction between visual and textual media in the modern period.
I. PUBLICATIONS
“Developing Integrated Teaching Material for Beginning to Intermediate Kanji” Proceedings of the Central
Association of Teachers of Japanese 18th Annual Conference, Ann Arbor MI, March 4-5, 2006.
"Using Wikis in the Classroom” MALT Journal, March 2008.
"Haikai and Kabuki" in Encyclopedia of World History, ABC-CLIO, June 2009.
“Between the Individual and the Imperial: Satō Haruo’s ‘Fingerprints’” Proceedings of the Association of
Japanese Literary Studies, 2009.
II. IN PROGRESS
Translation of Satō Haruo’s “Pale Passion” (Aojiroi netsujō), a 1919 Japanese short story that plays off of Edgar
Allan Poe’s work.
an article on Satō Haruo and Edgar Allan Poe (“The POEtic Principle in Japan”).
a book manuscript on the fiction of Satō Haruo, Distant Vision: the Fiction of Satō Haruo.
RUSSIAN
Ona Renner-Fahey is an Associate Professor . Her primary research interests and publications focus on
autobiographical theory, twentieth-century Russian poetry, the fantastic, and contemporary American literature.
She is currently working on one project concerning mythologies of inspiration in twentieth-century Russian
verse and another on fear and the fantastic. Some of her publications include: “Diary of a Devoted Child:
Nadezhda Durova’s Self-Presentation in The Cavalry Maiden” (The Slavic and East European Journal)
(forthcoming); a translation of Elena Dryzhakova’s article “Madness as a Humanitarian Problem in
Dostoevsky’s The Double” (in Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture, U of Toronto, 2007); Encyclopedia
entries on literary topics in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture. (1. Akhmatova,
Anna; 2. Nobel Prize Winners, Literature; 3. Sedakova, Olga; 4. Shvarts, Elena) (November 2006); and
“Marina Tsvetaeva’s ‘In Praise of Aphrodite’: Introductory Article to and Translation of a Poetic Cycle” ( In
The Silver Age Journal, 2002). She participates in national Slavic conferences annually and gave a comparative
paper on the American author Don Delillo and Polish author Hana Krall at an international conference in
Poland in 2006.
Clint Walker is an Assistant Professor . His research interests include Moscow and Petersburg as cultural
spaces and Dostoevsky. His article “On Serfdom, Sickness and Redemption: The Peter the Great Subtext in
Crime and Punishment” is due to appear in Dostoevsky Studies at the end of this year. He is currently at work
revising his dissertation into a book on the Moscow Text in twentieth-century Russian literature. In April 2009
he was invited to take part in a symposium on the writer Andrei Platonov at USC, where he gave a talk entitled
“Laying Bare More Than Devices: Platonov, Bulgakov and the Moscow Text.”
SPANISH
Professor Maria Bustos Fernández was on sabbatical in AY 2007-08 and took the Spanish Section Study
Abroad Progam to Tucumán, Argentina in Spring of 2008. This was the first time that a program went to
Argentina. The Universidad Nacional de Tucumán is one of the oldest and most prestigious Argentine
Universities. She is the Coordinator and Advisor for the Latin American Studies Minor and is successfully
expanding the outreach of the Program through collaborative efforts with the International Programs Office.
Assistant Professor Naomi Lapidus Shin has published a peer-reviewed book chapter: Shin, Naomi Lapidus
& Otheguy, Ricardo. (2009). Shifting sensitivity to Continuity of reference: Subject pronoun use in Spanish in
New York City. In Lacorte, Manel & Leeman, Jennifer (Eds.). Español en Estados Unidos y otros contextos de
contacto: Cuestiones sociolingüísticas, ideológicas y pedagógicas. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 111- 136. She also
has a peer-reviewed article in a conference proceedings: Shin, Naomi Lapidus & Cairns, Helen Smith. (To
appear). Subject Pronouns in Child Spanish & Continuity of Reference. In (Collentine, J., García, M. &
Marcos-Marín, F. (Eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 2007 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium.
Professor Clary Loisel is currently negotiating a book contract for his Anthology of Contemporary Mexican
Gay and Lesbian Plays with The University of Montana Press. He has also authored articles in print and has
articles accepted for publication in refereed scholarly journals:
“El análisis psicológico en la novela de Eduardo Barrios,” (Accepted, in press; will appear in No. 26,
Sieteculebras: Revista Andina de Cultura, 2009.
“Between Myth and Utopia: A Human Search for Carlos Fuentes’s Crystal Frontier,
(Accepted, in press; will appear in Volume XXII of Latin Amerian Essays, 2009).
“Print the Myth: Elena Poniatowska’s Biographical Fiction,” Confluencia: Revista
Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura (Accepted, in press; will appear in Volume 24,
No. 2, Spring 2009).
“Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y su Respuesta,” Liberarte 3.1 (Sept/Dic. 2008):
http://www.usfq.edu.ec/liberArte/05/respuesta.html
“El romanticismo en Hispanoamérica,” Sieteculebras: Revista Andina de Cultura
24 (Mayo-agosto 2008): 12-15.
Associate Professors Jannine Montauban and Eduardo Chirinos have been on sabbatical leave for AY
2008-09 and have traveled to Spain, Mexico, and Peru where they have given seminars and presentations on
their specialities and have worked on a joint project for publication this year.
Professor Chirinos was invited to the Festival Internacional de Poesía Ciudad de Granada where he gave a
presentation on contemporary Peruvian poetry and participated in a roundtable discussion about the work of
Peruvian poet Blanca Varela (Premio Reina Sofía 2007). In July 2008 he published the second edition of Loco
Amor, an anthology of Peruvian poetry. He was invited to give poetry readings at the Festival Vivamérica in
Madrid along with other internacionally known poets.
Professor Montauban served as SPNS Section Head 2006-2008 . She is researching two female Golden Age
playwrights: Ana Caro and María de Zayas. Her article on Cervantes' Coloquio de los perros was published in
the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool, UC).
Professor Stanley Rose has been Spanish Section Head this past AY 2008-09 and has overseen the functioning
of the Spanish Section staff of 6 tenure track faculty, 4 adjunct faculty, a lecturer, a TA, and a Fulbright
exchange instructor.
4. Diversity activities: What kinds of activities has the department engaged in to support diversity over past 5
years?
We have a large number of female and minority faculty members at all levels. Faculty members
have come from literally all over the world: Japan, China, Russia, France, Croatia, Argentina,
Peru, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Guadeloupe, Turkey and New Zealand. The Department
regularly sponsors Study Abroad programs to Germany, Austria, Italy, Russia, China, Mexico
and Spain. In addition many of our students participate in ISEP and other University affiliated
study abroad programs. Several faculty members regularly receive grants to invite scholars from
around the world to campus to share their unique perspectives with students and faculty.
5. Aspirations/Opportunities: Based on assessment of the program, students’ educational outcomes, and
consideration of advances in the field, identify program goals and opportunities to extend existing
strengths.
We have an excellent faculty and are able to offer very diverse curricula and opportunities for students. We
would very much like to see the creation of a firm (second) language requirement for all UM-M students who
are not involved in an “extended program.” Part of that effort is to work with colleagues in other departmental
faculties to see how such a requirement can work best for all of us; toward the same goal, we are endeavoring
to make it clear not only to students but also to administrators and faculty colleagues that students who study
with us learn much more than a Symbolic System and that language study (entwined as it is with culture and
history) is going to be crucial to the ability to live and work in a society which is becoming ever more global. At
the same time, we want to be sure that our language programs reflect our departmental mission statement and
support the university’s mission statement by producing students who can participate in life in another culture
by speaking, reading and watching the media (print and visual), and conversing with individuals in that culture
on both personal and professional terms.
We want to become more systematic and intentional about assessing our students’ progress in our programs
as we as their successes once they complete work with us in order to move in directions which we hope will
better fulfill their needs in the changing world. Part of this effort is to expand and make more visible our
commitment to cultural studies and the study of texts of various kinds (media, arts, communication, as well as
literature).
There is strong interest among the members of our current faculty in giving our students opportunities for work
and study across our departmental disciplines: i.e., across the language sections. This would advance the
student learning goal of “studying in a diverse international community of faculty and students.” We hope to
create some courses one of which will be required of each major who graduates from our programs. Such a
course might be taught completely in English with some students reading the texts in English translation while
those with the appropriate skills do the reading in the original language. This comparative approach would
allow students who already have skills in one (non-English) language to participate in study of literature and
other texts in another language while.
We want to take better advantage of the diversity of our faculty and disciplines by finding ways in which the
faculty and students of the modern language sections and of the Classical language sections can work
together. We want the combination within our department to represent something meaningful to our students
as well as to us. This may include undertakings in ethical tradition, drama (Western as well as Asian), study
programs (France, Italy, England, Germany with Roman inheritance), law, and the like.
We want to become more active in interdisciplinary work with colleagues and students in other departments.
We would like to be thought of as a critical resource to the many campus departments and programs which
work internationally.
ACADEMIC UNIT DATA
Instructional Faculty FTE
Tenured/tenure-track
All (including GAs)
FALL 2006
FALL 2007
FALL 2008
23
48
25
47
25
46
Tenure/tenure-track faculty as % of all
Number of female faculty
Non-tenured
Instructor
Asst Professor
Assoc Professor
Professor
Number of minority faculty
Non-tenured
Instructor
Asst Professor
Assoc Professor
Professor
Student credit hours (fall)
Undergraduate
Graduate
Student credit hours per FTE
Student headcount
Pre-majors
Majors
Graduate Majors
Student-faculty ratio
Average class size
Number of class sections per faculty FTE
Degrees awarded (Academic Year)
48%
51%
54%
13
11
3
4
5
12
11
3
4
4
14
13
2
5
4
3
2
6
1
3
1
1
3
1
1
3
1
7,935
63
208
7,429
73
207
8,019
51
219
199
13
14
22
2.6
40
203
12
14
21
2.5
49
188
6
15
25
2.5
60