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Announcements
  • PSU gets advanced Russian program
    National security - A federal grant will launch the classes and overseas studies
    Saturday, August 09, 2008
  • Foreign Languages and Literatures was featured in a recent Oregonian article entitled: New world order stimulates new linguistic interests - read the article here
  • A reporter from the Chronicle of Higher Education sat in on the last meeting of the
    Internationalization Council. Here's a link to her report featuring PSU.
    http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i10/10a03502.htm
  • w.americancouncils.org Please help contribute to a peaceful world and mutual understanding by housing or helping host an international student.
The American Councils is looking for interested families to facilitate and host foreign exchange students in the U.S. for the 2006-07 school year. These students have undergone a competitive process to earn the right to represent their countries in these programs. Each student speaks English and is eager to learn about American Culture. These one-year scholarship-based programs funded by the US State Department to encourage learning and understanding between Americans and people from Eurasia, include a monthly stipend, incidental funds and medical insurance.
  • Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) for students from Russia and Eurasia
  • Youth Exchange and Study Program (YES) for students from Afghanistan
  • American Serbia and Montenegro Leadership Exchange (A-SMYLE)
We are looking for English-speaking FAMILIES willing to host who are able to provide students with a loving and supportive environment, a place to sleep (sharing a room is okay), meals and snacks, and a quiet place to study. All types of families are welcomed including those with teenagers or younger children in the home, retirees, "empty nesters," and single parent families.
What are the benefits for you?
  • Partake in historic programs sponsored by our government.
  • Share our culture with people from other countries.
  • Discern stereotypes and create positive impressions about America.
  • Learn about cultures of the world on a personal level.
  • Receive: $50/mo tax cut for host family More information on the programs can be found at www.americancouncils.org.
If interested, please contact Tatyana Taratynova at taratynova@americancouncils.org or by phone: (202) 833-7522.


Achievements

6/8/08
Silvia Boero, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored the  article on Italian dissenting novelist Paola Masino: "Metodologie di  Sovversione in Monte Ignoso di Paola Masino"  published in Forum  Italicum, vol. 42, no. 1, Spring 2008, pp.  52-68.

6/8/08
Dr. Pelin Başcı, Associate Professor of Turkish in FLL, published an article entitled "Türk Edebiyatı Kanonu ve Ulusal Kimliğin Sınırları" [The Canon of Turkish Literature and the Limits of National Identity] in _Pasaj Edebiyat_ 6 (November 2007-May 2008), special issue on the literary canon.

6/2/08
Oscar Fernández, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored a review of /Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary/, by Paul Giles, published in Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 44, Issue 3, Fall 2007. Fernández also translated and authored a foreword for /Los Amantes/, by Jorge Debravo, for the /Oregon Literary Review: An Online Collection of Literature, Hypertext, Art, Music, and Hypermedia/, Summer/Fall 2008.

5/28/08
Gina Greco presented the paper “Perspectives on Peer-Review: Readers and Authors” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, on May 9, 2008.

5/28/08
Gina Greco received an Internationalization Mini-Grant to develop ties between students at PSU and students at the University of Ouagadougou. She has implemented email exchanges in two classes, and her French 303 class is creating a dvd about Portland State which will be screened for the students of the University of Ouagadougou.

5/24/08
Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a paper entitled "Anne de La Roche-Guilhen's Power-Hungry Heroines" at the 40th annual meeting of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature held April 24-26th, 2008 at Lafayette College (PA).

4/17/08
Graduate Student Dawn Stanfield (MA Spanish) has received a Fulbright Scholarship for teaching and research in Spain. She will be researching the juvenile literature of Ana María Matute.

4/14/08
DeLys Ostlund, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, was recently appointed associate dean of Graduate Studies. Dr. Ostlund will remain on faculty in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in the Spanish division. For the past two year, she was chair of the University's Graduate Council."

3/27/08
Inger M. Olsen, FLL, participated in and presented a paper at the annual SASS (Society
for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study) conference hosted by the University of Alaska
Fairbanks, at Fairbanks, Ak. March 13-15, 2008. The title of the paper was, "Mâliârâq
Vebæk: Katrine's Mother and Smilla's Aunt?"

3/11/08
Eva Nunez, Spanish faculty just published her article entitled "Cognitive advantages of bilinguals over monolinguals" in the journal Linguistica 47: 77-84, 2007.

2/18/08
Laurence Kominz, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored /Mishima on Stage:
"The Black Lizard" and Other Plays/, published by the University of Michigan Press,
Center for Japanese Studies Publication Program, December 2007.

2/18/08
Dirgham Sbait, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, translated into English the
Arabic poem "matha yaqulu al-nahru?" ("What Does the River Say?") composed by the
celebrated Iraqi poetess Nazik al-Mala'ikah and published in /Oregon Literary Review/,
Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter/Spring, 2008.

11/4/07
Gina Greco and Christine Rose (English) co-authored an annotated translation of Le Ménagier de Paris which will be published by Cornell University Press (expected Fall 2008). This 14th-century conduct book provided a young medieval woman with all the information that she needed to fulfill her role as wife and household manager, including a moral treatise, gardening instructions, hawking manual and cookbook. Contemporary readers learn not only about daily life in a late-medieval bourgeois home, but also male desire (and related anxieties) to proscribe and control female activity and desire.

6/4/07
Inger M. Olsen, FLL, had a paper, "Whose Memory Is It, After All?" published in "Danish
Culture,  Past and Present: The Last Two Hundred Years"  proceedings of an international
conference sponsored by The Danish American Heritage Society in Des Moines, Iowa, edited
by Linda M. Chementi and Birgit Flemming Larsen, and published in Ames, Iowa, 2006. It was also published in, The Bridge, vol. 29, No. 2, 2006, Journal of the Danish American Heritage Society, ed. Peter L. Petersen.

5/11/07

Congratulation to our very own Karen Popp for her 2007 Diversity Award!
Diversity Awardee

5/10/07
Timm Menke, Westdeutsche Familiengeschichte als Literatur. Gerhard Henschels
"Die Liebenden" und "Kindheitsroman". Literaturkritische Annäherungen.
In: Glossen 25/2007. A Journal on Literature and Art in the German Speaking
Countries after 1945.

5/6/07
Inger M. Olsen, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented a paper titled “Denmark’s Caribbean Connection: Nella Larsen and Camille Pissarro” at the 97th Annual Meeting of the society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study River Center, Davenport, Iowa and Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois April 25-29, 2007.

4/6/07
Congratulation to Dr. Patricia Wetzel who has been awarded a contract to oversee a project to translate forms and documents into Chinese, Laotian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Somali and Vietnamese for Portland Fire and Rescue. The work will assist Portland’s immigrant community in
understanding the requirements and regulations that apply in procuring permits for
decorations, candles, cooking devices and the like in a variety of circumstances
(including public buildings, facilities, and special events). The contract is part of an
initiative in Foreign Languages to create a credential in Translation and Interpretation.
Classes have already begun in Translation Theory, Japanese Interpretation, Russian
Translation, and Spanish Translation.

3/26/07
Congratulations to our own Ms. Karen Popp who has been awarded by the Portland State University's Diversity Action Council the President's Diversity Initiative Award for a staff member.

3/26/07
Deutsche sommershule am Pazifik, a program of the German section of the Department of
Foreign Languages and Literatures was recently awarded a grant for $41,000.00 for the
2007 year from the Max Kade Foundation, Inc.

3/9/07
New Publications from Dr. Tim Menke

1. Book review of: Arno Schmidt, Supplemente 2. Lesungen, Interviews, Umfragen. Arno
Schmidt Stiftung im Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2006. In IRAS: Internet Review
Arno Schmidt;
2. History of Philosophy in Gottfried Benn's Oratorio "Das Unaufhörliche" and Bert
Brecht's Teaching Play " Die Massnahme". In Gottfried Benn-Studien. Eds. Walter Delabar and Koch, Ursula. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2007.

11/19/06
Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, co-presented a session "Helping students to become proficient speakers: Insights from OPI," at the annual convention of American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Nashville, TN, November 19, 2006.

11/20/06
Inger M. Olsen, FLL, presented a paper with the title "Danes, Smiles and Laughter" at the Regional Conference for Danish Lecturers abroad in Minneapolis, Mn., November 10 and 11, 2006.

11/15/06


Gina Greco participates in press conference on international education at the
American Cultural Center in Burkina Faso.

10/21/06
Dr. Kazem Tehrani, Portland State University, and Dr. Diane Tehrani, Clark College, Presented a paper entitled "Poetry reading: An Iranian Contribution to the Community" at Bridging Cultures: Constructing Experiences of Iranians Living Abroad at Indiana University on Oct. 21.

10/4/06
Laurence Kominz, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored "The New Sakata Tôjûrô's Grand Kabuki Show and the Rebirth of Kamigata (Kansai) Kabuki" published in /Asian Theatre Journal/, Vol. 23, No. 2, Fall 2006.

10/4/06
Laureen Nussbaum*, Foreign Languages and Literatures emerita faculty, contributed an essay titled "Anne Frank and Gerhard Durlacher, Two German-Dutch Writers: Parallels and Contrasts" to the volume /The Low Countries: Crossroads of Cultures/, Muenster: Nodus, 2006.

10/1/06
Dr. Anousha Sedighi, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a paper titled "Impersonal Constructions in Persian: How impersonal are they?" at the Sixth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, held at SOAS, University of London, Aug 5.

9/26/06
Portland Public Schools received notification from Senator Wyden's Office late last week of a successful grant application to launch a Russian Language and Culture Program. The U.S. Department of Education approved the district’s $800,000 proposal, which will span three years and involve approximately 400 students. The district will work with the Portland State University Russian Department and the Slavic Coalition of Oregon to establish a four-track framework that will allow students to pursue Russian language and culture studies according to their interests and proficiency levels. From kindergarten through 12th grade, students will study academic content in Russian, integrated with language instruction. Real-life experiential learning via internships, service learning and study-abroad opportunities will enhance the curriculum. Still to be determined over the next few months are the elementary, middle and high schools at which the program will be sited, along with other specifics. Project co-directors are Mary Bastiani and Michael Bacon.

9/18/06
Dr. Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a paper entitled "Edification and the Nouvelles of Le Mercure galant" at the "Modernités / Modernities" conference held at St. Catherine's College at Oxford University in June 2006.

8/3/06
Eva Nunez-Mendez, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, translated a selection of poems by the Portland poet Hazel Hall published in "Shadows and Echoes Journal", Vol 4. No.1. Spring 2006 edition.

7/1/06
Kathie Godfrey and members of the Internationalization Committee were instrumental in procuring two mini-grants of $7,500 each to encourage PSU to accelerate the internationalization of the institution. Click here for details

7/1/06
Anousha Sedighi, Assistant Professor in Persian has worked with Persia House to create a scholarship for Persian language study for the coming academic year. Applicants are accepted from any undergraduate or graduate student pursuing Persian language studies at PSU. Congratulations Dr. Sedighi!

6/18/06
FLL student Jenny Ceciliano wins $500 prize in an esssay contest sponsored by the President's Commission on the Status of Women essay contest.  The topic:  How have the challenges and opportunities of pursuing higher education transformed your personal/professional goals in the context of family and community?

6/1/06
Dr. Anousha Sedighi, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "Complex Predicates and Psychological Verbs in Persian" at the Eleventh Biennial Linguistics Symposium: Intertheoretical Approaches to Complex Verb Constructions, Rice University, Houston, March 2005.

5/31/06
Sandra Freels, Foreign Languages and Literatures, was featured in the winter edition of the Yamada Language Quarterly . You can read the article here

5/31/06
Sandra Freels, Foreign Languages and Literatures, has published /Russian in Use: An Interactive Approach to Advanced Communicative Competence/ (Yale University Press).

5/31/06
Gina L. Greco, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, West Africa, for the 2006-2007 academic year.

5/19/06
Gina L. Greco presented the paper "Chivalry and Courtesy in Jean de Saintré" at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies on May 4 in Kalamzoo, Michigan.

5/19/06
Gina L. Greco received a $15,000. grant from the Florence Gould Foundation for the Charrette Project.

5/19/06
Jackie Gross, a graduate student in German has been accepted into the Ph.D. Program in Germanic Studies at the University of Minnesota and was awarded a TA-ship as well as a full scholarship. Congratulations, Jackie!

5/16/06
At the 96th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS)in Oxford, Mississippi May 4-6,2006 Inger M. Olsen presented a paper with the title "The Historical Novel a Mirror for Modern Problems: Thit Jensen and Ebbe Kløvedal Reich."

4/11/06
DeLys Ostlund, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored "Portland's Miracle Theatre Group and Fuente Ovejuna" published in Comedia Performance, Vol. 3, No. 1.

3/23/06
William B. Fischer, Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Mary Bastiani of Portland Public Schools, have received a $50,000 No Child Left Behind - University/School Partnership grant. The funds will support training K-12 in-service teachers and PSU FLL graduate students in adjusting teaching techniques and materials to varying learning styles, with follow-up outcomes research and design of a new course at PSU.

3/17/06
 Congratulations to Dr. Menke on his new publication. Timm Menke, W.G. Sebald's 'On the Natural History of Destruction'. In Wilms, Rasch, eds, "Bombs Away! Representing the Air War over Europe and Japan". Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi. 2006. 149-163.

2/24/06
Dr. Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, published a review of Michael S. Koppisch’s book Rivalry and the Disruption of Order in Molière’s Theater in the February 2006 issue of The French Review.

2/24/06
Dr. Oscar Fernandez, FLL, Asst. Prof. Spanish and Comparative, was featured in "Alumni Corner," The Pennsylvania State University's _The OUTRider:  A Newsletter from the LGBT and Ally Student Resource Center, 10.3 (Feb. 2006)

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2005

11/3/05
Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented as a keynote presenter, "Language Assessment and Implications for Classroom Instruction" at the Washington Association of Teachers of Japanese 13th Annual Conference in Seattle, WA, February 11, 2006.  She also gave a lecture on "Japanese Dolls" at the Japanese Garden in Portland on February 12, 2006.

11/3/05
Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, is the editor of a volume entitled Relations and Relationships in Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Actes du 36e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature to be published by Narr Press in Tübingen, Germany in June 2006.

10/27/05
Timm Menke has had a book review published. His review was of a book by Robert Weninger, entitled: Streitbare Literaten. Kontroversen und Eklats in der deutschen Literatur von Adorno bis Walser. Munich : C.H. Beck, 2004. In German Studies Review 28/3 (2005).

10/21/05
Inger M. Olsen presented a paper at the Danish American Heritage Society's Third International Conference in Des Moines, Ia. Title: " Denmark at A Crossroads - Whose Memory Is It After All?" And she chaired the session, "Danish Film Then and Now" on October 15, 2005.

10/18/05
Dirgham Sbait, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, produced, professionally recorded, and published a CD titled, The Standard Fus-ha Arabic Language, to accompany his previously published work The Standard Fus-ha Arabic Language: Textbook for Beginners (summer 2005).

10/18/05
Timm Menke's book review, "Wer wagt es, Rittersmann oder Knapp? Über Jan-Frederik Bandelsneuen Versuch, dem Spätwerk Arno Schmidts auf die Schliche zu kommen" was published in: Literaturkritik. de. Nr. 11, 2005.

10/18/05
Congratulations to Eva Nunez Mendez, FLL faculty, for the publication of her first book: Fundaments of Spanish phonology and phonetics, published by Lincom, Germany, 2005.

10/18/05
Inger M. Olsen, FLL, participated in The Fourth International Hans Christian Andersen Conference in Odense, Denmark, August 1st-5th, 2005 and she presented a paper,"Strong Minded and Strong Willed Girls in H. C. Andersen's Fairy Tales."

9/15/05
Timm Menke presented a paper entitled "Family History as Social History: The Novels of Gerhard Henschel"  at the conference "Culture of Memory in East and West Germany" at the Gesamteuropäische Studienwerk, Vlotho, Germany, in July 2005.

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