This collection features articles and book reviews written by faculty in the Department of Modern Languages & Literature at Fairfield University.

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Submissions from 2023

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Havana Film Festival New York 2022: A cultural bridge emerging from COVID-19, Michelle Farrell

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Capturing a Transnational, Digital Cuba in the Documentary El matadero (Fraguela Fosado 2021), Michelle Leigh Farrell

Submissions from 2022

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Con la voz presente: Video-ensayos “imperfectos” en el tiempo de cuarentena, Michelle Leigh Farrell

Submissions from 2021

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Disrupting the Algorithm: The Streaming Platforms in the Cuban Audiovisual Landscape: El paquete semanal, Netflix, and Mi Mochila, Michelle Farrell

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The 2020 Boston Latino International Film Festival: Continuing the fight for social justice virtually, Michelle Farrell

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Caffeine During Quarantine; Or, Sabbaticaling in the Time of Corona, Michelle Farrell, Shannon M. Harding, and Elizabeth Boquet

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Sueños al pairo (Dreams Adrift 2020): On censorship, archival footage, and independent Cuban film, Michelle Leigh Farrell

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Book Review: Translating Texts: An Introductory Coursebook on Translation and Text Formation, Edited by Brian James Baer and Christopher D. Mellinger, Laura Gasca Jiménez

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Understanding Heritage Language Learners’ Critical Language Awareness (CLA) in Mixed Language Programs, Laura Gasca Jiménez and Sergio Adrada Rafael

Submissions from 2020

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Santa y Teresa: A Walking Dialogue between two Cuban Characters, Michelle Farrell

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Film Review: A Media Voz [In a Whisper], Dirs. Heidi Hassan and Patricia Pérez Fernández, Michelle Leigh Farrell

Submissions from 2019

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Film Review: El Techo, Dir. Patricia Ramos, Michelle Leigh Farrell

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Film Review: Miriam Miente, Dirs. Natalia Cabral & Oriol Estrada, Michelle Leigh Farrell

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Redefining Piracy through Cuba’s Film and Internet Distribution Platform, Michelle Leigh Farrell

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Representing Their Young Selves: The Case of Cuba’s Cámara Chica Youth Audiovisual Program, Michelle Leigh Farrell

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La práctica de la traducción no profesional y la enseñanza de español como lengua de herencia: Análisis e implicaciones pedagógicas, Laura Gasca Jiménez

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Language and translation practices of Spanish-language newspapers published in the U.S. borderlands between 1808 and 1930, Laura Gasca Jiménez, Maira E. Álvarez, and Sylvia Fernández

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Challenges and opportunities for heritage language learners in interpreting courses in the U.S. context, Christopher D. Mellinger and Laura Gasca Jiménez

Submissions from 2017

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Pelo malo: Representing Symbolic Violence in the Intricacies of Venezuela’s Contemporary Film Landscape, Michelle Leigh Farrell

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El desarrollo del pensamiento crítico y de una conciencia social crítica: metodología y prácticas pedagógicas de un curso de nivel intermedio B1 de ELE, Laura Gasca Jiménez

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Las posibilidades de la traducción pedagógica en la enseñanza del español como segunda lengua, Laura Gasca Jiménez

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Business Spanish in the Real World: A Task-Based Needs Analysis, Alexandra Martin and Sergio Adrada Rafael

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The Bodyguard’s Apprentice: Transforming Adolescent Rage into Queer Empowerment in Popular Culture from Rebel Without a Cause (1955) to Moonlight (2016), Walter Rankin

Submissions from 2016

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Book Review: The Mirage of Italy in Contemporary Italian Fiction and Film by Barbara Alfano, Mary Ann McDonald Carolan

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A Close‐up on National Venezuelan Film Support during the Chávez Years: Between Revolution and Continuity, Michelle Leigh Farrell

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Slightly Independent and Illegal: Yaima Pardo’s films OFF_LINE and SWITCH ON at the Crossroads of Literacy, Inclusion and Digital Filmmaking in Contemporary Cuban Cinema, Michelle Leigh Farrell

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Book Review: “Eileen Chang’s Journey to Darkness: A Review of Naked Earth,” Naked Earth by Eileen Chang, Jiwei Xiao

Submissions from 2015

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Spanish heritage speakers vs. L2 learners: do writing skills differ after completing general content and tailor- made courses?, Pablo Camus and Sergio Adrada Rafael

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A Fistful of Focaccia: Italy and America in Cirasola’s Focaccia Blues (2009), Mary Ann McDonald Carolan

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Film Review of "Elena" dir. by Petra Costa, Michelle Leigh Farrell

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China Unraveled: Violence, Sin and Art in Jia Zhangke’s Touch of Sin, Jiwei Xiao

Submissions from 2014

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Book Review: Cultures in Contact: Translation and Reception of I promessi sposi in 19th Century England. Eds. Intonti, Vittoria & Rosella Mallardi, Mary McDonald Carolan

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Redefining Cuban Film and the Imagined Community: A Close-up on Nuevo realizador Aram Vidal, Michelle Farrell

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The Director of ‘Bad Hair’ Talks About Venezuela’s Dangerous Obsession With Beauty, Michelle Leigh Farrell

Submissions from 2013

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Book Review: New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance: Contributions to the History of European Intellectual Culture, Sara Diaz

A Traveler's Glance: Antonioni in China, Jiwei Xiao

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Nature, Woman, and Lyrical Ambiguity in Shen Congwen’s Writing, Jiwei Xiao

Submissions from 2012

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Counting by Fives: A Literary Reading of Inferno, Mary McDonald Carolan

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Book Review: Dante’s ‘Tenzone’ with Forese Donati: The Reprehension of Vice., Sara Diaz

Submissions from 2011

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Book Review: Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment, ed and intro by Darlene J. Sadlier, Michelle Leigh Farrell

Submissions from 2010

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Book Review: Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots, Ed. Carlos Martínez, et al., Michelle Leigh Farrell

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Book Review: Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela, by Sujatha Fernandes., Michelle Leigh Farrell

Submissions from 2009

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Book Review: Evidence-Based Reading Practices for Response to Intervention, Walter Rankin

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Something Rich and Strange: Lyricism, Violence and Woman in Shen Congwen’s Fiction, Jiwei Xiao

Submissions from 2008

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Book Review: Basic College Research Skills, Walter Rankin

Submissions from 2007

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Book Review: Driving Change in Special Education, Walter Rankin

Submissions from 2006

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Subverting Literary Allusions in Eliot and Özdamar, Walter Rankin

Submissions from 2005

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Book Review: You’re Going to Love this Kid! Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom, Walter Rankin

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Aperçus du Noir: regards blancs sur l'Autre, by Roger Little, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

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Le Complexe de Di, by Dai Sijie, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

Submissions from 2004

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Le Nègre blanc de Bel Air, by Jean-François Samlong, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

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Les Gens du parfum, by Amin Zaoui, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

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Nouvelles écrivaines: nouvelles voix?, by Nathalie Morello, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

Submissions from 2003

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Patriotism, Politics, and Propaganda: The Naturalization of Friday’s Man, Robinson, in Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Walter Rankin

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Francoise Mallet-Joris, by Susan Petit, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

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La Comète de Halley, by Pascale Blanchard-Glass, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

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Malika Mokeddem: envers et contre tout, edited by Yolande Aline Helm, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

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Vétiver, by Joël Des Rosiers, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

Submissions from 2002

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Book Review: Helping College Students Succeed: A Model for Effective Intervention, Walter Rankin

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The Importance of Paying Attention: Ten Points to Empower Our Students, Walter Rankin

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Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel, by Adlai H. Murdoch, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

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Les Belles-Ames, by Lydie Salvayre, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

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Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women, by Simone A. James Alexander, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

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Sage Sorcières? Révision de la mauvaise mère dans 'Beloved' (Toni Morrison), 'Praisesong for the Widow (Paule Marshall), et 'Moi, Tituba, sorcière noire de Salem' (Maryse Condé), by Kathleen Gyssels, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

Submissions from 2001

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L' Âge de la lecture, by Jean-Louis Baudry, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

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Les Bôites noires, by Dominique Boudou, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

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Max Radiguet et les "derniers sauvages": la dégradation de l'exotisme, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

Submissions from 2000

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Academic Affairs Online: A Survey of Information Available on Websites in Higher Education, Doris A. Bitler, JoAnn M. Schrass, and Walter Rankin

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A Survey of Course Web Sites and Online Syllabi, Walter Rankin

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Book Review: Cheating on Tests: How to Do It, Detect It, and Prevent It, Walter Rankin

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Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance, by Celia Britton, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

Submissions from 1999

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Autobiographical Fiction vs. Fictional Autobiography: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Walter Rankin

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Caldwell's Tobacco Road, Walter Rankin

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Entretien avec Maryse Condé: de l'identité culturelle, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

Submissions from 1998

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German Language Instruction at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the Future of German in (African) American Higher Education, Walter Rankin

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Faulkner, Mississippi, by Edouard Glissant, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

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Une Personne déplacée, by Nicole Avril, Marie-Agnès Sourieau

Submissions from 1997

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The Cyberjournal: Developing Writing, Researching, and Editing Skills Through E-Mail and the World Wide Web, Walter Rankin

Submissions from 1996

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Betsi Larousse ou l'ineffable eccéité de la loutre, by Louis Hamelin, Marie-Agnès Sourieau