This collection features articles and book reviews written by faculty in the Department of Modern Languages & Literature at Fairfield University.
Submissions from 2023
En caída libre: Lola Arias y otras performances futurísticas de la generación posdictadura, Carolina Añón Suárez
Introducción. Generación Hijes: memoria, posdictadura y posconflicto en América Latina, Carolina Añón Suárez and Ana Forcinito
Havana Film Festival New York 2022: A cultural bridge emerging from COVID-19, Michelle Farrell
Capturing a Transnational, Digital Cuba in the Documentary El matadero (Fraguela Fosado 2021), Michelle Leigh Farrell
Submissions from 2022
Con la voz presente: Video-ensayos “imperfectos” en el tiempo de cuarentena, Michelle Leigh Farrell
Submissions from 2021
Disrupting the Algorithm: The Streaming Platforms in the Cuban Audiovisual Landscape: El paquete semanal, Netflix, and Mi Mochila, Michelle Farrell
The 2020 Boston Latino International Film Festival: Continuing the fight for social justice virtually, Michelle Farrell
Caffeine During Quarantine; Or, Sabbaticaling in the Time of Corona, Michelle Farrell, Shannon M. Harding, and Elizabeth Boquet
Sueños al pairo (Dreams Adrift 2020): On censorship, archival footage, and independent Cuban film, Michelle Leigh Farrell
Book Review: Translating Texts: An Introductory Coursebook on Translation and Text Formation, Edited by Brian James Baer and Christopher D. Mellinger, Laura Gasca Jiménez
Understanding Heritage Language Learners’ Critical Language Awareness (CLA) in Mixed Language Programs, Laura Gasca Jiménez and Sergio Adrada Rafael
Submissions from 2020
Santa y Teresa: A Walking Dialogue between two Cuban Characters, Michelle Farrell
Film Review: A Media Voz [In a Whisper], Dirs. Heidi Hassan and Patricia Pérez Fernández, Michelle Leigh Farrell
Submissions from 2019
Film Review: El Techo, Dir. Patricia Ramos, Michelle Leigh Farrell
Film Review: Miriam Miente, Dirs. Natalia Cabral & Oriol Estrada, Michelle Leigh Farrell
Redefining Piracy through Cuba’s Film and Internet Distribution Platform, Michelle Leigh Farrell
Representing Their Young Selves: The Case of Cuba’s Cámara Chica Youth Audiovisual Program, Michelle Leigh Farrell
La práctica de la traducción no profesional y la enseñanza de español como lengua de herencia: Análisis e implicaciones pedagógicas, Laura Gasca Jiménez
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
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
Pelo malo: Representing Symbolic Violence in the Intricacies of Venezuela’s Contemporary Film Landscape, Michelle Leigh Farrell
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
Las posibilidades de la traducción pedagógica en la enseñanza del español como segunda lengua, Laura Gasca Jiménez
Business Spanish in the Real World: A Task-Based Needs Analysis, Alexandra Martin and Sergio Adrada Rafael
Submissions from 2016
Book Review: The Mirage of Italy in Contemporary Italian Fiction and Film by Barbara Alfano, Mary Ann McDonald Carolan
A Close‐up on National Venezuelan Film Support during the Chávez Years: Between Revolution and Continuity, Michelle Leigh Farrell
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
Book Review: “Eileen Chang’s Journey to Darkness: A Review of Naked Earth,” Naked Earth by Eileen Chang, Jiwei Xiao
Submissions from 2015
Spanish heritage speakers vs. L2 learners: do writing skills differ after completing general content and tailor- made courses?, Pablo Camus and Sergio Adrada Rafael
A Fistful of Focaccia: Italy and America in Cirasola’s Focaccia Blues (2009), Mary Ann McDonald Carolan
Film Review of "Elena" dir. by Petra Costa, Michelle Leigh Farrell
China Unraveled: Violence, Sin and Art in Jia Zhangke’s Touch of Sin, Jiwei Xiao
Submissions from 2014
Book Review: Cultures in Contact: Translation and Reception of I promessi sposi in 19th Century England. Eds. Intonti, Vittoria & Rosella Mallardi, Mary McDonald Carolan
Redefining Cuban Film and the Imagined Community: A Close-up on Nuevo realizador Aram Vidal, Michelle Farrell
The Director of ‘Bad Hair’ Talks About Venezuela’s Dangerous Obsession With Beauty, Michelle Leigh Farrell
Submissions from 2013
A Traveler's Glance: Antonioni in China, Jiwei Xiao
Nature, Woman, and Lyrical Ambiguity in Shen Congwen’s Writing, Jiwei Xiao
Submissions from 2012
Counting by Fives: A Literary Reading of Inferno, Mary McDonald Carolan
Book Review: Dante’s ‘Tenzone’ with Forese Donati: The Reprehension of Vice., Sara Diaz
Submissions from 2011
Book Review: Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment, ed and intro by Darlene J. Sadlier, Michelle Leigh Farrell
Submissions from 2010
Book Review: Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots, Ed. Carlos Martínez, et al., Michelle Leigh Farrell
Book Review: Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela, by Sujatha Fernandes., Michelle Leigh Farrell
Submissions from 2009
Book Review: Evidence-Based Reading Practices for Response to Intervention, Walter Rankin
Something Rich and Strange: Lyricism, Violence and Woman in Shen Congwen’s Fiction, Jiwei Xiao
Submissions from 2008
Book Review: Basic College Research Skills, Walter Rankin
Submissions from 2007
Book Review: Driving Change in Special Education, Walter Rankin
Submissions from 2006
Subverting Literary Allusions in Eliot and Özdamar, Walter Rankin
Submissions from 2005
Book Review: You’re Going to Love this Kid! Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom, Walter Rankin
Aperçus du Noir: regards blancs sur l'Autre, by Roger Little, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Le Complexe de Di, by Dai Sijie, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Submissions from 2004
Le Nègre blanc de Bel Air, by Jean-François Samlong, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Les Gens du parfum, by Amin Zaoui, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Nouvelles écrivaines: nouvelles voix?, by Nathalie Morello, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Submissions from 2003
Patriotism, Politics, and Propaganda: The Naturalization of Friday’s Man, Robinson, in Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Walter Rankin
Francoise Mallet-Joris, by Susan Petit, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
La Comète de Halley, by Pascale Blanchard-Glass, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Malika Mokeddem: envers et contre tout, edited by Yolande Aline Helm, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Vétiver, by Joël Des Rosiers, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Submissions from 2002
Book Review: Helping College Students Succeed: A Model for Effective Intervention, Walter Rankin
The Importance of Paying Attention: Ten Points to Empower Our Students, Walter Rankin
Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel, by Adlai H. Murdoch, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Les Belles-Ames, by Lydie Salvayre, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women, by Simone A. James Alexander, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
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
L' Âge de la lecture, by Jean-Louis Baudry, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Les Bôites noires, by Dominique Boudou, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Max Radiguet et les "derniers sauvages": la dégradation de l'exotisme, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Submissions from 2000
Academic Affairs Online: A Survey of Information Available on Websites in Higher Education, Doris A. Bitler, JoAnn M. Schrass, and Walter Rankin
A Survey of Course Web Sites and Online Syllabi, Walter Rankin
Book Review: Cheating on Tests: How to Do It, Detect It, and Prevent It, Walter Rankin
Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance, by Celia Britton, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Submissions from 1999
Autobiographical Fiction vs. Fictional Autobiography: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Walter Rankin
Caldwell's Tobacco Road, Walter Rankin
Entretien avec Maryse Condé: de l'identité culturelle, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Submissions from 1998
Faulkner, Mississippi, by Edouard Glissant, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Une Personne déplacée, by Nicole Avril, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Submissions from 1997
The Cyberjournal: Developing Writing, Researching, and Editing Skills Through E-Mail and the World Wide Web, Walter Rankin
Submissions from 1996
Betsi Larousse ou l'ineffable eccéité de la loutre, by Louis Hamelin, Marie-Agnès Sourieau
