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Fall 2011
Graduate Students Participate in Brown Bag Presentation
In March, Eglee Rodriguez-Bravo and
Roxana Zuniga gave a presentation titled
“Rewriting Latin American Women into
the Historical Discourse.” Sponsored
by the Program in Women’s Studies,
it was the first such Graduate Student
Brown Bag presentation at Wayne State
University. Professor Anne Duggan, from
the Department of Classical & Modern
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
and Director of Women Studies, began
this new initiative to provide graduate
students the opportunity to share their
Two Receive GEOC Teaching Awards
Congratulations to Selina Eid (German MALL) and Kate
Briske (Spanish) for receiving Graduate Employees’
Organizing Committee (GEOC) teaching awards. Sponsored
by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 6123, the
award is designed to acknowledge the dedicated work that
research. Ms. Rodriguez-Bravo and Ms.
Zuniga are Ph.D. students in Spanish,
and each presented a chapter from her
respective dissertation, dealing with
the representation of Latin American
women in the official historical discourse.
Their presentation analyzed two novels,
Manuela by Luiz Zúñiga and Cenizas de
Izalco by Claribel Alegría and Darwin J.
Flakoll. In these literary works, female
characters move between private and
public spaces challenging the patriarchal
system of their time. n
Graduate Students Receive Rumble Fellowships
Katherine Briske and Holly Walker-Cote
have been awarded Thomas C. Rumble
University Graduate Fellowships for
the 2011-12 academic year. Briske, a
graduate student in Spanish, is planning
to use the award to complete her
doctoral dissertation, “A Latin American
Dierolf Receives
Schindler Scholarship
Daniel Dierolf has been selected as the 2011 recipient of the
Marvin S. Schindler Endowed Scholarship. Dierolf, a German
language major, is a resident of Warren, MI. The scholarship
is in memory of WSU Professor Marvin S. Schindler, former
German professor (1974-94), Chair of Romance and Germanic
Languages and Literatures (1974-83), and Director of the Junior
Year in Germany Programs (1975-1993, then including Freiburg
and Munich). n
Werewolf in Hollywood: Transcultural
Adaptation as a Blending of Species.”
Walker-Cote, also a graduate student in
Spanish, is planning to use her award
to complete her doctoral dissertation on
the articulation of multiple subjectivities
in the poetic works of Julia de Burgos.
GTAs perform each and every day. Recipients of this award are
recognized for effectiveness in teaching, as demonstrated by
course syllabi, sample teaching materials and SET comments, plus
two letters of recommendation. n
The Rumble Fellowship is one of the
most prestigious forms of financial
assistance at Wayne State University
offering a stipend, free tuition, and
a health plan to allow students to
expedite completion of their Ph.D.
degrees. n
CMLLC Students Participate
In Graduate Exhibition
Congratulations to Julie Kohler who won first place in the
Humanities area at the WSU Graduate Exhibition for her
poster, and to Selina Eid who won second place. A special
mention goes out to fellow graduate student Kate Briske, who
also displayed a poster, and a note of thanks to Professor Lisa
Hock who encouraged all three students to enter and provided
coaching in poster preparation. n
World Talk
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