Modern and Classical Languages and Literature Research

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature

BECOME MORE INCLUSIVE: our department embraces this motto by the very nature of its programs and faculty. In 1895, Fairmount College offered Classical Greek, Latin, French, & German. Spanish was added and rapidly grew to be our largest section. Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures was created in 1984 through a merger of Romance Languages, German, and Classics. Basic research in the humanities is necessarily interdisciplinary: scholarship through MCLL prepares learners for advanced degrees in areas of applied language, literature, linguistics, civilization, or pedagogy. For more information, see www.wichita.edu/mcll.

Publication Highlights

Czerwionka, L., Showstack, R., and Liskin-Gasparro, J., eds. (2022). Contexts of Constructed Discourse: Interaction, Pragmatics, and Second Language Applications. Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics.

Mendoza, A., Navarro, J.E., Price, J. (2022). Mexican Americans of Wichita’s North End. Arcadia Publishing.

Del Águila, R., and Miseres, V. (2021). Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative. University of Arkansas Press.

Documentary Film:

Navarro, J.E. Cocin(ando) Wichita: Hispanic Cooking Traditions and Immigration, 2019 [co-produced with Rocío del Águila].

Digital Repository:

Navarro, J.E., [co-edited with Jay Price]. Latinos in Wichita: A Digital Collection of Community Pictures, Artifacts and Stories, 2020. Somos.Wichita.edu.

Roussel, B., (2021). Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART). 28:2. The Thirteenth Century: A World History. Richard Bressler, McFarland, 2018.

Publication Highlights

Martinez, G., Showstack, R., Magaña, D., Hardin, K., and Dejbord-Sawan, P. (2021). Pursuing Testimonial Justice: Language Access through Patient-Centered Outcomes Research with Spanish Speakers. Special issue of Applied Linguistics, “Applied Linguistics Cultivating Relationships for Justice: An Aspirational Call to Action,” guest edited by Netta Avineri and Danny C. Martinez, 42:6 (1110-1124).

Showstack, R., Duque, S., Keene Woods, N., López, A., and Chesser, A. (2021). Lifting the Voices of Spanish-speaking Kansans: A Community-Engaged Approach to Health Equity. Multilingua.

Showstack, R., Nicks, S., Keene Woods, N., and Martínez, G. (2021). Interprofessional Education for Students of Translation/Interpreting and the Health Professions. Hispania, 104:3, (485-501).

Showstack, R. (2021). Making Sense of the Interpreter Role in a Healthcare Service-Learning Program. Applied Linguistics, 42:1, (93-112).

del Águila, R. (2021). “Un Italiano en Lima: relaciones soiales y consume en Herencia.” Journal of the Midwest Modern Languages Association (JMMLA). 52:1.

Baldridge, W. (2022). “The Language of Difference in Derrida’s ‘How To Name’: Effects of the Like/As Dyad.” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 53:1.

Baldridge, W. (2021). “From Poèmes” Mouvances Francophones 6:2.

Roussel, B. (2017). Reinscribing the Feminine in La Navire and Le Miroir de Jhesus Christ Crucifié. L’Espirit Créateur. Women in the World and Works of Marguerite de Navarre. Edited by Judy Kem. The John Hopkins University Press, 57:3 (118-130).

Roussel, B. (2021). Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART). 28:2. Modern Language Association. The Teaching of World Literature Series: Approaches to Teaching the Works of Christine de Pizan. Edited by Andrea Tarnowski, 2018.

Publication Highlights

Navarro, J.E. (2020). “Política, estética y fantasia en La raíz del ombú, de Julio Cortázar y Alberto Cedrón.” Forthcoming in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 74. 3.

Navarro, J.E. (2020). “Literatura Argentina y sus lectores: sobre nacionalismo, traducción y edición (1930-1960).” Letras Hispanas. 16.

Navarro, J.E., del Águila, R., Montes, E., Bettaglio, M., and Cardona, E. (2018). “Cuerpo, esclavitud y agencia en Fulú, de Carlos Trillo y Eduardo Risso.” Con el lápiz en la mano: Represntatción de la mujer en el cóic en español. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 43. 1.

Fonfria-Perera, D. (2021). “Masculinidades no dominntes en la serie Mar de plástico (2015-2016): Immigrantes y proletarios.” Work and Labor in World Languages, Literatures and Film, edited by Yves-Antoine Clemmen. Brown-Walker Press, April 2021, 39-45.

Conference Papers:

Fonfria-Perera, D. (2022, April 7-9). “Población en Resistencia; la representación de la masculinidad del gitano en La novia gitana (2018) de Carmen Mola” at 41st Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures , Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Fonfria-Perera, D. (2021, May 10-13). “Identidad maldita: la construcción de la masculinidad del romaní en Mar de Plástico (2015-2016) y en La Novia gitana (2018).” XVIII Congreso de novela y cine negro: crítica, compromise y memoria en el género negro at Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.

Roussel, B. (2021). Renaissance Quarterly, 74:2. Diane. Nicolas de Montreux. Edited and translated by Richard Hillman. Presses Universitaires François Rabelais, 2019.