Congratulations to Dr. Ann Warner-Ault, whose chapter entitled “Global Learning in a Pandemic: Using Synchronous Video Exchange to Deepen Intercultural Understanding” was just published in Emerging Concepts in Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching and Learning
Faculty News
Professor Jiayan Mi in the Latest Issue of “Poetry Sky”
Professor Jiayan Mi (penname Jialu Mi) completed his M.A. in Comparative Literature at Peking University, and his Ph.D.s in English, Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of California at Davis. He works mainly on Literature and Chinese Modernity, East-West Comparative Poetics, New Chinese/Asian Cinema and Asian… Continue Reading
Professor Simona Wright at the Intersections/Intersezioni conference
Intersections: Italy in Music, Art, Literature, and Cinema In a world that is made relentlessly more composite and multidimensional, the intersecting of art, cinema, music, and literature can help us re-configure rhythmically and synergetically the dissonant and discrete realities in which we are immersed. The mathematical concept of the intersection or the visual image of… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Dr. Mi who Spoke at Yale University
Congrautations to Dr. Mi who gave a talk on “Poetry of Protestand the 1989 Tiananmen Movement” on April 13th at Yale University. The China Council at Yale invited Dr. Mi to talk at the campus. Overall, the talk went well and had a good turnout. Continue Reading
Dr. Simona Wright and Alessandra Testa present their paper, “A Politics of the Body as Body Politics”
Dr. Simona Wright and Alessandra Testa presented their paper, “A Politics of the Body as Body Politics” at the American Association of Italian Studies Conference in Boulder, Colorado (March 26-29, 2015). Their paper is a collaborative research project spearheaded by their participation in Prof. Morton Winston’s Justice Seminar. Grounded in a theoretical framework that engages… Continue Reading
Dr. Jiayan Mi, professor of Chinese, gave a presentation on the “poetry of protests” to commemorate the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square.
Dr. Mi’s talk included a reading and discussion of 18 poems (in English translation), by 13 poets, to commemorate the June Fourth Tiananmen Square Crackdown. The 1989 Lecture series marks the 25th anniversary of 1989, which was the year the Tiananmen Square demonstrations occurred, the Berlin Wall fell, and Mandela’s release from prison was negotiated. Continue Reading
Sean Price and Professor Karen Fenner at the 25th Anniversary Gala of the Philadelphia German American Chamber of Commerce
TCNJ student as well as intern at the Philadelphia German American Chamber of Commerce (GACC), Sean Price, and Professor Fenner at the 25th Anniversary Gala of the Philadelphia German American Chamber of Commerce at the Ben Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (see Ben Franklin in the background!). Sean, a former Business German student of Professor Fenner’s,… Continue Reading
Welcome New Russian Instructors Dr. Benjamin Jens and Ms. Colleen Lucey!
The Russian program is proud to announce two new faculty members! Russian adjunct Colleen Lucey and Russian instructor Benjamin Jens (both pictured below). Ms. Lucey was a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Dr. Jens got his PhD also at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ms. Lucey was featured in a video about why… Continue Reading
Congratulations to the World Langauges and Cultures Department!!
Congratulations to the World Languages and Cultures Department for receiving the Excellence in Collaborative Programming Award for Trip Around the World. The event was held by Residential and Housing on November 14, 2013. Continue Reading