Faculty Bookshelf

Faculty in GW's Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures Department author a wide range of books, published in multiple languages around the globe.

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Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France

Associate Professor Kathryn Kleppinger's Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France offers a critical assessment...

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Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600

The majority of medieval and 16th-century Iberian manuscripts contain fragments or are fragments — isolated bits of manuscript...

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Naming the Dawn

Abdourahman A. Waberi, assistant professor of French and Francophone literature, authored a new volume of poetry which is...

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Imperial Idiocy: A Reflection on Forced Displacement in the Americas

Accepting the ancient Greeks’ definition of the idiot as a privatized man and expanding on Tocqueville’s...

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Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction Intellectuals, World Disorder and the Politics of Empire

Co-author Christopher Britt, associate professor of Spanish, formulates a new understanding of a common concept (...

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Puntos de encuentro: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Advanced Spanish

María J. de la Fuente, professor of Spanish, rethinks Advanced Spanish collegiate instruction by combining task- and content-based language pedagogy.

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Ippolita Maria Sforza: Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations

Lynn Westwater, professor of Italian, collaborated with Diana Robin to edit this volume. It presents in translation 100...

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French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century

Masha Belenky, associate professor of French, and Kathryn Kleppinger, assistant professor of...

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Harvest of Skulls

Professor of French Language and Literature Abdourahman A. Waberi wrote about the Rwandan Genocide twenty...

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Branding the 'Beur' Author: Minority Writing and the Media in France

Kathryn Kleppinger, assistant professor of French and Francophone studies, focuses on the mainstream media...