Faculty Bookshelf

Gendering the Renaissance: Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

The Marseille Mosaic: A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures

Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation

Quand on n'a que la terre : et autres recueils

Dis-moi pour qui j'existe?

ГОЛОСА: A Basic Course in Russian Book One 6th Edition (Routledge, 2022)

Education for Sustainable Development in Foreign Language Learning

Intellectuals in the Society of Spectacle

The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925–1991: An Uneasy Legacy (Lexington Books, 2021)

Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: French Text
Professor of French Masha Belenky collaborated with Anne O'Neil-Henry on this collection of popular French texts which encapsulates one of the liveliest eras in French history. Each work in this volume offers a lively, humorous look into the daily lives of the citizens of France during the 19th century. From literary guidebooks to examinations of fashion and society, Belenky provides a window into the time period and the authors that defined it.

The Regal Lemon Tree
Translated from the Spanish by Sergio Waisman, professor of Spanish and international affairs, The Regal Lemon Tree is one of the late Juan José Saer's most beloved novels. Set during the day and night of New Year's Eve — building up a barbecue that takes on ritual significance — the novel focuses on a couple in the north of Argentina who lost their only son six years prior.

Gente: A Task-Based Approach to Learning Spanish

A Musical Education
Translated from the Spanish by Sergio Waisman, professor of Spanish and international affairs, A Musical Education is a compilation of poems by Yaki Setton. Setton was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has authored seven books of poetry.

Convent Paradise

Sarra Copia Sulam: A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice

Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Pourquoi tu danses quand tu marches?

Treffpunkt Deutsch
Margaret Gonglewski, associate professor of German, takes a student-centered, communicative approach to teaching German. Her textbook, co-authored with Beverly Moser and Cornelius Partsch, aims to transform the classroom into a Treffpunkt — a meeting place where students get to know one another, as well as the German-speaking countries, by using German.

El Encargo
¿Qué tienen en común, Iván Kohen, traductor estadounidense, y Sergio Mancino, periodista?: Un tren equivocado, un recorrido por distintos pueblos de la provincia argenti

Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Kathryn Kleppinger's Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France offers a critical assessment of the ways in which French writers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists descended from immigrants from former colonial territories bring their specificity to bear on the bounds and applicability of French republicanism, "Frenchness" and national identity and contemporary cultural production in France.

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

Naming the Dawn
Abdourahman A. Waberi, assistant professor of French and Francophone literature, authored a new volume of poetry which is introspective and inquisitive, reflecting a deep spiritual bond — with words, with the history of Islam and its great poets and with the landscapes in which those poets and Waberi himself have walked.

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 understanding that in modern democracies it is mass idiocy that invites tyranny, argues Christopher Britt, associate professor of Spanish. This book aims to pierce through the layers of comfort, security and prosperity that numb imperial idiots in the United States of America to the suffering of the displaced in Colombia and Mexico.

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 (enlightenment) by framing it as a trans-historical and cross-cultural phenomenon. This book reveals the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror.

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. Based on current research on Instructed Second Language Acquisition, this program emphasizes the analysis of spoken and written texts drawn from real-world sources, selected to introduce students to relevant and engaging issues in the Spanish-speaking world, such as the environment, human rights, indigenism, immigration and bilingualism. Students analyse complex, contemporary issues as a means to achieve advanced proficiency in Spanish, which results in more language production, increased multicultural understanding and enhanced critical thinking skills. This groundbreaking approach makes Puntos de encuentro unique among advanced Spanish textbooks.

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

French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century

Harvest of Skulls

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

La Divine Chanson
Abdourahman Waberi, assistant professor of French, authored this novel that delves into the life of Gil Scott-Heron, an African American poet, singer, and songwriter born in Chicago in 1949.