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Research Interests
Arabic Faculty
- George Berg: Empirical research in applied linguistics with a focus on the development of communicative-based teaching materials for students of Arabic.
- Erez Naaman: Classical Arabic literature and culture, and the intellectual history of the premodern Islamic world.
Chinese Faculty
- Jie Cai: Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL), Teaching Chinese as a Heritage Language, Second Language Acquisition, Modern Chinese Literature and Classical Chinese language.
- Svetlana Xu: Philosophy, literature, Chinese culture, and communication.
- Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang: Literature and culture of late imperial China.
French Faculty
- Naima Hachad: North African literature and cultural productions.
- Elizabeth Lang: Political, economic, social and cultural issues in Francophone Africa and international development.
German Faculty
- William Quirk: German, English, and French literature from the Romanticism to the present.
Italian Faculty
- Ranieri Moore Cavaceppi: 16th century Italian Hospitaller Knights and 20th century literature and modern cinema.
Russian Faculty
- Alina Israeli: Russian linguistics and literature.
Spanish Faculty
- Lilian Baeza-Mendoza: The use of media as a language learning tool and learning disabilities in the language classroom.
- Luis Cerezo: Empirical research methods with audiovisual technology for second language learning.
- Ester Holtermann: Immigration and the Latino community.
- Juliana Martinez: Intersection of violence and body politics in Latin America, mainly representation of historical violence in recent cultural production; and gender and sexuality - particularly transgender studies.
- Gemma Sune Minguella: Relationship between poetry and philosophy, as well as cinema and visual arts. Restoring the integrity of Spanish classic movies seriously censored under the Franco regime (50's and 60's).
- Amy Oliver: Marginality, feminism, nepantlismo, and transfronterismo in Latin America.
- Amelia Tseng: Sociolinguistics of migration and diaspora: Bilingualism, heritage languages, dialects, identity, discourse, ideology, race/ethnicity; Washington, D.C. Latinx Language and Identity Project (DCLLIP). Linguistics Coordinator.
- Nuria Vilanova: Impact of migration on cultural production and narratives of violence and poverty.
- Brenda Werth: Professor Werth specializes in contemporary Latin American theater. Her areas of interest include performance, memory studies, documentary theater, and film. She teaches courses on diverse aspects of the Southern Cone, including Postdictatorial literature, performance, and human rights.
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TESOL Faculty
- Naomi Baron: The effects of technology on reading and writing. One branch of her research is on differences between reading in print versus onscreen. A second branch is on the impact of artificial intelligence on how we write.
- Robin Barr: Indo-European and psycholinguistics, morphology, relationship between language learning and language change.
- Henry Chip Gerfen: Phonology and linguistic studies.
- Tabitha Kidwell: Language teacher education, culture in language teaching and learning, student-centered and interactive language teaching methods, equitable learning opportunities for ELLs.
- Sarah Knowles: Second language acquisition, language teaching methods, applied linguistics, metalinguistic awareness, and working with low-literate adult learners.
- Polina Vinogradova: Advocacy and student empowerment; multiliteracies and multimodality; pedagogical uses of digital storytelling; postmethod pedagogy in teacher education.
Recent Publications
- Amelia Tseng (2023), “Nativized exoticism in ‘el país de todas las sangres.’” Ethnic and Racial Studies.
- Naaman, Erez. (2023). “An Outline of a Plagiarism Controversy from the Abbasid Era: Al-Sarī l-Raffāʾ vs. the Khālidī Brothers.” Journal of Arabic Literature 54, 1-2 (2023): 51-72.
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Jung, Y., Choi, S., Shin, H.Y., Steeley S., Haley, M.H. (2022). "Korean teacher's perceptions of embedding pop culture into classrooms," NECTFL Review, 88, 37-58.
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Kidwell, T. (2022). "Intercultural experience and transnational culture education: A case study of one novice teacher’s personal and professional development." In R. Jain, B. Yazan & S. Canagarajah (Eds.), Transnational practitioners and participants in TESOL: Critical identities and practices. Multilingual Matters.
Kidwell, T. (2022). “We should learn English to solve our problems”: Strategies to support adult ESL learners with emergent literacy. In L. J. Pentón Herrera (Ed.), English and students with limited or interrupted formal education: Global perspectives on teacher preparation and classroom practice. Springer.
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Baron, Naomi S. (2021). How We Read Now: Strategic Choices for Print, Screen, and Audio. Oxford University Press.
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Kidwell, T. (2021). "Protectors and preparers: Novice Indonesian EFL teachers’ beliefs regarding teaching about culture." Language and Intercultural Communication, 21(5), 631-645.
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Kidwell, T. & Triyoko, H. (2021). "Language awareness as a resource for multilingual individuals’ learning about culture: A Javanese case study." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
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Kidwell, T. (2021). “They can be anywhere someday”: Integrating culture in Indonesian EFL classrooms. In K. M. Bailey & D. Christian (Eds.), Research on teaching and learning English in under-resourced contexts. Routledge and TIRF.
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Moore Cavaceppi, Ranieri. (2021). “Hospitaller Aesthetics: The Self-Fashioning of a Supranational Military Religious Order.” Études Épistémè 39.
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Tseng, A. (2021). ‘Qué barbaridad, son latinos y deberían saber español primero’: Language Ideology, Agency, and Heritage Language Insecurity across Immigrant Generations. Applied Linguistics, 42(1), 113–135.
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Tseng, A. and Hinrichs, L. (2021). Introduction: Mobility, polylingualism, and change: Toward an updated sociolinguistics of diaspora. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 25(5), 649-661. Theme Issue.
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Yun, S. & Shin, H.Y. (2021). Social justice-oriented activity models for young learner's biliteracy development in a Korean language classroom, NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 11, 13-21.
More Publications
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Choi, S., Jung, Y., Steeley, S., Shin, H.Y. & Haley, M.H. (2020) Examining a lens of Korean language teachers, Academic Exchange Quarterly, 24(4), 1-7.
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Flores, N., Tseng, A., and Subtirelu, C. (2020). Bilingualism for All?: Raciolinguistic Perspectives on Dual Language Education in the United States. Multilingual Matters.
- Hachad, Naima, “La photo-broderie de Carolle Bénitah : commémoration, transgression et réinvention de soi.” Expressions Maghrébines. 19/1 (été 2020): 49-69.
- Martinez, Juliana. (2020). Haunting Without Ghosts, Spectral Realism in Colombian Literature, Film, and Art. University of Texas Press.
- Naaman, Erez. (2020). “Authorship and Unity of the Classical Arabic Poem through the Lens of Collaborative Composition.” Arabica 67 (1): 1-59.
- Suñé Minguella, Gemma. (2020). "A vueltas con la etapa mexicana de Emilio Prados: Poesía mística y filosofía, Boletín de la Biblioteca Menéndez Pelayo XCVI-1: 67-82.
- Suñé Minguella, Gemma. (2020). "Tula sin censura: un recorrido por la otra versión del clásico de Miguel Picazo" (Uncensored Tula: A Survey of the Other Version of Miguel Picazo's Classic). Trasvases Entre La Literatura y El Cine 2: 211-239.
- Tseng, Amelia. (2020). "Normalization of dialect translinguistics in an internally diverse global-city diasporic community." In Jerry Won Lee and Sender Dovchin (eds.), Translinguistics: Negotiating innovation and ordinariness. Routledge: 146-160.
- Tseng, Amelia. (2020). "Advancing a sociolinguistics of complexity: Spanish-speaking identities in Washington, DC." In Andrew Lynch (ed.), Handbook on Spanish in the Global City. Routledge: 330-354.
- Leow, R. P., Cerezo, L., Caras, A., & Cruz, G. (2019). CALL in ISLA: “Promoting depth of processing of complex L2 Spanish ‘Para/Por’ prepositions.” In R. M. DeKeyser and G. Prieto Botana (Eds.), Doing SLA research with implications for the classroom: Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins: 155–178.
- Aristizaìbal Juanita and Martìnez Juliana eds. (2019) “Violent Tales: Cultural Representation in Colombia and Mexico.” Revista de Estudios Hispaìnicos. 53:1.
- Hachad, Naima. (2019). Revisionary Narratives: Moroccan Women’s Auto/Biographical and Testimonial Acts. Liverpool University Press.
- Oliver, Amy A. (2019). "Roots of Carlos Vaz Ferreira's Philosophy." Genealogy (Special Issue: New Directions in Latinx/Latin American Philosophy), 3(4): 57.
- Vilanova, Núria. (2019). “La frontera como estética textual: la escritura de Jesús Gardea.” In Daniel Samperio and Roberto Bernal (eds). Casi toda la luz: textos críticos en torno a Jesús Gardea. Santiago de Querétaro, México: Fondo Editorial. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro: 187-217.
- Vinogradova, P., & Ross, E. H. (2019). "Fostering volunteer ESL teacher identity through reflection on apprenticeship of observation." TESOL Journal, 10(4): e480.
- Werth, Brenda. (2019). “The Dramas of Human Rights: Documentary Theater and Performance.” Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature. Ed. Crystal A. Parikh. Cambridge University Press: 141-154.