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2024 Conference Program, Georgia Southern University Apr 2024

2024 Conference Program, Georgia Southern University

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

2024 Conference Program


Stony Brook Souvenir And Other Translated Poems, Christian Jil R. Benitez Apr 2024

Stony Brook Souvenir And Other Translated Poems, Christian Jil R. Benitez

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

This essay preliminary elucidates on the process of translating Jaya Jacobo’s poetry from Filipino to English. It briefly recounts the unprompted beginning of this translation work, citing it as an instance of a gift; as well the author’s general translation practice in his scholarly work, as demanded by the contemporary academic culture. Recognizing that translation is an argument in and of itself, the gesture—as it is hoped to be demonstrated here in five of Jacobo’s poems, gathered here on their comparable staging of encounters with gifts that cleave time, space, and category of matters—ultimately insists on a careful attention to …


What Would It Take To Prepare Critical Spanish Heritage Language (Shl) Instructors?, Gabrielle Yocupicio Feb 2024

What Would It Take To Prepare Critical Spanish Heritage Language (Shl) Instructors?, Gabrielle Yocupicio

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

In the last decade, prominent scholars (Beaudrie & Loza, 2021; Leeman & Serafini, 2016; Martinez, 2016; Parra, 2016) have called for the adoption of critical language awareness (CLA) as a primary framework for carrying out Spanish heritage language (SHL) instructional goals. Thus, research on preparing SHL instructors for critical teaching continues to necessitate the opinions and advice of current practitioners engaging in CLA efforts. This presentation hopes to contribute to this research by honing into the recommendations of five educators working in a well-established SHL program at a U.S. Southwest university. Drawing from my dissertation, I employed qualitative semi-structured interviews …


“En El Corazón De Texas: La Necesidad De Profesionales Bilingües Y Un Análisis De Los Servicios Para Hispanohablantes En La Comunidad Local”, Karla Gonzalez, Danica Komlofske, Logan Stankard, Taegan Hendricks Feb 2024

“En El Corazón De Texas: La Necesidad De Profesionales Bilingües Y Un Análisis De Los Servicios Para Hispanohablantes En La Comunidad Local”, Karla Gonzalez, Danica Komlofske, Logan Stankard, Taegan Hendricks

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

No abstract provided.


Mi Arte Es Mi Lengua: Promoting Nuestro Español Through Art And Resistence, Christian Faltis Feb 2024

Mi Arte Es Mi Lengua: Promoting Nuestro Español Through Art And Resistence, Christian Faltis

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

The presentation weaves a discussion of nuestro español and how it has been portrayed with art that I have created on various topics concerning the treatment of bilingual Spanish speakers and how to resist this treatment by creating space for these students to expand their Spanish repertoires.


Voices Of The Community: A Spanish Interpretation Classroom Project, Vicente Iranzo Feb 2024

Voices Of The Community: A Spanish Interpretation Classroom Project, Vicente Iranzo

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

The evolving healthcare landscape emphasizes the need for effective cross-linguistic communication. Addressing challenges in training medical interpreters for the growing U.S. Hispanic population, students created a book of medical dialogues across specialties supported by a website with audio resources in a classroom project. This project enhanced linguistic and cultural skills and fostered community engagement in Dallas-Fort Worth. This presentation highlights the significance of tailored resources for heritage speakers and community-based initiatives.


Unveiling Authenticity: Narrowing Linguistic Patterns Among Spanish Heritage Speakers In The Usa, Edgar Vargas, Sonia Balasch Feb 2024

Unveiling Authenticity: Narrowing Linguistic Patterns Among Spanish Heritage Speakers In The Usa, Edgar Vargas, Sonia Balasch

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

Unveiling Authenticity: Narrowing Linguistic Patterns among Spanish Heritage Speakers in the USA

This abstract discusses the importance of identifying and narrowing common linguistic patterns among Spanish heritage speakers to assess the authenticity of their written assignments in educational settings. Spanish heritage speakers, who possess varying levels of proficiency in both English and Spanish, face unique challenges when expressing their authentic voice and cultural background in their essays. By employing linguistic analysis, it becomes feasible to evaluate the authenticity of their written work, promoting linguistic and cultural integrity.

Understanding and distinguishing linguistic patterns commonly found among US Spanish heritage speakers (Escobar …


Método Audiovisual Para El Aprendizaje Del Español Como Lengua De Herencia, Ana María López Jimeno Feb 2024

Método Audiovisual Para El Aprendizaje Del Español Como Lengua De Herencia, Ana María López Jimeno

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

El gran reto de la enseñanza de idiomas a hablantes de herencia es la inconsistencia y diversidad de los conocimientos de los alumnos. Provenientes de entornos muy diferentes, su nivel de dominio de la lengua es dispar, lo que se puede corregir con este método audiovisual ágil y flexible.


Viviendo Entre Dos Lenguas: Voces Transgresoras De Estudiantes Hispanos Bilingües En Oregon, Vania Fenner Feb 2024

Viviendo Entre Dos Lenguas: Voces Transgresoras De Estudiantes Hispanos Bilingües En Oregon, Vania Fenner

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

Viviendo en dos lenguas que se origina como un proyecto de recopilación de historias personales escritas por jóvenes estudiantes cuya lengua de herencia es el español. MI objetivo es compartir esta experiencia pedagógica denominada con la esperanza de que pueda ser la inspiración para proyectos educativos de similar índole. Este proyecto nace en las aulas tanto presenciales como virtuales como un ejercicio de recuperación de la memoria y revalorización de la lengua de herencia y culmina con la publicación de una antología bilingüe compuesta por escritos producidos por los estudiantes en la clase de Español para Hablantes nativos y de …


Teaching Shl In Secondary Schools: An Antiracist, Decolonial And Culturally Responsive Curriculum Proposal, Aracelis Nieves Feb 2024

Teaching Shl In Secondary Schools: An Antiracist, Decolonial And Culturally Responsive Curriculum Proposal, Aracelis Nieves

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

Abstract

The purpose of this workshop is to contribute to the body of research and scholarship around best instructional practices for Spanish heritage language learners in secondary schools by presenting how SFL teachers can help students recognize and validate their transcultural identity by means of a transdisciplinary, antiracist, critical and culturally responsive curriculum.

Proposal (worskhop)

When I came to teach to the US in 2006 my students were immigrant Latino students from all Latin American countries. Although they all shared the same language and culture in a general sense, they had different ways of expressing, celebrating, and experiencing that language …


¡Nuestra Historia Es Importante! Centering Ethnic Studies In The Spanish As A Heritage Language Classroom, Nancy Domínguez-Fret Feb 2024

¡Nuestra Historia Es Importante! Centering Ethnic Studies In The Spanish As A Heritage Language Classroom, Nancy Domínguez-Fret

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

Tile of presentation

¡Nuestra historia es importante! Centering Ethnic Studies in the Spanish as a Heritage Language Classroom

Abstract for conference program

In the first part of this presentation, I will share my testimonio, which centers my lived experiences as a heritage speaker who became a SHL educator. In the second part I will share a unit rooted in Ethnic/Chicano studies that I designed and have implemented in my SHL classroom.

Presentation description

For numerous heritage speakers, Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) classes are their first opportunity to further develop their heritage language in an academic setting. SHL classes …


Visual Arts And Telecollaboration In The Spanish Heritage Language Classroom, Daniela Núñez De Álvarez Stransky, Paola Guerrero, Diego Pascual Y Cabo Feb 2024

Visual Arts And Telecollaboration In The Spanish Heritage Language Classroom, Daniela Núñez De Álvarez Stransky, Paola Guerrero, Diego Pascual Y Cabo

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

No abstract provided.


Raising Critical Language And Cultural Awareness Through The Arts: A Call For The Inclusion Of Creativity In The Spanish Heritage Language Curriculum, Maria Luisa Parra Feb 2024

Raising Critical Language And Cultural Awareness Through The Arts: A Call For The Inclusion Of Creativity In The Spanish Heritage Language Curriculum, Maria Luisa Parra

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

Raising Critical Language and Cultural Awareness through the Arts: A Call for the Inclusion of Creativity in the Spanish Heritage Language Curriculum.

Article 9th of the World Declaration on Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century (UNESCO), proposes critical thinking and creativity as a model of knowledge and experimentation still not explored enough in higher education. Responding to this statement, and framed within Beaudrie’s and Wilson's (2022) instructional goals for teaching Spanish as heritage language (SHL), the goal of this presentation, based on the author’s previous work, is to show the benefits of incorporating the arts and creativityas an approach to …


Experiencias De Estudiantes Latines En La Educación Superior Estadounidense: Navegando Espacios Y Pertenencia En Una Universidad Privada De Población Predominantemente Blanca, Inés Vañó García Feb 2024

Experiencias De Estudiantes Latines En La Educación Superior Estadounidense: Navegando Espacios Y Pertenencia En Una Universidad Privada De Población Predominantemente Blanca, Inés Vañó García

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

No abstract provided.


Indexicalities Of A Haiga: A Transfronterizo Sociolinguistic Stereotype In An Educational Setting, Damián Vergara Wilson, Fatima Dutra Feb 2024

Indexicalities Of A Haiga: A Transfronterizo Sociolinguistic Stereotype In An Educational Setting, Damián Vergara Wilson, Fatima Dutra

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

No abstract provided.


Dynamics Of Power And Positionality: An Exploratory Study On Interaction Between Hl And L2 Learners, Anna Marrero-Rivera, Sarah Henderson Feb 2024

Dynamics Of Power And Positionality: An Exploratory Study On Interaction Between Hl And L2 Learners, Anna Marrero-Rivera, Sarah Henderson

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

No abstract provided.


Culturally Rich Language Teaching Through Comics And Translation: Practical Lessons For The Heritage Language Classroom, Jorge M. Espinoza Feb 2024

Culturally Rich Language Teaching Through Comics And Translation: Practical Lessons For The Heritage Language Classroom, Jorge M. Espinoza

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

Drawing from translation and sequential art theories as well as the author’s experience teaching Spanish through translation and comics, this presentation offers practical exercises teachers can use for their heritage and non-heritage students. Comics are helpful to deepen skills like proper use of register, tone, cognates, and cultural equivalents.


The Social Stratification Of Spanish Uptalk In The South Texas Border Town Of Laredo, Texas, Natalie Rangel Feb 2024

The Social Stratification Of Spanish Uptalk In The South Texas Border Town Of Laredo, Texas, Natalie Rangel

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

The Social Stratification of Spanish uptalk in the South Texas Border Town of Laredo, Texas

This study explores the sociolinguistic role of uptalk (also known as high rising terminals) in the local Spanish of Laredo, Texas. It particularly focuses on the interrelationship between uptalk, area of residence, and the self-identification as a fresa. High rising terminals (HRTs) are known to be characteristic to fresas, a Mexican cultural group that refers to individuals who belong to privileged social classes, live expensive lifestyles, and speak Spanish distinctively (Chaparro, 2016; Cordova Abundis & Corona Zenil, 2002; Martínez Gómez, 2018; Urteaga & Ortega, …


Embracing Borderlands Identity: The Significance Of Latina Graduate Student Discourse In Academia, Jessica Corona, Emily Rodriguez, Elisa Castro Feb 2024

Embracing Borderlands Identity: The Significance Of Latina Graduate Student Discourse In Academia, Jessica Corona, Emily Rodriguez, Elisa Castro

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

Latina students will share personal narratives, academic insights, and research experiences, to dissect how their identities influence their perspectives, research questions, and approaches to scholarship. This dialogue will contribute to deeper understanding of how students can approach the richness of Latinx experiences to challenge and reshape existing academic paradigms.


“Le Nom Es El Nombre Or The Last Name?” Translanguage Awareness In A French Class For Spanish Speakers, Robert Watson Feb 2024

“Le Nom Es El Nombre Or The Last Name?” Translanguage Awareness In A French Class For Spanish Speakers, Robert Watson

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

The presentation draws on personal experience teaching French with Spanish as co-language of instruction with majority-Hispanic classes as well as the emergence of a Spanish-centered approach to Romance language instruction at Hispanic-serving institutions primarily in California (Martinez 2014) and more recently in Texas.

Exploring the advantages and difficulties of using Spanish as a “gateway language” (Donato 2018) alongside French in A1-level classes, the presentation will share the experiences of students enrolled in these classes who fall under various categories, including Heritage speakers and bilinguals.

The presentation will use interviews conducted with current and former students to explore the concept of …


Sociolinguistic Justice En La Comunidad: A Community Engagement Project Between University Heritage Speakers And High School Students, Ana Sánchez Muñoz Feb 2024

Sociolinguistic Justice En La Comunidad: A Community Engagement Project Between University Heritage Speakers And High School Students, Ana Sánchez Muñoz

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

This paper presents a community engagement project that promotes social justice through language, by educating university HL speakers who, in turn, become teachers and mentors for high schoolers. The results show that students develop a better understanding of language diversity, ideologies, and attitudes as well as their own language practices.


Transnationalizing Feminist Translation Studies? Insights From The Warwick School Of Feminist Translation: A Roundtable, Olga Castro, Emek Ergun, Maud Anne Bracke, William J. Spurlin, Luciana Carvalho Fonseca Jan 2024

Transnationalizing Feminist Translation Studies? Insights From The Warwick School Of Feminist Translation: A Roundtable, Olga Castro, Emek Ergun, Maud Anne Bracke, William J. Spurlin, Luciana Carvalho Fonseca

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

This roundtable article features a conversation among the five scholars who delivered keynotes at the Warwick School of Feminist Translation, held at the University of Warwick, UK, in May 2023: Olga Castro, Emek Ergun, Maud Anne Bracke, William J. Spurlin, and Luciana Carvalho Fonseca. Drawing on their uniquely interdisciplinary expertise on the politics of translation and interpreting, the authors explore the urgent role that translation and translators, as well as the fields and scholars of feminist and queer translation and interpretation studies, play in distrupting and dismantling heteropatriarchal, racist, homonationalist, and colonial regimes of power. Their conversations reveal the urgent …


Rivers Of Language Across Oceans: Review Essay Of River In An Ocean: Essays On Translation, Edited By Nuzhat Abbas, Luise Von Flotow Jan 2024

Rivers Of Language Across Oceans: Review Essay Of River In An Ocean: Essays On Translation, Edited By Nuzhat Abbas, Luise Von Flotow

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

This article presents an academic review of the collection of articles “on translation” and entitled river in an ocean. It engages with the foreword by Françoise Vergès and the introduction by editor Nuzhat Abbas, which set the tone of ‘decolonial feminism’ that permeates the essays. The reviews of the eleven essays—by women from southeast Asia, Africa, Palestine and Saudi Arabia—come from the perspective of feminist translation studies but pay careful attention to their very specific concerns around exile and life in diaspora.


Shifting Shapes: Transnational Tactics Of The Authoritarian Right In Brazil And Russia, Erin Katherine Krafft, Caroline De Souza Jan 2024

Shifting Shapes: Transnational Tactics Of The Authoritarian Right In Brazil And Russia, Erin Katherine Krafft, Caroline De Souza

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

Global right-wing anti-gender movements have developed a transnational pattern in their uses of language as a means of subjugation and of control, and this article examines manifestations of this pattern in two specific states: Brazil and Russia. By exploring the anti-gender languaging, rhetoric, and legislation advanced by Jair Bolsonaro (President of Brazil 2019–2022) and Vladimir Putin (President of Russia 2000–2008 and 2012 to the present) and their supporters, we find that, in both contexts, anti-gender campaigns are reactions to and also drivers for increasingly dramatic political and social conflicts, and in each case, anti-gender ideologies are embedded in larger right-wing …


Other Oceans, Other Skies, Sharlene Lee May 2023

Other Oceans, Other Skies, Sharlene Lee

MFA in Visual Art

I create immersive installations, performances, and time-based media artworks that delve into stories of belonging, feminism, and language as power. These stories offer a potential for transformation from viewer to participant and a shift in how our world is seen and experienced. Through an exploration of perception and affect, I challenge dominant narratives, prompting a contemplation of contemporary power struggles for control.

In this text, I examine the impact of historical borders and migration on my life while also investigating questions of home, shared values, and rituals that contribute to one’s sense of belonging. I also highlight my commitment to …


“Measuring Silences” In The Translation Of Awa Thiam's La Parole Aux Négresses, Amanda Walker Johnson Jan 2023

“Measuring Silences” In The Translation Of Awa Thiam's La Parole Aux Négresses, Amanda Walker Johnson

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

An overlooked, yet significant text in the genealogy of intersectionality and Black feminist theory is Awa Thiam’s 1978 text La Parole aux Négresses. This paper examines the ways that the English translation, Speak Out, Black Sisters: Feminism and Oppression in Black Africa,though widening the audience for Thiam’s work, engages in various practices of erasure that undermine Thiam’s academic authority, theoretical contributions, activist insights, and ultimately, her own voice. Namely, I contend that these practices, which scholars have linked to receptions and English translations of Black Francophone texts in particular, include de-formalization, domestication, de-philosophizing, untracing, and invisibilisation. I seek not …


Introduction: Translating Transnational Feminisms, Erin K. Krafft, Caroline De Souza Jan 2023

Introduction: Translating Transnational Feminisms, Erin K. Krafft, Caroline De Souza

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

In this introduction to the Special Issue “Translating Transnational Feminisms,” we argue for the integral position of feminist translation practices and the theories of Feminist Translation Studies as tools for both local and transnational feminist solidarities. Beginning with the understanding that transnational feminist solidarities rely on not only linguistic translation but also cultural fluencies that allow for exchange rather than simply the import or export of locally bound feminist praxis, we illustrate that the practice of feminist translation thus carries with it the conflicts, the fraught and unfolding contestations of meaning, and the ever-evolving conceptions of gender, feminism, and solidarity …


From “A Room Of Your Own” To “A Room Of Her Own”: Women Rewriting Women And The Path To Feminist Practice, Vasiliki Misiou Jan 2023

From “A Room Of Your Own” To “A Room Of Her Own”: Women Rewriting Women And The Path To Feminist Practice, Vasiliki Misiou

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929) was first translated in Greek by Mina Dalamanga (Odysseus Editions) in 1980. Almost forty years later, in 2019, Vasia Tzanakari was assigned the translation of Woolf’s seminal text by Metaichmio Publications. And in 2021, a new translation by Sparti Gerodimou saw the light of day, published by Erato Publications (2021). Three different women translators have thus rendered Woolf’s text in Greek with all three publications coming out at times marked by significant changes in Greek society. Exploring the context in which the agents were situated and drawing on feminist translation practices and …


Translation, Weather, And Erasure In Bhanu Kapil’S Schizophrene, Flore Chevaillier Jan 2023

Translation, Weather, And Erasure In Bhanu Kapil’S Schizophrene, Flore Chevaillier

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

For Bhanu Kapil, the drafting process of writing involves the translation of non-linguistic realities into storytelling, the nature of which must leave room for the performative experience that shapes writing. In Schizophrene (2011), Kapil engaged in adventitious composition processes when she sealed her manuscript in a Ziploc bag and threw it in the garden to spend months outdoors in the Colorado winter. The text, full of gaps created by the erased parts of the “winterized” manuscript, documents schizophrenia in diasporic Indian and Pakistani communities. The decaying process of the book that created a void in her writing also impacts the …


Love Is Real & I Just Had Some For Dessert: Legacies Of Communal Care & Compassion In Asian Diasporic Women's Food Writing, Miki Rierson Jan 2023

Love Is Real & I Just Had Some For Dessert: Legacies Of Communal Care & Compassion In Asian Diasporic Women's Food Writing, Miki Rierson

Honors Projects

In this project I work to recover influential yet often erased Asian American female immigrant chefs and food authors from the mid-twentieth century to the present, situating their contributions in a deep-rooted tradition of diasporic women who used cooking as a means of communal agency and care. Immigrant Asian cookbook authors and chefs have long faced internal criticisms from their own diasporic communities of either inauthenticity or engaging in “food pornography,” to use writer Frank Chin’s term—a line of criticism that Lisa Lau has elaborated on as “re-Orientalism.”Though these criticisms should not eclipse the works themselves, I discuss and counter …