2004/2005 School Year
6/7/05 Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a paper titled, “Cultural Skills in the Context of Oral Proficiency Interview,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, April 1, 2005. She was also elected as Board of Director for the Japanese Garden Society of Oregon in April, 2005.
5/19/05 Laurence Kominz, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, gave a presentation entitled "The Life and Death of Kabuki's Greatest Romantic Idol: Ichikawa Danj~r" VIII" on April 29 at Stanford University as part of a two-day symposium entitled "The Final Bow: Kabuki Actors in Life, Death, and Beyond."
4/10/05 Timm Menke has been appointed "External Examiner" for courses in the German and European Studies Department at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
4/9/05 Eva Nunez - Mendez, Faculty of FLL, has just published a book review titled "A Philosophy of Second Language Acquisition" by M. Johson, Yale University Press, at the journal Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, 59 91): 81-83, 2005.
4/19/05 Patricia Wetzel, Foreign Languages, gave an invited lecture entitled "The Linguistic Landscape of Japan" at Cornell University on April 14.
4/19/05 Eva Nunez-Mendez, Foreing Language Faculty, has just published a book review about the importance of bilingualism in Education. Her review of "Trascending Monolingualism, Linguistic Revitalisation in Education" is published in the journal Bilingual Education and Bilingualism vol 8, no. 2, pp. 249-51 (Spring 2005).
4/12/05 Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures Faculty, presented a paper entitled "Women and the Ana" at the meeting of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature held April 14th-16th at the University of South Carlolina, Columbia.
4/12/05 Congratulations to Eva Nunez-Mendez who has received the Northwest Council on Study Abroad appointment to teach at the University of Oviedo (Spain) during the winter term 2006.
4/11/05 Congratulations ot Cécile Accilien who has received an Nationl Endowment for the Humanities grant to attend a Summer Institute on African Cinema in Dakar, Senegal.
4/11/05 Eva Nunez-Mendez, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, has published a book review of Michel Achard and S. Niemeir's "Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching" in Language, Culture and Curriculum Vol. 18, no. 2 (2005).
4/8/05 Congratulations to Patricia Wetzel, Japanese, who is the recipient of a Fulbright Short-term Research Grant to Japan for the Winter 2006. She will be conducting research on "The Linguistic Landscape of Japan."
4/8/05 Oscar Fernandez, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, co-organizer in Equity's Foundation's second annual Safe Schools Summit, April 6th, Nike Campus. The Safe Schools Summit brought together influential policy makers, program leaders, and students from the State of Oregon to discuss issues of bullying and harassment affecting students in schools.
4/4/05 Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to participate in a summer institute entitled "A Voice of their Own: Women Writing - Venice, London, Madrid, Paris--1550-1700" that will take place at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in July.
3/31/05 Oscar Fernandez, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, has been selected to serve as board member for Portland's Equity Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization funding programs in community education, youth and family, health and social services, and arts and culture http://www.equityfoundation.org/
3/29/05 Suwako Watanabe, faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, authored a chapter titled, "Review of Research on Validity and Application of ACTFL-OPI," in New Developments in Language Education: In Honor of Professor Seiichi Makino's 70th Birthday, edited by Osamu Kamada, Michio Tsutsui, Yukiko Hatasa, Fumiko Nazikian and Mayumi Oka, March, 2005.
3/29/05 Laureen Nussbaum, Foreign Languages and Literatures emeritus faculty, authored "Three Concentration Camp Accounts by Teenage Survivors: A Comparative Analysis" in Autobiographische zeugnisse der Verfolgung (Autibiographical Reports of Persecution) Hommage fùr Guy Stern, Heidelberg: Synchron Publishers, 2005.
3/16/05 Oscar Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, presented a a paper, Francisco Clavijero and Transatlantic Natural Histories, at the annual American Comparative Literature Association conference (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, March 11-13, 2005).
3/6/05 Congratulations to Eva Nunez Mendez, whose article "El complemento indirecto introducido por 'para" was published in Hispanic Research Journal 6 (1): 3-12, Feb. 2005, at the University of London, U. K.
2/1/05 Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, co-presented a session titled, “Placement Practices at the College Level: How Are Students Placed?” at the ACTFL/NCJLT Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, November 20, 2004.
2/1/05 Timm Menke, "Martin Walser as Teacher". In Parkes, Wefelmeyer, eds., "Martin Walser: New Perspectives". Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.
1/3/05 Congratulations to Dr.Timm Menke, whose book review entitled "Volker Langbehn: Arno Schmidt's Zettel's Traum. An Analysis" was featured in the Fall 2004 publication of The German Quarterly.
11/18/04 DeLys Ostlund & Manya Wubbold, Foreign Languages & Literatures, were part of a panel on Service Learning in a Foreign Language during the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association meeting held at Reed College Nov. 5-7. Ostlund presented a paper entitled "What Does Service Learning Have To Do With Don Quijote," and Wubbold presented a paper entitled "Service Learning Here and Abroad."
11/17/04 Oscar Fernández, Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures, was a co-presenter for Portland State's First Annual Edúcate Conference organized by M.E.Ch.A (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán) with a session on "Latinos in Education" (with David Martínez, Director of Multicultural Programs, Linfield College), Nov. 12, 2004. The conference welcomed 250 Latino high school students from the metro area.
11/17/04 Eva Nunez Mendez, Foreign Language and Literature faculty, recently presented a paper "Mistica de los trabajadores en la prosa chilena de Eltit" at the annual Pacific Ancient & Modern Lang. Assoc. conference at Reed College, Portland, Nov. 7, 2004.
11/9/04 Inger M. Olsen, FLL, presented a paper "Isak Dinesen in the Role of Historical Writer" at the annual Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association at Reed College in Portland, Or. November 5-7, 2004.
11/2/04 Dr. Pelin Basci, presented "The Rise, Fall, and the Taming of the 'New Muslim Woman': Changing Perceptions of Masculinity in Turkish Novel and the Popular Press, 1900-1930", September 16, 2004 at Indiana University-Bloomington in their Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies.
11/2/04 Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, received the Outstanding Contribution to the Language Teaching Profession Award from the Confederation of Oregon For Language Teaching at the COFLT/WAFLT Bi-state Fall Conference, Portland, October 8, 2004.
11/2/04 Congratulations to Dr. Timm Menke for his recent publication, "Reinhard Jirgl's Novel "Die Unvollendeten": Taboo Violation or Belated Memory?" In Glossen 20/2004. A Journal on Literature and Art in Germany after 1945.
10/24/24 Inger Olsen, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, participated in an in-service course at Hindsgavl Castle, Denmark, conducted by the Ministry for Science, Technology and Innovation for lecturers teaching Danish abroad from July 27-31.
10/14/04 Eva Nunez, FLL faculty, presented a paper "Mastretta and their female characters" at the annual Rocky Mountain Modern Lang. Assoc. Conference at the U. of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Nunez also chaired the session of Spanish Linguistics and was alternative chair for the session of Second Language Acquisition.
10/13/04 Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, gave a lecture titled, “Features of Narrative Production in Japanese Spoken Language,” the lecture series sponsored by Ehime JASL,in Matsuyama, Japan, September 11, 2004. She also gave a talk titled, “A Comparison of Japanese and US Group Discussion,” Matsuyama Branch of Japanese Association of Language Teachers, Matsuyama, Japan, September 12, 2004.
10/12/04 Stephen Walton, Foreign Languages faculty (French), gave a presentation on "An Approach to Teaching French Pronunciation" at the Joint Conference of COFLT/WAFLT (Confederation in Oregon for & Washington Association for Language Teaching) in Portland, October 8, 2004.
10/11/04 Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, who was the guest speaker at the annual Oregon Association of Teachers of French (OATF) and Washington Association of Teachers of French (WATF) conference held in Portland on October 9th at which she presented a paper entitled "L'acquisition des langues pour tous âges" ("Language Acquisition for All Ages").
10/5/04 Congratulations to Dr. Timm Menke whose article, "German Refugees and Displaced Persons in the Novels of Arno Schmidt" was published in the English journal German Life and Letters 75/4, 2004.
10/5/04 Laurence Kominz, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented" An Introduction to Noh and Kyogen" for the Theatre History Initiative Summer Institute of The Shakespeare Theatre in the Nation's Capital, July 16. Kominz was artistic director of the PSU Center for Japanese Studies' Japan in Motion '05 performance festival, July 30-August 6. He performed the buyo dance "Otokobune" with the Fujinami-kai troupe at Festival Japan in Beaverton, Sept. 19.
10/5/04 Eva Núñez, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, wrote a book review of P. Eckert's Style and Sociolinguistic Variation, M. Reyes' The Best for Our Children, S. Kellman's The Translingual Imagination, and W. Calvin's Lingua ex Machina published in the following journals: American Speech from Duke University Press, Linguistics and Education from the University of Pennsylvania, South Central Review from Texas A & M, and Linguistica Antverpiensia, a Belgium independent journal of linguistics.
9/30/04 Laureen Nussbaum, Foreign Languages and Literatures emerita faculty, contributed "A Sampling of Georg Hermann's 'Letters about German Literature,' published in Het Algemeen Handelsblad 1921-1926" to Georg Hermann Deutsch-Jüdischer Schriftsteller Und Journalist 1871-1943, the bilingual volume 48 of the series Conditio Judaica (Tübingen: Niemeyer: 2004).
9/30/04 Congratulations Eva Núñez, Spanish Department faculty who presented a paper, "La Dianela Eltit de Mano de obra," at the Conference of Trans-Atlantic Studies at Brown University in April, 2004.
2003/2004 School Year
7/12/04 Congratulations to FLL's Heritage Language Initiative whose program was featured on the front of the July 12th Metro section of The Oregonian. You can read the article by following this link.
6/4/04 Three PSU students from the German program were chosen to receive full scholarships to study abroad as part of the 2004/05 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship Program. Jason Nickels, Matthew Geraths, and Tristan Whitehead were chosen from a group of 294 highly qualified applicants from the US and Canada.
6/4/04 PSU’s M.E.Ch.A (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán) hosted their first annual award banquet. During the course of the evening, staff, faculty, and students were honored for their work with Hispanic and Chicano communities. Dr. Oscar Fernández was the recipient of an award "In recognition for your hard work and dedication [2004].”
6/4/04 The Turkish Language and Culture section at FLL received a grant of $2000 in matching funds from the Institute of Turkish Studies at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. in order to host a workshop on "Turkish Proficiency Benchmarks." The workshop, which is co-sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages, National Middle East Languages Resource Center at BYU, Portland State University (FLL, Middle East Studies Center, and CLAS), and University of Oregon's Center for Applied Second Language Studies, will bring academics from other US institutions of higher education to Portland State University (tentatively) between March 11 and 13, 2005.
5/27/04 Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored "Conflict Management Strategies in Japanese Group Discussions," published in Hidden and Open Conflict in Japanese Conversational Interaction, ed. Polly Szatrowski, Kuroshio Publishers, Tokyo, 2004.
5/24/04 PSU Professor Receives Japan Emperor’s Medal: On April 29, 2004, Emperor Akihito of Japan decorated Professor Theodore F. (Ted) Welch with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette (a Japanese kunsho award) for his outstanding contribution to the promotion of U.S. – Japan relations. Dr. Welch is professor of Japanese in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures since 1999 and Director of Development in the Center for Japanese Studies since 2002 at Portland State. The award was conferred upon Prof. Welch by Consul-General Tadashi Nagai on May 15, 2004.
5/24/04 Congratulations to Dr. Robert Sanders and Mark Wubbold, whose article "Connecting Educational Communities: Guatemala ~ Portland State University" was published in this Spring's issue of Faculty Focus. An online version is available at: http://www.cae.pdx.edu/FacultyFocus/Spring04/sanders.html
5/23/04 The following is a reference for a new publication by Dr. Timm Menke: "Leseerfahrungen mit Arno Schmidt" In: Rudi Schweikert, ed., »Da war ich hin und weg« Arno Schmidt als prägendes Leseerlebnis. 100 Statements und Geschichten. Frankfurt: Bangert & Metzler, 2004.
5/5/04 Congratulations to Dr. Robert Sanders who has received his second ACTFL Testing Grant. This year's award is valued at $1750.
5/5/04 Spanish major Shannon Gust has been awarded a prestigious Phi Kappa Phi fellowship for graduate study. Shannon is a Portland native. In 2000 she graduated from Sunset High School in Beaverton and decided to attend PSU. At Portland State she is majoring in Spanish Langauge and Literature, minoring in Biology and obtaining her Certificate in Biomedical Ethics. She will be graduating this June, Summa Cum Laude. After graduation Shannon plans to attend Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland where she will study medicine.
5/5/2004 Congratulations to Dr. Eva Núñez, Asst. Professor in Spanish whos review of Lisa Vollendorf's Recovering Spain's feminist tradition was published in Ojancano 25: 95-99.
5/5/04 Laureen Nussbaum, Foreign Languages and Literatures emerita faculty, was asked by the Anne Frank Foundation in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to contribute a Dutch and an English update on Anne Frank's writings to the foundation's Web site. The English version is titled "Is Anne Frank at Last Taken Seriously as a Writer?" and can be found on the Web at: http://212.129.237.38/content.asp?pid=189&lid=2. Dr. Nussbaum also contributed an essay to the Dutch anthology entitled "The Many Faces of Anne Frank, Visions on a Phenomenon, ed. Gerrold van der Stroom (Amsterdam: de Prom, 2003)
4/18/04 Dr. Eva Núñez, Asst. Professor in Spanish, presented a paper "La Dianela Eltit de Mano de obra" at the Conference of Trans-Atlantic Studies at Brown University, RI.
4/4/2004 Congratulations to Dr. Eva Núñez, Asst. Professor in Spanish, whose book reviews of P. Eckert's Style and Sociolinguistic Variation and M. Reyes' The Best for Our Children were published in the following journals: American Speech from Duke University Press and Linguistics and Education from the University of Pennsylvania.
4/15/04 DeLys Ostlund, Mark Wubbold and Ann Angel won a Teaching With Technology award for their project Spanish 404-Bilingual Education and the Spanish Curriculum Archive. You can view the Archive at: http://www.sca.pdx.edu/
4/11/04 Pelin Basci, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored "Advertising Modernity in Women's World: Women's Lifestyle and Leisure in Late-Ottoman Istanbul" published in HAWWA, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2004).
3/15/04 Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, gave a lecture titled "A Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Students" to a delegation of high school students from Toyama Prefecture, Japan, at Portland State on March 15.
3/16/04 Timm Menke (Foreign Languages and Literatures) presented a paper on "Reinhard Jirgl's novel "Die Unvollendeten": Taboo Violation or Belated Memory?" Given at the Northeast Modern Language Association convention in Pittsburgh, PA in March.
3/11/04 Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literature faculty, authored "Cohesion and Coherence Strategies in Paragraph-Length and Extended Discourse in Japanese Oral Proficiency Interviews" published in FLANNALS, Vol. 36, No 4 (2003).
3/11/04 Congratulations to Patricia Wetzel, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, author of Keigo in Modern Japan published by the University of Hawaii Press.
2/22/04 Congratulations to the team of Professor Delys Ostlund, Ann Angel and Mark Wubbold on receiving the 2003-2004 Scholarship of Teaching & Learning with Technology Award. They will receive a stipend and a formal award at the Teaching & Learning with Technology Fair being held on Thursday, April 8, 2004 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm in the SMU Ballroom.
1/15/04 Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, recently received two grants in support of an upcoming conference titled "Relations and Relationships in Seventeenth-Century French Literature." Perlmutter, principal organizer of the May 6-8 conference, received $20,000 from the Florence Gould Foundation and $1,000 from the Internationalization Mini-Grant
12/15/03 First year Assistant Professor Oscar Fernandez has received a Faculty Scholarship Grant for: AIDS in Costa Rica: Current Policies and its Literary Manifestations. This project will gather the source materials emanating from Costa Rica on current AIDS prevention policies; works of fiction arising from the pandemic; and testimonials by Costa Rican PLWAs (people living with AIDS).
12/6/03 Congratulations to Pelin Basci, whose article "Love, Marriage, and Motherhood: Changing Expectations of Women in Late Ottoman Istanbul" was published in the Autumn addition of Turkish Studies. You can find it in Vol. 4, No. 3 (Autumn 2003): pgs. 145-177.
11/23/03 Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty gave a presentation, "Community-Based Learning: University Students Making Connections with Community," and co-presented a session titled, "Curriculum for K-12 Japanese Language Program: A Collaboration between Louisiana and Oregon," at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
11/9/2003 Maureen Nussbaum, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a paper, "What is so Unique about the Diary of Anne Frank?" at the 13th annual conference of the study group "Women in Exile." The meeting was held in Leipzig, Germany, at the Deutsche Buecherei (German Nation Library), Nov. 7-9. The theme of this year's conference was "Persecuted as a Child. Anne Frank and the Others."
9/13/03 Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "Discourse Analysis and Oral Proficiency Interview," to the Japanese OPI study group in Tokyo, Japan.
9/1/2003 Congratulations to Dr. Timm Menke, Professor of German, who has co-authored "Hans Henny Jahn and his Publisher Willi Weismann. A Chapter in German Publishing History 1947-1958" published in the Canadian journal Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies (September 2003).
2002/2003 School Year
6/1/2003 Drs. George T. Cabello, Claudine Fischer and Lou Elteto are officially retiring this year. They will continue to work with the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and their students. We are greatly appreciative of their service and scholarship at PSU. They will be honored at a reception on June 10th, at 5:00 pm in the Urban Center Gallery.
6/1/2003 Dr. Dirgham Sbait is the 2003 recipient of the prestigous George Hoffman Award for Faculty Excellence. He will receive the award and monetary prize at Spring Commencement.
5/15/2003 Congratulations to the PEW Redesign Team (Robert Sanders, Misty Richards, Maggie Lynch, Bill Fischer, Terrel Rhodes) for their work in First-Year Spanish. Dr. Robert Sanders is the recipient of a 2003 WebCT Exemplary Course Project Award. There are six such awards in 2003 for projects in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. The redesign of First-Year Spanish was funded by the Center for Academic Transformation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
5/15/2003 Dr. Eva Núñez, Asst. Professor in Spanish, published two book reviews of S. Kellman's The Translingual Imagination and W. Calvin's Lingua ex Machina in two jornals; South Central Review fromTexas A & M); and Linguistica Antverpiensia, an Independent journal of Linguistics, in Belgium.
5/15/2003 Drs. Sandra Freels and George T. Cabello are each recipients of the 2003 John Elliot Allen Outstanding Teacher Award. This award is confered by students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to professors they nominate and recommend based on their exemplary teaching. The award includes a monetary prize from Dean MArvin Kaiser of CLAS.
5/15/2003 Dr. DeLys Ostlund and her design team (Manya Wubbold, Mark Wubbold, Robert Sanders) have received a $10,000 grant from the Center for Academic Excellence for their cooperative internship course in bilingual education.
5/1/2003 Professor Emeritus of Spanish Literature and Language Dr. George T. Cabello is the sole winner of the 2003 Portland State University "Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award." He will receive the award on Thursday, May 1, at the PSU Salutes Ceremony in Hoffman Hall from 5:30 to 7:30.
4/1/2003 The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures has won a 2003 Portland State University Civic Engagement Award for its Applied Langauge in Service Program. This program places language students with local community service agencies and is lead by Sandra Freels and Manya Wubbold.
3/1/2003 Inés Warnock, Robert Sanders and Sandra Freels have won a $10,000 Portland State University Faculty Vitality Grant for the redesign of the second-year Spanish program.
3/4/2003 Congratulations to Dr. Eva Núñez whose article "Mastretta y sus protagonistas, ejemplos de emancipación femenina" was published in the journal Romance Studies 20 (2): 115-28 from the University of Wales in United Kingdom.
1/15/2003 Steve Wadley and Manya Wubbold have each received mini-grants from the Internationalization Action Council.
1/1/2003 Delys Ostlund, Robert Sanders, Manya Wubbold and Mark Wubbold received a $2500 Departmental Engagement Grant from the Portland State University Center for Academic Excellence for their new cooperative bilingual education course.
12/15/2002 Dr. Pat Wetzel has been awarded $2,000 by the Oregon Consortium for Asian Studies for a Vietnam Film Festival.
11/15/2002 Dr. George T. Cabello has received a $3,000 grant from the Oregon Council for the Humanities in support of CINE-LIT V: An International Conference on Hispanic Film and Fiction, held in Portland February 26-March 1, 2003.
10/1/2002 Dr. Steven Fuller has recieved a $24,000 grant form the Max Kade Foundation to support the Deutsche Schule am Pazifik German immersion, culture and literature program he directs.
9/15/2002 Congratulations to Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, who received a $5,000 grant from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages for the research study, "Paragraph Discourse in Spoken and Written Narratives in Japanese." She also co-presented a paper titled, "Structured Argument in Oral Proficiency Interview" and was a panelist in the session on theories and applications of OPI at the OPI Symposium at University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 27 and 28.
6/1/2002 Dr. Pat Wetzel has been awarded $2,500.00 for institutional career support.
5/1/02 Dr. Robert Sanders received an ACTFL Testing Grant valued at $5250.
3/15/2002 Dr. Dirgham's Sbait has published a significant article on titled "Palestinian Wedding Songs" in vol. 6 of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Middle East.
12/15/2001 Each year during the interviews to determine the John Eliot Allen Outstanding professor for each department Scott Burns also asks students to identify the best professor they have had at PSU outside of the major. In 2000 students outside of FLL identified Dirgham Sbait, and in 2001 they named Larry Kominz, Pat Wetzel, Suwako Watanabe, David Thompson, Earl Rees, and Sara Cuevas.Congratulations to all!!!
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