January 24, 2026

You are cordially invited to attend any and all of our upcoming Graduate Students' Talks this Spring, as they prepare to present at prestigious and competitive conferences throughout the country.

 

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  • January 23, 11am, 2080A LCLB-- Laura Lestani's Nature, Ruins, and the Pastoral Vision in Nicoletto da Modena's Engravings (2026 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Premodern Studies) -- Directed by Prof. Stoppino

 

 

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  • March 2, 11am, Zoom -- Amelia Reggi's A Home or a Psychological Prison?: Womanly Labor in Deledda’s The Mother (2026 Northeast Modern Language Association's (NeMLA) 57th Annual Convention: (Re)generation) -- Directed by Prof. Rota

 

 

 

 

 

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  • March 4, 12pm, 2090B LCLB -- Sasha Craig's Sound of Anger, Sound of Silence, and the Liminal Space in So Long a Letter by Miriama Bâ, Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain and Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé (2026 20 & 21st Century French and Francophone International Colloquium) -- Directed by Prof. Reynolds

 

 

 

 

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  • March 9, 1pm, 2090B LCLB -- Jude Mensah's Rewriting the Rules: Machine Translation as a Classroom Resource (2026 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSCTFL) Conference) -- Directed by Prof. Mroz

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • March 9, 3pm, 2090B LCLB -- Scarlet Peterson's Heritage Speakers of Spanish mediating linguistic (in)security through third-language acquisition (American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference) -- Directed by Prof. Mroz

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • March 11, 12pm, 2090B LCLB -- Jude Mensah's Machine Translation and L2 Oral Development: A Comparative Study of Lexical Diversity and Fluency (2026 American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference) -- Directed by Prof. Mroz