January 24, 2026
Poster

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.

 

Engraving
  • 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

 

 

Woman doing laundry
  • 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

 

 

 

 

 

Text, cage, drum
  • March 4, 12pm, 2142 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Macha Petre's Presentations

    March 6, 12pm, 2090C LCLB -- Macha Petre's Enhancing Oral Proficiency Through Gamified Generative Artificial Intelligence, as well as Ethical language learning with generative artificial intelligence: Enhancing learners’ oral skills through interactive roleplay platforms (2026 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSCTFL) Conference + 2026 American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference) -- Directed by Prof. Mroz

     

 

 

  • Computer, mic, headset
  • 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scale, lock, hand
  • 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue computer mic headset
  • 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Missouri French presentation file

    April 15, 12pm, 2090B LCLB -- Melanie Guitard's “It’s Good to Tell You!” Phonemic inventory and language contact in Old Mines French, Missouri (10th anniversary Les Français d'ici Conference) -- together with Zachary Bequette and Prof. Zsuzsanna Fagyal