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Department News & Events
General News
CHINA Summer Study and Service Learning Abroad Opportunity: June 27-July 23, 2007. Earn 3 credits (IND210) by spending 3 weeks in Fuzhou, China, including a two-day tour of Beijing (with Great Wall), learning basic Chinese and cultural practices and tutoring English to Chinese middle and high school students. For more information contact program faculty director, Dr. Minmin Wang (wang@rider.edu).
ITALY Study Tour in Spring 2008 course offerings: January 5-16: Earn 3 credits for Spring 2008 while participating in a January study tour (IND210) to Italy led by Dr. Linda Materna of Foreign Languages (with assistance from Dr. Barry Seldes, Political Science). This study tour is also open for non-credit to alumni, family and friends of Rider University. A $250 deposit (refundable before September 1) will secure you a seat. For more information contact Dr. Materna (materna@rider.edu) or Dr. Seldes (seldes@rider.edu).
Club News
The German Club has scheduled many events for the ’07-’08 year including:
- Oktoberfest Pub Night, co-sponsored with the Rider Pub
- German Film Night
- Trip to the Blue Danube German Restaurant in Trenton
- Trip to see the Salzburg Marionette Theater's "The Magic Flute" in Philadelphia
- Deutscher Stammtisch (German table where only German is spoken)
- Diversity Council Bronc Buffet featuring all the Diverse Clubs on the Rider Campus
- Trip to the Museum for German and Austrian Art (Neue Galerie) in NYC
- Diversity Council Cultural Explosion on Wednesday, March 26, 2008.
For more information on these and all our events, please contact Dr. Margaret Schleissner, schleissner@rider.edu.
The French Club invites the campus to participate in the following events for spring ’08: (For more information contact Dr. Stéphane Natan (snatan@rider.edu)
A. French Conversation Table: If you speak French just a little or are fluent, please join us for an informal hour of conversation in French, or just listen in! All meetings are in Fine Arts 309 from 4:30-5:30 on the following days:
- Monday, January 28
- Wednesday, February 6
- Monday, February 18
- Wednesday, March 5
- Monday, March 10
- Wednesday, March 26
- Monday, April 7
- Wednesday, April 23
B. French Movie Nights: All films are in Fine Arts 309 at 4:30
- Monday February 11, French Movie Night: À la folie… pas du tout. Fine Arts 309 at 4:30 p.m.
- Wednesday April 2, French Movie Night: Les Rivières pourpres. Fine Arts 309 at 4:30 p.m. Caution: strong graphic violence/horror.
Faculty News
Dr. Mary Poteau-Tralie recently had a chapter published, "Landscape, Identity and Sexuality: Tituba as Candide in Maryse Condé's 'Moi, Tituba, Sorcière.... noire de Salem'" in the following collection of essays: "Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature" Eds. Magali Compan and Katarzyna Pieprzak.
Dr. Stéphane Natan, assistant professor of French, published the paper, “Le décor des Pensées de Pascal: Un monde clos et ténébreux,” in the fall 2006 volume of the journal “Romance Quarterly.” He also published another article, “Les Pensées de Pascal: Six épithètes au service de l’apologie,” in the fall 2006 volume of the journal “Études Épistémè."
Congratulations to senior Carlos Jarvis for joining Prof. Daria Cohen on a panel discussing “Best Practices in World Languages and International Education in Teacher Preparation Programs” for the NJ Department of Education on October 13 at William Paterson University.
Maria Cristina Campos Fuentes, adjunct faculty in Spanish, had her paper, "En el país de la parodia: el criollismo en Adán Buenosayres de Marechal," accepted for publication. It will be published in the May 2007 issue of the journal "Chasqui," Volume 36, Number 1, Spring 2007. "Chasqui" is a peer reviewed journal, specializing in Latin American literature.
"Adjunct Instructor of Chinese Jane Jiang publishes book in July 2006 entitled 'A Reflection Moment' (New York: Cozy House)." This book is an award-winning collection of 40 articles published originally in major Chinese newspapers and magazines that capture Mrs. Jiang's first 10 years in the United States and trace her life stages. Critics have called it a "true inner reflection and footprint of many immigrants' whispers and unceasing hopes, and which enlightens the unconditional endurance in all of us."
Dr. Linda Materna, Chairperson and Professor of Spanish of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, recently published her article "El poder y la libertad del artista en 'Cartas de amor a Stalin' de Juan Mayorga" in El próximo acto: teatro español en el siglo XXI (Delaware, OH: Estreno, 2006).
Dr. Daria Cohen, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, delivered the paper, “El juego metateatral en /Hermanas de sangre/ de Cristina Fernández Cubas,” at the Fourth International Congress of the Hispanic Association for the Humanities in Madrid, Spain on June 26. Dr. Cohen attended the Annual Conference of the Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in Salamanca, Spain from June 28 to July 1 where she participated in workshops on Spanish pedagogy. Dr. Cohen also presented a paper titled “Changing Women’s Voices/ Women’s Voices of Change in Contemporary Spanish Theater” at the New Europe at the Crossroads Conference in Berlin, Germany on July 3.
Dr. Stéphane Natan, assistant professor of French, published the paper, “Les Pensées de Pascal: Au royaume des nécessités,” in the journal, “Symposium,” Volume 60, Number 6, Summer 2006, pages 93-108. "Symposium"is a quarterly journal in “Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures.”
Materna Invited Speaker at University of Salamanca, Spain
Dr. Linda Materna, professor of Spanish and chairperson of the department of foreign languages and literatures at Rider, presented academic papers this past July at the annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) at the University of Salamanca in Spain and at the biannual conference of the Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades in Madrid.
Dr. Linda Materna has published a review of a production of Jeronimo Lopez Mozo's play on domestic violence, Ella se va, staged at the Madrid Galileo theater March-May 2004 in the journal Estreno. Cuadernos del teatro español contemporaneo. In July of 2005, she presented a paper entitled "Globalization and African Immigration in Spanish Film: Chus Gutierrez's Poniente" at the Europe at the New Crossroads conference in Poznan, Poland.
