Modern Languages and Literatures

Presented a paper at and participated in Re-thinking Trauma: Cinema, Performance, and Mediation International Conference took place from September 2 to 4, 2026, at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Organized by Ekphrasis Center for Transdisciplinary, Liberal Arts and Creative Technologies Research and the Department of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, the conference asked to scholars “to rethink trauma in relation to both contemporary media environments and to our changing ways of understanding the world“ and “to examine how inherited concepts operate under present conditions: where they continue to illuminate traumatic experience, where they encounter limits, and where additional conceptual tools may be required.” The conference aimed “to consider how trauma is currently conceptualized, represented, mediated, and experienced across theory and practice.”

Patrick Schultz, Modern Languages Lecturer, is pictured with a student at the SUNY Oswego Major/Minor Fair, held on October 2, 2026. The Modern Languages & Literatures table provided information about the department’s language programs, study abroad opportunities, and the benefits of adding a language minor to students’ existing majors.

Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti, Chair of Modern Languages, is pictured at the University of Montevideo (UM), where he presented his current research on Uruguayan avant-garde poetry and the cinematic image. The international conference, held in July 2026, brought together leading scholars from Europe and the Americas specializing in archival studies.

We are delighted to present Hugo Salcedo's "Los hijos de la Malinche," translated to English by Carolyn Malloy and Georgina Whittingham.

As President of Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, Dr. Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti helped organize the annual conference at Salisbury University, MD, in March 2023.

Dr. Roseli Rojo contributed to Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas with her piece, "Havana on Steam Power: Literature, the Railroad, and the City in Nineteenth-Century Cuba."