Faculty Awards, Honors, & Scholarly Works

Our faculty in Foreign Languages and Literatures is a high-achieving group of people! Below, you will see faculty members and the distinctions they have received over the years, as well as some of their most recent works, awards, and honors.

Recent Grants

Assistant Professor Jennifer Gomez Menjivar

• Global Programs and Strategy Alliance, Global Spotlight International Research Seed Grant (2012)

Assistant Professor Dana Lindaman

• Imagine Grant (2013)
• Office of Information Technology: Faculty Fellowship Program (2012-2013) UMTC
• Small Seed Research Grant (2012)
• Strategic Initiative Grant (2012) UMD
• GPS Alliance International Travel Grant (2012) UMTC
• Chancellor's Small Grant (2011)
• CLA Research Grant (2010)

Associate Professor Maureen Tobin Stanley

• Dean's Excellence Funds (2012)
• Commission on Women Grant (2012)
• Chancellor's Small Grant (2012)
• Funded by Dean to index recent book publication, received by Dr. Tobin Stanley and Dr. Zinn (Fall 2011)

Associate Professor Gesa Zinn

• Dean's Excellence Funds (2012)
• Chancellor's Small Grant (2012)
• Funded by Dean to index recent book publication, received by Dr. Zinn and Dr. Tobin Stanley (Fall 2011)
• Chancellor's Small Grant (2011)

Recent Publications (Books)

Associate Professor Maureen Tobin Stanley

• Gesa Zinn and M. Tobin Stanley, eds. Exile Through a Gendered Lens: Women’s Displacement in Recent European History, Literature and Film. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• María Tajes, Emily Knudson-Vilaseca and M. Tobin Stanley, eds. Hybridity in Spanish Culture. New Castle, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Associate Professor Gesa Zinn

• Gesa Zinn and M. Tobin Stanley, eds. Exile Through a Gendered Lens: Women’s Displacement in Recent European History, Literature and Film. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Recent Publications (Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters)

Assistant Professor Jennifer Gomez Menjivar

• “Feast Your Eyes on This: A Gourmand Explores the Provocative Culinary Delights of Seventeenth Century Guatemala.” Cincinnati Romance Review 33 (2012): 145-163.
• "Novel Reconciliations:The Discourses of Oppression, Feminism, and Nation in Calypso and Limón Blues." Hipertexto 15 (2012): 124-131.

Assistant Professor Dana Lindaman

• “Une Saison en enfer et Jules Verne.” Parade Sauvage, 23 (2012).
• “A Resurgence.” Special Issue; Le Français a-t-il un avenir?, French Review (forthcoming) Article addressing the resurgence of French at the University of Minnesota Duluth
• Book Review, Benoît de Cornulier, De la métrique à l’interprétation: Essais sur Rimbaud (Paris: Gallimard, 2009). Pp. 560. Nineteenth-Century French Studies (forthcoming)

Associate Professor Maureen Tobin Stanley

•   “Liberating Mythography: The Intertextual Discourse between Mythological Banishment and Domestic Violence as Exile in Take My Eyes (Te doy mis ojos ). Exile Through a Gendered Lens: Women’s Displacement in Recent European History, Literature and Film. Eds. G. Zinn and M. Tobin Stanley. New York and London: Palgrave MacMillian, 2012.
• “Mujeres silenciosas, mujeres silenciadas”: Reality and Representation of the Female Republican Struggle against Francoist and Hitlerian Nationalism within the Context of the ‘Spanish Republican Holocaust’ Cultural Corpus.” Letras Peninsulares 22,2 (special issue [published jointly with the Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies 6] dedicated to Holocaust representation in Spanish letters ): 113-140.
• “El tránsito, el transporte y las trascendencia: El exilio y la deportación en Jorge Semprún”. El exilio republicano de 1939 y la segunda generación. Ed. Manuel Aznar.  Sevilla: Renacimiento, Biblioteca del Exilio, Anejos XV. 590-597.
• “La hibridación y mediatización de la violencia: El sexo, las drogas y el “rocanrol” en Historias del Kronen (1994) de José Ángel Mañas.” Hybridity in Spanish Culture. Eds. María Tajes, Emily Knudson-Vilaseca and M. Tobin Stanley. New Castle, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2011. 101-120.

Associate Professor Gesa Zinn

• "Home, Alienhood and Transience in Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things and Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven." The International Journal of the Humanities, Vol.5, Issue 5 (2012)
  

• "Souls in Transit: Exilic Journeys in Fatih Akin's On the Edge of Heaven (2007)," forthcoming in: Exile Through a Gendered Lens. Women in European History, Literature and Cinema. Co-editor: Maureen Tobin Stanley. New York: Palgrave MacMillan: 2012
  

Awards

Assistant Professor Kristen Hylenski

• CLA Teaching Award, 2010

Associate Professor Milan Kovacovic

• CLA Teaching Award, 2000
• Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Writing Awards, 1986, l988, 1993
• McKnight/Arrowhead Regional Arts Council Awards, 1992, 2002
• Lake Superior Contemporary Writers Award, 1987

Instructor Michael Mullins

• President's Award for Outstanding Service, 2012
• CLA Teaching Award, 2008

Associate Professor Maureen Tobin Stanley

• CLA Research Award, 2012
• CLA Teaching Award, 2007
• CLA Research Award, 2005

Professor Emeritus Eileen M. Zeitz

• CLA Research Award, 2008
• UMD Chancellor's Advising Award, 2008
• University of Minnesota Horace T. Morse Minnesota Alumni Association Award, 1997
• CLA Teaching Award, 1996
• NEA Creative Writing Fellowship Grant, 1980

Associate Professor Gesa Zinn

• Sabbatical for 2013/2014
• CLA Teaching Award, 2011
• Nominated for Albert Tezla Teacher/Scholar Award, 2010
• CLA Research Award, 2007
• Best Article Award for “ Teaching the Kurds, Roma and Sinti,” Die Unterrichtspraxis
              /Teaching German, AATG, Washington D.C., 2001