Department of Foreign Languages
Department of Foreign Languages
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Faculty and Staff
The department has a professionally active faculty in literature, linguistics and pedagogy. To mention but a few of the professors' more recent accomplishments, Dr. Molly Recchia has published a critical edition of the medieval French manuscript La Vie Seint Marcel de Lymoges. Dr. Peter Blickle's 2002 book, Heimat: A Critical Theory of the German Idea of Homeland, has come out in a second, paperback edition. Our professor of Chinese, Dr. Xiaojun Wang, has co-authored the most used introductory Chinese textbook nationally and internationally, Integrated Chinese. Dr. Peter Krawutschke is president of FIT, the Fedération Internationale des Traducteurs, and treasurer of ATA, the American Translators' Association. As far as events organized by our faculty are concerned, Dr. Vincent Desroches heads the successful Francophone Film Festival, an annual international film competition that began in 2001 and in 2007 has added a conference on film and pedagogy. The Arabic Linguistic Society held its annual conference here in 2006, and Mustafa Mughazy has since been elected to head the international organization.