World Languages & Cultures

Victoria G. Tillson, assistant professor of Italian, has published an article on 1950s Rome as "not-depicted" in Alberto Moravia's literature.

Donna Van Bodegraven, associate professor of Spanish, attended the fourth-annual Maya studies conference (known as "Maya at the Playa") in Bunnell, Fla. in early October.

Donna Van Bodegraven’s paper, “The Border-Crossing Experience in Recent Mexican and Chicano Theater,” was published in the 2010 monograph series Beauty is in the Details: A Global View of Persons of Color, published by NAAAS and Affiliates.

Professor Glenda Crawford in the School of Education and April Post, a lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages, presented their work, titled “Applying Ethnographic Strategies to Enhance Transformation in University Students through Cross-Disciplinary Academic Service-Learning,” at the 2nd International Conference on Education, Economy and Society in Paris, France on July 22.

David Neville, assistant professor of German and director of language learning technologies, published the article "Structuring Narrative in 3D Digital Game-Based Learning Environments to Support Second Language Acquisition” in the most recent issue of the Foreign Language Annals (Volume 43, Issue 3).

Molly McKnight Costigan, an Elon University Spanish major, has been named the recipient of a 2010 Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, which will fund one year in Spain teaching in an elementary school while conducting an independent project.

Four faculty members were honored May 12, 2010, for superior scholarship, teaching, mentoring and service at Elon University’s faculty-staff awards luncheon. Those recognized included Eric Hall, April Post, Todd Lee and Jeffrey C. Pugh.

Immigration to the United States and other developed nations has become a hot-button topic as governments continue to focus on security following the Sept. 11 attacks. But not all nations deal with immigration equally, which Molly Costigan ’10 discovered in work that is the fifth in a series of E-net profiles to showcase Elon undergraduate research during CELEBRATE! 2010.