The commentary teaches students how to read ancient Greek and to interpret stories. He has published a textual commentary on book five of Herodotos’ Histories (U of O Press, 2018). He is fascinated by creativity, translation, and the process of creating a dialogue between different cultures and time periods. He believes in many truths and many fictions and is amazed by how the false and true interact with each other. Peek is interested in the stories we tell ourselves, those we tell each other, and how we interpret those told to us. HNRS 2020: Great Ideas - Humanism and its Detractors GERM 2150: German Culture and Civilization See also: Improvisation, Posthumanism, and Agency in Art (Gerhard Richter Painting) and Improvisation in the Arts and everyday life. Conceptual Challenges, Historical Perspectives (2011), the anthology Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism: Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences After Kant, coedited with Gabriel Trop and Leif Wetherby (2018), and an anthology coedited with Elliott Schreiber with the title Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 (2020). Recent books include: Improvisation as Art. His research and publications focus on aesthetics, literature, and philosophy in the age of Goethe, on Nietzsche, critical improvisation studies, and theories of posthumanism. Landgraf studied philosophy and literature at the Universities of Zurich, at U of Illinois, Chicago, and The Johns Hopkins University. When not engaged in scholar activities, she loves animals specifically, she does volunteer work with abandoned dogs and cats in a local animal shelter.ĭr. Her main objective is helping students stretch, both academically and personally, while studying abroad. In addition to her administrative duties, she teaches four courses every semester. She continues in this post up to present. She joined the faculty at BGSU as the resident director for their Study Abroad Program in Spain in 2000. She taught at the University of Alcala and at The Institute of North American Studies in Alcala prior to teaching for BGSU. She received a MA degree in Spanish by Bowling Green State University in 1996 and she received her Doctorate in English Philology by the University of Alcala in 1997. Susana Juarez (Guadalajara, Spain, 1968) received a bachelor’s degree in English Philology by the University of Alcala (Spain) in 1993. More recently, Deborah has turned her attention to second language acquisition research and new pedagogies for teaching languages in the 21st century.Susana Juarez, resident director for the Bowling Green State University study abroad program in Spain She is the author of Modes of Seduction: Sexual Power in Balzac and Sand (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2005) and a number of articles on nineteenth-century French literature. French Literature, University of Pennsylvania) has been teaching language, culture, and literature at Bowling Green State University for almost two decades. Recently, she has collaborated with BGSU colleague, Deborah Schocket, to investigate the use of online translators in the L2 classroom.ĭeborah Houk Schocket (PhD. She is co-author of the text Heritage Language Teaching: Research & Practice, along with colleagues Sara Beaudrie & Kim Potowski. Cindy’s research investigates sociolinguistic concerns in the heritage language classroom. Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona) has been teaching Spanish at Bowling Green State University for over a decade. The workshop aims to make participants aware of how students currently use these technologies while also preparing those present to design lessons that focus on the types of language skills that are unlikely ever to be automated.Ĭynthia Ducar (PhD.
The workshop includes an overview of the latest research as well as hands-on activities highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of Google Translate and alternative technologies. Professors Ducar & Schocket will share insights on the gains Google Translate (GT) has made in recent years, addressing the challenges and opportunities this technology presents for L2 students and instructors.
of Romance Literatures and Languages and the Foreign Language Advisory Group.