Accomplishments: Department of World Languages and Cultures

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) has written poetry, "Tilted Landscape," ("Качнувшийся пейзаж") that has been published in Russian-German literary magazine The Text. 
Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has successfully completed the online training ‘’La Francophonie: essence culturelle nécessité politique-2020" organized by University of Jean Moulin, Lyon, France. She has attended seven weeks of the following training and was awarded a certificate of success this month.
Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) took part in an online international colloquium, ‘’Israel est mondialement FLE,’’ in Israel last month. She presented a webinar,'' L’enseignement-apprentissage du FLE à distance: classé inversée." The conference was organized with the Association of French teachers (APFI/FIPF, the general inspection…
Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) recently presented a paper, "S or no s?  A lesson plan for integrating dialectal phonology in the beginning Medical Spanish classroom," at the Medical Spanish Summit.  
Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages) participated in the evening of literary readings at the Harriman Institute and the New Review (Novyi Zhurnal). The readings were hosted by professor Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Department) and included a presentation by Marina Adamovitch, editor-in-chief of the New Review, on the publication's…
Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) published a book, Les Manifestations Interculturels des Stéréotypes Interculturels dans les Traductions des Textes Poétiques with the Presses Académiques Francophones. It is a linguistic guideline for French language learners and master’s degree students. The book presents linguistic…
Marina Colacicchi-Garber (World Languages and Cultures) wrote "The Werther Effect," an essay published in the Interpoezia literary magazine, New York. 
Marina Colacicchi-Garber (World Languages and Cultures) gave an interview to the Moscow Women's Museum in Russia
Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) had a collection of poetry "La commedia dell'arte" published in the latest issue of the literary magazine Kreshchatik, Kiev, Ukraine.
Marina Garber (Colacicchi) ( World Languages and Cultures) is the author of a book of poetry that has been the subject of two recent reviews. "The Ural's Accent" by Oleg Dozmorov was published in the literary magazine Znamya (Russia). "The Unsightly Exhibits"  by Marina Temkina was published in The New…
Marina Garber (Colacicchi) (World Language & Cultures) published a selection of poetry in Russian was published in the literary magazine The Text, Germany. 
Kristian Thymianos (Political Science) recently co-authored "To Add Value to Black Communities, We Must Defund the Police and Prison Systems," a piece featured in the Brookings Institution's How We Rise blog, which focuses on "policy solutions to upend structural racism and create a more equitable society for all." Kristian is a summer research…