Modern and Classical Languages and Literature Research

Our department embraces these ideas by the very nature of its programs and faculty.

In 1895, Fairmount College offered Classical Greek, Latin, French, & German.

MCLL was created in 1984 through a merger of Romance Languages, German, and Classics.

In 2023, American Sign Language (ASL) was added to the majors offered in MCLL.

MCLL offers 11 languages: Spanish, French, ASL (our majors), German, Japanese, Latin, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, and Russian.

Basic research in the humanities is necessarily interdisciplinary: scholarship through MCLL prepares learners for advanced degrees in areas of applied language, literature, linguistics, civilization, or pedagogy.

• Navarro, Enrique. ”Migrant Children and the Carceral State in the Comic Book Home” Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands. A. Aldama and J Ordaz. Tucson: U of Arizona P (2024): 286-305.
• Roussel, Brigitte. “Femmes, bagues et anneaux dans l’Heptaméron: le labyrinth rhétorique du parcours amoreux” Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France. N. Frelick and E. Benkov. Iter Press. Volume 1 of Réflections sur la Première Modernité (2024): 131-54.
• Fonfria-Perera, Daniel. “Identidad maldita: la construcción de la masculinidad del romaní en Mar de plástico (2015-2016) y La novia gitana (2018)”. Estudios sobre género negro, Eds. À. Martín Escribà and J. Sánchez Zapatero. Editorial Dykinson (2023): 477-483.
• Veliz, Marivi. ”Feeling Presences: Regina Galindo’s Acts of Becoming Someone Else, Something Else” (2023) Diaphanes. U of Chicago P.
• Veliz, Marivi. “Women to Power. Art, Politics and Migration in Regina José Galindo and Tania Bruguera” Never-Ending Journey: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Central American Migration in 21st. Century. (2023) U of Arizona P.
• Baldridge, Wilson. (2022) “The Language of Difference in Derrida’s ‘How To Name’: Effects of the Like/As Dyad.” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 53:1.
• Showstack, Rachel. (2022). Audiovisual Assignments as Service-Learning for Social Justice in Latinx Communities. Spanish as a Heritage Language, 2:1.

• Showstack, R., Pascual y Cabo, D., and Wilson, D. (2024). Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning. Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics.
• Santos, M., Showstack, R., Martínez, G., Colcher, D., and Magaña, D. (2023). Health Disparities and the Applied Linguist. Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics.
• Czerwionka, L., Showstack, R., and Liskin-Gasparro, J., eds. (2022). Contexts of Constructed Discourse: Interaction, Pragmatics, and Second Language Applications. Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics.
• Navarro, E., Mendoza, A. and Price, J., eds. (2022) Mexican Americans of Wichita’s North End. Arcadia Publishing.
• Del Aguila, R., and Miseres, V., eds. (2021). Food Studies in Latin American Literatures. Perspectives on the Gastronarratives. of Arkansas Press.

This project has documented the Hispanic cultural heritage of Kansas focusing on private and public celebrations.

Grant: Library of Congress, American Folklife Center’s Of the People: Widening the Path, $50,000.