Matthew Hatch and Professor Cinzia Donatelli Noble, French and Italian Department We researched and prepared a travel itinerary (booklet) mainly for students who study abroad and fulfill academic internships to Siena, Italy, and it will serve tourists traveling through BYU travel services. This booklet is still being finalized, but it is in the process of being […]
Siena Walks
Danielle Woodall with Professor Cinzia Noble, Italian Department In partnership with the Kennedy Center of Brigham Young University and Dr. Cinzia Noble, I worked on publishing ‘Siena Walks,’ a travel guide with specific walks in Siena Italy. As a photography major, I provided the necessary images for the publication. In May 2011, I traveled to […]
A Topographical Analysis of Sixteenth Century Lyon as a Platform for Female Authors
Kristen Brown and Dr. Robert J. Hudson, French & Italian I would like to begin by thanking the Office of Research & Creative Activities for the incredible opportunity I had to pursue in-‐depth research on a topic that I found exciting and pertinent to my studies at BYU. This grant gave me the opportunity to […]
Summary Of Research On The Narcissus Myth And Its Variant In Turn- Of-The-Century French Literature
Stephen B. Vaisey and Dr. Scott M. Sprenger, French and Italian The goal of my research was to identify the origin of a deviation from the classic Ovidian myth of Narcissus that Professor Sprenger noticed in the Traité du Narcisse of Andre Gide. Gide’s Narcissus dies by drowning while trying to embrace his own image […]
QUAESTIO LINGUAE 1995: THE USE OF ENGLISH WORDS IN THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE
Aaron Hess Sherinian, Department of Italian Introduction Scholars have labored for centuries to define the elements that constitute the Italian language. This debate, the “QUAESTIO LINGUAE” or “question of the language” as it is referred to, often takes into consideration the influence of foreign languages upon Italian (Petronio 1987). There are several factors which have […]
Trieste in Literary and Cultural Imagination: A Select Bibliography
Robert Ricks and Professor Cinzia Noble, French and Italian Trieste is a charming port city on the Adriatic Sea in the northeast corner of Italy, home to nearly 300,000 and capital of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region. Though Trieste has ancient roots as the Roman settlement Tergeste, it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when it […]
Employment and Education Surveys with the African members of the LDS Church in Paris
Rachel Newton and Dr. Michael Bush, French and Italian Department As the world becomes more and more international, residents of third-world countries are immigrating en masse to more developed countries, where they see a promise of a better life — a higher standard of living and acceptance into the world community, from which they feel […]
French Utopian Socialists Coming to America: The Transformation of Etienne Cabet’s Icarian Colony in Nauvoo
John McCorquindale and Dr. Daryl Lee, French and Italian While many of the definitively American utopian groups have received a good deal of curious attention in the past century, the Icarian colonies are relatively unknown. Maybe it is because of their less accessible French background, or because their iconoclastic leader Etienne Cabet (who once garnered […]
Implementing Videos and DVDs in Teaching Foreign Language Classes: A Need for a Strategy
Loredana Comparone Martin and Dr. Michael D. Bush, French and Italian Teaching authentic language in context has a vital role in foreign language instruction. Especially at an intermediate level, students need to be exposed to something other than simulated authentic discourse, defined by Geddes and White (1978) as “language produced with a pedagogical purpose.” (cited […]
Implementing Videos and DVDs in Teaching Foreign Language Classes: A Need for a Strategy
Loredana Comparone Martin and Dr. Michael D. Bush, French and Italian Teaching authentic language in context has a vital role in foreign language instruction. Especially at an intermediate level, students need to be exposed to something other than simulated authentic discourse, defined by Geddes and White (1978) as “language produced with a pedagogical purpose.” (cited […]