Finding Sources for the Red Vienna Sourcebook

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Madeline McFarland and Dr. Michelle James, German and Russian Department Introduction In between the World Wars, German-speaking Europe was split into two major groups: The Weimar Republic, which consisted of current Germany, and the SocialDemocratically run Austria. Due to this SocialDemocratic government, the capital (and eventually time period) was referred to as “Red Vienna.” While […]

Karl May’s Amerika German Intellectual Imperialism

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Seth Cannon and Robert McFarland, Department of German and Russian Introduction From Columbus to the Spaghetti Westerns of the 20th century Europeans have manipulated and sculpted America to reflect their values and priorities. Germans in particular have developed a strange fascination with America, specifically the American West. This “America” is, however, largely an intellectual construct, […]

Elisa von der Recke: Volume IV of the Critically Edited Collected Works Restored Sheet Music

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Seay, David Elisa von der Recke: Volume IV of the Critically Edited Collected Works Restored Sheet Music Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michelle James, German & Russian Department My project involved recording and publishing restored music from the 18th century. BYU’s “Mentored Research Sophia Project,” led by staff within the German & Russian Department, is creating a […]

Generational Attitudes Reflected through Soviet Socialist Realism

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Herdman, Kelsey Generational Attitudes Reflected through Soviet Socialist Realism Faculty Mentor: Tony Brown, Russian Introduction In his biography “Raising the Banner” artist Geli Korzhev, a Socialist Realist artist, believes that Socialist Realism should have been titled as “social realism”; that “socialism is associated with politics but it should be aimed at social issues,” and that […]

Rediscovering Olga Wisinger-Florian

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Eyre, Nancy Rediscovering Olga Wisinger-Florian Faculty Mentor: Michelle James, Department of German and Russian The project Rediscovering Olga Wisinger-Florian culminated in the compilation of an online bibliography of secondary texts about the Austrian artist Olga Wisinger-Florian combined with a biography and catalogue of visual works by the artist published in The Sophie Digital Library (http://sophie.byu.edu). […]

Patient-Provider Interactions in Health Care: Use of and Attitudes Towards Multilingual Communications

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Kyle Baird and Laura Smith, German and Russian Introduction Previous research has examined the provider-patient relationship and the effect of different first languages and culture on such relationship (1,2,3). Most studies conducted in the United States have focused primarily on the interactions between English-speaking health care providers and Spanish-speaking patients. Such studies found a relationship […]

The Role of First Language Accent on German Vowel Perception

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Erik Arnold and Laura Catharine Smith, Germanic and Slavic Languages Introduction The role of accent in second language (L2) production and perception has been acknowledged by researchers, but generally only in the sense of limiting their subjects to a specific dialect region to avoid any dialect influence on their results. Some studies have, however, investigated […]

Viennese Kineticism and Beyond: A Bibliography of Austrian Women Artists

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Dianne Isom and Dr. Rob McFarland, Department of German and Russian Introduction While the advent of digital archives have revolutionized the discipline of Women’s Studies, the current online offerings of visual and textual works by German-speaking women artists, especially Austrian artists, lag far behind the digital collections of their English-, French-, and Spanish-language contemporaries. Brigham […]

Elisa von der Recke: Volume I of the Complete Collected Works

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Anna Katharina and Michelle James, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages For several years, researchers on the BYU Sophie Project have been working to compile The Critically Annotated Collected Works of Elisa von der Recke. The aim of this project was the make Recke’s writings more accessible and readable to users across the world, since […]