Mellon language grant

Professors Glenda Nieto-Cuebas (Ohio Wesleyan University) and Francisco López-Martín (Denison University) involved students, consortial colleagues, and academics from across the country in a theater workshop and performance from a visiting Spanish theater troupe on a Friday evening and then an academic symposium on Spanish theater of the Golden Age on the following day. The many events that comprised the project were designed to engage scholarship, teaching, and performance of this body of canonical texts.

Professor Terrell Morgan (Ohio State University) and Lecturer Vannessa Peláez-Barrios (Oberlin College) created a pilot language instruction program in Quechua using real-time distance-learning technology to connect classrooms on both campuses. Interest at Oberlin’s campus has been maintained through a second semester and the proposers are seeking ways of making this collaboration sustainable, continuing the arrangement, and offering the course on other Ohio Five campuses.

Professors Gabriele Dillmann (Denison University) and Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm (Ohio State University) designed a course and common syllabus to teach students in intermediate German classes about the migrant and refugee crisis in Europe. Through the use of distance-learning technologies, they connected their students to each other and to German language students at the American University of Bulgaria for regular German conversations on common readings and personal experiences.