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Author Archives: Troy Rutter

  • Stacey Weber-Fève receives honor from American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

    Stacey Weber-Fève, professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, was recently given the award for “Excellence in World Language Instruction Using Technology” from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).

    September 24, 2025

  • Cristina Pardo Ballester publishes chapter in Researching Generative AI in Applied Linguistics

    Cristina Pardo Ballester, associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, recently published a  chapter, Unlocking the Potential of Generative AI: Enhancing Spanish Language Learning through Humor Translation Strategies, in the book Researching Generative AI in Applied Linguistics published by Iowa State University Digital Press. The chapter…

    September 22, 2025

  • Elisa Rizo publishes work in Afro-Hispanic Review

    Elisa Rizo, associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, recently published an article that explores how Cuban artists Roberto Diago and René Peña challenge the metaphor of the ajiaco criollo—a stew-like symbol coined by Fernando Ortiz to describe Cuban identity as a harmonious blend of diverse cultural…

    September 10, 2025

  • Stacey Weber-Fève publishes chapter on Danse Film

    Stacey Weber-Fève, professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, recently published an invited chapter in the anthologie, “Danser au féminin en Afrique: État des lieux, défis et perspectives” (Présence Africaine Éditions, 2025), was recently published over the summer. In her chapter, Stacey began a new research trajectory into…

    September 10, 2025

  • Meisam Mohammady awarded National Science Foundation grant

    Meisam Mohammady, assistant professor in the Department of computer Science, recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant through the inaugural Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Practice (PDaSP) program. This project, titled ” A Holistic Privacy Preserving Collaborative Data Sharing System for Intelligent Transportation,” addresses the growing need for privacy in…

    September 10, 2025

  • Mengdi Huai receives National Science Foundation CAREER award

    Mengdi Huai, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the highest honor awarded to junior faculty. Dr. Huai’s proposal “CAREER: Enabling Reliable Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making with Unreliable Data” works with conformal inference, a statistical distribution-free and model-agnostic technique that offers statistically…

    September 10, 2025

  • Megan Myers publishes Neighbor-Homes: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora

    Megan Myers, Department chair in the Department of World Languages and Cultures and LAS Interim Associate Dean of Student Success, recently published a book titled, Neighbor-Homes: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora by Routledge.

    September 10, 2025

  • Matthew Sivils publishes in American Gothic Studies

    Matthew Sivils, professor in the Department of English, recently co-edited an article in the publication American Gothic Studies titled “An edition of William Leete Stone’s “The Spectral Fire-Ship.” American Gothic Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic. Sivils, Matthew Wynn (co-edited with…

    September 10, 2025