* on leave July 01, 2023 - June 31, 2024

Queen’s National Scholar

Research interests: Syntax, syntax-semantics, morpho-syntax, field methods; Algonquian, Scandinavian, Bantu

Education

Ph.D.  in Linguistics, University of Southern California, 1999.
B.A. (Joint Honours) in Swahili and Linguistics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 1985

About

As a graduate student at University of Southern California, Professor Reinholtz worked primarily on Danish, her mother tongue, and the larger group of Mainland Scandinavian languages. She took a special interest in Germanic ‘verb second’ which is the focus of her Doctoral Dissertation, Verb Second, Mood and Operator Licensing. She began to work on Cree when she came to Canada in 1993.

Professor Reinholtz’s primary research areas are syntax, morpho-syntax, and the syntax-semantics interface. Much of her research deals with quantifiers, the syntactic-semantic relations in which they participate, and the functional categories with which they are associated. Her current research deals with polarity items and indefinite pronouns. Other topic areas on which she has worked include hierarchical structure and so-called nonconfigurationality, discontinuous constituents, negation, question formation and clause-typing, focusing particles, and post-nominal demonstratives.

Teaching

Professor Reinholtz teaches following courses:

LING 100: Introduction to Linguistics
LING 330: Morphology
LING 340: Syntax
LING 415: Semantics
LING 475: Field Methods

Research interests: Enlightenment, Weimar Classicism, Fascism

Education

Ph. D. in German literature, University of Toronto, 1986
M. A. in German, King’s College, University of London, England, 1982
M.A. in Classics, St John’s College, Oxford, England, 1974

About

Professor Pugh teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on German language and literature and an undergraduate course on European fascism.

Professor Pugh is the author of Dialectic of Love: Platonism in Schiller's Aesthetics (Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996) and Schiller’s Early Dramas: A Critical History. Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000, as well as numerous articles on 18th century German literature, Weimar Classicism and Heinrich Heine.

Teaching

Professor Pugh teaches the following courses:
GRMN 419/LLCU 319: Roots of Fascism: Resistance to Liberalism in the 19th Century
GRMN 420/LLCU 320: Fascism in Europe: From Napoleon to Hitler
LLCU 205: Cultures of a Nation: Germany

Undergraduate Chair

Research and teaching interests: Hispanic Avant-Garde Movements (1918-1927); Spatiality & Literary Geography; Twentieth-Century Latin American and Spanish Literature, Music, and Film; Transatlantic Studies; the Political Song in the Hispanic World (1960-1990), particularly in Mexico.

Education

Ph.D. in Spanish,  University of Toronto, 2013
M.A. in Hispanic Studies,  McGill University, 2009
B.A. in Hispanic Studies & Cultural Studies, McGill University, 2007, First Class Joint Honours

About          

Claudio Palomares-Salas joined the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in 2014. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Toronto and has taught Latin American and Spanish literature, culture, music, and cinema courses, as well as Spanish language and translation courses, at McGill University, the University of Toronto, Trent University and Queen’s. His research and teaching interests are the Hispanic Avant-Garde Movements (1918-1927); Spatiality & Literary Geography; Twentieth-Century Latin American and Spanish Literature, Music, and Film; Transatlantic Studies; the Political Song in the Hispanic World (1960-1990), particularly in Mexico.

Recent publications:

PUBLICATIONS

(2020) Palomares-Salas, Claudio. The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo and Etridentismo, 1918-1927. Leiden, Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2020.
https://www.academia.edu/42882392/The_Spatiality_of_the_Hispanic_Avant_Garde_Ultra%C3%ADsmo_and_Estridentismo_1918_1927

(2019) Palomares-Salas, Claudio. “Ultraism and the Historical Avant-garde.” International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. Ed. Günter Berghaus, Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, Gabriella Elina Imposti and Christina Lodder. Vol. 9 (2019) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2017: 421-428. 
https://www.iberoamericana-vervuert.es/reseñas/127556_International%20Yearbook%20of%20Futurism%20Studies%209%20(2019).pdf 

(2019) Palomares-Salas, Claudio. "Igor." Historias de Montreal. Ed. Bátiz, Gavasa, Villalobos. Ottawa: Lugar Común Editorial, 2019: 27-33.
https://www.academia.edu/42891042/_Igor_from_the_collection_Historias_de_Montreal_

(2018) Palomares-Salas, Claudio. “Gabino Palomares: A History of Canto Nuevo in Mexico”. Music & Politics. Vol. 12. 1. (Winter 2018) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library, 2018: n.p (online).
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mp/9460447.0012.104/--gabino-palomares-a-history-of-canto-nuevo-in-mexico?rgn=main;view=fulltext

(2017) Palomares-Salas, Claudio. “Sketching Futurism: Güiraldes, Marinetti and Buenos Aires.” International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. Ed. Mariana Aguirre, Rosa Sarabia, Renée M. Silverman and Ricardo Vasconcelos. Vol. 7 (2017) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2017: 360-363. 
https://www.academia.edu/42889441/Sketching_Futurism_Güiraldes_Marinetti_and_Buenos_Aires_1926_

(2017) Palomares-Salas, Claudio. “Stridentism Revisited?” International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. Ed. Mariana Aguirre, Rosa Sarabia, Renée M. Silverman and Ricardo Vasconcelos. Vol. 7 (2017) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2017: 410-418. 
https://cpalomaressalas.academia.edu/research#peerreviewedarticles

(2017) Palomares-Salas, Claudio. "Sefardismo y ficción fundacional: La hija del judío de Justo Sierra O’Reilly." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 94.2 (2017): 215-228. 
https://www.academia.edu/44312907/Sefardismo_y_ficción_fundacional_La_hija_del_jud%C3%ADo_de_Justo_Sierra_OReilly 

(2016) Palomares-Salas, Claudio. “El mapa.” Historias de Toronto. Eds. Bátiz, Gavasa, Villalobos. Ottawa: Ed. Lugar Común, 2016: 147-163. 
https://www.academia.edu/42890005/_El_mapa_from_the_collection_Historias_de_Toronto_

(2015) Palomares-Salas, Claudio and Carla Zurián de la Fuente. “El Café de Nadie: aproximaciones al mito”. Letras Hispanas 11.1 (2015): 19-29.
https://gato-docs.its.txstate.edu/jcr:65462b2f-44d3-47b2-979c-f22e66392a1b/11%20SalasFuente.pdf

(2014) Palomares-Salas, Claudio. “Urbe y Hélices: la narrativa visual de la vanguardia”. Graffylia: Revista de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, BUAP. 19 (2014) Julio-Dic: 27-41.
http://cmas.siu.buap.mx/portal_pprd/work/sites/filosofia/resources/PDFContent/1165/03.pdf

(2013) Palomares-Salas, Claudio. El lugar más triste para soñar. Preface by Luis Eduardo Aute. Ottawa: Ed. Lugar Común, 2013.
https://www.academia.edu/42889638/El_lugar_más_triste_para_soñar_novela_Prefacio_de_Luis_Eduardo_Aute

Teaching 

Current Academic Year
LLCU 205: The Cultures of a Nation (Mexico) (Winter 2023)
LLCU 248: Spanish American Cultural Contexts (Fall 2022)
LLCU 249: Latin Lovers: Love, Sex and Popular Culture (online - Fall 2022)
LLCU 311:  Hispanic, Latino, Latinx? Introduction to Hispanic Culture(s) in the US and Canada (Winter 2023)
SPAN 111: Beginning Spanish (Fall 2022)

LLCU 205: The Cultures of a Nation (Mexico) (Winter 2022)
LLCU 244: Hips don’t Lie?: Music and Culture in Latin America (Winter 2022)
LLCU 249: Latin Lovers: Love, Sex and Popular Culture (Fall 2021)
SPAN 111: Beginning Spanish (Fall 2021)

LLCU 205: The Cultures of a Nation (Mexico) (Fall 2020, Winter 2020,)
LLCU 244: Hips don’t Lie?: Music and Culture in Latin America (Winter 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Winter 2018, Winter 2017)
LLCU 248: Spanish American Cultural Contexts (Winter 2019)
LLCU 249: Latin Lovers: Love, Sex and Popular Culture (Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Winter 2018)
LLCU 249 (Online Course): Latin Lovers: Love, Sex and Popular Culture (Summer 2018, Winter 2017)
LLCU 309: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar (Winter 2019, Fall 2015)                     
LLCU 495: Hispanic Culture through Music (Winter 2016)

SPAN 111: Beginning Spanish (Summer 2019, Fall 2018)
SPAN 310: Artistic Representations of the Spanish Civil War (Winter 2021, Fall 2014)
SPAN 344: Spanish Culture Through Film (Winter 2015)
SPAN 352: Survey of Latin American Literature II (Winter 2016)
SPAN 381: Survey of Spanish Literature II (Winter 2018, Winter 2017, Winter 2016, Winter 2015)
SPAN 401: Advanced Grammar through Translation (Fall 2015, Fall 2014)

Research interests: Modern German and comparative literary studies, European literary relations, Translation studies, Narrative and narratology

Education

Doctor of Literature, Ireland, 1994
Ph. D. in German Language and Literature, Queen's University, 1972
M.A., Ireland, 1968

About

Professor O'Neill is author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on German, English, and comparative literature and on aspects of narrative theory and translation studies. His books include:

• Günter Grass: A Bibliography, 1955-1975 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976)
• German Literature in English Translation: A Select Bibliography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981)
• Ireland and Germany: A Study in Literary Relations (New York: Peter Lang, 1985)
• Critical Essays on Günter Grass, ed. (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987)
• The Comedy of Entropy: Humour, Narrative, Reading (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990)
• Fictions of Discourse: Reading Narrative Theory (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994)
• Acts of Narrative: Textual Strategies in Modern German Fiction (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996)
• Günter Grass Revisited (New York: Twayne; London: Prentice Hall, 1999)
• Polyglot Joyce: Fictions of Translation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005)
• Impossible Joyce: Finnegans Wakes (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013)
• Transforming Kafka: Translation Effects. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014)
• Trilingual Joyce: The Anna Livia Variations (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018)
• Finnegans Wakes: Tales of Translation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022).

Research interests: Dance and music (specifically Afro-Latin and Caribbean genres); Cuban Studies; Afro-Cuban Folklore; Body Politics; Transcultural Studies; Embodied Knowledge Practices/Expressive Communication

Education

Ph. D. (ABD) in Cultural Studies, Queen's University
M. A. (Dance), York University, 2012
B.F.A. (Dance) with Honours, York University, 2006

About

Before coming to Queen's in 2019, Melissa was a full-time dancer and independent ethnographer in Toronto. Her eclectic career has spanned across commercial, academic and artistic settings allowing her to accumulate a wide range of experience. She has performed with dance companies that have presented work in Nigeria, Brazil and Cuba and has shared her research at Duke University, University of the West Indies (Barbados), and in Havana.

Between 2006 and 2014 Melissa also held multiple teaching assistantships and course directorships at York University. Since arriving to Queen's in 2019, Melissa has been a teaching assistant for Hips Don't Lie?, SPAN 111 (online), and Cuban Culture and Society. She has also had the privilege of working with the ACSA dance team for the past two years.

In the classroom, Melissa draws on her experiences as an artist and practitioner in order to encourage student participation, making learning accessible and meaningful.

Teaching

SPAN 111 (Fall 2021 and Winter 2022)
Teaching Assistance Hips Don't Lie? (Winter 2022)

Research interests: Calabrian mafia (known as 'ndrangheta), organized crime

About

Professor Antonio Nicaso is a bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, a researcher and an internationally recognized expert on organized crime. He has published 30 books on Mafia and Mafia-type criminal organizations.

He is a regular consultant to governments and law-enforcement agencies around the world. Besides his appointment at Queen's, he is also a lecturer at several other universities: Italian School of Middlebury College, Oakland, USA and St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo, Ontario.

He sits on the Advisory Board of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, at York University (Toronto); on the International Advisory Council of the Italian Institute of Strategic Studies “Niccolò Machiavelli” in Rome (Italy); and on the Expert Advisory Committee on Bullying, Intimidation and Gang Violence in Montreal.

He is also the President of Centro Scuola e Cultura, in Toronto.

Teaching

LLCU 213: The Social History of Organized Crime in Canada
LLCU 214: Mafia Culture and the Power of Symbols, Rituals and Myth
 

Research Interests: Oneida Language and Culture, Haudenosaunee beliefs and Spirituality, Decolonial pedagogy and Indigenous methodologies.

Education

M. A. Educational Leadership and management – 2016 – University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB
B.Ed Consecutive Education – 2013 – Trent University, Peterborough, ON
B. A. Hons. Indigenous Studies – 2012 – Trent University, Peterborough, ON

About

Lanʌyakalényese’ (StoneHorse) Moore is a citizen of the Onʌyote’a·ká of the Thames and is of the Bear Clan; he also has Akimel O’odham heritage and is known as Hodai-Kavyu to his father's people. StoneHorse grew up in the city of Windsor and was encouraged to learn Oneida by family members. StoneHorse was fortunate to grow up in a time when many resources had been developed to promote learning of the Oneida language through a dictionary, grammar books and the Online resources from the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.

Often in his early childhood and teens he would spend time visiting with his great aunt, uncle and cousins who taught him how to properly speak Oneida and the shortcuts (slang) of the language. His great aunt also taught him to sing several Christian hymns in the Oneida language. StoneHorse took a great interest in learning and preserving the Oneida language when confronted with knowledge of the total number of speakers and the lack of individuals his age capable of speaking Oneida.

StoneHorse first started teaching Oneida in his teens as volunteer work to earn community hours. In 2008 he started his studies at Trent University where he earned his B.A. Honours in Indigenous Studies in 2012. StoneHorse continued to study at Trent to earn his Bachelor of Education. In 2016, after completing his M.A. at the University of New Brunswick, he began teaching the Oneida language with the Greater Essex County District School Board. He continues to teach with the GECDSB in the intermediate and senior levels.

StoneHorse’s teaching practice is informed by Oneida/Haudenosaunee cultural practices, longhouse teachings and the core values of the Kayanlʌsla’kó (Great Law).  He strives to always promote a learning environment that is inclusive of all walks of life. His research interest includes Decolonial pedagogy of the education system and integration of Indigenous teaching methodologies.

Teaching

LLCU 101: Beginning Oneida Language and Culture I
LLCU 102: Beginning Oneida Language and Culture II

* on leave July 01, 2023 - June 31, 2024

Associated with Cultural Studies

Research interests: Jewish Latin American Literature, Latin American Women’s Literature, Latin American Film, Latin American Development, Indigenous Issues of Latin America and Politics of Minority Identities in Latin America.

Education

Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford, 1993
A.M. in Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford, 1987
M.A. in Spanish, University of British Columbia, 1984
B.A. (Hons.) in French and Spanish, University of British Columbia, 1978

About

Professor Mennell is passionate about Latin American culture in all its manifestations, from music to art, film and literature. Her main interest is the issue of identity and minority cultures, especially in the Southern Cone region of Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Paraguay.

At the present time, she is finishing a manuscript on Argentine Jewish women novelists, and is beginning a new project on the marginalized indigenous cultures in Argentina and their struggles for recognition and preservation of their heritage.

Teaching

Professor Mennell teaches the following course(s):
 
LLCU 310: Jewish Latin America
SPAN 351: Panorama literario latinoaméricano I
SPAN 352: Panorama literario latinoaméricano II
SPAN 428/LLCU 328: Gender, Development and Film in Latin America
SPAN 302: Gramática avanzada y composición II
SPAN 354: Cultura femenina latinoamericana
SPAN 458: Cine latinoamericano

Research interests: Intercultural communication, Intercultural awareness, Communication Studies, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Migrant literature, German women writings, image of Germans/Germany in Polish literature, Deutsch als Fremdsprache

Education

Ph.D. in German Language and Literature, Queen’s University, 2009
M.A. in German Language and Literature, University of Toronto, 2004
Magister (M.A. equivalent) in German, University of Maria-Curie Sklodowska, Poland, 2000

About

Dr. Margaret received her graduate training in both European and Canadian universities. Her research interest includes intercultural communication theories and cross-cultural adaptation as well as recent German and Polish literature. Additionally, she is exploring how the use of technology in the classroom, and especially the student response system, influences second language acquisition. Her attention also reaches the topic of online teaching and learning. She has been teaching German at Queen’s since 2004, when she began her Ph.D. studies.

Dr. Margaret’s objective as a teacher is to demonstrate to the students that the language they are learning is indeed used and that by learning that language they are gaining invaluable skills and rewards. She always keeps in mind an old Czech proverb “You live a new life for every new language you speak” and tries to show her students how that translates into real-life situations.

In her LLCU course, she conveys to her students that applying their skills to real-life situations can be extremely rewarding and having an experiential learning component in an academic course reinforces students’ growth as thinkers and doers. She is achieving this by demonstrating passion and curiosity about the subject to motivate them and by providing warm encouragement and guidance. She strives to provide an inclusive classroom where students feel safe to speak and share their ideas.

Teaching

Professor Maliszewska teaches the following course(s):

GRMN 101: Beginner’s German I (evening section)
LLCU 303: Applied Intercultural Communication

Research interests: Portuguese as a foreign/heritage/second language, Portuguese literature and culture; foreign/heritage/second language acquisition; Intercultural Communication; Cultural Studies; Diaspora Studies

Education

PhD Student in Cultural Studies - Queen’s University, 2021-2025
M.A. in Portuguese as a foreign/heritage/second language - University of Minho (Portugal), 2015
Licentiate Degree in Portuguese and English (Teaching) at the University of Minho (Portugal), 2001

About

My name is António Macedo and I am a teacher. I fell into it almost by accident and now I can’t imagine doing anything else. I joined the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department in 2013, after holding Teaching Appointments in English and Portuguese at different educational institutions in Portugal.  After having extensive experience in teaching foreign language acquisition to people from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds, and distinct outlooks on the world, I am now more intent in examining culture and diaspora in all its manifestations.

In my language classes, music is an integral part of the classes, as I believe it to be the ultimate vehicle of cultural identification of a people. I believe that using a language is primarily for communication, so students should first and foremost be able to improve their practical language skills in the classroom by incrementing communicative competencies. I maintain individualized interaction with my students by tracking and monitoring them closely. In my culture lectures, I try to integrate all types of multimedia applications to illustrate the course content in a fun, but also effective way, which will, hopefully, resonate with the students. I advocate that the instructor is the guide who will gradually, but ultimately, lead the learner to actively seek self-advancement and awareness of what is being taught, and develop independent output and reflection from the proposed research on a path to self-improvement, growth and mindfulness in an attempt to gain perspective on the wonderful differences between cultures.

Teaching

Professor Macedo teaches the following course(s):

PORT 103: Beginning Portuguese and Culture I
PORT 104: Beginning Portuguese and Culture II
LLCU 111: Introduction to Cultures