Faculty Updates from the Dept. of Foreign Languages

Dolores Rangel, Ph.D., published a new article entitled “Reflexiones de Federico Campbell sobre el proceso escritural,” in La Colmena 91 (2016): 43-52 (http://lacolmena.uaemex.mx/index.php/lacolmena).

Noriko Mori-Kolbe, Ph.D., and Namiko Uchida hosted Haruna Tatsukawa, cultural coordinator from the Japan-America Society of Georgia, at a successful and enjoyable cultural event held the evening of Oct. 13. Tatsukawa and Mori-Kolbe introduced students to the Japanese tea ceremony called Sadoor simply Ocha in Japanese. It is a choreographic ritual of preparing Japanese green tea, called Matcha, and serving it together with traditional Japanese sweets. More than 40 students attended.

Virginie Ems-Bléneau, Ph.D., reviewed Félix Guattari’s Machinic Eros: Writings on Japan (2015) in the Spring issue of French Review (90.3).