modern languages and literatures

Across Asia and in communities around the world, the Lunar New Year carries rich traditions and cultural meaning. The celebration marks the beginning of the New Year according to the lunar calendar, starting with the first new moon and lasting 15 days until the first full moon. During this time, f...

A memorial service will be held for Gilbert Doho Saturday, Jan. 27, at 1 p.m. at the Kingdom Hall of Jahovah’s Witnesses (21801 Euclid Ave., Euclid). For those unable to attend in person, the family will livestream the memorial via Zoom (meeting ID: 518-355-9656, passcode: 147907). Doho, an associ...

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of Arts and Sciences will host a talk with Marixa Lasso, executive director of Panama's Center for Historical, Anthropological and Cultural Research AIP. Lasso will present “Latin America's Place in World History: The Example of the ...

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures has a newly founded DELE center for Spanish language proficiency. DELE (Diplomas de español como lengua extranjera) Spanish diplomas are official titles certifying a degree of proficiency in the Spanish language, granted by Spain’s Institute Cerva...

Alan Rocke’s 22-year friendship with Christine Cano began with a single question. Then a first-year faculty member at Case Western Reserve, Cano had approached the endowed professor of history after a research presentation. Her “penetrating” query was posed “with such intellectual intensity,” Rocke...

Animated movies such as The Book of Life (2014) and Disney's Coco (2017) propelled Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) into the mainstream globally, prompting mass production of merchandise and paraphernalia. But did you know this annual two-day observance dates back more than 3,000 years? Typic...

Majors: Electrical engineering, computer engineeringMinor: FrenchYear: Fourth year In high school, Grace Wilcox came across her childhood Nintendo DS while cleaning out her closet and felt inspired to repair it. Thinking a fuse had blown, Wilcox went through the trouble of finding a replacement on ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a book launch for the translation of contemporary Chilean author Beatriz García Huidobro’s Hasta ya no ir (Until She Goes No More) by Jacqueline Nanfito, associate professor of Spanish. The book launch will be held Wednesday, O...

Undergraduate students are invited to join the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures for International Tea Monday, Oct. 17, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Guilford House lounge. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the department, mingle with faculty members, sample international...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community have planned the first major international symposium to focus solely on the literary translations made in socialist countries (both in Eastern Europe and Latin America) from 1959 to 1990. Many studies have been devoted to translation studies i...