Knowledge Commons | GSA-TROPOS | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/gsa-tropos/ Activity feed for the group, GSA-TROPOS. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:07:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e3af4e9f267579dd3f80894f3f778e39 Vanessa Weller edited the blog post Fall 2025 Call for Papers in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2025/07/24/fall-2025-call-for-papers/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:13:35 -0400 The Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University is pleased to issue a Call for Papers for a special issue of TROPOS, the Romance Studies Journal edited by graduate students, and […]

]]> f70ea577e6791b8b4212d889a92ddc0c Vanessa Weller edited the blog post TROPOS Journal Launch Party in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/16/tropos-journal-launch-party/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:12:42 -0400

]]> a9aa4c4a726332cdcfd1224a773773e0 Vanessa Weller deposited Navigating Identity and Redefining Frenchness in Twenty-first Century Franco-Vietnamese Literary Production in the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901168/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:00:05 -0400 This article examines the complex interplay of identity, memory, and assimilation within Franco-Vietnamese literature through the works of Doan Bui and Minh Tran Huy. It investigates how their narratives confront and challenge the prevailing perception of Vietnamese immigrants in France as the “ideal immigrant,” set against the historical bac…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6883e07979252a460d2b11349abe618 Vanessa Weller deposited Le glissement de l’ observation de l’ enseignement de l’arabe au Mali vers les écoles coraniques et les enfants dans la rue à Tombouctou in the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901167/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:00:05 -0400 L’école coranique est le support privilégié du contenu éducatif et le dépositaire de connaissances et de techniques ancestrales dont une grande partie de la société musulmane en Afrique subsaharienne juge l’acquisition nécessaire à la préparation de ses valeurs et à ce qu’elle souhaite transmettre aux jeunes générations. Les écoles coraniques…[Read more]

]]> 0 6847998b83791a30903f0a6707e3f42f Vanessa Weller deposited Futuridades de la nación peruana: Gótico, feminidad y mestizaje en la novela corta Ccora Campillana de Carolina Freyre de Jaimes in the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901166/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Este ensayo se propone observar la novela Ccora Campillana: Romance histórico del tiempo de la conquista (1873), de la autora Carolina Freyre de Jaimes, como una mediación sobre el pasado colonial cuya particularidad es la incursión del amor como motor del relato histórico peruano. A saber, a menudo el modo gótico permite a las escritoras lati…[Read more]

]]> 0 cba544d5e509f730cd48ea39ab013ece Vanessa Weller deposited Popular Culture and "Fémicriture" : Beninese Women Writers of "La Francophonie" in the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901165/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:00:03 -0400 This paper delves into the publishing landscape specific to Beninese women writers and its interconnectedness with the broader tapestry of African and diasporic popular culture. A particular focus is cast on the works of a new generation of Beninese women authors, whose narratives illuminate societal and political realities through the lens of…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef5c11450fc9ef6fc091c1e04489bd6c Vanessa Weller deposited Construction and Reaction to Trauma(s) in Myriam Gurba’s "Mean" in the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900709/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:47 -0400 Trauma studies challenge and expand the pathological definition of trauma, offering additional layers of social significance and personal complexity through the examination of trauma in literature. Myriam Gurba's novel Mean (2017) serves as an exemplar of the intricate intersectionality of divergent traumatic experiences embodied by the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c29c7d2fd9becb240fbf41e653ff7045 Vanessa Weller deposited They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara: An Exploration of Metatextual Spectatorship and Cinematic Apocrypha in Horror Film in the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900708/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:46 -0400 This article discusses the conception of an apocryphal narrative of horror cinema, one that centers the experience of spectatorship and what happens after spectators have left the cinema. How are films discussed, digested, and understood in popular culture and in niche fandom spaces? Furthermore, how do these discussions create legacies and…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c8155bfd7a13cce9ee17a934529976a Vanessa Weller deposited Effects of Language of Identity and Education Level on Moral Decision Making in the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900707/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:45 -0400 Prior research indicates that bilinguals make less utilitarian moral decisions in a native versus a foreign language (Costa et al.; Cipolletti, McFarlane, and Weissglass). The present study investigates whether L1 balanced Catalan/Spanish bilinguals similarly make less utilitarian moral decisions in their Language of Identity (“LOI”), and whe…[Read more]

]]> 0 a26f74eab5f610b6d407b8545979fa9f Vanessa Weller deposited The 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis: Between Ethnographic Display and Racist Exclusion of the Other in the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900706/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:44 -0400 The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, often overlooked as a secondary layer of segregation, strategically displayed non-white bodies within their contrived “natural environments.” This exhibition, notably excluding African Americans in its visual narrative, nevertheless conveyed a racialized message through the representation of other ethnic gro…[Read more]

]]> 0 05ae75d2c7b6fb60b959071c5db74917 Vanessa Weller deposited Exploring Sor Juana’s Respuesta and the Proto-Feminist Perspective: Equilibrium Between Faith and Agency in the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900705/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:43 -0400 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s composition “Carta atenagórica” (1690) was published by the Bishop of Puebla, Don Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz, without her advance knowledge or permission. His opinion of her work was not to be mistaken: He prefaced her essay with his own composition a letter to Sor Juana urging her to give up her secular scholars…[Read more]

]]> 0 0818d6b0469998c3608f6a40af45476f Vanessa Weller deposited Les prémices de l’athéisme de Cyrano de Bergerac dans ses lettres in the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900704/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:42 -0400 Cette dissertation examine les prémices de l’athéisme de Cyrano de Bergerac à travers ses lettres « Sur l’ombre que faisaient des arbres dans l’eau », « Contre les sorciers » et « Pour les sorciers ». Écrites entre 1645 et 1647, ces lettres illustrent la pensée critique de Cyrano face aux croyances populaires et religieuses de son temps. Il utilis…[Read more]

]]> 0 15655c68e0d424376617bc7c1472d026 Vanessa Weller deposited Why Authorship Cannot be Erased in Minority Literary Studies: Etxepare’s Authorship of "Linguae Vasconum Primitiae" (1545), as a Minorized Identity’s Literary Performance in the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900703/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:41 -0400 Linguae Vasconum Primitiae (1545) is the first book ever published in Basque, written by Bernard Etxepare, a priest from the Northern Basque Country. This collection of poems explores religious and romantic themes, but more importantly, it serves as a defense of Basque, a minority language. This article examines Etxepare's poems, with a particular…[Read more]

]]> 0 de5325969c0d3fe7e4524178ffb79d72 Vanessa Weller deposited Les standards de beauté et l’identité féminine à partir de in the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900700/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:27 -0400 Les standards de beauté ont toujours existé dans toute société depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’aux temps modernes. Ces derniers semblent toucher les femmes beaucoup plus que les hommes et sont souvent représentés comme imposés par le patriarcat, élargissant ainsi les inégalités sociales et raciales entre eux. Cet article étudie ces standards de be…[Read more]

]]> 0 106f842da9bea4be0e7ab801a808aae0 Vanessa Weller edited the blog post Construction and Reaction to Trauma(s) in Myriam Gurba’s Mean in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/01/construction-and-reaction-to-traumas-in-myriam-gurbas-mean/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:34:42 -0400 Rocío Gonzalez-Espresati Clement

Rocio Gonzalez-Espresati Clement is a first year Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and Spanish literature fr […]

]]> 450f8c5168643590c98c0206bf621968 Vanessa Weller edited the blog post Le glissement de l’ observation de l’ enseignement de l’arabe au Mali vers les écoles coraniques et les enfants dans la rue à Tombouctou in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/01/le-glissement-de-l-observation-de-l-enseignement-de-larabe-au-mali-vers-les-ecoles-coraniques-et-les-enfants-dans-la-rue-a-tombouctou/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:33:15 -0400 Soufian Al Karjousli

Soufian Al Karjousli is an Associate Professor at the UMR CNRS 6173 CITERES, EMAM, Tours, France. He holds a Ph.D. in Arabo-Muslim Languages and Civilizations. His work is in linguistics and […]

]]> d19a4936023f6120f8da9638a671435b Vanessa Weller edited the blog post The 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/01/the-1904-worlds-fair-in-st-louis/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:22:59 -0400 Between Ethnographic Display and Visual Exclusion of the Other

Maurice Tetne

Maurice Tetne is a dedicated scholar and educator with a focus on French Language and Literature. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in […]

]]> 13f08ea191bee4b57079b9efc1aeef53 Vanessa Weller edited the blog post Les prémices de l’athéisme de Cyrano de Bergerac dans ses lettres in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/01/les-premices-de-latheisme-de-cyrano-de-bergerac-dans-ses-lettres/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:18:16 -0400 Forough Hazrati

Forough Hazrati is a Ph.D. candidate in French Literature at the University of Western Ontario, where she is studying quarrels in the correspondence of Émile Zola. During her master’s degree in […]

]]> b206f2a18ef5fba09b51db2579241eae Vanessa Weller edited the blog post Futuridades de la nación peruana in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/01/futuridades-de-la-nacion-peruana-gotico-feminidad-y-mestizaje-en-la-novela-corta-ccora-campillana-de-carolina-freyre-de-jaimes/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:16:47 -0400 Gótico, feminidad y mestizaje en la novela corta Ccora Campillana de Carolina Freyre de Jaimes

Sarah Valentín-Sánchez

Sarah Valentín-Sánchez is a Ph.D. candidate at The University of Alabama, where she is c […]

]]> f14a65b1785188ac054ad3c7c3646fc8 Vanessa Weller edited the blog post Exploring Sor Juana’s Respuesta and the Proto-Feminist Perspective: Equilibrium Between Faith and Agency in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/01/exploring-sor-juanas-respuesta-and-the-proto-feminist-perspective-equilibrium-between-faith-and-agency/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:15:17 -0400 José Negroni Cicerchia

José Negroni Cicerchia teaches Latin American literature and film at Rice University. His main research interests are in postmemory literature, specifically autofiction authors who are t […]

]]> 3fa4785bbd734bf6c22e7c6a63feb866 Vanessa Weller edited the blog post Why Authorship Cannot be Erased in Minority Literary Studies: Etxepare's Authorship of Linguae Vasconum Primitiae (1545) as a Minorized Identity’s Literary Performance in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/01/why-authorship-cannot-be-erased-in-minority-literary-studies-externes-authorship-of-linguae-vasconum-primitiae-1545-as-a-minorized-identitys-literary-performance/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:13:22 -0400 Eukene Franco Landa

Eukene Franco Landa is a Ph.D. candidate in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies at the University of Miami. As a Basque speaker, she considers herself an advocate of minority languages […]

]]> 7f96ce7fea92a9fa516ba8c3aafca732 Vanessa Weller edited the blog post Navigating Identity and Redefining Frenchness in Twenty-first Century Franco-Vietnamese Literary Production in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/01/navigating-identity-and-redefining-frenchness-in-twenty-first-century-franco-vietnamese-literary-production/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:11:52 -0400 Warisara Emily Sawin

Warisara Emily Sawin is a Graduate Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She earned her master’s degree from the University of M […]

]]> f1f8e5f642cb68cc0a1251ffc7376929 Vanessa Weller edited the blog post Effects of Language of Identity and Education Level on Moral Cognition in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/01/effects-of-language-of-identity-and-education-level-on-moral-cognition-2/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:08:04 -0400 Marguerite Morlan

Carmen Pérez-Vidal

Marguerite Morlan is a doctoral student pursuing a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. She organizes the […]

]]> fa9181d57c5a67a23d23547ff2250cf1 Vanessa Weller edited the blog post They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/01/theyre-coming-to-get-you-barbara-an-exploration-of-metatextual-spectatorship-and-cinematic-apocrypha-in-horror-film/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:39:38 -0400 An Exploration of Metatextual Spectatorship and Cinematic Apocrypha in Horror Film

Noah C. Goodwin

Noah C. Goodwin is a PhD student in French at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in Minneapolis, MN. His […]

]]> 5d7d59d84dc6ad2d1446a7cdbbb73f9a Vanessa Weller edited the blog post Les standards de beauté et l’identité féminine à partir de Maquillée de Daphné B. in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/01/les-standards-de-beaute-et-lidentite-feminine-a-partir-de-maquillee-de-daphne-b/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:34:14 -0400 Celine Assaf

A second-year doctoral student in French literature at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, Celine Assaf holds a master's and a bachelor's degree in French language and literature as well as a […]

]]> b1dc720e29646510f3617f8da0b2a2cb Vanessa Weller edited the blog post Popular Culture and Fémicriture in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/10/01/popular-culture-and-femicriture-women-beninese-writers-of-la-francophonie/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:31:35 -0400 Women Beninese Writers of La Francophonie

Sarah Djos-Raph

Sarah Djos-Raph is an instructor of French at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. She holds a B.A. in International Affairs with a concentration […]

]]> d54b5b6188ec6201d3fc8097f8a5eefc Vanessa Weller edited the post Update on Journal No. 42 in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/06/28/update-on-journal-no-42/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:34:50 -0400 We are excited to announce that we expect to roll out the latest edition of TROPOS Journal this Fall 2024! After receiving many excellent proposals, we have decided to publish a double issue. Our editorial team […]

]]> 776134310675b502c26c68afc345925d Vanessa Weller edited the post Digitized Archive in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/04/08/digitized-archive/ Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:53:02 -0400 These are the past issues that were migrated from ISSUU in the Spring of 2024. […]

]]> 3a6e46cb6a80e1586e05f32773fa8a65 Vanessa Weller edited the post Archives in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/04/08/archives/ Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:51:08 -0400 Pre-2016 Issues

]]> 911c3d39f37b42d4004bd39ddd625385 Vanessa Weller edited the post Recent Issues in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/04/08/recent-issues/ Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:50:19 -0400 TROPOS no. 41 (Spring 2018)

TROPOS no. 40 (Spring 2017)

TROPOS no. 39 (Spring 2016)

]]> e211355bdf41f442b598ecd279c01707 Vanessa Weller edited the post Submissions Guidelines in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/04/08/submissions-guidelines/ Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:45:27 -0400 The editorial board of TROPOS, the Biannual Graduate Student Journal of the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University, invites submissions for its next issue. We welcome academic […]

]]> a701e3cc15840df915559114c5d2d58a Vanessa Weller edited the blog post Fall 2023 Call for Papers in the group GSA-TROPOS https://tropos.hcommons.org/2024/03/27/fall-2023-call-for-papers/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:32:04 -0400 Tropos Journal Call for Papers

The Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University invites contributions from scholars and researchers from all backgrounds in areas within […]

]]> a5589f15cc75fc8bd90670712fe77193 Vanessa Weller created the group GSA-TROPOS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880973/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:24:58 -0400 0