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Halle Zachary and Natalie Lane are the LLCU DSC (Department Student Council) Co-Presidents for the 2021-22 school year.
Despite a slow start ( they were only hired a few weeks ago) they are hoping to build a thriving and successful committee for this year. They need your help to start their committee and they are looking to fill many different volunteer positions.
Assistant Professor
PhD
LLCU, Linguistics
Research Interests: semiotics; intertextuality; information circulation and sovereignty; Indigenous linguistic and cultural reclamation; functional approaches to grammar and discourse
Ph.D (joint) Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago, 2020
M.A. Communication Studies, McGill University, 2012
B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2009
Hannah McElgunn is a linguistic anthropologist whose writing and teaching explores the dynamic relationship between language and culture. Her primary research and ethical commitments are centered at Hopi, an Indigenous community, language, and way of life in Arizona. Working in reciprocity with friends and colleagues, she studies the historical and contemporary appropriation of Hopi language, knowledge, and other 鈥渋ntangible鈥 materials, and the various ways they might be reclaimed in the present. Her work seeks to support information sovereignty and strengthen connections between Indigenous languages and communities, while also fostering methodological and theoretical ties between the disciplines of Linguistics and Anthropology. Before coming to 黑料吃瓜资源, Hannah was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
Personal website:
Dr. McElgunn teaches the following courses:
LLCU 395: Special Topics: Cultural Communications
LLCU 295: Special Topics: Multilingualism: Mixing, Purity, and Everything in Between
LLCU 403: Stories that Matter: Connecting Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Lecturer
Linguistics
Kingston Hall 404
Research interests: language variation and change, sociolinguistics, socio-phonetics, dialectology, Canadian English.
Ph. D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, York University (ABD)
M. A. in Linguistics, University of Toronto, 2008
B. A. in Linguistics, McGill University, 2003
Professor Baxter鈥檚 current research focuses on different regional and ethnic varieties of Canadian English, including English spoken in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and Black English in Toronto; as well as parodies and stereotypes of Canadian English, particularly those portrayed on American television.
Professor Baxter has previously taught a variety of linguistics and sociolinguistics courses at York University and Glendon College, including Language in its Social Context, Bilingualism, Canadian English, Varieties of English, The Structure of English, and Modern English.
LING 202: Canadian English
LING 320: Phonology
Assistant Professor
Spanish
Kingston Hall 403
Research interests: The intersection between culture, religion, politics and national identity in Mexico during the 20th century, focusing on the evolution of political and social imaginaries, modernity and secularism.
Ph. D. Student, 黑料吃瓜资源, 2020-2024
M. A. in Religious Studies, 黑料吃瓜资源, 2020
M.B.A. Texas Tech University, 2004
B. A. in Philosophy, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico, 2001
Francisco Zepeda is a Ph.D. student in Cultural Studies and a teaching assistant in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at 黑料吃瓜资源. He is also a research fellow at the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI) and was a research assistant at SILS 27. Currently, he researches the evolution of political and social imaginaries, both religious and secular, in Mexico during the 20th century. On the one hand, he uses archive work and discourse analysis to explore the diary of debates of key legislative processes that led to promulgation or amendments of Mexican constitutions and shaped the political and economic systems. On the other hand, he investigates alternative social imaginaries, such as those of the Cristeros and the Zapatista Movement, which exemplify some voices traditionally excluded by the political elites that have contested the hegemonic narrative.
SPAN 111: Beginning Spanish I (Winter 2022)
Teaching assistant for SPAN 111 Beginning Spanish I (Fall 2021)
Retired Associate Professor
PhD
Cross-Appointed, Department of Gender Studies
Associated with the 黑料吃瓜资源 Cultural Studies
Research interests: Golden Age Theatre, The Entrem茅s, Queer Theory
Ph.D., Spanish Literature, Penn State University, 1999
M.A., Spanish Literature, Carleton University, 1984
B.A. (Hons), Spanish and French, Carleton University, 1980
Before coming to Queen's in 2001, Professor Thompson worked as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Middlebury College, USA. At Queen's, he has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on Golden Age Theater, the Golden Age Interlude, the Picaresque, Cervantes, survey of Peninsular Literature, Spanish Civilization and Culture as well as language acquisition courses, including Beginning Spanish, Intermediate Spanish and Business Spanish.
Professor Thompson has written extensively on Juan Rana, the alias of Cosmo P茅rez, a popular actor between the years 1617 and 1672 (Spanish Golden Age). Rana was crowned by Pedro Calder贸n de la Barca as el m谩ximo gracioso and also became the subject of over fifty short plays during the seventeenth century. Professor Thompson has published various articles on this actor as well as The Triumphant Juan Rana: A Gay Actor in Spanish Golden Age Theater (2006) and The Outrageous Entremeses of Juan Rana: An Annotated and Bilingual Selection of Plays Written for this Spanish Golden Age Actor (2009). He is presently working on a monograph concerning the Spanish Golden Age entremesista Jer贸nimo C谩ncer y Velasco.
Professor Thompson teaches the following course(s):
LLCU 247: Dynamic History of Spain
SPAN 380: Panorama literario de Espa帽a I
SPAN 381: Panorama literario de Espa帽a II
SPAN 330/LLCU 330: Cervantes I: Earlier Works
SPAN 331/LLCU 331: Cervantes II: Later Works
SPAN 332/LLCU 332: Spanish Baroque Short Theatre
SPAN 333/LLCU 333: Acting Out: Sexual and Gender Subversion in Baroque Theatre
Associate Professor
PhD
LLCU
黑料吃瓜资源 National Scholar
Joint-Appointed with French Studies
Research interests: Comparative Indigenous literary criticism; francophone Indigenous literatures and migrant literatures, Indigenous filmmaking and collaborative research methodologies, theories of events and Indigenous-settler relationships
Ph. D. in Literary Studies, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al (UQAM)
M. A. in Humanities, Concordia University
B. A. in Translation, Concordia University
Professor St-Amand is a settler scholar whose research focuses on Indigenous literary theories in Qu茅bec and Canada, collaborative research and Indigenous filmmaking in the Americas, and theories of events and Indigenous-settler relationships. Her research has been supported by scholarships, fellowships, internal and external funding, as well as by various academic and community collaborations.
Dr. St-Amand received her PhD in 2012 from the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al, and was awarded a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship to pursue her research at the Department of Native Studies at University of Manitoba. In 2014 and 2015, she led a SSHRC-funded project to organize and reflect on 鈥淩evisioning the Americas through Indigenous Cinema鈥, the 5th of an ongoing series of international trilingual conferences held in Montreal and Kahnawake as part of the First People鈥檚 Film Festival. In that line of work, she is currently investigating the oral dimension of knowledges on Indigenous literatures and filmmaking by looking at various Indigenous-led events that gather scholars, writers, filmmakers, and community members.
Professor St-Amand has published with leading scholars in migrant literatures and Indigenous literatures. She recently co-edited a special journal issue examining environmental ethics and activism in Indigenous literature and film. Her book Stories of Oka: Land, Film and Literature was published at University of Manitoba Press in the Spring 2018. It analyzes this political crisis during the standoff, in documentary films and in literary narratives, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, in Canada and Qu茅bec. The review of the book was published in the Eastern Door Journal in Kahnawake:
Professor St-Amand鈥檚 teaching philosophy is grounded in her experience of community-based research. She strives to foster experiential learning and co-founded in 2013 at Universit茅 de Montr茅al a C脡RIUM鈥檚 graduate summer institute on Indigenous literatures and film, for which she was co-responsible in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Professor St-Amand is teaching the following course(s):
LLCU 270: Contemporary Events and Indigenous Cultural Politics
LLCU 295: Special Topics: Contemporary Events and Indigenous Cultural Politics
LLCU 302: Unsettling: Indigenous Peoples & Canadian Settler Colonialism
LLCU 370: Indigenous Women and Power
Professor
PhD
LLCU, Linguistics
Research interests: Linguistic anthropology, language revitalization, Indigenous languages
Ph. D. Anthropology, University of Western Ontario 2013
M. A. Globalization Studies, McMaster 2009
M. Sc. Linguistics, University of Alberta 2004
B. A. Linguistics and Comparative Literature, McMaster 2002
Sarah Shulist is a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on the social and political dimensions of Indigenous language revitalization. She uses collaborative ethnographic methods in order to provide support to communities engaged in revitalization efforts, particularly in contexts of multilingualism and urbanization, as well as to understand the implications of language policy and school-based language programs in shaping Indigenous-state relations. Her research has addressed Indigenous language issues in both Brazil and Canada.
Important publications:
2018. Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2019. Shulist, Sarah and Faun Rice. Towards an Interdisciplinary Bridge between Documentation and Revitalization: Bringing Ethnographic Methods into Endangered Language Projects and Programming. Language Documentation and Conservation, 13:36-62.
2018. 鈥淪igns of Status: Language Policy, Revitalization, and Visibility in Urban Amazonia鈥. Language Policy, 17(4):523-543.
2016. 鈥 鈥業ndigenous Names鈥, Revitalization Politics, and Regimes of Recognition in the Northwest Amazon. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 21 (2):1-19
2016. 鈥 鈥楪raduated Authenticity鈥: Multilingualism, Revitalization, and Identity in the Northwest Amazon鈥. Language & Communication 47:112-123.
2013. 鈥淐ollaborating on Language: Contrasting the Theory and Practice of Collaboration in Linguistics and Anthropology鈥. Collaborative Anthropologies, 6: 1-29.
Prof. Shulist teaches following courses:
LING 205 Language and Power
LLCU 111 Introduction to Cultures
LLCU 110 Linguistic Diversity and Identity
LLCU 203 Sociocultural Anthropology
LING 370 Living Languages: Resilience and Revitalization in Practice
LING 490 Special Topics
Professor
PhD
LLCU, Linguistics
* on leave January 01 - June 30, 2026
Associated with Cultural Studies
Research interest: 20th-century Italian theatre and literature, literary studies, semiotics
Ph.D. in Italian Studies, University of Toronto
鈥淟aurea鈥 in Lettere e filosofia, University of Rome La Sapienza
Donato Santeramo earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Rome, 鈥淟a Sapienza鈥 and his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. He is the Head of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at 黑料吃瓜资源 and is cross appointed to the School of Drama and Music. He is also associated with the Cultural Studies Graduate Program and holds an appointment at the Graduate School of the University of Rome II. He taught, from 2000 to 2013, at Middlebury College鈥檚 Summer School and at the Centre for the Study of Diaspora at the University of Calabria. He has published on Italian literature, theatre, film and Semiotics. His most recent publications are: M. Bertone, A. Nicaso and D. Santeramo, eds., Cahiers de narratologie, 36/2019 : Rh茅torique et repr茅sentations de la culture mafieuse. Images, rituels, mythes et symboles, 2019; M. Gieri and D. Santeramo eds., XX-Century Italian Filmmakers, Universitalia 2019, 2 vols.); Il laboratorio teatrale pubblico di Edward Gordon Craig, (Sinestesie, 2018); Gavrilovich D., Pizza M. & Santeramo D. eds., Franca Rame: Una vita mille avventure, One Life: A Thousand Adventures, (Universitalia, 2017) and Capozzi, R, Nardi,F. Pietropaolo D. & Santeramo, D., Twentieth-Century Italian Playwrights, (Universitalia, 2016. 2 vols.).
He has also translated and staged works of contemporary Italian playwrights and is on the Editorial Boards of several academic journals. He has also participated in several creative and artistic endeavors including the art exhibit Chromosomes (Rome 2008 and Lisbon 2009) and co-edited the book Red Cars 鈥 An Original Screenplay by David Cronenberg. In 2004 he was the recipient of the 黑料吃瓜资源 Alumnae Teaching Award.
Prof. Santeramo teaches the following courses:
LLCU 200: Semiotics
LLCU 214: Mafia Culture
LLCU 215: Dante
LLCU 257: Pirandello's Theatre
LLCU 395: The Semiotics of the Arts
Retired Associate Professor
PhD
Research interests: Language teaching, cultural studies, gender studies, history of Spain; literature of the Spanish Golden Age; Peninsular Literature, Translation.
Ph. D. in Cultural Studies, 黑料吃瓜资源, 2015
M. A. in Spanish Language and Literature, University of Western, 1984
B. A. in French, Spanish, English, York University (Glendon College), 1981
Professor Rotermundt-de la Parra has been teaching all levels of Spanish at 黑料吃瓜资源 since 1989. In her teaching, she fosters student learning through offering guidance and positive support. In addition to the goal of helping her students to communicate effectively in Spanish, she aims at exposing them to the richness and diversity of cultures in the Spanish-speaking world.
Her current research project centers on a Jungian analysis of Cervantes鈥 last novel, Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda. She is also working on an advanced grammar-through-translation textbook.
Professor Rotermundt-de la Parra teaches the following courses:
SPAN 301: Gram谩tica avanzada y composici贸n I
SPAN 401: Advanced Grammar Through Translation I
SPAN 111: Beginning Spanish I
SPAN 112: Beginning Spanish II
