Languages and Culture Studies
Within the Languages and Culture Studies program you can pursue a B.A. degree in French, Classics, Spanish, World Languages, or K-12 Teacher Certification in French or Spanish. Minors in French, Greek, Latin, and Spanish are also available.
By providing insights into the linguistic, cultural, and intellectual lives of other peoples, language study and the investigation of foreign literatures and cultures foster in the student a broader, more informed perspective on the world.About the Program
Students pursuing a major or a minor in Languages and Culture Studies will study linguistic structures, develop audio-lingual and writing ability, become familiar with literary texts, develop analytical abilities, and gain an appreciation of cultures and traditions different from their own.
The program is open to any student with an interest in language, literature, or linguistics.
Program Chair
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- Adapting to Change
To prepare yourself for a career in the globalized environment of the twenty-first century. - Global Awareness
To succeed in a multicultural and increasingly multilingual world, interdisciplinary work, i.e., studying a foreign language, is more important than ever. - Communication Skills
To improve and provide confidence in language and communication skills, including English vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, as well as writing and speaking. - Global Awareness, Communication Skills
To have the opportunity to study abroad for a semester or in the summer and
communicate daily in another language. - Critical Thinking
To study and translate a foreign language means to be able to engage in critical thinking and cross intellectual borders
Curriculum
The program consists of three separate sections: Spanish, French, and Classics. Students are able to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Languages and Culture Studies in the following concentrations:
Classics
World Languages
To view the curriculum, you’ll use the web program, Degree Works. This program is accessible even if you are not currently a student with Stockton University.
Current Students
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Prospective First Year or Transfer Students
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See the Catalog of Courses for complete descriptions of course offerings.
For detailed curriculum information, please refer to the Academic Bulletin.
Minor
Students from all majors can earn a minor in French, Ancient Greek, Latin, or Spanish.
Requirements for French, Latin and Greek Minors
Five LANG-acronym courses for students entering at the Beginning II or a higher level of French, Latin or Greek (ancient or modern). This requirement does not include any beginning LANG I course.
- Transfer students with college credit in French, Latin, or Greek will be entering
at the appropriate level of language instruction. A minimum of one 3000-level course
taught in the target language must be completed at Stockton to satisfy the 20-credit
requirement for a language minor. All the required courses for the minor must be completed
in the same language. A minimum grade of C is required in all courses counted toward
the minor.
Requirements for Spanish Minors
Students from all majors can earn a minor in Spanish. The requirements are as follows: Five LANG-acronym courses for students entering at the Intermediate I or a higher level of Spanish.
- Transfer students with college credit in Spanish will be entering at the appropriate level of language instruction. A minimum of one 3000 level course taught in the target language must be completed at Stockton to satisfy the 20-credit requirement for a language minor. All the required courses for the minor must be completed in the same language. A minimum grade of C is required in all courses counted toward the minor.
Languages and Culture Studies Faculty
David King, Associate Professor of French
David King
Associate Professor of French
BIOGRAPHY
As an undergraduate, David King studied for a year at the Université de Caen in Normandy, France; he also spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint Cloud near Paris. For the last several years, he has returned to Paris in the summer to read and write at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Before coming to Stockton, he taught at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, and at Carson-Newman College, in Jefferson City, Tennessee. He was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and remains a baseball Cardinal fan.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Washington University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Medieval French literature
COURSES
LANG 1230/1231 Beginning French I & II
LANG 2230/2231 Intermediate French I & II
LANG 3230 Advanced French
LANG 3607 French Civilization
LANG 3614 French Literature I
LANG 3616 Business French: The Language and Culture of Commerce
GAH 2254 War in Medieval Western Literature
GAH 3219 War in Western Literature and Memoir: 12th-20th Century
GAH 3624 Medieval Arthurian Heroes
PUBLICATIONS
“The Wounded Knight’s Stench in the Prose Lancelot: The Grail Quest Prefigured,” Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies, vol. 20, no. 1 (2018): pp. 1-13.
“Béroul's Roman de Tristran in La Mort le Roi Artu: ‘They have turned to a dismal, worldly life,’” Medieval Perspectives, vol. 31 (2016): pp. 94-106.
“Allusive Fonteinnes: Love as Trouble in La Mort le Roi Artu,” Romance Notes, vol. 56, no. 3 (2016): 453-63.
“Victories Foretelling Disgrace: Judicial Duels in the Prose Lancelot,” South Atlantic Review, vol. 81, no. 2 (2016): pp. 55-71.
“Causality in La Mort le Roi Artu: Free Will, Accident, and Moral Failure,” Quidditas, vol. 35 (2014): pp. 83-120.
“Judicial Duels and Moral Inadequacy in La Mort le Roi Artu,” South Central Review, vol. 30, no. 2 (2013): pp. 91-111.
“Identity, Dismemberment, and Illusion in L’Atre périlleux,” South Atlantic Review, vol. 77, no. 3-4 (2012): pp. 119-37.
“Learning from Loss: Amputation in Three Thirteenth-Century French Verse Romances.” Modern Philology 110.1 (2012): 1-23.
“Moral Education in L’Esquiriel, Manuscript A (Paris, B.N. fr. 837), or What’s a Mother to Say?” Medieval Perspectives 27 (2012): 99-110.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Southeastern Medieval Association
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Certified ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview tester in French
Certified Computerized Oral Proficiency Interview rater
Panelist for the Defense Language Proficiency Test 5, reading and listening in French,
Baltimore, Maryland, September 11-14, 2012.
Gorica Majstorovic, Professor of Spanish
Gorica Majstorovic
Professor of Spanish
BIOGRAPHY
Gorica Majstorovic earned a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American literature at New York University, a M.A. at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and a B.A. at the University of Belgrade, Serbia (former Yugoslavia). Dr. Majstorovic joined the Stockton Faculty in 2002 following her appointment as an Andrew Mellon Fellow in Humanities at Northwestern University. A scholar of Latin American literature, Professor Majstorovic has published extensively and presented at national and international conferences. She works in various linguistic contexts and contributes to the rapidly emerging field of Cosmopolitanism Studies.
Professor Majstorovic directs Latin American plays at Stockton and is the faculty advisor to the Spanish Club. Dr. Majstorovic served as the Languages and Culture Studies Program Coordinator, and has led Spain Study Tour and other Internationalizing the Curriculum efforts. Currently, she is the Coordinator of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
WEBSITE
https://blogs.stockton.edu/lacs/
EDUCATION
Ph.D., New York University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Latin American literature, visual arts, and theater, Inter-American Studies, Comparative Literature and Postcolonial studies.
COURSES
LANG 3259 Latin American Theatre
LANG 3251 Spanish Culture and Civilization
LANG 3256 20th-century Spanish Literature and Film
LANG 4244 Hispanic Essays
LANG 3257 Proficiency Methodologies in Spanish
GAH 3119 Multicultural Latin America
GAH 3124 Latin American and World Literature
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS
“Masculinities, Modernity, and the City in Roberto Arlt’sEl juguete rabioso.” Modern Argentine Masculinities. Carolina Rocha, Ed. Intellect Books, Bristol (2013): 57-71.
“An Argentine Babylon: Cosmopolitanism, Immigration, and The Question of Modernity in Xul Solar and Eduardo Mallea.” Estudios Hispánicos en le siglo XXI (Hispanic Studies in the 21st Century).A Kuzmanovic, J. Filipovic, J.Stojanovic, and J. Rajic, Eds. Facultad de Filogía, University of Belgrade, Serbia. 2014. 199-212.
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
“Cosmopolitan Critique and the ‘Atlantic’ Arlt.’” Atlantic Studies. Vol 14 1 (2017): 99-111.
“Narrative Unmoored: Photography, Orientalism, and Geopolitics in Roberto Arlt’s La cadena del ancla.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. Vol 69 4 (2015): 203-213.
"“Un paso de América: Alfonso Reyes, Victoria Ocampo y el cosmopolitismo en la década de 1930.” Vegueta: Anuario de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia. The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. No 14. (2014): 339-351.
“Dissonant Echoes of the Great War: the Avant-garde, Urban Space, and Immigrant Voices in Armando Discépolo’s Babilonia.” Iberoamericana. América Latina- España-Portugal. Dossier: America Latina y La Primera Guerra Mundial, nuevos estudios, nuevas interpretaciones. Iberoamericana. America Latina-Espana-Portugal. Ano XIV. No 53. (2014): 139-149.
“Literature of the Americas in the Making: U.S. Writers and Translation in Sur, 1931-1944.” MonTI: Monografías de Traducción e Interpretación. MonTI: Monographs in Translation and Interpreting. In Vega, Miguel and Martha Pulido, eds.The History of Translation within Translation Studies: Problems in Research and Didactics. MonTi 5 (2013): 287-298.
“Cosmopolitanism and the Nation: Reading the Asymmetries of Power in Victoria Ocampo’s Babel.” A Contracorriente. A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 3.3 (2006): 47-64.
“From Argentina to Spain and North Africa: Travel and Translation in Roberto Arlt.” Transatlántica: Idas y vueltas de la literatura y la cultura hispano-americana en el siglo XX. Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal.Año VI. No 21. (2006): 109-115.
"An American Place: Victoria Ocampo's Editorial Politics, the Foundation ofSur, and Hemispheric Alliances." In Matters of the Market: Texts & Contexts in Spanish and Latin American Literature. Christine Henseler, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Eds. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 9. (2005): 171-180.
"The (Post)Colonial Exotic, Photography and Geopolitics in Roberto Arlt's La cadena del ancla." Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. Forthcoming.
PUBLICATIONS: REVIEW ESSAYS IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
“Latin American Literature in an International Context: Questions of Language and Travel in Literary Criticism and History.”Latin American Research Review39.3 (2004): 233-242.
PUBLICATIONS:
“Everything Else in the World.” By Stephen Dunn. Selections. English to Serbo-Croatian.Beogradski Knjizevni Casopis. (Belgrade Literature Review). No. 4 (Fall 2006): 67-71.
Me transformo ou O filho de Semele. By Régis Bonvicino. Portuguese to Serbo-Croatian. Tigre do espelho, São Paulo, Brasil,1999.
Graciela Iturbide on Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Documentary Film Series “The Art of Influence”. Alternate Current, New York. 1997. Spanish to English.
“Muzej bezuspesnih pokusaja.” By Cristina Peri Rossi. Spanish to Serbo-Croatian. ProFemina–Journal for Women’s Writing and Culture 3 (1995):16-20. Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Serbia).
BOOK REVIEWS IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS:
Jacqueline Loss.Cosmopolitanism and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Tomo XLII, Número 2 (Mayo2008): 377-378.
SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPH:
Cosmopolitanism and Argentine Literature: Reading the Tower of Babel Trope. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Modern Language Association of America (M.L.A.), Northeast Modern Language Association of America (N.E.M.L.A.), Latin American Studies Association (L.A.S.A.), Southern Cone Studies, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (A.C.T.F.L.), Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey (F.L.E.N.J.), Instituto Cervantes: The Spanish Cultural Center in New York.
Katherine Panagakos, Assistant Professor of Classics; AFGLC Professor of Greek Culture
Katherine Panagakos
Assistant Professor of Classics; AFGLC Professor of Greek Culture
BIOGRAPHY
Katherine Panagakos earned her M.A. in Classics from Tulane University and her Ph.D. in Greek and Latin from The Ohio State University. During her graduate work, she was a student at The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) and was a field walker and camp manager at the Eastern Korinthia Archaeogical Survey (EKAS). Katherine spent three years in a rotating position at schools in the Associated Colleges of the South (Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX; Furman University in Greenville, SC; and Rhodes College in Memphis, TN).
She began teaching primarily Latin and Classics-related courses at Stockton in January of 2008. Katherine serves as the advisor for the Classics National Honor Society (ΗΣΦ) and OGRE (Order of Greco-Roman Enthusiasts), as well as being an active member of the Interdisciplinary Center of Hellenic Studies (ICHS) and the Friends of Hellenic Studies (FHS). Her research focuses on the ancient Greek and Roman novels. Katherine is currently working on three manuscripts. The first focuses on the role of pirates and robbers in the ancient novels and the other two are in collaboration with former students: one is an intermediate Greek text on Aesop’s Fables; the other is a collection of essays on suicide in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Latin language and literature, Ancient Greek and Roman novels, Augustan Age, Classical mythology, Greco-Romans in film, zombies in popular culture
COURSES
LANG 1220/1221 Beginning Latin I & II
LANG 2710 & 2711 Intermediate Latin I and II (recent authors include: Catullus, Martial,
Apuleius, Petronius, Cicero, Horace, and Ovid)
LANG 3710/3711 Advanced Latin I and II (recent authors/topics include: Vergil, Lucan,
Lucretius, Elegiac Poetry, Roman Biography, Cicero, and Livy)
LANG 3760/3761Advanced Greek I and II (Lucian, Longus, and Homer)
GAH 1038 Reacting to the Past
GAH 1401 Classical Myth and Legend
GAH 1632 Greco-Romans in Film and Text
GAH 2351 Zombies and Cultural Anxiety
GAH 3220 The Age of Augustus
PUBLICATIONS
Review of Stefan Tilg’s Chariton of Aphrodisias and the invention of the Greek Love Novel (Oxford UP, 2010).Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Bryn Mawr, PA: BMCR, 2011.
Review of Evan Hayes and Stephen Nimis’ Lucian’s The Ass: An Intermediate Greek Reader (Faenum, 2012). Classical Journal. (Under contract)
“Heliodoran Evolution and Innovation.” Ancient Narrative. (Under revision)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Philological Association
Classical Association of the Middle West and South
Eta Sigma Phi
David Roessel, Professor of Greek Language and Literature; Associate Director, The Pappas Center for Hellenic Studies
F. Javier Sanchez, Professor of Spanish
F. Javier Sanchez
Professor of Spanish
BIOGRAPHY
Doctor Francisco Javier Sánchez is a Professor at Stockton University where he teaches a variety of courses on Comparative Literature, Spanish Language and Culture, Spanish Literature and on the History of the Spanish Civil War. He received his M.A. from The North Carolina Central University and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His book Constructing Meaning in the Spanish and French New Novel: Juan Benet and Alain Robbe-Grillet appeared in 2009.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Spanish language and literature, comparative literature, 20th-century narrative
COURSES
Languages and Culture Studies Program:
LANG 3240 Advanced Oral and Written Expression in Spanish
LANG 3241 Advanced Spanish Language Composition and Syntax
LANG 3244 Literary Analysis in Spanish
LANG 3254 The Spanish Civil War
LANG 3257 Proficiency Methodology in Spanish
LANG 4248 Spanish Woman Writers
LANG 4250 Spanish Narrative and Aesthetics
General Studies:
GAH 3210 Alienation & Social Difference
GAH 3228 The Spanish Civil War
GAH 3240 Metafiction
Honors Program:
GSS 2368 The Global Community
American Studies, M.A.
AMST 5003 Literature of the Americas
PUBLICATIONS
Constructing Meaning in the Spanish and French New Novel: Juan Benet and Alain Robbe-Grillet. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2009.
“El hambre como protagonista en el Lazarillo de Tormes”. Reseña de Hambre y resignación en el Lazarillo de Tormes. Benito Madariaga de la Campa. Ojáncano. Revista de literatura española 15 Octubre (1998) 89-94.
“Ajustando cuentas con el mundo: Modelos de mujer de Almudena Grandes”. Ojáncano. 39 (2011): 35-62.
“Conjeturas razonables: Historiografía metaficticia y posmodernismo en Soldados de Salamina de Javier Cercas.”L’Érudit Franco-Espagnol. Volume 6, Fall 2014. http://www.lef-e.org
Languages and Culture Studies Adjunct Faculty
Careers
Students majoring in specific languages are able to combine their studies with Education for public school teaching certification. In 1996, the State of New Jersey incorporated a World Language Education Program in its Core Curriculum Content Standards and Frameworks for K- 12 students. The need for professionally trained teachers of foreign languages is critical and will increase in the future.
A major in Spanish also prepares students for graduate school. Combined with other majors, study in modern languages, at least at the level of the minor, can increase employment potential in many fields, especially within the greater metropolitan areas of the United States and in fields that involve working in different countries or branches of business.
Special Opportunities
During their junior or senior year, students are encouraged to pursue study abroad
and internship opportunities, such as the Washington Internship program. Further information
can be found on the University’s Office of Global Engagement website.
Facilities
Our language lounge is open to all students taking language classes. The lounge provides you with a quiet space for study, tutoring, and small group work.
Additional Links
Latin Day
Latin Day 2022 was a great success! Thank you to all of the schools who joined us this year. Read more about Latin Day 2022 on Stockton News.
Latin Day 2023 is tentatively scheduled for Monday, December 11, 2023!
Haitian Poem Translation
In the fall of 2022, Associate Professor Kory Olson’s Advanced French students partnered with Montclair State University’s Digital Commons to translate 19th-century Haitian poems.
According to the Commons, the collection sought to highlight the many literary luminaries whose works about freedom were obscured during their revolution for independence. In translating these poems, the Commons hopes to make them more accessible to modern audiences.
Below are the poems that his students in LANG 3230 translated, which are now live on Montclair’s Digital Commons website.
- Marley Bingham – “Fleurs et Pleurs / Flowers and Tears” by Charles Séguy-Villevaleix
- Luka Buncic – “Midi tropical / Noon in the Tropics” by Duraciné Vaval
- Narcisse Cortez-Lopez – “Soleil couchant / Sunset” by Christian Werleigh
- Ann Delva – “A la belle-de-nuit / To the Beauty of the Night” by Ignace Nau
- Emma French – “L'Attente / The Wait” by Damoclès Vieux
- Olivia Ponzio – “Matin de printemps / Spring Morning” by Ida Faubert
- Monica Rodriguez-Escobar – “Rêve jaune / Yellow Dream” by Edmond Laforest
- Dylan Viet – “A un ami / To a Friend” by Coriolan Ardouin
