World Languages & Cultures

Immigration to the United States and other developed nations has become a hot-button topic as governments continue to focus on security following the Sept. 11 attacks. But not all nations deal with immigration equally, which Molly Costigan ’10 discovered in work that is the fifth in a series of E-net profiles to showcase Elon undergraduate research during CELEBRATE! 2010.

Sophie Adamson, assistant professor of French, and Paul Geis, assistant director for affiliations and exchanges, spoke at the spring meeting of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French.

In mid-February, Donna Van Bodegraven, associate professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled "The Border-Crossing Experience in Recent Mexican and Chicano Theater" at the annual conference of the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies held in Baton Rouge, La.

Three Elon University alumni have been named recipients of Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships to help fund graduate studies overseas. Their recent selection brings to six the number of Elon students or alumni chosen for the prestigious award since 2006.

How does one man serve as a voice for minority populations in a nation where it can be difficult for immigrants to feel welcome? And how do his lessons from France resonate for cultures around the globe? Sophie Adamson, an assistant professor of French, explores those questions in her first published book, Ethics, Politics and Poetics in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Harrouda, La Réclusion solitaire and L’Ange aveugle.