World Languages & Literatures
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1253
Boston University’s Department of World Languages & Literatures (formerly Modern Languages and Comparative Literatures) is an intellectually vibrant and collegial community of scholars engaged in teaching and research about literature, film, and media culture in more than a dozen languages. Some of languages studied include Arabic, Chinese, German, Hebrew, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Turkish.
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Department chair: Keith Vincent
Campus address: 745 Commonwealth Avenue
Phone: (617) 358-5032
Website: https://www.bu.edu/wll/
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Media literacy at all levels: making the humanities more inclusive
(2014)The decline of the humanities, combined with the arrival of students focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), represent an opportunity for the development of innovative approaches to ... -
The ideological antecedents of the first-series renminbi worker-and-peasant banknote, or what Mao Tse-tung may have owed to Dziga Vertov
(Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 2014)This paper traces the history of an iconic Socialist Realist image—that of the worker, peasant, soldier, or leader viewed from below whilst gazing heroically into the symbolic dawn of a Socialist future—from its origins ... -
On the Chinese character 装 (Pretend)
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Hamlet Globe to Globe: two years, 190,000 miles, 197 countries, one play
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Arab Shakespeares at the World Shakespeare Congress
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-10-31)Why and how do contemporary theatre practitioners from across ‘the Arab world’—a misleadingly simple shorthand for a vast, diverse, and rapidly changing region of the globe—adapt and perform Shakespeare? On Friday the 5th ... -
Mei Lanfang 梅蘭芳 (1894-1961) Performance of the Sword Dance
(1955)Dance entering Peking opera in the 1910s -1920s was revolutionary. Solo dance without singing, furthermore, marked a new aesthetic beginning for traditional Chinese theater. One of the films that captured this style of ... -
Syrian theatre in Berlin
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Effective online assessment for interpretive, interpersonal and presentational modes in a blended course
(2018-03-16)Title: Effective online assessment for interpretive, interpersonal and presentational modes in a blended course. Author: Svitlana Malykhina, Boston University Abstract: Views on assessment are confused and even frightening. ... -
Shiki kaishi: October 1984, no. 23
(Matsuyama Shikikai松山子規会, 1984-10) -
Shiki kaishi: July 1988, no. 38
(Matsuyama Shikikai松山子規会, 1988-07)
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