On Jun 20, 2018, at 3:01 PM, DANIELLA VOLARIC <daniellavolaric@mail.adelphi.edu> wrote:
Hello!!
I'm back in the states, and I just wanted to give you all a few life updates. Firstly, I want to thank you all again for your encouragement and support when it came to my participating in TAPIF. It was difficult at times, as expected, but it was an overall incredible experience, and you have no idea how glad and relieved I am to have made the right choice in going. My students were all unbelievably sweet, and although it was very sad to leave them, I came home with piles of drawings, handmade bracelets, cards, and French pokemon cards!
Apparently, (as my parents feared) I loved my time there enough that I couldn't stay away from Europe for long. This fall, I will begin medical school in Poland at Poznan University of Medical Sciences. The program is in English and I will earn a US medical degree, but it looks as though I'd better start quickly learning some key Polish phrases (although I already love pierogis, so at least I'll be assimilating into the food aspect of their culture without too much trouble). To be honest, I'm even more nervous about this next chapter than I was about TAPIF. Four years is a long time, and this is a language and culture that are almost entirely unfamiliar to me. But once again, also less directly this time, I have all of you to thank for this experience. I would never have even considered this as an option if I hadn't spent the past year in Tergnier. I repeatedly surprised myself by doing things that I, a person who has never really enjoyed or been comfortable with change, was afraid to do- traveling by myself, exploring new cities, making friends, and seeing new cultures with very little help and guidance. I think back to how afraid I was before each new step, and to how proud of myself I was for each new thing I accomplished- how proud of myself I was for continuing to travel and experience new things despite how nervous the prospect made me beforehand. Now, although I am back in the "fear" stage- and believe you me, there is plenty of fear to go around- I can comfort myself with the knowledge that the pride phase is coming. Although I don't know when, and although it will be very difficult in the meantime, I know that I have that feeling to look forward to. I also have a new support system of friends in France and Germany (thanks to TAPIF) who will make it a little bit easier as well. So again, I thank you for encouraging me to make what has undoubtedly been the best decision of my life this far, which has opened doors for me that two years ago, I never would have thought myself capable of.
I'm sorry that I've written you a short novel here, but it's really important to me that you all know how much I appreciate your support. I hope all is well at Adelphi and with you all. Thank you again.
Best wishes,
Daniella Volaric
As though last summer and fall were not busy enough - with three conference papers and the publication of a peer-reviewed article, the acceptance of a second peer-reviewed article, and the submission of a third - Dr. Wadhera has had a very busy spring semester!In January, she attended the Modern Language Association annual convention in New York City in her capacity as Forum Delegate for the Division on Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French Languages, Literatures and Cultures. In April, she chaired a panel and delivered a paper at Brown University at the annual 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium in which she also played an organizational role. She is honored to have been asked to serve on the comité scientifique for next year’s conference, in which capacity she would work with a small team to select abstracts and organize panels for the colloquium which routinely draws 400 scholars from throughout the French and Francophone world.In addition to reworking the Brown conference paper for submission to a peer-reviewed journal, the summer will also be busy as she writes papers for two upcoming conferences. Next fall, she will address the question of the olfactory in Proust at “Common Scents: Smells and Social Life in European Literature (1880-1939)” at the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London in England. And in early January 2019, she will give a paper called “Albertine, Death, and Desire in Proust’s Tablescapes” as part of the panel “Albertine at 100” at the Modern Language Association annual convention in Chicago. Both of these papers are based on research undertaken this past year for her second book, a study of how Proust's madeleine episode has been rewritten in post-war French literature.She is very grateful for the sabbatical leave she was granted to pursue her research so intensely and looks forward to returning to campus, especially to the classroom, this fall.
French
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Miranda Balash
Amanda Opromolla
Cristina Panagi
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L’indécision
Une histoire court: mon café franVais
C’est
la vie
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Italian
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Amanda Opromolla
Ninfa Vicari
Amanda
Bruchhauser
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L’estate en Italia
Una pagina dal diario
di un ex nazista che si ennamoròdi
una ebrea italiana
Untitled (translation)
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Spanish
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Matthew Petrouskie
Justin Bergson
Remy
Wang
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La aventura intemporal
Guía de Nueva York con referencias a España
Volver a vivir
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Translation
Spanish
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Arianna Thomas
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Translation
of Aeschylus' Agamemnom (1816) "The More Faithful, The
More Divergent"
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