This book is a compilation of case studies and analyses that can be used as a resource guide for college and university professors of foreign language and academic museum educators collaborating to develop new pedagogical approaches to teaching foreign language with and through objects in the academic museum. As institutions of higher education respond to the needs of an increasingly global and interconnected world, their educational missions prioritize learning in areas such as interdisciplinary thinking, collaboration, intercultural competency, and global citizenship. Academic museums are uniquely poised to facilitate learning experiences in these areas, providing institutions with an essential platform for realizing their larger mission.
Introduction, Heather Flaherty, Curator of Education, The Trout Gallery
Dickinson College, and Jodi Kovach, Curator of Academic Programs, Gund
Gallery, Kenyon College
Part I: Foreign Language Programs within Academic Museums: A Relationship of
Reciprocity
Chapter 1: Student Benefits of Museum Visits as Part of the Foreign Language
Curriculum. Erin Díaz, Associate Professor of Spanish and Spanish Language
Coordinator, Dickinson College.
Chapter 2: Curating the Curriculum: Museums as Language Labs for Authentic
Target-Language Conversations. Preea Leelah, Assistant Professor of French
in the Center for Global Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Williams
College; Libby Murphy, Professor of French and Chair of the Department
ofWorld Languages and Cultures, Georgia College.
Part II: Engaging with Museum Objects for Critical Applications of Language
and Literary Concepts
Chapter 3: Benvenuti al Museo!: Italian Classes at the Princeton University
Art Museum. Daniele De Feo, Acting DirectorItalian Language Program,
Lecturer, Princeton University; Veronica White, Curator of Teaching and
Learning, Princeton University Art Museum.
Chapter 4: Old Things Considered: Museum Objects and the Study of
Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature. Ellen M. Alvord, Weatherbie Curator
of Education and Academic Programs, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum;
Ombretta Frau, Dorothy Rooke McCullochProfessor of Italian, Mount Holyoke
College.
Part III: Transforming the Social Experience of Language Learning in the
Academic Museum
Chapter 5: The Art of Languaging: The Museum as Language and Culture
Classroom. Lucile Duperron, Associate Professor of French and Francophone
studies Department of Romance Languages, Dickinson College.
Chapter 6: The Audacious Aesthetic Practice of Foreign Language Learning in
the Art Museum. Jodi Kovach, Curator of Academic Programs, Gund Gallery,
Kenyon College; Leo Riegert, Associate Professor of German, Kenyon College
Part IV: Expanding the Space for Language Learning
Chapter 7: Museum Visits for Beginning Language Learners. Heather Flaherty,
Curator of Education, The Trout Gallery Dickinson College.
Chapter 8: Writing with Your Eyes: Multiliteracies and Community-Based
Learning in an Art Museum. Rosamaría León, Senior Lector 1 of Spanish, Yale
University.
Bibliography
Authors Biographies
Index
Heather Flaherty, as Curator of Education at The Trout Gallery, the art museum of Dickinson College, directs educational programming for college and community audiences. Flaherty received her Ph.D. in the History of Art from The University of Michigan and her scholarship focuses on medieval manuscripts. Under her leadership, The Trout Gallery has won the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Associations Merit Award for connecting language and art and the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages James W. Dodge Award for Outstanding Foreign Language Advocacy.
Jodi Kovach is the Curator of Academic Programs at the Gund Gallery, Kenyon College. In this role, she partners with faculty across disciplines to integrate art into the curricula. She holds a PhD in Art History from Washington University in St. Louis. Her scholarship focuses on international modernism and global contemporary art, with a specialization in Mexican art, and has appeared in publications such as Art Journal.
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