Xenia Bonch-Bruevich

Asistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. 2003, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Office: 339 Millett Hall
Tel. (937) 775-2034
Fax (937) 775-2820
E -mail: xenia.bonch@wright.edu
Fall 2007 office hours: 1-2 Tue & Thu





     
Current Courses:    


Fall 2007

101 Beginning Spanish
201-4 Spanish for Law Enforcement Personnel
321 Spanish Composition


Winter 2008

202 Spanish for Law Enforcement Personnel (continuing course)
403 Spanish as a World Language


Spring 2008

103 Beginning Spanish
403 Advanced Studies: Grammar Review and Composition


Past Courses

101, 102, 103 Beginning Spanish
101, 102, 103 Beginning Russian
201, 202 Intermediate Russian
321, 322 Spanish Composition
331 Survey of Early Spanish Literature

403 Seminar: Journey in Early Hispanic Literature

     
Research Interests:  


Religious, philosophical, political, and legal thought in early Hispanic literature; Historical linguistics; Second language acquisition
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Edited Books and Manuscripts
The Past, Present, and Future of Second Language Research: Selected Proceedings of the 2000 Second Language Research Forum. Co-edited With William Crawford, Christina Higgins, John Hellermann, and Hanh Nguyen. Somerville: Cascadilla Press, 2001. ISBN 1-57473-050-9. xvi+294 pp.

Editor, introduction, Electronic Text and Concordances of the Setenario by Alfonso el Sabio. Based on the Toledo Manuscript of ca. 1300. Biblioteca Capitular de Toledo, MS 43-20. CD-ROM. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1999. ISBN 1-56954-121-3. ix + 77 folios.


Articles
In progress. "Rethinking the Byzantine Context of the Mozarabic Chronicles: Narrative Spaces in the Chronica Byzantia Arabica (741) and the Chronica Muzarabica (754) and the Eastern Apocalyptic Tradition."

Submitted. "Ideologies of the Reconquest and Isidore's Political Thought." May 2007.

In press. "Lex Wisigothorum como herramienta de legitimación política en las crónicas asturianas: problemas y perspectivas de una lectura legista." Actas del Primer Congreso Internacional de la SEMYR.

"La etnografía del conflicto cristiano-musulmán en las crónicas cristianas de la España medieval (siglos VIII-XIII)." Romance Quarterly 1 (2007), pp. 243-252.

"Prácticas actuales y direcciones futuras para la enseñanza de la comprensión auditiva a los hablantes de inglés en el ambiente multimedia." RedEle 7, June 2006.

"A Philosophical History: Unity and Diversity in Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada's Historia de rebus Hispanie." Viator 37 (2006), pp. 223-239.


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