• “Are there any Mexicans listening?” Stancetaking and language ideologies in a Spanish L2 Classroom 

  Mattson-Prieto, Raquel; Showstack, Rachel E. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2022-03)

  This study investigated classroom interaction through the framework of stancetaking (Du Bois, 2007) to understand how Spanish second language (L2) learners positioned themselves when participating in communicative language ...

• Pursuing testimonial justice: Language access through patient-centered outcomes research with Spanish speakers 

  Martínez, Glenn A.; Showstack, Rachel E.; Magaña, Dalia; Dejbord-Sawan, Parizad; Hardin, Karol J. (Oxford University Press, 2021-12-27)

  Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR), rooted in the more established tradition of Community-Based Participatory Research (Deeb-Sossa 2019), seeks to empower patients in determining the most appropriate healthcare ...

• Lifting the voices of Spanish-speaking Kansans: A community-engaged approach to health equity 

  Showstack, Rachel E.; Duque, Silvia; Keene Woods, Nikki; López, Ana; Chesser, Amy K. (De Gruyter, 2021-10-11)

  An important component of social justice research is centering the voices of those individuals whose lives the research is intended to improve, not as subjects from whom researchers collect data but as active participants ...

• Afterword. Co-construction and frames in a post-digital age 

  Showstack, Rachel E.; Czerwionka, Lori; Liskin-Gasparro, Judith E. (Taylor and Francis Inc., 2021)

  One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we reflect on how Koike’s ideas about pragmatics, co-construction, and frames will contribute to emerging and future research about digitally mediated communication in a time during ...

• Introduction: Context and co-construction in interaction, pragmatics, and second language applications 

  Czerwionka, Lori; Showstack, Rachel E. (Taylor and Francis Inc., 2021)

  The scholarship of Dr. Dale April Koike has made important contributions to applied linguistics, Hispanic linguistics, pragmatics, and language pedagogy, and her role as a teacher and mentor has affected the lives of ...

• Contexts of co-constructed discourse: Interaction, pragmatics, and second language applications 

  Czerwionka, Lori; Showstack, Rachel E.; Liskin-Gasparro, Judith E. (Taylor and Francis Inc., 2021)

  This collection showcases cutting-edge developments in co-construction in discourse. Drawing on the pioneering work of Dale A. Koike, the volume contributes new understandings of how speakers jointly negotiate meanings, ...

• Política, estética y fantasía en La raíz del ombú, de Julio Cortázar y Alberto Cedrón 

  Navarro Serrano, Jose Enrique (Routledge, 2020-07-10)

  Julio Cortázar’s only graphic novel, La raíz del ombú, remains almost unknown and certainly understudied. Illustrated by Argentine painter Alberto Cedrón and published in Venezuela in 1981, it served both Cedrón and Cortázar ...

• Making sense of the interpreter role in a healthcare service-learning program 

  Showstack, Rachel E. (Oxford University Press, 2020-02-22)

  This study examines the interpreter role among students who serve as interpreters in a community health clinic system in the Midwestern USA as part of a community health-themed service-learning course for advanced Spanish ...

• Body, slavery and agency in Fulú by Carlos Trillo and Eduardo Risso 

  Del Aguila, Rocio A.; Navarro-Serrano, Jose Enrique (Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos, 2019-11-05)

  This essay analyzes Fulú (1988-1991), a comic by the Argentinean writer Carlos Trillo and the graphic artist Eduardo Risso. Given her supernatural powers and a clear idea of what freedom means, the Black slave Fulú is able ...

• Patients don't have language barriers; the healthcare system does 

  Showstack, Rachel E. (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2019-08-12)

  Benda et al found that in an emergency department in the eastern United States, Spanish-speaking patients who needed language assistance received inconsistent and often non-recommended language access services across ...

• Book review: The empty Spain. Travel through a country that was never 

  Navarro Serrano, Jose Enrique (Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2016)

• Spanish and identity among Latin@s in the US 

  Showstack, Rachel E. (Routledge, 2018)

  Research on language and identity among U. S. Latin@s has addressed the value and social meaning of 'Spanish' and 'Spanglish' in a range of social contexts in diverse bilingual communities in many parts of the country. ...

• Improving Latino health equity through Spanish language interpreter advocacy in Kansas 

  Showstack, Rachel E.; Guzman, Kelly; Chesser, Amy K.; Woods, Nikki Keene (SAGE, 2018-12-21)

  INTRODUCTION:: Federal law requires any agency receiving federal aid to take "reasonable steps" to provide meaningful access to qualified limited English proficient (LEP) individuals. However, policies for the provision ...

• Book review: Marguerite d'Auge, Renee Burlamacchi, and Jeanne du Laurens : Sin and Salvation in Early Modern France: Three Women's Stories 

  Roussel, Brigitte (University of Maryland, 2018-11-21)

• Book review: Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France 

  Roussel, Brigitte (American Association of Teachers of French, 2018-05)

  Each part of the book is balanced: the selection of cultural texts is as large and appropriate as the literary pieces. They are all discussed with equal sophistication and nuanced analysis, based on agreeing with, but also ...

• Juan Radrigan: his career plans and concerns, has works published, Chilean playwright 

  Bravo-Elizondo, Pedro (University of Kansas, 2017)

  The death of Juan Radrigán Rojas (Antofagasta 1937-Santiago 2016) brings me back to 1982, year in which I did an interview, which I share with you. Radrigán made his first works known at the end of the 70s. When traveling ...

• Another loss for the National Theatre of Chile: Egon Wolff, has works published, chilean playwright 

  Bravo-Elizondo, Pedro (University of Kansas, 2017)

  When I had to determine a field of specialization during my doctorate at the University of Iowa, I chose Latin American theater. Reason: my father and his brother Nazario were actors of the anarchist group Ateneo Obrero, ...

• Chapter 7 -- Global Bolano: Reading, Writing, and Publishing in a Neoliberal World 

  Navarro-Serrano, Jose Enrique (Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2017)

  In this work I will explore a series of formal and thematic characteristics of Bolano's narrative that stand in opposition to the literature of hyperindustrial capitalist society yet, paradoxically, may have contributed ...

• Stancetaking and language ideologies in heritage language learner classroom discourse 

  Showstack, Rachel E. (Taylor & Francis, 2017-09-03)

  Drawing on linguistic anthropological notions of language ideologies and sociolinguistic approaches to stance, this study examines the meaning-making resources through which Spanish heritage language (HL) learners orient ...

• Reinscribing the Feminine in "La navire" and "Le miroir de Jhesus Christ crucifié" 

  Roussel, Brigitte (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)

  In "La navire" and "Le miroir de Jhesus Christ crucifié", Marguerite de Navarre uses a death-in-life trope to help her readers experience these texts as a personal space for acknowledging their attachment to earthly ...

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