Larry Kuiper

Associate Professor

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

US

Biografia

Professor Kuiper specializes in French language and linguistics, and has also taught courses in French history ranging from the Middle Ages to the First World War. He has taught culture courses focusing on topics like French cuisine and the history of French popular song. His current researchfocus is the use of corpus linguistics to enhance language learning, both for French, and for English as a Second Language - a program he has directed at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee since 2017.

Artigos (4)

enfrAnaïs Fléchet, Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, Olivier Compagnon

Periodizing the Atlantic

A major challenge for the Transatlantic Cultures project has been creating a historical periodization that would explain not only shifting overarching systems of interchange throughout the Atlantic since the end of the 18th century, but also transformations and disruptions specific to places within this space.

enfrJean-Charles Geslot

Artistic Education and Artist Training

The Atlantic is the setting for many exchanges in the education of artists, especially painters. Since the colonial period mentors and teachers, art students, journals, books, and textbooks have been exchanged, principally between Europe on one side and the Americas and Africa on the other.

enfrCécile Cottenet

Literary Agents

Over the course of the 20th century, literary agents have maintained an important role in the transatlantic circulation of texts. As both economic and cultural negotiators, these men and women are at the heart of the transnational cultural history of printed material.

enfrGhislaine Arielle Nzouwe Nganso

Makossa

Born in Douala in the 1950s, and strongly influenced by Ghanaian highlife music, Congolese rumba and Latin-American rhythms, Makossa made its mark in France and the United States in the 1970s, in the wake of soul and disco, clearing the way for a number of transfers and appropriations.