The book “Inclusiveness Beyond the (Non)Binary in Romance Languages. Research and Classroom Implementation” by Dr. Gláucia Silva (UMass Dartmouth) and Cristiane Soares (Harvard), published in 2024 by Routledge, delves into research and best practices for incorporating nonbinary language in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian.

This book was honored with the “Publication of the Year Award 2024” by the American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese (AOTP), recognizing its substantial contribution to inclusive language teaching in Romance languages, particularly in addressing non-binary identities.

Gláucia Silva is a Professor in the Department of Portuguese at UMass Dartmouth. She specializes in heritage and foreign language learning, with a focus on Portuguese. Professor Silva has co-authored four Portuguese language textbooks and is the author of Word Order in Brazilian Portuguese (De Gruyter, 2001/2013). She has also published several scholarly articles and book chapters, both in English and in Portuguese. Her graduate advisees have investigated different aspects related to Portuguese language and linguistics, such as the roles of attitude and motivation in learning Portuguese, service encounters in Portuguese in Massachusetts, gay articulations of desire in Rio de Janeiro, the impact of anxiety on learning Portuguese, using songs in the foreign language classroom, task-based language teaching, mother-child interactions in a bilingual family, among others.

This book talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies and Language Resource Center (LRC).

Light refreshments will be served.

WHEN: March 11, 2025 at 4:45PM – 5:45PM

WHERE: Romance Studies Lounge – Klarman Hall 164 (in person)

WHO: Open to the public.

Contact: Dr. Denise Osborne dmo67@cornell.edu

See the flyer HERE.