Charles Moulding
- (él/he/him)
- mouldin1@msu.edu
- Wells B480
- Instructor/Coordinator
- Romance and Classical Studies
Biography
Charles Moulding is an Instructor in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies (RCS) where he coordinates the Intermediate Spanish Program. He also serves in the role of Assistant Director of the MSU Translation Center that offers translation and interpretation services to MSU and Michigan communities. A former graduate student at Michigan State University, while originally from Utah, Charles learned Spanish while living in Mexico in the region surrounding the states Jalisco, Nayarit, and Colima. His passions for study and investigation include immigration literature and film, foodways, gastronationalism, globalism, and transnational identity. He is also the community engagement coordinator for RCS.
Works
- “Madre Ausente: Analyzing the missing within the role of mother-provider in Under the Same Moon” (Chapter submitted for publication 2026)
- “Let’s Get Talking! Strategies and Activities for Vocabulary Building” MIWLA (Lansing, MI) October 23, 2025
- “Engaging the Community: A Proposal for Joining Language Students with the World Around Them” MIWLA (Lansing, MI) October 23, 2025
- “One Size Doesn’t Fit All: A case for segmented student outcomes in curricular design” SOLPHE (Virtual), October 5, 2024
- “Gastronomical Genealogy: The Culinary Case for Multiculturalism” The Meaning of Food Interdisciplinary Conference on Representations of Food in the Arts & Humanities (Greensboro,NC) March 26-28, 2020 (Not presented due to COVID-19 restrictions).
- “It’s A Small World After All: Teaching Real World Cross-Cultural Lessons with Visual Cues”. 53rd MIWLA Conference (Lansing, MI), October 13, 2017.
- “The Search for ‘Self’: Cultural Identity and Representations of the Parent-Child Relationship.” First Annual Sigma Delta Pi: Career Pathways (Ogden, UT), March 24, 2017.
- “From the Indies to America: The Transmutation of the Visual and Textual Perception of the ‘New World’ from 1492 to 1615.” CLACS Graduate Student Conference (East Lansing, MI), March 17, 2017.
- “Symptoms of an ill nation: Foreshadowing of the Spanish Civil War in Galdós’ Fortunata y Jacinta”. 16thTROPOS Conference (East Lansing, MI), October 21-22, 2016
- “Spanish Advertising relative to income and Hispanic population”. Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research (St. George, UT), February 27-28, 2015.
College of Arts & Letters News
- College Receives National Award for Innovative Policies and Programs Supporting Non-Tenure-Track FacultyCollege of Arts & Letters
October 10, 2024Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters has been selected as a winner of the 2024 Delphi Award for its dedicated work to include non-tenure-track faculty as full partners through its Charting Pathways of Intellectual Leadership (CPIL) initiative. As a winner […] Read Now →
- MSU Translation Center Launches with Services Covering More Than 20 LanguagesCollege of Arts & Letters
December 5, 2022Michigan State University launched the new Translation Center to meet the growing needs for high-quality translation and interpreting services that can increase access to information on campus and beyond. The MSU Translation Center offers services in more than 20 languages […] Read Now →
- Spanish Students Present Research at CLACS ConferenceCollege of Arts & Letters
March 16, 2017Ten graduate students from MSU’s Spanish program are presenting their research at the Graduate Student Conference hosted by MSU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies on Friday, March 17. Scheduled from 1 to 5:30 p.m. on the 3rd floor of MSU’s International […] Read Now →
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