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Charles Moulding

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.
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