October

Craig Awarded Arts Residency

Chauna Craig (Department of Language, Literature, and Writing) was recently awarded a competitive arts residency this past September at Craigardan, an interdisciplinary residency program located in Elizabethtown, New York.

Liu Delivers Keynote at ChinaCAll Conference

Shijuan Liu gave an invited keynote speech at the聽2024 ChinaCALL Conference聽and International Congress on English Language Education and Applied Linguistics, held in Beijing, China, August 23鈥25.

August

Mike Sell Publishes Anthology on Video Game Stories

Mike Sell (Department of Language, Literature, and Writing) and co-editor Megan Amber Condis (Communication Studies, Texas Tech University) have published a collection of scholarly essays about the stories we tell with, about, and around video games.

May

Vetter Awarded Research Grant from Wikimedia Foundation聽

Matthew Vetter (Department of English) has been awarded a research grant from the Wikimedia Foundation (the nonprofit behind Wikipedia) as part of an international team that includes Brett Buttliere (University of Warsaw) and Sage Ross (Wiki Education Foundation).聽聽

Congratulations to Graduates of Foreign Languages Dept!

The Department of Foreign Languages congratulates our students who are graduating with a certificate, minor, or major in one of the languages we are offering.

亚色影库 Students Help Bridge Language Gap at Local Business

In fall 2023, nine 亚色影库 students interpreted for 20 new employees at Indiana factory Specialty Tires of America, hired directly from Mexico through the company's participation in an H-2B work visa program.

April

Siddique Publishes Book Chapter on Post-COVID Teaching Practices in Rural India

Zeeshan Siddique and co-authors Mehebub Sahana, lecturer of geography and environmental planning, University of Manchester (UK), and Sanjida Parveen (PhD), postdoctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Manchester, published a book chapter in the scholarly collection "COVID-19 in South Asia: Society, Economy, and Politics."

Vetter Publishes Article on Student Reactions to Wikipedia's Gender Politics聽

Matt Vetter and co-authors Jialei聽Jiang, Mahmoud Othman, and Mercy Muguimi, all former or current 亚色影库 doctoral students in English, have published 鈥淣avigating the Emotional Terrain of Wikipedia Writing: A Feminist Affective Analysis of Student Writers鈥 Engagement with the 鈥楤e Bold鈥 Guideline鈥 in the journal聽Computers and Composition.聽

Annual Spring Methodology Conference on Teaching of Foreign Languages, Presented by Dept. of Foreign Languages

The Department of Foreign Languages held the annual 亚色影库 Spring Methodology Conference on Foreign Language Teaching on Friday, April 19, 2024.

Appalachian Professional Language Educators' Society Hosts Foreign Language Festival at 亚色影库

On March 23, 2024, the Appalachian Professional Language Educators' Society (APPLES) hosted its annual Foreign Language Festival on the 亚色影库 campus.

Zeeshan Siddique: Teaching the Stories of Climate Change

Drawing on his strong personal connection to environmental advocacy, Zeeshan Saddique, a doctoral candidate in 亚色影库's Literature and Criticism PhD program, designed his fall 2023 section of the course to foster environmental stewardship through the study of narrative.

February

Vetter Publishes Article on Ethical Uses of AI in Writing Classroom

Matt Vetter and co-authors (all former or current 亚色影库 doctoral students in English) published "Towards a Framework for Local Interrogation of AI Ethics: A Case Study on Text Generators, Academic Integrity, and Composing with ChatGPT" in the journal聽Computers and Composition.

January

Vetter Publishes Article on Ethics of Structured Data in Public Domain

Matt Vetter (Department of English) and co-author Zach McDowell (University of Illinois, Chicago) recently published an article in the International Journal of Communication. "The Realienation of the Commons: Wikidata and the Ethics of 'Free' Data" interrogates ethical issues related to Creative Commons Zero licensing in one of the most influential engines of the semantic web.