Mike Sell shared his thoughts on the role of intertextual reference, collaborative dramaturgy, and tabletop roleplaying games on the most recent聽"Dungeons + Drama Nerds"聽podcast.
Dana Driscoll (professor of writing, Department of Language, Literatures, and Writing; director of the Center for Scholarly Communication) and Islam Farag (doctoral candidate, Composition and Applied Linguistics PhD program) published about the Jones White Writing Center's Graduate Editing Service聽in the latest issue of聽The Peer Review.聽聽
The 亚色影库 Chinese program, led by Shijuan聽Liu, recently organized and held the annual celebration of the聽2024 Mid-Autumn Festival.
The 亚色影库 Literature and Criticism program was well-represented at the recent Festival of Monsters conference hosted by the University of California Santa Cruz鈥檚 Center for Monster Studies, October 16鈥�18.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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."
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
The Department of Foreign Languages held the annual 亚色影库 Spring Methodology Conference on Foreign Language Teaching on Friday, April 19, 2024.
On March 23, 2024, the Appalachian Professional Language Educators' Society (APPLES) hosted its annual Foreign Language Festival on the 亚色影库 campus.
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.
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.
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.
亚色影库's Iota Mu Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Hispanic Honor Society, celebrated its 51st initiation ceremony on Friday, December 1, 2023.
David I. Hanauer, a faculty member in 亚色影库鈥檚 Department of English, has been named as one of the 鈥淲orld鈥檚 Top 2% Scientists鈥� for 2023 by an international academic independent research center.
Christina Huhn, Dawn Smith-Sherwood, Heide Witth枚ft, Marjorie Zambrano-Paff (Department of Foreign Languages), Harrison Wick (亚色影库 Special Collections), and six students attended the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association鈥檚 annual language teachers conference, held at Seven Springs resort.
Gloria Park was invited to facilitate a Reflective Workshop for 400 Fulbright foreign language teaching assistants who are on a one-year grant, teaching their native languages in US higher education institutions.
On November 12, students in Mike Sell鈥檚 ENGL 308 Critical Theory course visited Pittsburgh鈥檚 Mattress Factory and Andy Warhol museums as part of a unit on Critical Public Humanities.
亚色影库鈥檚 Dessy-Roffman Myth Collaborative will continue its lecture series with 鈥淚ntersections Between Myth, Imagination, and Literature鈥� on November 17 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in 亚色影库鈥檚 Jane Leonard Hall room 305. The program is free and open to the community and will also be offered via Zoom.
The traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, is the second important holiday for Chinese society worldwide. Shijuan "Laurel" Liu, professor of Chinese Language and Culture, organized the annual celebration of the festival together with student leaders of the 亚色影库 Chinese Language and Culture Club and Asian Studies Club.
"Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing" is an open-access textbook series geared towards undergraduate composition courses. Volume 5 includes 22 new open-access essays and offers multiple perspectives on a wide range of topics about writing.