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Spanish Students Earn Global Seal of Biliteracy

Jada Chvilicek, Mason Cymbor, and Veronica Duran-Paramo (Spanish Education聽 Certification, 鈥25) have been awarded the Global Seal of Biliteracy in English and Spanish.

Annual Foreign Language Teaching Conference, Presented by Department of Language, Literature and Writing

The Department of Language, Literature and Writing held the annual 亚色影库 Spring Methodology Conference on Foreign Language Teaching on Friday, April 25, 2025.聽

Appalachian Professional Language Educators鈥 Society Hosts Annual Festival

On Saturday, March 29, 2025, the Appalachian Professional Language Educators鈥 Society (APPLES) hosted its annual Foreign Language Festival on the 亚色影库 campus. Approximately 160 foreign language students from local area high schools participated.

Sigma Delta Pi Induction Ceremony

亚色影库鈥檚 Iota Mu Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Hispanic Honor Society, celebrated its fifty-second initiation ceremony on Friday, May 2, 2025.

Vetter Publishes Article on Dystopian Media Coverage of OpenAI鈥檚 ChatGPT

Matt Vetter (Language, Literature, and Writing), with co-authors Brent Lucia and Varshil Patel, published 鈥淭he Dystopian Imaginaries of ChatGPT: A Designed Cycle of Fear鈥 in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.聽The article offers a critical analysis of dystopian narratives that emerged as a response to OpenAI鈥檚 ChatGPT.

Sell, Schiera, and Siddique Publish White Paper on Decision Literacy

亚色影库 Professor Mike Sell and doctoral students Rachel Schiera and Zeeshan Siddique argue that reading, writing about, and talking about great works of literature enables us to improve our ability to make good decisions.

Doctoral Student Miller Publishes Article on Feminist Ethos and Agency in Peitho Journal

Patti Miller (English Composition and Applied Linguistics doctoral candidate) recently published an article in聽Peitho聽(winter 2025) titled 鈥淣evertheless, She Resisted: Feminist Ethos and Agency in 鈥楾he Epic of Gilgamesh鈥.鈥

亚色影库鈥檚 Swift Studies Group Planning 鈥淍Taylor Evermore: A Swift Symposium鈥

Members of 亚色影库鈥檚 Swift Studies, a group of English graduate students, will present 鈥淭aylor Evermore: A Swift Symposium鈥 on April 25 and 26 in McVitty Auditorium in Sprowls Hall at 亚色影库.

Literature and Criticism Graduate Students Shine at 56th Annual NEMLA Conference

A record-breaking dozen PhD students from 亚色影库鈥檚 Literature and Criticism program took center stage at the fifty-sixth annual Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) conference, held in Philadelphia March 6鈥9.

亚色影库 Graduate Student Organization Offering 鈥淟andscapes of Literature and Language鈥 Conference March 21, 22

亚色影库鈥檚 English Graduate Organization will offer its 2025 Conference, 鈥淟andscapes of Language and Literature,鈥 on March 21 and 22. The conference will be offered both in person in 亚色影库鈥檚 Sprowls Hall and via Zoom. It is free and open to the community.

Vetter Publishes Article on Wikipedia鈥檚 Role in Training Large Languages Models

Matt Vetter, with co-authors Jialei Jiang and Zachary McDowell, recently published an article titled 鈥淎n Endangered Species: How LLMs Threaten Wikipedia鈥檚 Sustainability鈥 in the journal AI & Society.

Vetter Publishes Article on Generative AI and the Writing Process

Matt Vetter, with co-authors Jialei Jiang and Brent Lucia, published a new article titled 鈥淔rom Hype to Practice: Reinterpreting the Writing Process Through Technical Writing Students鈥 Engagement with ChatGPT鈥 in the journal Technical Communication Quarterly.

Siegel Finer Selected as Co-editor of 鈥淧eitho鈥

Bryna Siegel Finer, Department of Language, Literature, and Writing, has been selected as the incoming co-editor of the journal聽鈥淧eitho.鈥

Siegel Finer Publishes New Book on Toxic Rhetoric

Bryna Siegel Finer, Department of Language, Literature, and Writing, published a new book with Peter Lang, 鈥淐onfronting Toxic Rhetoric: Writing Teachers鈥 Experiences of Rupture, Resistance, and Resilience.鈥

Sell Interviewed on聽"Dungeons + Drama Nerds"聽Podcast

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.

Driscoll and Farag Publish on Writing Center鈥檚 Graduate Editing Service

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

2024 Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival

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.

English Lit and Crit Program Represents at Monster Studies Conference

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."