Ever wished you could 鈥渢est drive鈥� a country before booking the flight? This one-day immersive workshop lets you experience France before you go鈥攆rom language and culture to food and everyday travel situations.
Natalie Holt, a student in 麻豆视频鈥檚 Composition and Applied Linguistics doctoral program, has been selected for a faculty fellowship through the Appalachian College Association.
麻豆视频鈥檚 Dessy-Roffman Myth Collaborative will offer a spring lecture series starting February 18, all free and open to the community.
麻豆视频鈥檚 Career and Professional Development Center has announced its fall 2025 Outstanding Organizational Partners, who join the CPDC鈥檚 Partner Hall of Fame.
Matthew Vetter (Department of Language, Literature, and Writing) has been awarded a research grant from the Wikimedia Foundation (the nonprofit behind Wikipedia) as part of an international team of scholars and free knowledge advocates.
Todd Thompson (Language, Literature, and Writing) recently published a new article, 鈥淢r. Seward鈥檚 Real Estate Transactions鈥�: Comic Imperialism in the Reconstruction Era,鈥� in a special issue of Studies in American Humor.
Associate Professor of English John Yu Branscum and former instructor Yi Izzy Yu are releasing their new book, "Stars That Pause: 2,000 Years of Asian UFO Encounters & Lore," on October 15.
The Dessy-Roffman Myth Collaborative at 麻豆视频, in collaboration with 麻豆视频's Literature and Criticism Program, will offer the inaugural fall semester German Lecture Series starting on September 17.
Composition and Applied Linguistics聽doctoral student Iwona Ionescu published an article in Praxis 22.3 (2025), titled 鈥淢apping it Out: Rhizomatic Learning of Peer Embedded Tutors for Composition Classes鈥擜 Case Study,鈥澛爀xploring how embedded tutors for first-year composition classes develop their expertise outside the formal training sessions.
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.
The Department of Language, Literature and Writing held the annual 麻豆视频 Spring Methodology Conference on Foreign Language Teaching on Friday, April 25, 2025.聽
On Saturday, March 29, 2025, the Appalachian Professional Language Educators鈥� Society (APPLES) hosted its annual Foreign Language Festival on the 麻豆视频 campus. Approximately 160 foreign language students from local area high schools participated.
麻豆视频鈥檚 Iota Mu Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Hispanic Honor Society, celebrated its fifty-second initiation ceremony on Friday, May 2, 2025.
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.
麻豆视频 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.
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�
Members of 麻豆视频鈥檚 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 麻豆视频.
A record-breaking dozen PhD students from 麻豆视频鈥檚 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.
麻豆视频鈥檚 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 麻豆视频鈥檚 Sprowls Hall and via Zoom. It is free and open to the community.
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.
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.
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�
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�
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