Publishing, Editing, and Authorship

Research Shines New Light on Role of Women in Founding Jewish American Education

November 6, 2023

Laura Yares has spent “years sitting in archives” researching a period of Jewish American education that historians have largely overlooked as insignificant, a period in which very little had been written about up until the release of Yares’ recently published book, Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America. An Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies with a…

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Apparel and Textile Design Student Launches Fashion Magazine for and by Black Students

May 15, 2023

While balancing being a freelance fashion stylist, fashion designer, creative director, and social media influencer, Michigan State University student Takai Taggart also manages the demands of MSU’s newest magazine. As of fall 2022, the Apparel and Textile Design major launched N Crowd, a fashion magazine created by and for Black students. “My main focus when creating N Crowd was to offer a safe space for Black creatives who attend Michigan State University,” said Taggart, who was…

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Writing Professor Wins Prestigious Academic Award

September 26, 2022

Marohang Yakthung Limbu, Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University, won the prestigious Bishnudatta-Saraswati Academic Award in Nepal for his book Delinking, Relinking, and Linking Writing and Rhetorics: Inventions and Interventions of the Sirijanga Syllabary. This award, established in 2017, encourages and honors individuals, groups, or organizations who play an important role in publishing works…

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College of Arts & Letters Students Earn First-Place Awards at UURAF

April 22, 2022

Three College of Arts & Letters students earned first-place awards for their presentations at Michigan State University’s 24th Annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF). The students are now among the other first-place winners who will be considered for the grand prize, which will be announced in June.  This year's UURAF was held at the Breslin Student Events Center.…

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Two Experiences, One Company: Interns Complete International Internship with Australian Magazine

December 10, 2021

After developing an admiration for editing from her professional writing courses at MSU, Rachel Gignac completed a virtual internship as a Publishing and Communications Intern with Publishing ByChelle, an Australian-based publication that produces in-flight magazines for Australian airlines. The internship allowed the recent Professional and Public Writing alumna to receive hands-on experience with writing and editing before graduating this past spring.

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Alumna Receives National Award for Post-Graduate Work

October 30, 2018

Lindsay Tigue, who earned her B.A. in English at Michigan State University in 2007, is being recognized for her outstanding post-graduate work at the University of Georgia. She is one of 100 doctoral students in the United States and Canada selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. Tigue currently is a Ph.D. student in English/Creative Writing…

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Kayla Putz

March 13, 2017

Kayla Putz, graduated in Professional Writing in 2015, now works as a Marketing Communications Assistant in Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau.