Three College of Arts & Letters faculty members are being recognized for their outstanding work and will receive distinguished awards at this year's Michigan State University Awards Convocation. Rob Roznowski, Professor in the Department of Theatre, will receive two university-wide awards, the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award and the President's Distinguished Teaching Award. The William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award, supported by the Office…
Associate Professor Joshua Yumibe is the recipient of the 2019-2020 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award for his most recent book, Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s, which was published in April 2019 by Columbia University Press. Yumibe, who is a member of the Department of English faculty, will receive this award in April at the 2020 Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington, along with his co-author, Sarah Street, who is a Professor of Film at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.
The new episode of the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast is out! Our host, Dean Christopher P. Long, spoke with Deric McNish, Assistant Professor of acting, voice, and speech and Director for the BFA in Acting program here at MSU. The two discuss the origins of the Department of Theatre’s podcast, Syllable of Recorded Time, which was created by McNish with a goal to put Shakespeare in context…
Humanities Commons (HC), led by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities for MSU’s College of Arts & Letters, has received a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to further develop and support its scholarly infrastructure, which has become an essential tool for the humanities field. Founded by the Modern Language Association (MLA), thanks to support from the NEH…
Associate Professor Alison Dobbins has been appointed the Faculty Excellence Advocate for the College of Arts & Letters. Faculty Excellence Advocates are faculty members who are key drivers of faculty quality and diversity in each college across campus. They build close working relationships with their faculty colleagues, as well as department chairs and deans, to help their college meet MSU…
The MSU College of Arts & Letters Marketing Office has earned 10 national awards as well as a local American Advertising Award (ADDY) over the past year for their work as it relates to digital storytelling and donor experiences. The awards honor excellence and best practices in higher education marketing and communications. The award-winning team includes Ryan Kilcoyne (Marketing Director),…
In an effort to reduce the social stigma surrounding homelessness and to raise awareness about housing instability, a collection of spoken-word stories about homelessness set to original music recently was released by Michigan State University's Sound/Writing Research Group (SRG). Organized in 2018 with support from MSU's College of Arts & Letters, the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, and the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology at Michigan…
Professor of German Thomas Lovik, who recently retired from MSU's Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, is the 2019 recipient of the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Post-Secondary Teacher Award. He was presented with this award on November 23 in Washington, D.C., at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of German. The Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Post-Secondary Award is…
Assistant Professor Tacuma Peters is one of only 10 junior faculty from universities across the nation selected for a 12-month Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship offers career development opportunities for selected faculty fellows with promising research projects. Fellows are provided six-month…
Using language purposefully is the framework of rhetoric, a notion that Jacqueline Rhodes, Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC), wants to instill in her students while also inspiring them to make meaning through the use of language. “Starting from a foundation of goodwill lets you disagree about things and still engage in productive…
