Karen Hampton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, has been selected to receive this year’s King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Professors Program award. Hampton spent this past academic year at Michigan State University as an Artist-in-Residence in the Critical Race Studies Artist Residency, which was created by MSU’s College of Arts & Letters with generous support of the Michigan State…
A new endowed position has been created at MSU to focus on the holistic well-being of students through spiritual development. The Foglio Chair of Spirituality is one of 82 new endowed faculty positions established during MSU’s Empower Extraordinary campaign toward the goal of creating 100 new endowed faculty positions to provide critical resources for recruiting and retaining leading faculty members.
Once threatened by chemical decay and decomposition, an important and rare film collection from the early years of cinema is now available to the public online thanks to a massive preservation and digitization project overseen by Joshua Yumibe, Associate Professor in MSU’s Department of English and Director of the Film Studies Program. Dr. Joshua Yumibe This unique collection consists of…
Associate Professor of Spanish Tony Grubbs has been appointed Interim Chair of the Department of Romance and Classical Studies. The two-year appointment, effective August 1, 2018, through August 15, 2020, was made in consultation with the Department of Romance and Classical Studies Advisory Committee. Grubbs has served on the Michigan State University faculty since 2005 and currently is Associate Chair in…
Malea Powell, Professor and Chair of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, has been selected as the next editor of College Composition and Communication (CCC), one of the flagship journals in writing and rhetoric studies. Her first issue will appear in February 2020. College Composition and Communication publishes research and scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies that support college teachers in reflecting on…
Professor Jason Merrill will continue to serve as Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages for an additional two years, or until August 15, 2020. Merrill has been serving as Interim Chair of the department since August 15, 2017. “This past year as Interim Chair, Dr. Merrill has guided the Department with the expertise and vision…
Some of the longest-serving faculty members at the College of Arts & Letters are retiring this month. James Roper, Ken Harrow, and Nancy Bunge who each have served the university for more than 40 years, will retire on Wednesday, May 16. The three have worked at the university for a combined total of 151 years. Also retiring on May 16…
Dr. Felix Kronenberg has been appointed Director of the Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA), effective August 16, 2018. He also will join the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages as a tenured Associate Professor in the German program. Kronenberg comes to Michigan State University from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, where he served as an Associate Professor and Director…
Assistant Professor Elizabeth LaPensée is among the 25 winners in the Fine Art group to receive a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship Award. The winners are chosen through a highly competitive process that narrowed 3,000 applicants in Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Creative Arts down to 173 fellowships.
The College of Arts & Letters celebrated its outstanding faculty, staff, and students for their accomplishments in teaching, research, and community impact at the 2018 MSU College of Arts & Letters Alumni Board Awards ceremony, held on April 15 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center Six different awards were presented, including the Paul Varg Award, Innovation and Leadership Award,…
