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LAE Podcast Hosts Associate Professor of Linguistics Paula Winke

February 10, 2020

Episode two of the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast is out! Our host, Dean Christopher P. Long, spoke with Associate Professor of Linguistics Paula Winke in her Wells Hall office about foreign and second language testing, which is Winke's primary area of research. Winke, who is a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, investigates the content and construct validity…

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Event / Exhibition / News

MSU Comics Forum Set for February 21-22

February 8, 2020

This year’s Michigan State University Comics Forum, scheduled for February 21 and 22, will feature two keynote speakers, an artist alley, academic panel discussions, comic art exhibition, and private tours of the world’s largest public collection of comic books. The MSU Comics Forum, an annual event for scholars, creators, and fans of the comics medium, started in 2008, with Ryan Claytor,…

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Faculty / Faculty Stories / News / Publication

Professor’s Book Among Most Outstanding Academic Titles of 2019

February 7, 2020

A book co-edited by Department of English Professor Ellen McCallum is among the select few chosen as a “2019 Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice magazine, a monthly publication that offers hundreds of book reviews to help librarians curate and deliver better sources. Each year, Choice magazine puts together a list of Outstanding Academic Titles of books published that year. The 2019 list includes…

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Event / News / Performance / Programs

Theatre Department Takes ‘The Gun Show’ on the Road Around the State

February 7, 2020

(PLEASE NOTE: Due to the novel coronavirus outbreak and in the interest of public safety, the Wednesday, March 18, performance of The Gun Show that was scheduled for the Swords into Plowshares Peace Center & Gallery in Detroit has been canceled.) The Michigan premiere production of The Gun Show, a non-partisan play about guns and America’s gun culture, is set to take center stage…

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Exhibition / Faculty / News

Shattering Stereotypes of Iranian Women Through Art

February 3, 2020

As a visual artist, curator, and filmmaker, Parisa Ghaderi has always taken into consideration her identity as an Iranian woman and has expressed her identity through her work. “Every exhibition I have seen about Iranian women is always in black and white imagery and features people with hijab and chador with very extreme and radical perspectives. To me, it feels like these…

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Event / News

MSU Latinx Film Festival Back with Expanded Program and Live Music

February 3, 2020

The MSU Latinx Film Festival (LxFF), scheduled for February 12-16, will offer five days of film, music, and art at various venues across the Michigan State University campus as well as throughout Lansing and East Lansing, giving attendees many opportunities to make meaningful connections with Latinx communities. The biannual festival, which is celebrating its second iteration, will feature the work of…

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Alumni / Featured Alumni / News

Alumna Works to Strengthen State’s International Alliances

January 31, 2020

MSU alumna Katelyn Wilcox is the Assistant Chief of Protocol for the State of Michigan where she works to strengthen Michigan's international alliances. She graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in French and a B.A. in Finance with an International Business specialization. On March 20, she will participate in an alumni networking discussion as part of the Careers in Language event hosted by the College of Arts & Letters’ Excel Network. Find out more about Wilcox, her time at MSU, and her career in the following Q&A.

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News / Student / Study Abroad

Spanish Senior Looks to a Career in International Education

January 30, 2020

With three study abroad trips under his belt and experience working as an international education abroad intern for the American Semester Program and Exchanges, Spanish senior Keith Tindall has made the most of his time at MSU and applied his Spanish major in a variety of ways. What prompted you to major in Spanish? I started to excel in Spanish…

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Award / News / Student

Theatre MFA Graduate Wins Prestigious Design Award for Second Year

January 29, 2020

For the second year in a row, Department of Theatre MFA candidate Jenna Gove has won the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Midwest Regional Section Digital Design Competition. This year’s winning design was for her costumes created for the MSU Department of Theatre’s 2019 production of The Bacchae. Her work on The Bacchae also won the 2019 Lansing City Pulse Pulsar Award for…

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Award / News / Performance / Programs

Inspiration Drawn from Detroit for ‘Into the Woods’ Production

January 28, 2020

MSU is giving the Tony Award-winning fairytale-themed musical Into the Woods a creative re-imagining designed to resonate with mid-Michigan audiences. Inspiration for the set and costumes came from images of Detroit in the 1930s. The Michigan State University Department of Theatre production of Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine runs for 10 performances February 14-23 in the MSU Auditorium building’s Fairchild Theatre.