Celebrating dedication, service, and exceptional work, this year’s College of Arts & Letters Staff Appreciation Ceremony was held at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on June 8. The highlight of the ceremony was the presentation of the group and individual awards. Jennifer Nelson, Secretary III in the Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, was recognized…
Through a $750,000 gift from Michigan State University Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU), MSU’s College of Arts & Letters has established a Critical Race Studies Artist Residency that will bring different Artists-in-Residence to campus each year for five years to enrich the life of student experiences and the greater community by facilitating practices of inclusion through art and design as part of the Department…
A College of Arts & Letters alumnus and a former student have been honored with 2018 Emerging Artists awards by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), which recognizes exceptional early career artists. Wade MacDonald, who received his MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Ceramics from Michigan State University in 2014, and Adam Chau, who studied Ceramics…
Two recent doctoral graduates from the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures were recognized for their outstanding work by Kairos, a leading peer-reviewed journal of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Phil Bratta and Heather Turner, who both just completed their Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing, were presented Kairos Awards for Graduate Students and Adjuncts at the 2018 Computers and Writing conference, held at…
Three College of Arts & Letters students recently received scholarships from Michigan State University Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU) as part of its unpaid internship scholarship competition. The students – Briana Beeman, Jason Dernay, and Jett Hampton – were awarded funds after submitting applications detailing the unpaid work they do for organizations. Briana Beeman Briana Beeman is a senior majoring in…
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…
This summer, second-year Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Ph.D. student Kenlea Pebbles will attend the Humanities Without Walls Consortium in Chicago, which aims to create pathways for collaboration, research, teaching, and scholarship in the humanities. The consortium is open to graduate and doctoral students as well as faculty and encourages them to think of themselves as agents of the public…
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…
Earlier this month, three College of Arts & Letters students practiced their stage management skills by helping out on a high-profile, high-budget New York City launch event hosted by Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx. The students were Brianna Kubiak, a sophomore Stage Management major with a minor in Arts and Cultural Management; Emily Toppen, a sophomore Interdisciplinary Humanities major with…
By now many of you have heard that the university has agreed in principle to a $500 million global settlement with the survivors of the sexual abuse committed by former Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar. This important moment of accountability comes at the end of a difficult semester in which we have embarked upon a process of critical self-reflection that will enable us to live up to our commitments to one another as members of the MSU community.