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.
Alumna Sarah Habel has been performing professionally since earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from Michigan State University in 2004. She has spent time in London, Detroit, and now Los Angeles as a theatre, film, and television actress, and most recently had a role in the popular TV drama, Riverdale. She credits her MSU roots to her humble success…
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…
This June, MSU's Department of Theatre, with support from the Friends of Theatre, invites you to a summer of romance under the stars as it kicks off its 58th season of Summer Circle Theatre. This year's collection of plays and musicals will entertain, entice, and make you fall in love. All Summer Circle Theatre performances are free and open to the public and held in the…
All this week, a cross-college workshop, R Statistics Bootcamp, was offered at Michigan State University, giving graduate students and researchers the opportunity to learn more about the statistical methods using the programming language R. This five-day practical course provided participants with important transferable programming and statistical skills with a wide range of applications within and beyond academia. Participants learned how…
Professional Writing alumna Anna Stevenson has combined her professional skills with her unique passions in order to successfully carve out a distinctive career for herself. After graduating from Michigan State University in 2009, Stevenson took a job as a production editor for the MSU Press. A year later, she became a freelance editor and has been working for herself ever…
English major and Citizen Scholar Abbie Crick has always had poetry in her life. “I’ve been writing poetry since I could hold a pencil,” she said. “I grew up around really traditional poetry, and my writing education, until late high school, was very formal.” As she got older, Crick realized she could use the genre to speak about issues that matter. “I wanted…