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…
Camille Thomas, a senior double majoring in Theatre and Arts & Humanities, found a way to combine her interest in social justice with her passion for the arts by working with the East Lansing High School Student Black Union to devise an original social justice theatre piece for the school’s multicultural festival. After working with East Lansing High School for…
Since graduating from Michigan State University last May, Amy Wagenaar has gone from being an MSU student to the Editorial, Social, and Video Coordinator for the Historical Society of Michigan (HSM) based in Lansing. Wagenaar earned a dual degree in Film Studies and Media and Information and a minor in Fiction Filmmaking. We recently caught up with her, finding out more about…
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…
The Second Language Studies (SLS) doctoral program in the College of Arts & Letters has won the 2018 Outstanding Graduate Program Community Award presented by Michigan State University's Graduate School. The award is part of the Graduate School Outstanding Mentoring Awards, which recognize graduate programs, faculty mentors, and doctoral students who exemplify mentoring best practices. The SLS Ph.D. program provides a firm foundation…
Juliette Givhan, a graduating senior majoring in English, has spent her time at Michigan State University exploring the written word and finding her voice. Now as she graduates, her work is being recognized. Givhan was awarded the Louis B. Sudler Prize, which honors graduating seniors who demonstrate outstanding achievement in the performing and creative arts and who show promise for…
On the latest episode of The Liberal Arts Endeavor, a podcast by the Michigan State University's College of Arts & Letters, hosts Dean Christopher P. Long and Communications and Social Media intern Hannah Bullion reflect on the past year on the podcast with future hosts, Communications and Social Media interns Emma Moller and Caroline Johnson. From left to right: Dean…
MSU’s Slam Poetry Team, which includes four College of Arts & Letters students, competed at the 2018 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and finished in the top 10 overall out of 65 teams. The MSU team, coached by Detroit poet Natasha Miller, competed in two preliminaries, made it to the semi-finals, and placed ninth overall at…
This past semester, Experience Architecture (XA) students took advantage of resources available at MSU Libraries while exploring the world of prototyping in the Prototyping Experience Architecture course, AL 444, taught by Dawn Opel, Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures. Opel created the course and its projects with the help of the MSU Libraries staff, technology, and spaces. Assistant Professor Dawn…