Associate Professor Alison Dobbins has been appointed the Faculty Excellence Advocate for the College of Arts & Letters. Faculty Excellence Advocates are faculty members who are key drivers of faculty quality and diversity in each college across campus. They build close working relationships with their faculty colleagues, as well as department chairs and deans, to help their college meet MSU…
Dennis Corsi, BFA Acting and BA Media Arts & Technology 2013, recently was named the new Artistic Director of the Fresh Fruit Festival. Over the past 18 years, this festival has become one of New York City’s most visible and acclaimed LGBTQ arts organizations, elevating the quality, diversity, and inclusivity of queer theatre, poetry, comedy, music, dance, film, and other artistic expressions.…
When Madison O’Connor first came to Michigan State University, she declared herself a Journalism major, and when she took an Experience Architecture (XA) class, she discovered a whole new area to explore. Now a senior with a double major in Experience Architecture and Journalism, O’Connor’s Experience Architecture major allows her to examine how readers get to the stories she writes.…
The MSU College of Arts & Letters Marketing Office has earned 10 national awards as well as a local American Advertising Award (ADDY) over the past year for their work as it relates to digital storytelling and donor experiences. The awards honor excellence and best practices in higher education marketing and communications. The award-winning team includes Ryan Kilcoyne (Marketing Director),…
In an effort to reduce the social stigma surrounding homelessness and to raise awareness about housing instability, a collection of spoken-word stories about homelessness set to original music recently was released by Michigan State University's Sound/Writing Research Group (SRG). Organized in 2018 with support from MSU's College of Arts & Letters, the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, and the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology at Michigan…
Professor of German Thomas Lovik, who recently retired from MSU's Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, is the 2019 recipient of the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Post-Secondary Teacher Award. He was presented with this award on November 23 in Washington, D.C., at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of German. The Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Post-Secondary Award is…
Assistant Professor Tacuma Peters is one of only 10 junior faculty from universities across the nation selected for a 12-month Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship offers career development opportunities for selected faculty fellows with promising research projects. Fellows are provided six-month…
Eric Manuel Rodriguez, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC), has won a 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Scholars for the Dream Travel Award. He is one of 20 recipients from across the country to receive this award presented by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Rodriguez will be…
Miranda Kalinowski is the fourth student to graduate from the College of Arts & Letters’ Citizen Scholars program. Part of the first class of Citizen Scholars, Kalinowski graduated on December 14 with a B.A. in English. "Being in the College of Arts & Letters and the Citizen Scholars program has made me take a step back and see that there is…
As the Inclusive Design Lead and the Mobile Design Lead for Accessibility at Wells Fargo DS4B, College of Arts & Letters alumna Shell Little is responsible for the company's commercial digital attributes that deal with mobile leveraging properties. “I work for the corporate side, so if your company banks with Wells, you use my software,” she said. “I do anything…