A Fulbright Global Scholar Award received by Meagan Driver for the 2023-2024 academic year will support research on how to bring students’ own “linguistic landscapes” into their foreign language classrooms. Driver, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University and a core faculty member in the Second Language Studies (SLS) Ph.D.…
Andrea Hernando, a second-year graduate student in Spanish as a Second or Bilingual Language at Michigan State University, recently won the 2022 Best Abstract in Linguistics Award at the Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPHSY) at Georgetown University. Hernando’s abstract, “Evidence of belonging: An evaluation of imagined communities in Teletandem,” explores the relevance of online platforms like Teletandem in facilitating…
This semester, the College of Arts & Letters is pleased to welcome 22 new faculty and staff members. Please join us in welcoming the following people to Michigan State University and the College of Arts & Letters: Ruth Nicole Brown Ruth Nicole Brown is the Inaugural Chairperson for the Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS). Previously, she worked as…