Doaa, who is currently the program Director of the M.A. TESOL at UMBC, received the award on October 7th at the CREATE conference in Virginia Beach.

Congratulations, Doaa!

Steven Dashiell (Cohort 16) has recently published a blog entry titled “Resolving the Study of Geek, or What to Do When You Become “That Brony Researcher”” In the article, Steven explains how he has been able to identify and work with his dissertation topic. He mentions how “thinking strategically” from an early stage, an idea instilled by his LLC advisor, opens the path to doctoral students to engage with research and to identify themes that will become crucial in their dissertation.

This is a very good read that we want to share with our LLC community. Thank you Steven!

Congratulations, Steven!

May Chung, Cohort 17, has received the 2017 Adjunct Faculty Advisory Committee (AFACC) award. This award, intended for research and professional development, has been awarded to her to present at the 2017 Southeastern Conference in Linguistics (March 8-11, College of Charleston, South Carolina). Her presentation, "'It's not that they can't produce the sound': Linguistic tips from the ESL classroom" features teaching tips on the needs of English language learners. 

Congratulations May!

The Journal of Electronic Publishing has recently released its Special Issue, which includes Dr. Craig Saper's video/presentation "Disrupting Scholarship.":

 

""In “Disrupting Scholarship” Craig Saper explores both alternative forms of publishing and alternative models of academic infrastructure. To his mind, there has been a conservative move in digital humanities, evident in its focus on visualizing, mapping, and charting, all of which work to preserve a fixed notion of the humanities. The question is this: what could the humanities be if it were not engaged in the fixing of meanings? Multimodal scholarship has been an important development in this respect, Saper argues. He is particularly interested in how reading will change to adapt to new forms of multimodal publication and, vice versa, how publishing will respond to such new reading practices. Saper provides examples in the form of his own experiments with publishing books that are precisely about the reading process, and his attempt to set up a university press for multimodal works and community-based scholarship at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. In these experiments, Saper stresses, the publication process itself is to be seen as part of the process of writing. It is thus important to think about knowledge in relationship to the objects of study, where these objects are models for the form of the publication, based on their own sensibility: infrastructure here becomes poetry."

Check out Dr. Saper's piece here: 

 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0019.212/--disrupting-scholarship?rgn=main;view=fulltext