Dr. Craig Saper's article featured on Coldfront Magazine LLC Highlights Dr. Saper's article "A Story of Intermedia Performance, Publishing, and Pop Appeal" appeared recently published on Coldfront Magazine. This is the introduction to the article:

In the 1960s, the American variant of Concrete poetry was influenced by manifestos and poems from Europeans and Brazilians as well as the vibrant international art scene in New York City, the anti-war and pro-civil rights protests throughout the States, and popular culture’s fascination with systems and technology. These cultural influences made the United State’s version of Concrete poetry unique and particularly popular. An exemplar of these tendencies appeared on the dust jacket of the definitive anthology, Concrete Poetry: A World View (1970). The editor-poet, Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007), composed her poem, “Moonshot Sonnet,” from reformatted diagrammatic-codes initially used by NASA-engineers to plan and execute the moon landing. The engineers placed the diagrammatic-codes over photographs of the lunar surface, and Solt abstracted the diagrams without any photographic reference. Using the codes, she transformed the result into a sonnet, with the codes appearing in “exactly fourteen “lines” with five “accents,”” a Petrarchan or Italianate sonnet. Her poem is a distinctively American sonnet. It is not just an iconic concrete poem, but also a poetic emblem of a national identity.

The literary poetics reduce language to an eloquent semiotic code system and universal visual language. Although the poet-editor, Solt, describes her influences as arriving from the Brazilians and Europeans, the actual poem is also unmistakably alluding to geometric minimalism, Pop art, and ready-mades. The designers of Solt’s anthology, at Indiana University Press, insisted that the poem adorn the back cover of the dust jacket in part to highlight the editor’s contribution to the International Concrete poetry movement, but also as an entreaty to the American reader to appreciate the importance of a “world view” in the age of peaceful lunar exploration. The poem concretely suggests that, although the International Concrete poetry movement was launched from Brazil and Europe, it would reach its largest audience when it landed in the United States.

To continue reading, please visit Coldfront’s website
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Date and Location: November 11, 2015 11:00 am - LLC Conference Room (422 Sherman Hall A)

A History of Interracial Sexuality in US Film, 1956-2001

Since 1903, the movie industry has produced nearly one thousand films offering cinematic contributions to the contentious discourse about the evolving meaning of race in US society. Despite the pervasiveness of such images, neither academia nor the general public fully recognize the integral place of interracial sexuality in US cinema, past or present. This dissertation provides a history of interracial sexuality in US films from 1956 through 2001, a period roughly covering the burgeoning years of the Civil Rights Movement through an era marked by the ascendency of a powerful colorblind discourse insisting that race no longer mattered in US society. I periodize the era under review into four eras that roughly correspond to the four decades—the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s—and present a chapter for each in which I outline the major representational frames for depicting interracial sexuality. Each decade was characterized by multiple coexisting frames offering conflicting images of interracial sexuality, and these frames corresponded to contemporaneous ideas and discourses about the meanings of race in US society, history, and political culture. I draw upon a wealth of primary sources (including promotional movie posters, film reviews, opinion polls, and the films themselves) to historically analyze key films to argue that these cinematic texts offered valuable contributions to the ever-shifting yet historically bound discussion about the meaning(s) of race in the United States. This dissertation closes by arguing that cinematic depictions of interracial sexuality released over the past fifteen years have largely been shaped and structured by the prior four decades, while demonstrating how this history sheds light on a host of contemporary racial events from Barack Obama’s historic election and presidency to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Dissertation Committee:

Dr. Beverly Bickel (Chair)
Dr. Jason Loviglio (Co-chair)
Dr. Michelle Scott
Dr. Kimberly Moffitt
Dr. Nicole King

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The LLC has just released the schedule of classes for this coming Spring (see attachment on the LLC Group's site). Keep in mind that these are the classes offered by our department's faculty members.

As a reminder, you cannot register for any classes without first obtaining permission from your LLC adviser, so you are encouraged to consult with your adviser in a timely fashion.
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Spring Break may seem distant, but now is the time to register for a group experience that will inspire and forever change you.  UMBC is sponsoring four profound learning adventures during the break (starting Sunday, March 13th): Opportunities to connect with other UMBC students, make meaningful community contributions and become deeply engaged in addressing important social issues.

Most of these Alternative Spring Break trips will take place in and around Baltimore, will have a 75 dollar participation cost and will involve lodging on campus with your co-participants. The exception is the Gesundheit trip which is on-site in West Virginia and the cost to participate will start at around 300 dollars. All of the trips will be fundraised for and the cost will likely be significantly lower than the participation costs mentioned above. Here are the different trip options:
The application is due on Tuesday, November 10th and trips will fill up quickly, so don't delay!


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The 4th Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival
April 1st and 2nd, 2016

Highlighted theme on: Race Media, and Social Justice

In the last few years, we have witnessed an explosion of mainstream and independent media coverage on the continued salience of racial discrimination across the globe.  As these media events covered incidents of violence globally, they engaged with the intersectionality of race with religion, class, gender, and ethnicity and have opened up critical public discussions concerning the enduring colonial and imperial logics that shape national policy, the global economy, and local cultural understandings around difference.  For example, the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the brutal attacks on African Americans by U.S. law enforcement that has spawned the Black Lives Matter Movement, the recent state sanctioned violence towards Dominicans of Haitian descent, the continued justification for the occupation of Palestine, or the violent attacks on West Africans in South Africa have forced media makers and activists around the world to engage with how racial discourses are being propagated in ways which have a direct impact on already vulnerable populations.

For more information about the festival and the call for submissions, please visit the SSMF website. (Link below)
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Heidi Faust, LLC Cohort 13, is one of 5 recipients of the TESOL International Association's Research Mini-Grants. In addition to the grant, she will receive free registration to the 2016 TESOL International Convention & Language Expo in Baltimore  April 5-8th, 2016, where she will present her work. This convention coincides with TESOL's 50th Anniversary.

Congratulations, Heidi!


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Name: Tristan Oetker

Hometown: Annapolis, MD

Major: Information Systems

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: Two Years

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: I'm the Student Government Association (SGA) Treasurer.

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: I help student orgs receive funding and connect students on campus.

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A: What I enjoy the most is meeting and understanding the needs of all types of students on campus. Alongside my role as Treasurer, I enjoy taking my day-to-day conversations with the student body and working on projects which benefit everyone.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A: A good friend of mine once said, "that the majority of what you learn in college will be taught outside of the classroom through the different experiences and encounters you will have with the thousands of students on campus," which is something that has always resonated with me. If I had not taken risks, meeting and working with new people, I would be without so many opportunities. 

Just because you can't write these experiences on a resume or equate them to a number on your transcript, doesn't mean that they're not equally valuable, with just as much to teach you.

Q: What is one way you have worked with others to make a positive difference at UMBC or in another community?

A: During my Sophomore year, my friend and colleague, Bryan England, was working on an environmental initiative on campus, which was to encourage professors to pledge to use more online submission. He asked me to help put together a presentation and appear before the Faculty Senate to present the idea, so we got down to work and after many moons, delivered a presentation which went over very well with various members of campus. Through this presentation, we were able to convince multiple professors to pledge to switch, saving students time and money.

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A: SGA, Wal-Mart brand Fruit Smiles, Arnold Palmer (Half & Half), UMBC Men's Soccer, UMBC Men's & Women's Basketball, Tracy McGrady, the Weeknd, Lil Boosie, the RAC Policy Committee, Salsaritas, General Washington, and the Timeline Theory.

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: Favorite spots on campus: The RAC, SGA Office & Outdoor Basketball Courts
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The Language, Literacy & Culture PhD Program is pleased to announce that Dr. Asli Hassan has been recently appointed Head of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at the Petroleum Institute (Abu Dhabi, UAE). Dr. Hassan graduated from the LLC program in 2011.

She has been a teacher trainer in the US and most recently was recognized by the State Department as an expert teacher trainer. This recognition has led her to conduct a multi-phased US State Department sponsored teacher training project. Her PhD research looked at approaches across disciplines, particularly in STEM Education and teacher development. Her most recent publications are all related to developing higher order thinking skills and academic success for engineering students.

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The application for UMBC's 2016 STRiVE student leadership retreat (January 11-15, 2016) is now available.  If you're a UMBC undergraduate interested in learning about yourself, building new skills, making new friends and becoming an agent of change on campus and in your community, you should consider applying; this is an experience like no other.  Here are a few of the Facebook status updates and tweets posted by participants in STRiVE 2015:


Now it's your turn! I'll be on the coaching team for STRiVE 2016 sessions, and I hope to see you there. Apply! Applications are due on November 8, 2015 by 11:59 p.m.

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Department of Arts and Humanities
The applied linguistics and TESOL program

Position: The Applied Linguistics and TESOL Program at Teachers College, Columbia University is seeking a scholar with demonstrated scholarship and teaching experience in PreK-12 TESOL education. We are particularly interested in individuals whose area of expertise lies primarily in content and language integration, including, but not limited to, pedagogical strategies in mainstream classrooms; linking mainstream content learning, core standards, and English language learning; collaboration between ESL teachers and content-area teachers; ESL teaching in the content areas; and ESL training of content teachers.

Responsibilities: Provide leadership in the program’s TESOL K-12 track. Teach graduate courses in some of the following areas: PreK-12 TESOL pedagogy, teacher observation and supervision, classroom-based research, curriculum design, materials development, and literacy. Supervise PreK-12 student teachers. Advise masters and doctoral students. Collaborate with teachers in schools. Participate in program administrative and development activities.

Qualifications: Earned doctorate in TESOL or Applied Linguistics; evidence of scholarly accomplishment in PreK-12 TESOL education; a record of successful experience working with PreK-12 ESL teachers and students; service to the field of TESOL and/or Applied Linguistics.

Rank: Assistant/Associate Professor, Tenure Track or Tenured

Qualified candidates should email the following materials to Professor ZhaoHong Han, Search Committee Chair, at tesolsearch@tc.columbia.edu: (a) Letter of application specifying candidate’s areas of research and teaching expertise and interests, including future research plans, (2) curriculum vitae, (3) three relevant publications, and (4) three letters of reference.

Application deadline is December 30, 2015. Appointment begins September 2016. ]]> Teachers College, Columbia University Department of Arts and Humanities The applied linguistics and TESOL program Position: The Applied Linguistics and TESOL Program at Teachers College, Columbia... https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/55239/guest@my.umbc.edu/9f624dbea798873b9c75d4eced62aa0b/api/pixel education job-offer tesol Language, Literacy and Culture Doctoral Program https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/llc https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xsmall.png?1375383725 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/original.jpg?1375383725 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xxlarge.png?1375383725 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xlarge.png?1375383725 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/large.png?1375383725 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/medium.png?1375383725 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/small.png?1375383725 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xsmall.png?1375383725 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xxsmall.png?1375383725 Teachers College, Columbia University 0 0 true Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:38:27 -0400