University Conference Booklet 2015 by BYU Humanities

UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE AUGUST 26, 2015 College Meeting 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. b092 JFSB

Lunch 12:30 p.m.–2 p.m. Mary Lou Fulton Plaza College Meeting 2014

Content by the College of Humanities Book Design by Jennifer Egan

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TABLE OF CONTENTS College Meeting Agenda....................................................................... 5 Dean’s Welcome..................................................................................... 6 Opening Song Music �� 7 College Honors and University Awards �� 8 College Centers and Services............................................................... 13 Introductions........................................................................................ 20 Department Highlights........................................................................ 28 Major Scholarly Works Published in 2014–2015 �� 34 Emeriti Highlights............................................................................... 39 Upcoming Events................................................................................. 41

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COLLEGE MEETING AGENDA Welcome.............................................................................. Dean Scott Miller Opening Hymn................................................“Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise” Directed by Corry Cropper Accompanied by Kristin Matthews

Invocation....................................................................................... Mike Bush Report from Faculty Advisory Council �� Jennifer Bown “50 Years of Fluency in the Human Conversation” �� Melinda Semadeni Report from the Humanities Center �� Matt Wickman

College and University Awards Deans’ Remarks George Handley Frank Christianson Ray Clifford Scott Miller

Benediction.................................................................................Steve Moody

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DEAN’S WELCOME 1

Greetings! Welcome to what we sometimes cryptically refer to as AY 2015-162. The beginning of the school year has always been a magical time for me, and I trust it is for you as well. Our students are nearly here; and as we gear up to greet them, and welcome colleagues back from the four quarters of the globe, it is a prime occasion to reflect on why we are here and anticipate how we might make the best of this new academic year. As you glance through the pages of this booklet you will find much to celebrate: accolades to our worthy colleagues, new faculty joining us for a brief visit or a long-term stay, major scholarly works of note, and department highlights. This is a particularly auspicious year, being the 50th anniversary of our college. On June 1, 1965, the College of Humanities was born and, like a new universe, divided, merged, and expanded itself into what is now eight departments, ten centers, and dozens of major and minor programs. Our alumni number over 28,000, and we play a vital role at the university, touching nearly every student in some way. With much to celebrate over the next twelve months, you will receive a steady

flow of reminders about building art, exhibits, special publications, and events. The ongoing commemoration will give us a chance to reflect on the legacy of those faculty, staff, and students whose lives have enriched the college to which you now belong. We come together at University Conference, as with our other conferences, to do more than just receive counsel and listen to messages. We conscientiously attend as a gesture of openness and need and, in turn, can be richly rewarded for that humility, often through quiet, sudden promptings and small bits of inspiration that may have little, if anything, to do with the program content. I hope you find, sometime during this week, subtle rewards for the devotion you so unselfishly demonstrate to your students, your colleagues, and the college. Finally, regarding the food at today’s luncheon, we hope you will be pleasantly surprised by the offerings and, as you eat, will contemplate the diversity and eclecticism that is part of our college culture. Bonne année, and bon appétit!3

1. The origin of the word “dean” is either a) a corruption of “deacon,” from diacon, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek diakonos “servant,” or else b) from Old French deien, from late Latin decanus, “chief of a group of ten.” I prefer a), the false etymology. 2. Although it ostensibly stands for “Academic Year,” AY may be an acronym for anno Youngii, from the medieval Latin “year of [Brigham] Young.” Variant sources include a) reference to the cryptic message “At Y!” penciled in the corner of letters sent from Provo by Karl G. Maeser between 1876 and 1879; and b) an allusion to the Scottish ballad, “Aye, 1513, A dinnae ken a year so dowie!” 3. This bilingual gambit to impress echoes the traditional use of French by the upper classes in England and Russia. For some peculiar reason humans often use the tongue of linguistic hegemons to curry favor.

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Doctrine and Covenants 82:14 Moses 7:62– 65

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COLLEGE HONORS AND UNIVERSITY AWARDS Humanities Professorships and Fellowships Marc Olivier Ludwig-Weber-Siebach Professor 2015 Greg Stallings Scheuber-Veinz Professor 2015 Trent Hickman College Excellence in Teaching Award 2015 Jamie Horrocks Humanities+ Award 2015 Kathryn Isaak College Adjunct Faculty Excellence in Teaching 2015

Heather Belnap Jensen Humanities Center Fellow 2015

Rob McFarland Scheuber-Veinz Professor and Humanities Center Fellow 2015 Dee Gardner Humanities Center Fellow 2015 Jill Terry Rudy Humanities Center Fellow 2015 John R. Rosenberg Washington Irving Professor of Spanish and American Relations 2015

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Heather Belnap Jensen Humanities Center Fellow

Heather Belnap Jensen is an associate professor of art history & curatorial studies in the Department of Comparative Arts & Letters. Her research focuses on women’s contributions to nineteenth-century European art and culture. She has co-edited two volumes that examine the intersections of art, gender, and space, and is currently completing a monograph on the emergence of the modern woman in post-Revolutionary Paris. Her next project will be an examination of representations of violence against women in Restoration France. Rob McFarland Humanities Center Fellow

Rob McFarland is an associate professor and German section head in the Department of German and Russian. He has taught the Austrian/ German/Swiss cultural history class for returned missionaries almost constantly since he came to BYU in 2001. He also loves teaching critical theory, German and Scandinavian film, and GE Advanced Writing. Rob is the associate director of Sophie: A Digital Library of Works by GermanSpeaking Women, a collection of thousands of online texts, musical compositions, and art works. His latest book, Red Vienna, White Socialism and the Blues: Ann Tizia Leitich’s America will appear in September with Camden House. Blessings to the beloved friends and colleagues who recently helped him through a health crisis by cheerfully taking over his classes and responsibilities in his time of need.

Dee Gardner Humanities Center Fellow

Dee Gardner is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language. As an applied linguist, his areas of expertise include English vocabulary acquisition, reading English as a second or foreign language, and applied corpus linguistics. Some of his key scholarship includes Exploring Vocabulary: Language in Action (Routledge, 2013), which is a research-based vocabulary textbook for language educators, A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English (Routledge, 2010), and A New Academic Vocabulary List (Applied Linguistics, 2014), which has important implications for all stages of academic training. The latter two projects were collaborative efforts with Professor Mark Davies of the same department. Professor Gardner’s humanities fellowship will focus on the identification and frequency ranking of two types of phrases that cause major difficulties for learners of English and their teachers: English separable phrasal verbs (The coach chewed the whole team out; He ran the battery down, etc.), and English idioms (pop the question, beat around the bush, between a rock and a hard place, etc.). Jill Terry Rudy Humanities Center Fellow

Jill Terry Rudy is an associate professor of English. Her doctoral research and early publications in The Folklore Historian, Western Folklore, Journal of Folklore Research, and College English emphasized the intradisciplinary history of folklore, rhetoric, composition, and literary studies in English departments. She has also published on foodways, family folklore, and folk narrative. Her current collaborative research project Fairy Tale Teleography and Visualizations

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(FTTV), with Jarom McDonald of the Office of Digital Humanities, is supported by a Mentored Environment Grant and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Development Grant. The FTTV project includes a searchable database of fairy tales on television, interactive visualizations, conference presentations, a blog, website, Facebook page, symposium, and educational events. More than an archival tool, the FTTV project is an

educational forum that encourages and enables analyzing televised fairy-tale retellings since the 1940s. Its central research questions for 2015-2016 ask, “What can we learn from the multiple ways television employs the fairy tale?” and “How can students and scholars create and share their own inquiries based on the FTTV resources?”

College of Humanities Lectureship Tony Brown James Barker Lectureship

Tony Brown grew up in Denton, Texas, where his father taught music composition at University of North Texas and his mother taught flute at University of Texas at Arlington. From an early age, his study of classical music exposed him to many cultures, but Russian culture, in particular, especially resonated with him. After completing his freshman year at BYU, Tony traveled to Ukraine and Russia where he immersed himself in the language and culture of the people. His abiding interest in all things Russian ultimately contributed to his pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Russian at Southern Methodist University followed by advanced degrees at Bryn Mawr College. Since joining the faculty at BYU in 2004, Tony has published in the areas of language policy, Russian culture, and second language acquisition. He has published books with Georgetown University Press and Academic Studies Press and articles in venues such as Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Language Journal, and Language Policy. He and his wife, Emily, and their four children live on a farm in northeast Provo.

Mark Johnson P.A. Christensen Lectureship

Mark Johnson has taught ancient and medieval art history at BYU since 1987. He has directed or co-directed 21 study abroad programs in that time, taking over 500 students to experience art and architecture on site in Europe, especially in Italy. His research focuses on the art and architecture of Late Antiquity and his publications include The Roman Imperial Mausoleum in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2009) and The Byzantine Churches of Sardinia (Wiesbaden, 2013), and numerous articles. He is currently working on a book on the sixth-century church of San Vitale in Ravenna and related churches. He is the former chair of the Department of Visual Arts and a former Alcuin Fellow.

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University Awards John R. Rosenberg Washington Irving Professorship for Spanish & American Relations Lance Larsen Karl G. Maeser Research & Creative Arts Award

Lance Larsen’s appointment as Utah poet laureate (2012-17) takes him throughout the state teaching writers of all ages and advocating for the arts. Author of four poetry collections, he has published over 230 poems and 35 essays in top venues including Paris Review, New York Review of Books, Brevity, and a forthcoming Norton anthology. With his artist wife, Jacqui, he’s currently collaborating on Three-Mile Radius, a project celebrating making art where you are. His national awards include a Pushcart Prize and an NEA fellowship. He regularly teaches poetry writing, American literature, the short story, and Shakespeare, and is thrilled when his one-on-one mentoring results in students landing work in literary magazines. He currently advises MFA students and has directed several study abroad programs in London and Madrid. Mark Davies Karl G. Maeser Research & Creative Arts Award

Mark Davies received a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in Hispanic linguistics in 1992. After teaching for 12 years at Illinois State University, he came to the Department of Linguistics and English Languages at BYU in 2003. His primary fields of research are corpus linguistics (using large, computerbased collections of text to analyze language), and language variation and change. He has received six large federal grants for projects related to corpus

creation and use—four from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and two from the National Science Foundation (NSF)—and he is the author/ editor of six books and more than 70 (mostly singleauthored) articles. He has created several large corpora that are available from corpus.byu.edu. These corpora are used by more than 200,000 distinct researchers, teachers, and students from throughout the world each month, and data from these corpora are used for several hundred articles and books each year. More information at: davies-linguistics.byu.edu. Edward Cutler Abraham O. Smoot Citizenship Award

Edward Cutler joined the English Department faculty in 1996. He’s fulfilled many assignments in the department and college, including two terms as department chair. Ed and his wife Mary Lynn, an adjunct faculty member in English, are dedicated to the ideals of a strong humanistic education. Their son Daniel recently graduated with a BA in French studies, and their daughter Sylvia is currently a double major in English and French studies. Ed remains a trusted university citizen and valued mentor for his colleagues and students. In fall of 2015 he begins an appointment as graduate coordinator for the English MA and MFA programs. Debbie Harrison Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award

Debbie Harrison has taught freshman composition and English language courses as an adjunct for the last 38 years. She taught 21 years at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington, and 17 years at BYU. Since returning to BYU 14 years ago, she has mostly taught

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Writing 150 for the Composition Department and Modern American Usage for the Linguistics and English Language Department. She loves teaching writing and watching her students evolve in both their thinking and writing abilities, and she loves teaching editing and the intellectual pursuit of helping writing to be clear, clean, and compelling. She strives to keep what she teaches relevant to the lives of her students. She graduated from BYU in 1976 with a double teaching major in English and Spanish, then earned her master’s in humanities from BYU in 1978 with an emphasis in nineteenth-century European literature and art. She is a World War II buff, a soccer lover, and a closet fantasy/adventure reader. She loves to camp, hike, and read, read, read. She enjoys lively discussions and finding connections from what she reads to her everyday life. She is married to Mark Harrison and has six children and seven grandchildren, and few things please her more than to spend time with them anywhere—particularly in the out-of-doors.

Martha Peacock Douglas K. Christensen Teaching and Learning Fellowship

Martha Moffitt Peacock is a professor of art history. During her 28 years teaching at BYU, she has advised over 60 MA theses and directed 12 study abroad programs. For the past four years she has served as associate director of the Center for the Study of Europe. Her publications focus on women artists and the relationship of art to the lives of women in the Dutch Republic. Recently, she acted as consultant for the BBC documentary, “The Story of Women and Art.” She also contributed to and edited two exhibition catalogs on the prints of Rembrandt and his circle. She has received several awards including Honors Professor of the Year, Alice Louise Reynolds Women-in-Scholarship Lecture Award, Women’s Research Institute Distinguished Research Award, Alcuin Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching, and Woodrow Wilson Research Grant in Women’s Studies.

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COLLEGE CENTERS AND SERVICES Center for Language Services Language Instruction

During the 2014-2015 academic year, the center taught beginning- and advanced- level classes in 39 different languages. During that year, CLS offered 141 different class sections. New languages to be added to the CLS FLang curriculum for the 2015-2016 academic year are Hiligaynon and Urdu. Language Certificate Program

On March 4, 2015, five years after the inception of the Language Certificate Program, the College of Humanities celebrated the issuance of the 1,000th BYU Language Certificate to Taylor Drennan. Thank you to all who participated in the celebration! For a full account of the event, go to http://humanities.byu. edu/1000-language-certificates/ Our beloved Michele Price has accepted a position with the Chinese Flagship. Her dedication was key to the success of the Language Certificate Program. A new Language Certificate coordinator is joining the Center. Please help us welcome Molly McCall to the Center for Language Studies.

Language Testing

Last calendar year, CLS supported college language assessment initiatives by providing a total of 1,231 OPIs and WPTs in 15 different languages. Tests were given to graduating language majors, students in study abroad programs, student interns, Language Certificate applicants, residents of the Foreign Language Houses, applicants to the SLaT MA program, participants in various research projects, and students in departments conducting curriculum reviews. Language

Total Majors Minors Other

Arabic 13 6 3 4 Chinese 67 45 20 2 French 109 55 29 25 German 85 68 12 5 Italian 26 14 8 4 Japanese 58 50 8 0 Korean 26 20 6 0 Portuguese 94 27 28 39 Russian

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Spanish

659 228 185 246

Total BYU Language Certificates as of July 2015: 1,259!

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The center hosted the second annual ACTFL Proficiency Assessments Summer Institute on June 9-12, 2015. Over 100 language professionals from all over the United States participated in the four-day workshops in English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Seventeen BYU faculty took advantage of this professional development opportunity and participated in the workshops. Following the training received in the workshops, many of the BYU faculty plan to go through a vigorous certification process to become certified ACTFL testers. Other Activities

The ARCLITE Lab recently received the 2015 “Access to Language Education” Award presented by the Computer Aided Language-Learning Consortium (CALICO). The Esperantic Studies Foundation, and Lernu.net. Ayamel, (a stylized form of the initials for “International Media Library”), was initially funded within the context a project funded by a grant from The Language Flagship in conjunction with partners at the American Councils for International Education. The system is being used in courses in French, German, and Russian and work is underway to make

its functionality available for media currently available through the Office of Digital Humanities. In addition, initial pilots are underway in Spanish and German in courses offered by BYU Independent Study. A pilot is also planned for this fall in high school Spanish courses throughout the state of Utah’s Dual Language Immersion Program. The ARCLITE Lab also completed this year a significant project with the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a federally funded research and development center. The project was carried out for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) and evaluated the natural language processing of metaphorical language on the web in English, Russian, Persian, and Mexican Spanish. The BYU team’s contribution reached a level of effort of over $373,000 for a 20-month period and was commended by one of the principal investigators at IDA: The “team had a major role in the success of IDA’s metaphor work and they deserve special gratitude and thanks. There always was something extra for excellence with no effort performed to minimum specifications.”

Humanities Center We’re entering our fourth year and have, as always, much to report—thanks both to the excellent support we continue to receive from the college and the excellent work of our faculty. Here are a few highlights for the coming year:

vary these meetings somewhat, modulating between presentations from individual faculty members on work in progress and more general “state of the field” discussions from our research groups.

• Our annual theme this year is “The Work of Art,” and, as ever, we will hold both a lecture and a symposium on this subject.

• We have “Conversations” meetings—on provocative, cross-disciplinary scholarship or pertinent topics of broad concern—scheduled for October 23rd and December 4th.

• We will hold weekly colloquia, as always—Thursdays at 3:00p.m. in JFSB 4010. This year, we will

• We are launching a group in the “applied humanities” dedicated to employing humanities skills to

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solve problems in the world. This group begins with a group of faculty, students, and members of the public dedicated to collecting, translating, and analyzing family histories in Cambodia, a country ravaged by genocide a generation ago.

• We now sponsor a book manuscript workshop, where a faculty member brings in two scholars— one from our college and one from another institution—to assist with the completion of a major project.

• We sponsor several vital research groups, with discussions forming around the creation of new ones and other, existing groups planning symposia.

• On September 11th, we will welcome Gaurav Desai of Tulane University, who will run a workshop on how to write for funding agencies that award external grants.

• Faculty with CFS may continue to apply for oneyear research fellowships to assist with the completion of large projects. • Our third annual ORCA Symposium, featuring excellent undergraduate research, will be held on October 16th.

• Plus, there are always other possibilities—and more things we’re doing. If you have an idea, please talk with Matt Wickman or one of the Center Fellows.

Office of Digital Humanities (1163 JFSB) The Digital Humanities and Technology (DigHT) minor continues to set new records in enrollment, minors declared, and degrees granted. We continue to revise and update our curriculum and assessments to focus on technological and analytical skills that students can use in all humanities disciplines. Facul-

ty who are considering a technology-based (or technology-enhanced) research or development project should contact us. We may have a student or two that could earn course credit working on your project.

International Cinema Dennis Cutchins knows from his research on Cormac McCarthy that the directorship of International Cinema is “No Country for Old Men,” and having finished his three-year term he will be stepping aside to make way for Daryl Lee (French & Italian) to the International Cinema co-directorship with Matt Ancell (CAL). Daryl has taught courses on French and Italian cinema, urban culture and cinema, crime film, and film theory. He’s been a fan of the IC since his first year at BYU in 1984.

Other staff changes during this last year include the hiring of Marie-Laure Oscarson as the new assistant director. She has taught French courses, loves cinema, and in a former life wrote an MA thesis on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s trilogy Blue, White, and Red. She is a Francophile by birth and a Scandinavian by adoption. The incomparable Anne Hart is our student assistant. She recently graduated and is starting the Comparative Studies MA program. Our team of terrific student projectionists round out our IC team.

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HCOLL 290R, our 1.5 credit course on International Cinema, is back on the books, so please promote it among your students! This course is an exceptional opportunity to take advantage of the unique programming of the IC. It meets from 4:00p.m. to 5:30p.m. on Tuesday evenings and includes the IC lecture series. This is a chance for students to watch great films, listen to great lectures, and become “cinema-literate.” We’ll continue our Tuesday lectures this year, and invite all of you to attend. We’d like your help in filling our seats even more, so please consider a few ways to promote the IC’s offerings—advertising lectures and offering extra credit to students to attend lectures, coming with your students, or maybe just pulling up the schedule online in class every once in a while. We depend on you to educate and encourage your students regarding the program. Check out our new website (ic.byu.edu) and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to find out about our weekly schedules, lectures, and some fun contests. A few highlights from our 2015–2016 season include: • IC celebrates 50 years of humanities at BYU with an IC directors’ series featuring favorite films from past and present directors. This series will be a cinematographic treasure not to be missed. • This semester also features stand-out films from this past year’s international film festivals including: o Force Majeure (Swedish, 2014): up-and-coming Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s exploration of family that challenges the stereotypes associated with masculinity and fatherhood.

o Two Days and One Night (French, 2014): the Dardenne brothers’ latest film about the clash of community solidarity and personal interests. French actress Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose) even got an Oscar nod for her performance. o 1001 Grams (Norwegian, French, 2014): another droll, understated comedy directed by Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories, 2004) in which scientist Marie’s life is ruled by exactness until she travels to France for a conference where she meets more than methodical discipline. o Beats of the Antonov (Arabic, 2014): tells the story of the Blue Nile people in Sudan who strive to nurture their identity and find solace in their traditional music as they endure the brutality of civil war. This documentary is the winner of the Best Feature Documentary Award at the Cordoba African Festival (FCAT), 2015. • Other films include new and old classics like Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and Rear Window (1954). Be sure to pick up a semester poster in the plaza when you go to lunch. Posters will also be available outside the IC Office (3182 JFSB). During the semester you can find movie times and descriptions on our recorded message at 801–422–5751 and at our website http://ic.byu.edu. Get a Fan Card at the IC office, attend IC regularly this semester, and get a coveted IC T-shirt!

Humanities Publication Services The Humanities Publication Service (part of the Humanities Center) can help you achieve your publishing goals. Our services fall roughly into two areas:

1. The Faculty Editing Service will copy edit your manuscript before you submit it for publication, so that the book or journal editor who decides whether to publish your manuscript can get to the substance

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of your argument without tripping over mechanical problems.

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2. The Humanities Publication Service helps faculty members prepare journals and books for publication with a full range of production services. Periodicals produced through our service in 2014 (in whole or in part) included the following:

Journal of the Western Archivist

Religion in the Age of Enlightenment The Folklore Historian Literature and Belief

AMCAP Journal

In addition, we did final editing on book manuscripts, formatted book manuscripts into pages, and created indexes. Email mel_thorne@byu.edu to get a more complete description of how the HPS can help you. And remember: thanks to financial support from the College of Humanities, faculty in the college can use these services without charge.

Humanities Advisement and Careers Much to report since last year! New Hires: This last year we hired Rebecca Brazzale and Danny Damron. Rebecca works with our Comparative Arts and Letters and Spanish folks where she’s already developed mutually beneficial relationships with the department that have improved our student interactions. She’s been a great addition. We also added Danny Damron as the college internship coordinator. His background in international education and internship development is making a big difference in how we support and think about experiential learning in the college. Cathryn Schofield and her student team have integrated a peer advising model in the center, which means much of the academic processing now happens with our student employees, freeing up the full-time folks to provide more in-depth and personalized advising. They’ve been able to focus more on the post graduation preparation of our students. Our center stands as the only integrated career and academic advising office on campus due largely to the efforts of Cathryn and her gifted students.

Under Sherami Jara’s direction, the Translation and Localization Club now offers internships and multiple career events. She partnered with Roger McCarty in the Marriott School to pilot the first non-Marriott School On Campus Internships at the University, with student participation from across campus. With grassroots support from students, Rebecca Brazzale jumpstarted the Humanities to Business Club, and we expect this coming year the club will do great things. Now comes the sad part: Cathryn Schofield decided to pursue professional opportunities in California. We’re very sad she’s leaving. She has been a tremendous force for good as we’ve transitioned to a fully integrated career advising and academic processing office. Her personality made our office an exciting and fun place to work, and her competence gave us all the confidence that no matter the issue, Cathryn would know exactly what to do. We will miss her dearly, and we pray for her greatest success and happiness wherever she decides to go.

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LDS Philanthropies and the College of Humanities LDS Philanthropies & the College of Humanities Matthew B. Christensen mbchristensen@byu.edu 4019 JFSB (o) 801-422-9151 or (m) 801-822-3343 By assignment from the Board of Trustees and in concert with President Kevin J. Worthen, LDS Philanthropies (LDSP) is specifically tasked to work with all past, current, and prospective donors in coordinating all donations to the priorities of the First Presidency—which includes BYU. My role is to be the lead in all efforts for working with donors and raising funds for the College of Humanities— particularly the dean’s priorities. Specifically, I work with donors at the “major gift” level ($25K and above). Because our generous donors are often approached for various worthwhile projects across campus and the Church, the correlation of donor engagement is an imperative function of LDSP. In his remarks to members of the President’s Leadership Council last fall, President Worthen acknowledged our commitment to the donor inclination model (donors giving to areas for which they feel the most passion). But then he said that, in our work with donors at BYU, he prefers to call it the donor inspiration model. We encourage donors to be mindful of the inspiration they may feel as they consider making a donation. Occasionally faculty will come to my office to ask for my help to get a project funded. I love hearing

about the research and welcome anyone to stop by and share. In order for me to actively pursue donors on these kinds of projects the dean has asked that certain channels be observed in order to make sure our efforts and interactions with donors and potential donors are coordinated and strategic. 1. An initiative must first be approved by your respective department chair. 2. The chair will then present the project to the dean. 2. Once the dean approves the project we can begin taking steps to approach donors. Because trust and inspiration are so critical in all donor engagement, raising money sometimes takes time. Unfortunately there is not a secret file of dozens of wealthy donors who are just waiting for me to show up and ask for money. When we discuss raising money for projects, please first consider people connected to you who may have an inclination to the prospective project. But be sure to connect with me and follow the channels outlined above before approaching anyone about a donation. Contributing to the success of students is the number one reason donors give to BYU in general and to the College of Humanities specifically. Donors never tire of hearing success stories about student experiences in scholarship or research. If you know an exceptional student-related story please consider sharing it with me. The next year looks promising and will be filled with incredible experiences that will allow the college to continue to move forward in new and innovative ways.

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Center for Teaching and Learning Dr. Taylor Halverson is the CTL consultant assigned to the College of Humanities. The consultant’s role is to provide resources and individualized support to faculty members on all aspects of teaching and learning, training on pedagogical theory and practice, and, where needed, assistance with integrating technology into teaching and learning. Taylor focuses his teaching, research, and professional work on helping others become lifelong learners. He does so through several core areas: a) improving teaching and learning; b) educational technology, including technology integration into teaching and

learning; c) innovation, design, and creativity, including entrepreneurship; d) ancient studies, including Biblical, Book of Mormon, and other scripture studies. He completed PhDs at Indiana University in instructional systems technology and Judaism & Christianity in antiquity. His master’s degrees are in instructional systems technology (Indiana University) and Biblical studies (Yale University). Taylor also holds a BA in Near Eastern Studies from BYU. Please see the CTL website for more information on Taylor.

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INTRODUCTIONS Asian and Near Eastern Languages Jason Andrus, visiting instructor of Middle East studies and Arabic, graduated cum laude in history from Brigham Young University in 2006, received an Arabic language certificate from the American University in Cairo in 2006, an MA in comparative religion from the University of Washington in 2009, and a JD from New York University’s School of Law in 2014. While at NYU he was an adjunct member of the faculty at NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Stud-

ies. His research interests include Islamic appropriations of liberal rights rhetoric; Islamic, Jewish, and Christian conceptions of justice in criminal law; and contract enforcement and breach in religious legal systems. He hails from East Tennessee and he and his wife, Sarah, are the parents of two children. Jason likes to play with his two young boys whenever he can, and in his spare time he is always looking for a tennis partner.

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English Dr. Jason Kerr grew up in Sierra Vista, Arizona, and attended Arizona State University, where he received his bachelor’s degree. He later earned his PhD from Boston College. Reading and writing were always an important part of his life. While at ASU, Dr. Kerr’s love for English was solidified when he attended a class on Milton during his final semester of school. The appreciation for Milton which he gained in that class has carried on, as evidenced by his contributions to the recent Oxford edition of Milton’s De Doctrina Christiana.

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The majority of Dr. Kerr’s research has focused on “the intersection of religion and politics in seventeenth-century England.” His current work deals with political theology, which is “how religion and politics inform each other.” Referring to that topic, Dr. Kerr says, “I suppose I’m attracted to subjects that I have no hope of understanding completely.” He has been published in Studies in Philology, Milton Studies, and Milton Quarterly. Dr. Kerr is excited to teach at Brigham Young because, in his words, “I find that the students here are very open to in-

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tellectual and spiritual challenge. Learning together with them can be very invigorating.” As a professor, he hopes to be known for “caring about students enough to challenge them.” Dr. Kerr met his wife, Kristine, while he was finishing college in Arizona, where she had moved to attend culinary school. They have two children. In his spare time, Dr. Kerr enjoys stimulating conversation with friends, hiking, and foreign film. His favorite writer (other than Milton) is Penelope Fitzgerald, “for the precision of language and effect that enables her to accomplish remarkable things with a very restrained prose style.” This fall, he will be teaching English 338, Literary Studies of the Bible, English 291, British Literary History; and English 382, Shakespeare.

Poet Michael Lavers joins the English Department this year having done his BA at BYU, MFA at Johns Hopkins, and PhD at the University of Utah. He has published poetry in The Hudson Review, West Branch, Arts & Letters, Smartish Pace, The Columbia Review, 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. He’s also published articles in Joyce Studies Annual and College Literature. His current research interests include pastoral poetry and translation studies. Michael is looking forward to teaching BYU students. Michael met his wife in the JFSB, in a poetry class. Doesn’t that seem poetic? They are the parents of two children. He loves playing with his kids, music, films, and amateurish ventures out-of-doors.

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French and Italian Sara Phenix has transitioned to assistant professor this year. She earned her bachelor’s degree at BYU where she majored in English and French and minored in women’s studies. After earning a master’s degree in French at BYU, she completed her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 2013.

Her dissertation is entitled “Designing Women: Fashion, Fiction, and Femininity in Second Empire France” and focuses on the intersection of canonical nineteenth-century novels and the presse feminine. Her research interests include travel literature, spy novels, and the Empress Eugenie.

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Comparative Arts and Letters Gregory Baum works on translations and adaptations of Spanish Golden Age texts. His current book project, tentatively titled, “Mine, though abortive:” Reading and Writing Don Quixote in Seventeenth-century England, argues that English readers and writers appropriated Cervantes’s work for new political and aesthetic ends. In doing so, the project draws attention to how “abortive” translations and adaptations offered opportunities to experiment with questions of literary form and the role of the translator. His work has appeared in Cervantes and Bulletin of the Comediantes among other places. Heather Belnap Jensen is an associate professor in the Art History & Curatorial Studies program, where she teaches courses on modern art (c. 1750 to the present) as well as historiography and critical theory. Her research and publications are focused primarily on women’s contributions to post-Revolutionary French culture. Jensen is more broadly interested in gender and space in nineteenth-century art, and she has coedited two volumes on this subject. She is a member of the executive committee of the BYU Women’s Studies program and oversees its faculty teaching and research group. Jensen also serves in a number of national and international organizations dedicated to the advancement of women in the arts.

Mark Johnson earned his BA from BYU, MA from University of Illinois, PhD from Princeton University, all in Art History. He has taught at BYU since 1987, as a specialist in Roman, Early Christian, and Byzantine art and architecture. He has also directed or co‐directed 20 study abroad programs to Europe. He is the author of two books and numerous articles in scholarly journals. His wife, Mariolina, works in the Italian Lab of the Department of French and Italian. Andrea Kristensen earned a BA in humanities with an emphasis in art history and a MA in art history from BYU. She has worked as the visual resource specialist for the Visual Arts Dept. for over 15 years and has now moved to the College of Humanities following her art history colleagues to the Deptartment of Comparative Art and Letters. In this capacity, she manages the image collection, working first with 125,000 35mm slides and then transitioning to digital images. With the help of faculty and students, she developed an online collection of over 20,000 images in collaboration with the Lee Library. She provides high quality images for the faculty and students to use in class lectures, research, and presentations and also participates in professional conferences and workshops with the Visual Resources Association. In the VA Deptart-

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ment, Andrea helped with scheduling, hiring, and training students; tech support; overseeing purchasing cards; and planning and organizing various events for the art history and art education areas. She is the graduate secretary for the art history and curatorial MA students and will continue in this capacity with the comparative studies MA students in the future. Andrea loves to travel and wishes her faculty would take her with them as the image consultant on their trips abroad. She lives in Salt Lake City and participates in many activities there with her family, husband Erik, and son Anders. She enjoys gardening, exploring cultures and their holiday traditions, and is an avid fan of live theater.

Dr. James R. Swensen is an assistant professor of art history and the history of photography at Brigham Young University. He has also held teaching positions with the University of Arizona, the University of Utah, as well as the Centro Studi Cittá in Orvieto, Italy. His research interests include the art and photography of the American West and the Grand Tour of Italy. He has recently completed two books on photography including Picturing Migrants: The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Photography, which will be published by the University of Oklahoma Press. His chapter “Maynard Dixon and the Forgotten Man,” will appear in the anthology Locating American Art (Ashgate Publishing) later this year.

Martha Moffitt Peacock is a professor of art history at BYU. Her publications and research center on the relationship of art to the lives of women in the Dutch Republic. She has also published on seventeenth-century female artists such as Geertruydt Roghman, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Joanna Koerten. Recently she acted as a consultant on women artists for the BBC documentary, “The World That Women Made.” Martha has been serving as the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at BYU for the past four years. She has received several awards including the Woodrow Wilson Award in Women’s Studies and Honors Professor of the Year.

Mark Thorne. “Since childhood I have nurtured a love for history and its ability to help us all understand our shared past. That love for old things, combined with a childhood fascination for Lord of the Rings, eventually led me to Missouri State University where I studied classical history, literature, and languages (Greek, Latin, and Coptic), with a healthy dash of interdisciplinary studies on the side. I pursued a PhD in classics at the University of Iowa, writing a dissertation on the Roman epic poet Lucan and his literary treatment of Cato the Younger and the theme of historical memory as a weapon of cultural resistance. For the past seven years I taught classics at Wheaton College in Illi-

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nois (which always ranked #2 behind BYU in the ‘driest college’ ratings!), and now I am looking forward to coming to BYU to teach and research in Classics alongside wonderful colleagues. Born in Iowa but raised in California and Missouri, I enjoy reading (especially military history), hiking, biking, and boardgames in my spare time, in addition to spending time with my wife Jung Eun (who was born and raised in Seoul).” Elliott Wise is in the final stages of completing a doctoral degree in Northern Renaissance Art History at Emory University under the supervision of Walter S. Melion. His research focuses on the role of art in the devotion, exegesis, and religious practice of late medieval and early modern Europe. He is particularly interested in Eucharistic, liturgical, and Marian imagery and its permutations in the spiritual traditions of the monastic and mendicant orders. His dissertation—“Painterly Vernacular and Pictorial Piety: Rogier van der Weyden, Robert Campin, and Jan van Ruusbroec”—deals with the impact of Middle Dutch mysticism on fifteenth-century devotional painting. He recently held a Jane and Morgan Whitney Dissertation Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013–2014), along with an honorary Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship. Publications include “Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Ruusbroec: Reading, Rending,

and Re-Fashioning the ‘Twice-Dyed’ Veil of Blood in the Escorial Crucifixion,” in Imago Exegetica: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400-1700 (Brill, 2014) and “The Black Madonna of Częstochowa: Resistance and Redemption in Communist Poland,” in Art and Spirituality: The Visual Culture of Christian Faith (BYU Studies, 2008). (after completing a BA in Classics at the University of Puget Sound (2007) and a post-baccalaureate year at the University of Pennsylvania (2008).) Laura Zientek earned an MA (2009) and a PhD (2014) in classics at the University of Washington in Seattle. Work on her dissertation, “Lucan’s Natural Questions: Landscape and Geography in the Bellum Civile,” is part of an ongoing research project focusing on the intersection of natural philosophy and landscape ecphrasis in early imperial epic. Other research interests include classical reception, science fiction, apocalyptic narratives, and Utopias/dystopias. She has recently taught Latin and classical mythology classes at the Universities of Puget Sound and Washington, and she is excited to join the department at BYU.

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German and Russian Katya Jordan earned her MA and PhD in Slavic languages and literatures from the University of Virginia in 2007 and 2014, respectively. She received a BA in English from the University of Utah in 2004. For the past three years, she taught Russian courses at Virginia Tech. Her research interests lie at the intersection of visual

and literary studies as she examines the relationship between ekphrasis and iconicity in the context of Russian literature. Her other interests include the portrayal of female silence, Dostoevsky’s aesthetics, the Russian perception of the European Renaissance, and problems of intercultural communication.

Linguistics and English Language Grant Eckstein has taught and administered in language teaching programs for the past 15 years. He holds a BA in linguistics and an MA in TESOL from BYU and both an MA and PhD in linguistics from the University of California, Davis with emphases in second language acquisition, rhetoric, composition, and writing studies. His academic interests lie in bridging the fields of composition and applied linguistics in order to help L2 writers succeed in learning contexts that are traditionally geared toward native English speakers, such as mainstream composition classes and writing centers. He is a co-founder and managing editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Response to Writing. Grant and his wife, Angela, have three children and enjoy traveling and finding new adventures here in Utah. Jesse Egbert is a new assistant professor

in Linguistics and English Language. He graduated with a BA in Linguistics from BYU, later pursuing his graduate studies at Northern Arizona University, where he earned an MA in teaching english as a second language and a PhD in applied linguistics. Most of his research falls into one of two categories: corpus linguistic analysis of register variation and quantitative methods in applied linguistics. He will be teaching courses on corpus linguistics, linguistic and statistical tools, and programming for text processing and analysis. He enjoys spending time with his wife and his four children. His hobbies include rock climbing, backpacking, reading, and dog training.

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Jacob D. Rawlins

Jacob D. Rawlins has joined the faculty in Linguistics and English Language. He graduated with a BA in history from BYU before working as an editor and production manager for the Neal A.

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Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship for nine years. During that time, he completed a master of public administration from BYU. He later earned a PhD in rhetoric and professional communication from Iowa State University. He then taught for two years in the University of Louisville College of Business. His research interests include the history and future of publishing, rhetorical myth in business organizations, and interactive data displays. He will teach courses in the editing minor. Chris Rogers has accepted a one-year appointment as a visiting faculty member in Linguistics and English Language. He graduated with a BA in Spanish from

California State San Marcos, an MA in sociolinguistics from San Diego State University, and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Utah. He has been the Director of the Center of American Indian Languages at the University of Utah. His research specializations are: documentation of endangered languages, research methods in language documentation, historical linguistics, linguistic typology, the Xinkan languages, and the linguistics of the languages of Central and South America. His current projects include the documentation of several languages in Central and South America. His personal interests include flying, backpacking, and family.

Office of Digital Humanities Tory S. Anderson is a web application developer and programmer in the Office of Digital Humanities. Tory graduated with a BA from the BYU Linguistics program in 2013 and finished his MS in digital media at Georgia Tech in 2015. His academic interests combine narrative, language processing, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Professionally he enjoys the fast-

paced, synthetic world of web development and design, and enjoys seeing technology complement humanities research. He and his wife grew up in tiny Levan, Utah, and are looking forward to the arrival of their second child in August. Together they enjoy stories, the arts, family gatherings, and horses.

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Philosophy Britni Exton attended her undergraduate at BYU and completed a degree in history. She also holds a MA in museum studies from Johns Hopkins University. Britni has worked the last 10 years in various administrative positions for community colleges and universities. She most recently moved up from Arizona to be closer to family and lives in Springville with her husband and two year old daughter. Originally from Victoria, British Columbia (Canada), Katie Paxman completed a BA at the University of Victoria and an MA at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, before going on to do her PhD in philosophy, jointly awarded by the University of Western Ontario and Antwerp University in Beligium. She completed a post-doc at the Centre for the Ethics at the University of Antwerp and worked part time teaching back in Canada. Katie’s work focuses on

David Hume’s theory of the passions and moral psychology. Now she and her husband are thrilled to be moving their two little boys from Quebec to Provo, to join the BYU community. Justin White completed his undergraduate program with University Honors at BYU in 2008, majoring in philosophy and English. In 2012 he received his master’s in philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and anticipates completing his PhD this fall. He specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century European philosophy and philosophy of action. Justin worked during the 2013-2014 summer term as an adjunct for the BYU Philosophy Department. His publications include “Polyphonic Subversion and Containment in The Brothers Karamazov,” Perspectives (Winter 2007). He and his wife are moving from California to Provo with their three boys.

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DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS American Studies 2015 ushered in more changes to help strengthen the American Studies program and major. Beginning fall 2015, American Studies 304 (Theories and Methods) and American Studies 490 (Senior Capstone) together qualify for the Advanced Writing credit, allowing majors to develop their research and writing skills within the major as they strengthen their understanding of the discipline’s distinct methods and aims. American Studies also

held its inaugural writing workshop, focusing on revising student work for publication. These things, along with program emphasis on writing in core courses, is hoped to improve student learning and preparation for post-graduation plans. In addition, the program continues to strengthen its internship program, sending students to internships in such far flung locations as Taiwan, Uganda, and Salt Lake City.

Asian and Near Eastern Languages Dana Bourgerie was appointed department chair to replace outgoing chair and new Dean of Humanities, Scott Miller.

and students, Don Parry stepped down as Hebrew Section Head. Steve Ricks has taken up the leadership role for the Hebrew section of the department.

The Chinese section received for the eighth consecutive year a federal STARTALK grant to convene an intensive Chinese language program for high school students (Dana Bourgerie, PI).

James Toronto was called to serve as President of the Central Eurasian Mission.

Mark Peterson was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Korea Journal (Korean Commission for UNESCO, Seoul), the oldest Korean Studies journal in the world.

After several years of dedicated service to colleagues

The U.S. National Security Education Program expanded the scope of the Chinese Flagship Center’s K-12 grant to include Portuguese. Now renamed Flagship Language Access Network (F-LAN), the consortium now includes 22 states and is co-managed with the Utah State Office of Education.

Comparative Arts and Letters Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature changed its name to Comparative Arts and Letters. The department also merged with Art History,

bringing in five new, full-time faculty members.

Mark Johnson was named University Professor of Ancient Studies 2014-2017.

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Roger Macfarlane received an Ovatio Award for contributions to the field of Classics from the Classical Association for the Midwest and South. Stan Benfell directed the London Study Abroad program in fall 2014.

George Handley was invited to participate in the Halki Summit on Theology, Ecology, and the Word in Istanbul. This is an event sponsored and attended by Patriarch Bartholomew, the leader of the Orthodox Church and a significant voice on the topic of climate change.

Heather Belnap Jensen was also a visiting research scholar at the Harris Manchester Summer Research Institute, University of Oxford.

James Swensen directed the Europe: Art History and Photography study abroad program in 2015. Chip Oscarson directed a study abroad/internship program in Sweden in Spring 2015.

Carl Sederholm began serving as department chair Joe Parry became Interim Dean of Undergraduate Education

Francesca Lawson’s article “Is Music an Adaptation or a Technology? Ethnomusicological Perspectives from the Analysis of Chinese Shuochang” is the winner of SEM’s Jaap Kunst Prize for 2015.

English From January through June 2015, Brian Roberts was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Universitas Sebelas Maret in Surakarta, Indonesia. As a teaching fellow, he led introductory and upper-level American Studies courses and was curriculum consultant for the American Studies program. Through the Fulbright Regional Travel Program, he gave talks for the English departments at National Sun Yat-sen University and National Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan, and for the American Studies Centre and Asian Studies Program at the University of Sydney in Australia. During the fellowship, he also finished (with his co-writer Keith Foulcher) a book titled Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference, forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2016.

The 2015 English Symposium, directed by Gideon Burton and held March 19-20 in the JFSB, was a highlight of the academic year, with 500 people attending 26 sessions in which 123 English majors

presented academic papers and creative writing. An expanded two-day format accommodated the new 3MP (three-minute paper) competition, in which 39 students gave energetic lightning-style versions of their work. Student papers were gathered into a special permanent collection in BYU’s Scholars Archive. At the English+ Launch Party students kicked off the department’s new emphasis on telling one’s story and translating English abilities for the work world. Their stories were filmed for broadcast on the College YouTube channels. Response to the symposium was overwhelmingly positive.

In November 2014, BYU’s College of Humanities, Department of English, MARS Group, and the Humanities Institute hosted a gathering of 10 poets, literary scholars, theorists, and theologians for a two-day conversation about the relationship between poetry and spiritual practice. The event explored the similarities between a life in lyric and a life of faith, and articulated the ideas that underlie

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both pursuits.

In May 2015, Kimberly Johnson was invited to be one of the headline writers at the first Tbilisi Festival of Literature, in the Republic of Georgia. This festival, which the Georgian Ministry of Culture plans to be an annual event hereafter, brought together writers from 20 countries including Iran, Armenia, Poland, Italy, and France, and offered opportunities to hear the writers in conversation with one another about literary, translation, and political issues. The Republic of Georgia has a long history rich in literature and poetry, and writers are held in special esteem by the Georgian culture. Professor Johnson was honored to participate and delighted to get to know and love Georgia and its people. Professor John Tanner was appointed as president of BYU—Hawaii. His term began July 2015.

The Fairy Tale Teleography and Visualizations (fttv.

byu.edu) project conducted several presentations and events to introduce and extend our digital humanities research on fairy tales and television. In October 2014, Jill Rudy’s co-edited essay collection Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television was published by Wayne State University Press. Also, she and four MEG students, Megan Armknecht, Jessie Riddle, Madeleine Dresden, and Kristy Stewart, presented on campus and at the annual American Folklore Society meeting. Winter semester they hosted an Unbirthday Tea Party to introduce their website and research tools and presented at a Humanities Center colloquium with Jarom McDonald. Five invited scholars attended a “Crossroads of Data and Wonder” symposium held in the JFSB in May; colleagues from the University of Winnipeg participated by video link. Professor Rudy also presented on the project in Vancouver, BC, and Ottawa.

French and Italian In 2015, twenty-two students majoring or minoring in French have worked in France as interns in a variety of organizations such as Les Petits Frères des Pauvres (Paris, Lille, Marseille, Toulon, and Toulouse), l’Université catholique de Lille, the U.S. Embassy in Paris, as well as several startup companies through ESCP Europe. In addition, three of our

students have had the opportunity to work in France for seven months, teaching English to French students of all ages in the Bordeaux, Grenoble, and Amiens school districts.

In June the department welcomed over 70 students as part of the annual French Camp.

German and Russian Jennifer Bown and Wendy Baker Smemoe hosted the Foreign Language Student Residence Symposium, which was held in March 2015.

Cindy Brewer and Robert McFarland each received a Distinguished Service Award from the Division of Continuing Education. Cindy’s award was for her work on the German 201 and 202 on-

line courses while Rob received recognition for his work on the German 101, 102, 302, and 303 online classes. The person nominating them for this award cited their “revolutionary approach” to these courses and their “robust assessment” of the modalities associated with language learning. Both faculty were recognized at a banquet in February, given by the

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Division of Continuing Education.

cessed at www.21stcrussian.byu.edu.

Christian Clement was on professional development leave during winter semester 2015.

Mark Purves directed the spring term study abroad program to Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

Tony Brown was appointed coordinator of Foreign Language Housing.

Hans-Wilhelm Kelling received the Best Paper Award in the Humanities/Philosophy/Foreign Language Division from the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. The title of his paper is “Female Guards, Nurses, and Doctors in German Concentration Camps.”

Grant Lundberg, David Hart, and Alexandra Brattos have produced “Russian for the 21st Century,” a new combined online/classroom approach to learning and maintaining advanced Russian language skills. The approach focuses on developing confidence in speaking and reading by integrating online interactive grammar and vocabulary drills with graduated reading and speaking tasks. It is designed to be used with any comprehensive Russian grammar in support of dynamic speaking-oriented classroom activities. Online materials can be ac-

Robert McFarland directed the spring term study abroad program to Vienna.

Laura Catharine Smith is president of the Utah Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German. She was the prime organizer of the German Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) which was held at the Provo Marriott in early May 2015. Raissa Solovieva was on professional development leave during winter semester 2015.

The 40th annual Adventssingen Christmas program took place on Sunday, December 7, 2014 in the DeJong Concert Hall. Kathryn Isaak was the director.

The German faculty hosted Mr. Stefan Biedermann, Deputy Consul in Los Angeles, and Ms. Hanni Geist, a representative from the German Academic Exchange Service in October.

Linguistics and the English Language Alan Manning was awarded a Quarry Farm Fellowship from the Mark Twain Center at Elmira College. He and co-researcher Nicole Amare (University of South Alabama) stayed June 17-26 at Quarry Farm in Elmira, New York where Twain wrote his most famous works and they examined several primary sources in the Twain Archive at Elmira College, tracing several threads of influence from Mormon theology in Twain’s later work. Cynthia L. Hallen’s Emily Dickinson Lexicon (edl. byu.edu) is now featured in the online Emily Dickinson Archive at Harvard University’s Houghton

Library, which houses the largest Dickinson collection in the world (http://www.edickinson.org/). Cynthia also worked with Marny Parkin, Jill Derr, Karen Lynn Davidson, Monte Shelley, and students in her senior seminar course to produce a pilot database and website for the poems of Eliza R. Snow (erslexicon.wordpress.com). Don Chapman and Bill Eggington directed the English Language in Great Britain study abroad summer 2015; Janis Nuckolls directed the Linguistics in Ecuador study abroad summer 2015. Jesse Egbert organized and hosted the “Careers in

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Linguistics and English Language” lecture series. Companies represented over this semester-long series included Selnate, Microsoft, BYU Magazine, Arizona Department of Education, BYU Linguistics and English Language Department, and Castle Associates.

Mark Davies recently received a large, three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to expand the online Corpus del Español to two billion words from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, and the Corpus do Portugues to one billion words from four Portuguese-speaking countries, and to develop several related web-based resources for teachers and learners of the two languages. Marv Gardner created a new online publication, Mormon Insights (mormoninsights.byu.edu). Students in his capstone course in our editing minor write, edit,

design, and publish highlights of meaningful articles and other materials from LDS and BYU publications and websites. This new online publication targets an international young adult audience. Royal Skousen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Illinois, Urbana– Champaign.

New arrivals: The department welcomed three new babies: Christian Matthew Smemoe, son of Wendy Baker-Smemoe, born December 21, 2014; Matthew Elwood Remy, son of department secretary Denise Remy, born February 12, 2015; Benjamin Sturman, son of Heather Sturman, born July 1, 2015. Chris Rogers received a $75,000 NSF grant to analyze and document Máku, an endangered language of Venezuela.

Philosophy Our department has experienced a 36% increase of Philosophy majors this year.

Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Christensen on his advancement to associate professor and CFS status. Ryan is the department metaphysician and logic specialist. Welcome back to Dr. James Faulconer, returning from London, England after serving as the Resident Director of the London Study Abroad program.

Derek Haderlie, an adjunct professor during 201415, has been accepted into a philosophy PhD program and will be attending University of Texas at Austin this fall. A lot of new faces have arrived in preparation for the fall. We want to welcome Dr. Katie Paxman

and Justin White as new, full-time faculty members. Michael Hansen will also be joining us as a new adjunct professor. For the spring/summer adjuncts, we had Kirra Hyde and Brandon Bowen. They will both be leaving at the end of the term to complete their PhD programs.

We want to say farewell and congratulations to Karen Lambert, the Philosophy Department’s Secretary. She will be retiring at the end of July. Her plans include traveling, visiting with grandchildren, and going on a mission in the spring. The department also welcomes Britni Exton as the new Department Secretary, and Sage Perez as the Student Secretary.

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Spanish and Portuguese Orlando Alba gave a lecture held in Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic), “Observaciones sobre el radicalismo fonético del español dominicano” Professor Frederick G. Williams was the keynote speaker at the Williams Family Reunion at the Temple Square Auditorium in Salt Lake City, presenting “The Life of Dr. Frederick G. Williams, Counselor to the Prophet Joseph Smith.”

Professor Frederick G. Williams was a guest speaker of the Instituto de Estudios Vallejianos at Brigham Young University, presenting “The Beginnings of the Church in Peru: A Personal History.”

A mini course was given by Julie Sykes— Director of CASLS (Center for Applied Second Language Studies)—University of Oregon titled Expanding Contexts: Teaching and Learning Language in Digital Spaces from Nov 10-14, 2014.

Cherice Montgomery facilitated an online, project-based, language learning professional development initiative last semester and she also co-designed and co-facilitated a summer institute on project-based language learning in collaboration with the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and the Buck Institute for Education.

Nieves Knapp organized the 9th BYUSummer Workshop for Spanish Teachers, June 24th and 25th on the BYU campus with sessions presented by USOE world-languages specialist, several graduate students, and our own faculty members Chantal Thompson, Scott Alvord, Cherice Montgomery, and Nieves Knapp. Dale Pratt coordinated the visit of Spanish writer Rosa Montero in March 2015. Events surrounding Rosa’s visit to BYU included the following: • The North American launch of her latest novel, El peso del corazón, which included a panel discussion by Dale Pratt, Juan Carlos Martín (Stonehill College) and Todd K. Mack (Southern Utah University), and Rosa Montero. • Montero taught a week-long mini-course on fiction writing for the Spanish and Portuguese Department. She also visited the Spanish culture classes and one of the Spanish literature sections.

• Rosa Montero and Dr. Martín toured Mesa Verde, Newspaper Rock, Arches, Canyonlands, and Dead Horse Point in the company of Dale Pratt and Valerie Hegstrom. • She ended her visit with a campus-wide talk titled “A Wound Made Light,” after which she signed books and met audience members.

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MAJOR SCHOLARLY WORKS PUBLISHED IN 2014–2015 Asian & Near Eastern Languages Belnap, Robert Kirk. “Taking on the ‘Ceiling Effect’ in Arabic.” To Advanced Proficiency and Beyond: Theory and Methods for Developing Superior Second-Language Ability. Eds. Anthony Brown & Jennifer Bown. Georgetown University Press, 2015. Chadwick, Jeffrey R, Daniel C Peterson, and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel. Middle East Conflicts—An LDS Perspective on the History and Religion in the Region. Deseret, 2014. <http://deseretbook.com/Middle-East-Conflicts-LDS-Perspective-Histor y-Religion-Region-Richard-Neitzel-Holzapfel/i/5119940?locale=vi> Christensen, Matthew B and Dana Scott Bourgerie. “Chinese for Special Purposes: Individualized Instruction as a Bridge to Overseas Direct Enrollment.” To Advanced Proficiency and Beyond: Theory and Methods for Developing Superior Second-Language Ability. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2015. Miller, John Scott. “An Early Reading of ‘The Black Cat’ in Japanese.” Translated Poe. Eds. Emron Esplin, Margarida Vale de Gato. Lehigh, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2014: 261-270. Skinner, Andrew C and Donald W Parry. Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library—Biblical Texts. Eds. Donald Parry and Andrew C.

Skinner. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2015: 2000 + (electronic format). Parry, Donald W and Devorah Dimant. Dead Sea Scrolls Handbook. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2015: 985 pages. Parry, Donald W. The Temple in the Ancient and Modern World: A Bibliography. Eds. Danel W. Bachman and Donald W. Parry. Academy for Temple Studies, 2015. <http://www.templestudies.org/home/introduction-to-a-temple-studies-bibliography/> Parry, Donald W. “Translation of Forty-one Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran.” The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, Vols. 1-2. Eds. Donald Parry and Emanuel Tov. 1-2. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2014: Various. Parry, Donald W and Emanuel Tov. “ The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader. Vol. 1. Texts Concerned with Religious Law, Exegetical Texts and Parabiblical Textsed and Expanded, Vol. 1.” Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2014: 1085 pages. Parry, Donald W and Emanuel Tov. The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader. Vol. 2. Calendrical Texts and Sapiential Texts, Poetic and Liturgical Texts, Additional Genres and Unclassified Texts. 2. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2014: 1133.

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Parry, Donald W. “Ancient Sacred Vestments: Scriptural Symbols and Meanings.” Temple Insights: The Temple on Mount Zion. Eds. William J. Hamblin and David Seeley. Salt Lake City, UT: Eborn Books, 2014: 219-239.

Toronto, James Albert. “The ‘Wild West’ of Missionary Work: Reopening the Italian Mission, 1965-1971.” Journal of Mormon History. 40.4 (2014): 1-72.

Comparative Arts and Letters Michael Call. The Would-Be Author: Molière and the Comedy of Print (Purdue UP 2015).

Heather Belnap Jensen edited (with Temma Balducci) Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture: 1789-1914 (Ashgate 2014).

English Clark, Greg. Civic Jazz: American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Johnson, Kimberly. Uncommon Prayer: Poems. Karen and Michael Braziller Books, 2014.

Crowe, Chris. Death Coming up the Hill. HMH Books for Young Readers, 2014.

Rudy, Jill and Pauline Greenhill. Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television. Wayne State University Press, 2014.

Dean, Deborah and Jeff Anderson. Revision Decisions: Talking through Sentences and Beyond. Stenhouse, 2014.

Siegfried, Brandie and Lisa T Sarasohn, eds. God and Nature in the Thought of Margaret Cavendish. Ashgate, 2014.

Esplin, Emron and Margarida Vale de Gato. Translated Poe (Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe). Lehigh University Press, 2014.

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French and Italian Haraguchi, Jennifer. “Vita di Eleonora: A Unique Example of Autobiographical Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy.” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 17.2 (2014): 369-397. Klein, Ilona. “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: When Primo Levi’s Ghosts Haunt His Poetry,” Mosaici: 4 (26 April, 2015), regular issue “Beautiful Sick Body”. Peer reviewed. http://www.mosaici.org.uk/?articles=posttraumatic-stress-disorder-when-primo-levis-ghosts-haunt-his-poetry Le Bras, Yvon, I have directed in collaboration with Réal Ouellet the critical edition of La Relation de l’établissement des Français depuis l’an 1635 en l’île de la Martinique by Jacques Bouton, published by Les Editions Hermann, Paris, April 2015, 222 pages. Noble, Cinzia, Ascheri, Mario. Early Renaissance

Siena, from Milan’s Rule to Pope Pious II. Cinzia Donatelli Noble trad. Milan: IPOC, 2014. Noble, Cinzia. “Problemi e soluzioni di traduzione: un viaggio nella Siena rinascimentale.” Honos alit artes. Studi per il settantesimo compleanno di Mario Ascheri: Gli universi particolari. Firenze: Associazione Reti Medievali - Firenze University Press 2014. 283-288. Noble, Cinzia. Book review of Gli “anni di piombo” nella letteratura italiana. By Ermanno Conti. Ravenna, Italy: Longo Editore, 2013.Forum Italicum 49.1 (Spring 2015). 248-250. Thompson, Chantal. “Moving Along the Proficiency Continuum,” in The Language Educator, Volume 10, Issue 1 (January/February 2015), pp. 24-27.

German and Russian Brown, Tony, ed. From the Cincinnati Reds to the Moscow Reds: The Memoirs of Irwin Weil. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2015. Brown, Tony and Jennifer Bown. Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate. Theory and Practice. Georgetown Digital Shorts. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown UP, 2015. Brown, Tony, Jennifer Bown and William Eggington. Mastering English through Global Debate. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown UP, 2015. Brown, Tony, Tatiana Balykhina, Ekaterina Talalakina, and Jennifer Bown. Mastering Rus-

sian through Global Debate. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown UP, 2015. Kelling, Hans-Wilhelm, David P. Crandall, and Paul E. Kerry, eds and trans. Africa: What it Gave Me, What It Took From Me. Remembrances from my Life as a German Settler in South West Africa by Margarethe von Eckenbrecher. Lehigh, PA: Lehigh UP, 2015. McFarland, Robert B. Red Vienna, White Socialism, and the Blues . Ann Tizia Leitich’s America. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015.

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Linguistics and English Language Royal Skousen. Read-only online version of “Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter Foundation, October 2014.

in Higher Education: Understanding Challenges, Providing Support. Routledge, June 2015.

William Eggington, Ekaterina Talalakina, Tony Brown, and Jennifer Bown. Mastering English through Global Debate. Georgetown University Press, October 2014.

Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon, edited by Royal Skousen and Robin Scott Jensen. The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Volume 3, parts 1 and 2. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church Historian’s Press, 2015.

Norman Wall Evans, Neil J Anderson, and William Eggington, eds. ESL Readers and Writers

Eddington, David. Statistics for Linguists. Newcastle upon Tyne. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Philosophy James Faulconer, edited with Dr. Joseph M. Spencer, Perspectives on Mormon Theology: Scriptural Theology (Kofford Books, 2015, 211 pages).

James Faulconer’s The New Testament Made Harder: Scripture Study Questions was also published this year (Maxwell Institute; 536 pages).

Spanish and Portuguese Orlando Alba. Observación del cambio lingüístico en tiempo real. El nuevo léxico disponible de los dominicanos. 2014. Santo Domingo: Banco de Reservas – PUCMM. Vol. 4, Colección de Oro. Orlando Alba “Madrid frente a Santo Domingo: la /d/ intervocálica y la /s/ implosiva”, Lingüística Española Actual (LEA), XXXVII/1 (2015), pp. 5-32. Christopher C. Lund’s English translation of Brazil’s first novel was accepted for publication by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renais-

sance Studies (ACMRS), and is due out this fall. Its title, The Story of Predestined Pilgrim and His Brother Reprobate, may ring familiar because of John Bunyan’s classic Pilgrim’s Progress, published in 1678. They are both salvation allegories. The Brazilian novel was written by a Portuguese Jesuit, Father Alexandre de Gusmão, and published in Portugal in 1682, just four years after Bunyan’s novel, although it is doubtful that these writers knew of each other’s existence. Lund’s translation will be the sixth edition of this novel and the first edition in English.

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2015 Asaltos a la historia: Reimaginando la ficción histórica hispanoamericana. Ed. Brian L. Price. Mexico City: Ediciones Eón, 2014. 2014 TransLatin Joyce: Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature. Eds. Brian L. Price, César A. Salgado, and John Pedro Schwartz. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Frederick G. Williams Poets of Angola, A Bilingual Selection, the sixth volume in the translation series. Provo, Luanda, and Lisbon: Brigham Young University Studies, Union of Angolan Writers, University of Agostinho Neto of Angola & Camões Institute of Portugal, 2014, 486 pages.

EMERITI HIGHLIGHTS

EMERITI HIGHLIGHTS Highlights Mike and Connie Call (CAL) returned from a mission to Tahiti. Marilyn Arnold published Oops!: Confessions of a Klutz this year.

not cut out for retirement. Doesn’t miss faculty meetings, though. Published Illuminating Humor of the Bible last year.

Steve Walker teaches Bible as Literature as he’s

Paul and Sandy Thomas serve as MLS missionaries in the Oxford First Ward. Paul participated in the UK Humanities Council Perfomance Aloud of English Middle English Romances, where he read the Reeve’s Tale in Middle English. He represented the Chaucer Studio at the University of Iceland. And he and Sandy participated in sessions at the International Congress on Medieval studies at Western Michigan University.

Retired during 2014–2015

Of Note

Karen Lambert Barnes

Walter Spiedel (German), Ana Preto-Bay (Portuguese), Merlin Compton (Spanish), and Byron Gassman (English) passed away since our last meeting.

Jay and Dawn Fox returned from serving as a BYU service couple in the Holy Land. Jay served as branch president of the Galilee Branch. This summer they are teaching at SVU. Steve Tanner published a piece in Nineteenth Century Prose this year.

Philosophy

David Hart

Russian

Susan Howe

English

Joaquina Hoskisson

Spanish

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Please mark the following on your calendar: Fall August 31st ORCA Grant Applications Open September 1st MEG Grant Applications Open September 11th External Grant Writing Workshop: Guarev Desai September 23rd RVSG: Gillen D’Arcy Wood

October 28th Ray and Ida Lee Beckham Lecture in Communications: Kristin Matthews October 29th ORCA Grants Application Deadline November 5th and 6th Beauty and Belief Conference November 12th Barker Lecture, Tony Brown

October 6th Laura F. Willes Book of Mormon Lecture for the Neal A. November 13th Maxwell Institute: Kristin Matthews Humanities Center Annual Symposium October 8th Homecoming, Honored Alumna Lecture: Marguerite Gong Hancock October 22nd Annual Britsch Lecture (CAL): Lisa Paravisini-Gebert MEG Grants Application Deadline Nan Osmond Grass Lecture: Phillip Lopate Britsch Lecture (5:00 PM)

November 24th College Assessment Day December 28th MEG Grants Announced

Winter February 4th ORCA Grants Announced P.A. Christensen Lecture: Mark Johnson February 18th College Banquet

February 19th University Conference on Undergraduate Research March 10th College Assessment Day April 22nd College Convocation

UPCOMING EVENTS

The following faculty members were granted Continuing Faculty Status as associate professors: Stephen Bay Comparative Arts & Letters

Mark Purves German & Russian

Ryan Christensen Philosophy

Thomas Spencer German & Russian

The following faculty members were granted full professor Tony Brown German & Russian

Brett McInelly English

Dee Gardner Linguistics and English Language

Janis Nuckolls Linguistics and English Language

Grant Lundberg German & Russian

Gregory Thompson Spanish & Portuguese

University Conference Booklet 2015

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College Honors and University Awards

Dean’s Welcome

College Centers and Services