College Centers and Services

BYU Chinese Flagship Center

Joseph Anderson, Joseph Butcher, Caleb Cranney, Alex Harper, Mark Lindsey, Sarah Nicholas, Mason Rayburn, and John (Dunn) Westhoff § The BYU Chinese Flagship

Center was established in 2002 by a grant from the National

Security Education Program (NSEP) . Its mission is to develop high Chinese proficiency levels in students . Flagship students are prepared to function professionally in Chinese within their chosen field of interest.

This often leads to students entering China-related careers, government service, or similar professions . If you know of interested students, please refer them to our office in JKB 3122. § Dr . Matthew Christensen, Chinese Flagship Center Director and Chinese Professor in the Asian and Near Eastern Languages Department, received a prestigious award for his book "A Geek in China" . The Society of American Travel Writers Foundation (SATW) announced the winners of the 2017 Lowell Thomas Journalism Competition and A GEEK IN CHINA was awarded GOLD in the Guidebook category!

Center for Language Studies (CLS)

§ 43 languages taught through beginning and advanced courses

§ 406 language certificates awarded, representing students from over 140 different BYU majors § 2,480 total language certificates in 15 different languages offered since 2010

§ 797 ACTFL speaking tests and 487 ACTFL writing tests

Troy Cox, along with other BYU collaborators, was awarded one of the first-ever Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) Origination Awards, to conduct research in second-language literacy, focusing on eye tracking .

In March 2018, CLS hosted an ACTFL-sponsored, multi-language workshop for more than 40 OPI trainers from all over the world . We spent time with ACTFL leadership exploring future language testing and research agendas . We also continue to develop language-proficiency test items, currently focusing on American Sign Language, Chinese, English, Japanese, Portuguese, and Turkish .

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) 3830 HBLL

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 completed PhDs at Indiana University in Instructional Systems Technology

and Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity . His master’s degrees are in Instructional SystemsTechnology (Indiana University) and Biblical Studies (Yale University) . Taylor also holds a BA in Near Eastern Studies from Brigham Young University . Learn more at taylorhalverson .com .

English Language Center (ELC) 4056 JFSB

As a lab school, BYU’s English Language Center facilitates unique opportunities for TESOL undergraduate and master’s students to gain hands-on experience teaching, tutoring, designing, and developing instructional materials and language assessments, as well as participating in meaningful evaluation and research projects .

The ELC vision is “to build global leaders in English language teaching, learning, and research .” During the 2017-2018 academic year, the ELC taught 173 courses . In addition to opportunities to refine their teaching skills, BYU students benefited from participation in 435 class observations and 780 hours of language tutoring . At the same time, the ELC also helped to facilitate 39 student practicum experiences, 10 internships, the completion of 14 MA theses or projects, more than 20 academic conference presentations and four peer-reviewed publications . The ELC also sponsors a Study Buddy Program, which provides BYU foreign language students with unique opportunities to interact with native speakers in their target language . An orientation for the Study Buddy Program will be held September 13, at 4:00pm at the ELC (UPC Room 229) .

Humanities Center

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§ This year’s annual theme, “On Being Vulnerable: ‘Crisis’ and Transformation,” is attached to a major symposium September 21-22 involving several distinguished scholars from around the country and overseas as well as our own faculty . (See the symposium website for more details: vulnerabilitysymposium .byu .edu) This event marks a major new way of determining our annual themes, with faculty groups across the college invited to propose a topic and corresponding seminar .

§ Our (nearly) weekly colloquia will kick off September 13th with a special guest: Marianne Hirsch of Columbia University (and former president of the Modern Language Association) . Hirsch, invited to BYU by our Women’s Studies Teaching and Research group, will be one of several distinguished visitors to address us at colloquia this year . Others will include Margarida Vale de Gado (University of Lisbon), Paul Keen (Carleton University), and Janet Ward (University of Oklahoma) . And, of course, several members of our own terrific faculty will present their current research . Join us Thursdays at 3pm in JFSB 4010 .

§ We will hold our usual cluster of “Conversations” meetings bringing attention to dynamic research across the humanities, with scholars usually joining us via Skype. The first of these meetings is scheduled for October 19th .

§ The Faith and Imagination series enters its third year. Our first guest

will be Bo Karen Lee of Princeton Theological Seminary, who will join us in November as part of a special follow-up to our September symposium on vulnerability . Lee is currently editing a volume of essays poignantly titled The Soul of Higher Education .

§ As always, opportunities abound for faculty . We will be taking our usual applications for research groups, book manuscript workshops, and one-year fellowships . Plus, as mentioned above, we are modifying the process for selecting the annual theme and events surrounding it . It’s an exciting development, and we’ll have more to report on it in the coming weeks .

§ Additionally, we will feature our annual ORCA Symposium, special guest lecturers, and other events, including a workshop on building and sustaining a meaningful – and not only a prosperous – career . So stay tuned: there are some wonderful things upcoming this year!

Faculty Publishing Service 4092 JKB

At the start of 2018, the Humanities Publication Service and the Faculty Editing Service were combined and renamed the Faculty Publishing Service (FPS) . The merger streamlines processes and avoids faculty confusion about which service to use . Further, the new name better reflects what services are available—and that’s anything related to publishing, from brainstorming content to editing, proofreading, typesetting, cover design, image permissions, and indexing .

Typically, student interns are the first members of the FPS team to work on a project . Then, professional editors review the content and make any additional changes needed . That means that the manuscript the FPS returns to you meets high-quality standards and that the interns receive feedback on how to continue refining their skills. The FPS would be happy to assist you with your publishing projects, whether a short journal article, a full-length book, or anything in between. Thanks to financial support from the College of Humanities, faculty in the college can use the service for free . If you have any questions or would like to request assistance on a project, please contact Suzy Bills (suzy_ bills@byu .edu) .

We would love to assist you with your publishing needs . And thanks to financial support from the College of Humanities, faculty in the college can use our service for free . Please contact Suzy Bills (suzy_bills@byu .edu) to ask any questions and to initiate your publishing request .

International Cinema (IC) 3182 JFSB

International Cinema continues to reel through the celebration of its jubilee year . We thank all of those who contributed last winter semester to the commemoration of the program’s fifty years. The celebration has given us the chance to reflect on all the ways that IC has grown and changed through the years . Whether it was new technologies like the VHS, changing campus media policies, or the emergence of streaming services, IC has evolved and adapted to provide an experience available nowhere else . Today, the new IC class (ICS 290R) draws more than sixty students every semester, the International Cinema Studies minor attracts more students every year, we have a dedicated core of engaged and motivated media studies students, attendance in 250 SWKT is the strongest it has been in decades, and never have we had such a diversity of languages, cultures, traditions, and filmmakers represented as we will see this fall . The program has never been stronger as it looks ahead to the next fifty years. This summer we bid farewell to co-director Daryl Lee (French and Italian) as he finished his three-year directorship at IC . Daryl’s insight, intelligence, wit, and charisma have lifted IC to new heights, and under his able co-directorship, the audience and reach of the program has expanded and developed in important ways that will keep IC vibrant for decades to come . We are delighted that in Daryl’s place Marc Yamada (CAL) has been appointed as the new co-director, however owing to a previously scheduled leave this fall, he will not start until January 2019 . Stepping heroically into the breech till then is former co-director Greg Stallings (Spanish and Portuguese) who will act as interim co-director to work with Chip Oscarson (CAL, co-director) and Marie-Laure Oscarson (IC office manager). The International Cinema program has some exciting changes to

announce in connection with our fall program:

§ New schedule! Starting this fall, the IC weekly screening schedule will run Wednesdays through Saturdays . The weekly lectures will be switched from Tuesdays to Wednesdays at 5pm and we will now have screenings on Thursday evenings .

§ New Friday matinee screening: Every Friday at 3pm there will be an afternoon screening in 250 SWKT . No better way to start your week-end .

§ New Documentary Series: Starting this fall, IC will add to its screening schedule a film series focusing on the best of world documentary cinema . This fall will include can’t-miss films such as Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Neville, English, 2018), Poverty, Inc . (Miller, English, 2014), Anote’s Ark (Rytz, English/Gilbertese, 2018), In the Intense Now (Salles, Portuguese/French/Czech, 2017), and Cielo (McAlpine, English/ French/Spanish, 2017) .

§ In addition to these changes, we are also excited to announce the following special events:

§ Kick-off Week-end Outdoor Screenings: On Friday, 7 September we will have a double feature outdoor screening of Faces Places (Varda/JR, French, 2017) and IC classic Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, Italian, 1988) with food trucks, swag give away, and other fun events .

§ Special 50th Anniversary Event for Students and Faculty: On Wednesday, 10 October in lieu of the weekly lecture, we will host a special IC 50th Celebration featuring some of IC’s greatest hits, memories, IC prizes, and more .

§ This fall we will have several special film series including: Remembering World War I, Bergman at 100, Courtroom Cinema, and Social Justice on Film .

§ New IC Archive Website: this fall we will launch a new, searchable online archive of all the films shown at IC during the last fifty years . You will be able to search by semester and find old posters and descriptions so you can finally figure out what that crazy film was that you saw winter semester 1987 that continues to haunt your dreams .

§ Weekly lectures, frequent viewer prizes, special guests, panel discussions, and other special events will be announced

throughout the semester . Make sure to keep up with everything going on at IC by signing up for our weekly email updates (at intcinema@byu .edu) or following us on Facebook or Instagram .

LDS Philanthropies (LDSP) and the College of Humanities Andrew J. Olsen

andrewjayolsen@byu .edu 4019 JFSB (o) 801-422-9151 or (m) 385-241-6051

By assignment from the Board of Trustees and in concert with President Kevin J . Worthen, 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 current priorities of the Church . I have been asked to work closely with 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 .

President Worthen often acknowledges our commitment to the donor inclination model (donors giving to areas for which they feel the most passion) . He says that, in our work with donors at BYU, he prefers to call it the donor inspiration model . Thus, our donors are encouraged to seek for inspiration as they consider making a donation .

There may be times when 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 . 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 .

3 . 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, receiving a donation usually takes time . When we discuss raising money for projects, please first consider people connected to you who may have an inclination to the prospective project . Please be sure to connect with me and follow the channels outlined above before discussing donations with prospective donors .

Contributing to the success of students is the primary 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 I am excited to be working with the College of Humanities as we continue to move forward in new and innovative ways .

Liberal Arts Advisement and Careers 1041 JFSB

Once again, there have been many exciting changes for Liberal Arts Advisement & Careers . Our merge with the FHSS Advisement Center is now complete, and we are all comfortably situated together in our recently renovated office suite.

With the move behind us, we are hard at work to provide better services to departments and students . In addition to the academic advising services we have always offered, our advisors are focused on helping students with career readiness and career management . Advisors teach and promote career readiness by encouraging students to engage in experiential learning opportunities with intention and planning and with focus on building professional competencies and skills . As part of career readiness, we also help students select coursework and majors that best fit their goals and allow them to maximize opportunities to prepare for graduate school and/or a career . While students work through their academic and professional experiences, our advisors teach

them to manage the impact those experiences have on life after BYU . Advisors help students process, understand, and articulate their educational and experiential opportunities for key stakeholders such as graduate schools and employers .

Big events this past year:

Our center director and architect of the merge, David Waddell, has left us to take on the newly created role as BYU Manager of Experiential Learning . Returning to us after a 10-month stint at LDS Business College is Sherami Jara . She serves as Director of our center and Assistant Dean in the College of Humanities . We are thrilled to have her at the helm .

Likewise, we had to say goodbye to Rebecca Brazzale who accepted the position of Assistant Director in the Center for Language Studies . We miss her but are excited for her career advancement . We are fortunate, however, to have secured Doug Porter . He comes to us with a strong translation and localization background, and he will be expanding our efforts there .

Along with Sherami and Doug, we are happy to welcome Dave McMillan who is our inhouse analyst . His expertise will help us provide better career and academic advising for all of our students .

The Translation & Localization and the Humanities to Business clubs are in their 6th and 5th years respectively . Both clubs are thriving and continue to offer unique resources to Humanities students . The T & L Club put together a successful LocLand event connecting campus students across campus with employers and opportunities . HBC has developed new relationships, including with the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology and continues to grow .

New to our clubs this year is the Medical Humanities Club created to prepare pre-health students to provide compassionate and peoplecentered care in their careers, help students bridge liberal arts and health-related topics, and provide networking opportunities for prehealth liberal arts major .

Additionally, during the past academic year, more than 275 students interned in 20 countries, throughout the U .S ., and in Utah . Danny Damron continues to collaborate with faculty and advisors across the college to enhance experiential education opportunities for all students .

Those collaborative efforts include developing and maintaining professionally meaningful internship opportunities around the world, teaching internship and other classes focused on professional development, and managing internship funding . Danny’s expertise earned him an invitation to present on helping students make the most of their internship experiences at BYU’s most recent Career Engagement Conference

Overall, our center has been effective in carrying out our mission and vision, and we are looking forward to an even more progressive and exciting year .

Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) 1163 JFSB

Brian Croxall was elected to serve as Secretary for the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) . He also completed four-year elected terms on the Executive Councils of both the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) . In December, he was an invited keynote speaker at the International Symposium on Library and Digital Humanities in Shenzhen, China .

Foreign Language Activity Commons (FLAC)

A nontraditional language classroom that offers space and facilities for cooking and cultural activities with projection and television systems, it is also a place for individual or group study, conversations, or department activities: http://flac.byu.edu . Contact Harold Hendricks, 2-6448 or the FLAC directly at 2-7103 .

JKB Commons Area and Services

ODH provides copy machine support for the commons areas on the third and fourth floors of the JKB . Contact Bonnie Bingham, 2-5360 . If it is a Pharos issue, Raymond Chambers can be contacted at 2-4265 . If it is a billing issue because of copy machine errors, a refund may be obtained through the ID Center at 2-5092 . JKB Computer support is through the CSRs at 2-2600 .

Women’s Studies

§ During 2016–17, the BYU

Women’s Studies Program

celebrated 25 years as an interdisciplinary minor . Our fall conference brought together current and past Women’s Studies faculty and students to reminisce and look forward to our next 25 years . Conference speakers included two former Women’s Research Institute directors, Mary Stovall Richards and Marie Cornwall, and five of our program’s accomplished alums: licensed psychotherapist Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, LDS women’s historian Sheree Maxwell Bench, French literature and culture professor Sara Phenix, former refugee case manager Annette Harris, and doula Annalaura Solomon .

§ Over the past six years, enrollments in WS 222 (Introduction to Global Women

Studies) have tripled, and every semester more students add their names to the wait lists than those who are able to enroll in the three sections we can offer. Last year, 16 of our minors successfully completed senior projects and presented their work at our capstone conferences .

§ Our colloquium (lecture series) featured 11 colleagues from across campus, as well as historians

Tani Barlow (Rice University) and Francesca Morgan (Northeastern Illinois University), and literary and cultural critics Marina Leslie (Northeastern University), Aarti Madan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt), and Diedre Lynch (Harvard) .

§ Our Women’s History Month celebration (March 2017) included the Dead Queen’s

Debate (cosponsored with the

History Department), a panel discussion about Trailblazing

Mormon Women (cosponsored with the Education in Zion gallery), and guest lectures:

“Miss Ida’s Girls: How and Why

I Tell Their Stories” by children’s author Denise Lewis Patrick and “‘Huddling Together’:

Rethinking the Position of

Women in Early Mormonism” by Harvard historian Laurel

Thatcher Ulrich .

§ The Women’s Studies Teaching and Research Group welcomed workshop leader Catherine M .

Orr to campus . Orr is chair of Critical Identity Studies at

Beloit University and coauthor of Everyday Women’s and Gender

Studies (Routledge, 2016) and

Rethinking Women’s and Gender

Studies (Routledge, 2011) .

Affiliation with Women’s Studies is open to all BYU faculty members whose teaching, research, and/or service activities involve global or domestic women’s issues and/or contributions . Please contact womensstudies@byu .edu for further information on becoming an affiliate.

BYU Writing Center 3322 HBLL or 4026 JKB

The BYU Writing Center is a supportive and resourcerich program where trained and certified tutors provide individualized writing consultations for any writer, on any assignment, and at any stage of the writing process . The Writing Center aims to increase students’ confidence and abilities in writing . During 2016–17, the Writing Center conducted 15,186 writing consultations, a 44% increase over 2015–16 and a 74% increase over 2014–15 (as of July 25, 2017) . Over the past year, writers from 751 courses received assistance (55% coming from the College of Humanities and 21% of all consultations serving ESL writers) . In the upcoming year, the Writing Center will continue developing its partnership with the Harold B . Lee Library and pilot online writing consultations . To learn more about the program, visit writingcenter .byu .edu .

NEW FACULTY AND STAFF

Asian & Near Eastern Languages

Dr. Juno Baik is joining the Korean section as a CFS-track faculty member after serving three years as a visiting assistant professor . Juno received his Ph .D . from Kyung Hee University, Korea in Applied Linguistics in 2014 . He has taught Korean for 10 years at institutions including BYU, Kyung Hee University, government institutions, and multinational corporations . His research interest is centered on second language acquisition and cognitive linguistics . Most of his publications so far are about cognitive factors and Korean acquisition .

Kevin Blankinship

is a Middle East medievalist and joins BYU as an assistant professor of Arabic . His teaching includes Arabic language and literature, Islamic civilization, and the Qur’an, while in terms of research, he is obsessed with poetry, especially that of medieval Islamic Iberia and North Africa . An ongoing attention to world literature motivates him to put Arabic in touch with other traditions, alongside scholars of Byzantium and Scandinavia in particular . In addition to scholarship and teaching, Kevin is deeply committed to public humanities engagement . He reviews books for general audiences, writes commentary about Middle Eastern culture and society, and works as a freelance Arabic translator . Kevin grew up in northern Virginia and served a mission in Recife, Brazil . He holds a BA from BYU in comparative literature, an MA in the same discipline from UNC Chapel Hill, and a PhD in classical Arabic literature from the University of Chicago . He is married to one of his first Arabic teachers at BYU, and together with her and their two sons enjoys travel, hiking, swimming, and reading out loud .

Ahmad Karout

joined the Arabic section as a visiting instructor of Arabic .

Professor Karout has taught Arabic and French for over 25 years in Syria and Lebanon at the French Institute for the Middle East, as well as in France and the United States . Previously, he worked as an instructor and Assistant Director at the summer programs of Middlebury College, the Monterey Institute for International Studies, and Brigham Young University . He has also functioned as the Director of the Arabic Language Program for diplomats at the U .S . Embassy in Damascus . He is interested in the pedagogical development for Arabic languages classes .

Nami Kim

is a visiting instructor of Korean with degrees in Korean Education (B .A .) and Korean Language and culture (M .A .) from Kyung Hee University . She studied Internationalism and diversity in education in the Netherlands as an exchange student while directing interns in a Dutch International primary school . Ms . Kim has a background in second language acquisition, assessment, Korean linguistics, and pedagogy . Her current research is on the assessment of speaking fluency.v

Richard D. McBride II

Associate Professor of Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Richard comes to BYU after ten years in the History Department at Brigham Young University–Hawaii . After earning a B .A . in Asian Studies and Korean at BYU (1993), Rick earned a Ph .D . in East Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA (2001), specializing in Korean and Chinese Buddhism and early Korean history . He was a Fulbright Senior Researcher in Korea in 2007–2008, and he is presently associate editor of the International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture, published by the Academy of Buddhist Studies, Dongguk University . He is the author, translator, and/or editor of five monographs on early and medieval Korean Buddhism and history and numerous articles on medieval East Asian Buddhism and early Korean history . He joins the department on the retirement of his mentor and former mission president Mark Peterson The father of two sons, Rick’s beloved wife Younghee Yeon McBride recently passed away from cancer in February 2018 .

Hiroko Tsuiki

Ms . Hiroko Tsuiki was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan . Before coming to the U .S . in 2010, she worked for SONY at its headquarters for over 22 years in different capacities including controller . Ms . Tsuiki has a B .S . degree in Engineering and Master’s degrees in Public Administration and TESL .

Karla Marie Ward.

(Office Supervisor) Karla joined the department in February as the Office Supervisor in A&NEL . She comes to us from the Wheatley Institution with previous experience at the BYU Testing Center; she is currently working on her EMPA through the Romney Institute . Karla has seven children and likes doing whatever they are doing . She also enjoys reading, playing the piano, road trips, and attempting to ride her new unicycle .

Chinese Flagship

Chuang Hui-Ju

Dr . Chuang Hui-Ju received her Ph .D in May 2017 from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in East Asian Languages and Literatures with research in Topological Spatial Relations, Containment and Support: A constrictive study of Mandarin and English . She was a teacher in the Humanities Division and in the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department in Hawaii . She also taught with the Intercultural Communications College, Short Term Intensive Military Program, in Honolulu as well as the EAST-WEST CENTER, Pacific Islands Leadership Program in Honolulu as a Chinese Language Instructor . We look forward to Dr . Chuang joining us at BYU next fall .

Comparative Arts & Letters Charles Oughton

Charles W . Oughton will join the Department of Comparative Art & Letters Fall 2018 . After he completed his undergraduate work at Utah State University,

Chuck moved on to the University of Texas at Austin, where he won several teaching awards, including recognition from the Texas Language Center as the Best Foreign Language Instructor at the university . While in Austin, Chuck acquired not only his PhD but also a love for trail running and obstacle course racing--a hobby that he pursues along with Sandy, his wife, and Cato, their excitable dog . Chuck’s research focuses on Ancient Historiography, especially the reception of the Greek historiographic tradition in Rome . His current book projects include a coauthored introductory Greek textbook (Lexis: Reading Ancient Greek) and a monograph on narrators, intertextuality, and source criticism in Livy’s AUC . Chuck is excited to hit both the trails and the whiteboards in Provo and to bring his love of Classics to the students at BYU .

Thomas Wayment

joined the Ancient Scripture faculty in June of 2000 after completing a Ph .D . in New Testament Studies at the Claremont Graduate School . His research areas are the Gospel of John, New Testament textual criticism and papyrology, life of Paul, and the historical settings of the gospels . His recent work has focused on papyri from Oxyrhynchus . He will join Comparative Arts & Letters this fall and will be teaching Greek and Classics .

Center for Language Studies Rebecca

Brazzale was hired as the new Assistant Director for the Center for Language Studies upon the retirement of Agnes Welch in March 2018 . She has an MA in Spanish Pedagogy from BYU . Rebecca worked previously as an advisor in Liberal Arts Advisement & Careers, where, in addition to advising students, she developed initiatives in peer advising and humanities-to-business . She hails from Cheyenne, WY, and loves yoga, all things outdoors, and her Italian culinary heritage .

Dave Nielsen

was hired July 2018 as the Instructional Programs Coordinator for