University Conference Booklet 2014 by BYU Humanities

UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE

2014

College Meeting 10:30 AM B092 JFSB

Lunch 12:30 PM Mary Lou Fulton Plaza

UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE

2014

Content by the BYU College of Humanities Book and Cover Design by Jeff Wiggins

TABLE OF CONTENTS

College Meeting Agenda

College Honors and University Awards

College Centers and Services

Introductions

Department Highlights

Major Scholarly Works Published in 2013-2014

Emeriti Highlights

Upcoming Events

College Luncheon Menu

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COLLEGE MEETING AGENDA Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dean John Rosenberg Opening Hymn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Press Forward, Saints” Directed by Christian Clement Accompanied by Dixie Archibald

Invocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Tanner College and University Awards Y-Expense Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jared Christensen Report from Faculty Advisory Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jill Rudy The Humanities Center at BYU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matt Wickman Humanities+ and Advisement: Next Steps: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Christianson Assessment and Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greg Clark Dean’s Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dean John Rosenberg Benediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Yu Liu College Luncheon in the Mary Lou Fulton Plaza

ANNOUNCEMENTS • There is a NEW policy for all those that travel or purchase items for the university that you need to be aware of, because violating that policy now could hit your personal bank account. The new policy is that all purchasing and travel expenditures must be accounted for within 30 days of the purchase or the date of return from travel. Beginning September 1, 2014, the following notifications and penalties will be applied by Purchasing & Travel in an effort to promote timely reporting of transactions:

• At 15 days after the transaction, email notifications will remind the employee to account for the purchase or travel charge. At 30 days, the college controller will also be notified and it will go on the compliance report. • 45 days – An email will be sent to the employee, college controller, dean, and academic vice president. The employee will be notified of the potential for the transaction being added to the employee’s W-2 if not resolved before 60 days. • 60 days – The transaction will be added to the employee’s next payroll W-2 as a taxable earning and appropriate state, federal and social security taxes will be withheld. In addition: • The employee’s university-issued credit cards will be deactivated. • If the transaction is travel related, departmental approvers will be directed not to authorize additional travel or travel advances for the employee until all deficient reporting is completed. • Repayments continue to be due to the university and will be reported to the employee’s dean and academic vice president to determine if disciplinary action should be taken. • The transaction will be included in subsequent Compliance Reports until resolved, with a department penalty of $100. Love, Jared

• From time to time, representatives from the media contact faculty and staff with requests for information, statements, or interviews, and in all cases Assistant Dean Melinda Semadeni should be informed when BYU College of Humanities employees speak to the media. Melinda is available to offer advice as needed. • Please send any updates—news, events, books, awards, etc.—to Assistant Dean Melinda Semadeni: bit.ly/1kskfgu

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ANNOUNCEMENTS (CONT’D.) • If it is your custom to schedule final exams for the Testing Center, please weigh the advantages and disadvantages. Since the Fire Marshall required a reduction in seating in the Grant Building, satellite “testing centers” have been set up in various locations around campus—not all of them optimal for the task at hand. Some research suggests that students do better on finals when they sit for an exam in the same setting where they had the class. Students who take tests in a testing center sometimes note they miss not being able to ask the teacher clarifying questions about the test. Testing centered exams deprive the students of three hours of your good company and valedictory best wishes. Of course, the Testing Center (especially the one operated by our Office of Digital Humanities) often works best for exams that require the use of media. We trust your best judgment on when to use these services. • Faculty: students will attend to announcements that come via A. email. B. Twitter. C. Facebook. D. their teachers.

Answer? D, by a large margin. Therefore, beginning fall semester syllabi built through Learning Suite will “push” Humanities+ events (advisement, workshops, etc) into course calendars. Faculty who do not desire this feature can turn it off. We hope you won’t. • Did you know that with a few quick clicks you can import to your calendar any event listed in Melinda’s weekly missive?

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HUMANITIES PROFESSORSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS Stanley V. Benfell, Humanities Professor of Comparative Literature

Stanley Benfell has taught comparative literature at BYU since 1994. A specialist in medieval and Renaissance literature from England, Italy, and France, he enjoys teaching GE courses and has developed BYU’s first world literature two-semester survey. Currently on assignment on his third study abroad program at the London Centre, he is the recipient of the Alcuin award and Honors Professor of the Year. His book, The Biblical Dante (University of Toronto Press 2011), argues for Dante’s intimate engagement with the Bible in The Divine Comedy. In addition to recent articles on Dante’s moral philosophy, his current research explores Renaissance comedy and skepticism. He is the former chair of the Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature as well as the former director of European Studies at BYU. Blair E. Bateman, Humanities Center Fellow

Blair Bateman is a native of Salt Lake City. He graduated from BYU with BAs in music and Portuguese and later an MA in Portuguese. He holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, Second Languages and Cultures Education from the University of Minnesota. Professor Bateman has taught Portuguese and Spanish at the university and high school levels, and has taught workshops in several locations around the country on the teaching of culture in foreign language classes. His other research interests include foreign language teacher education in general and especially immersion education. Brian R. Roberts, Humanities Center Fellow

After growing up in Hawai’i, Indonesia, and Tennessee, Brian Roberts received a PhD in English from the University of Virginia in 2008. His scholarship and teaching focus on American studies, African American and black diasporan literature and culture, modernism/modernity, archipelagic studies, and literature and diplomacy. His first book—Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era (University of Virginia Press, 2013)—examines the literary and diplomatic performances of African American writers who traveled as US diplomats during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing the interrelated spheres of racial, aesthetic, and international representation, Artistic Ambassadors brings the literary and diplomatic dossiers of famous figures such as Frederick Douglass and James Weldon Johnson into dialogue with the work of lesser-known black writer-diplomats of the New Negro era. The project further demonstrates how historical access to New Negro literary and cultural investments in official US diplomacy is crucial to understanding quasi-diplomatic moments in African American and

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black diasporan cultural history, including W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida Gibbs Hunt’s orchestration of the Pan-African Congress and the Indonesian travels of Richard Wright for the Bandung Conference or Asian-African Conference. An article version of a chapter from Artistic Ambassadors received the MLA’s Darwin T. Turner Award for best article of the year in African American Review. Laura Catharine Smith, Humanities Center Fellow

Laura Catharine Smith is an associate professor of German. She completed a joint doctoral program in German Linguistics and Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Laura teaches phonetics and pronunciation, history of the German language, and the structure of German in addition to graduate courses on second language acquisition for the SLaT program. Her research interests include second language perception and pronunciation, the role of dialect in second language perception and production, and language acquisition on study abroad. Currently, she is a member of the Linguistics Society of America and the Society for German Linguistics, and serves as the President-Elect of the Utah Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German. Kerry D. Soper, Humanities Center Fellow

Kerry Soper studied art as an undergraduate at Utah State University. He then attended Emory University where he pursued an MA and PhD in American Studies. His primary research interests include comic strips, comedy, satire, American art history, and popular film. He has published two books with The University Press of Mississippi: Garry Trudeau: The Aesthetics of Satire; and We Go Pogo: Walt Kelly, Politics and American Satire. In addition to teaching in the Interdisciplinary Humanities and American Studies programs at BYU, he paints landscapes and attempts to bridge the gap between theory and practice by publishing cartoons and short satiric pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education. John S. Bennion, Nan Osmond Grass Professorship

John Bennion writes novels, essays, and short fiction about the western Utah desert and the people who inhabit that forbidding country. He has published a collection of short fiction, Breeding Leah and other Stories (Signature Books, 1991), and a novel, Falling Toward Heaven (Signature Books, 2000). He has published short work in Ascent, AWP Chronicle, English Journal, Utah Holiday, Journal of Experiential Education, Sunstone Magazine, Best of the West II, Black American Literature Forum, Journal of Mormon History, and others. He has written two novels, Avenging Saint and Ezekiel’s Third Wife. An associate professor at Brigham Young University, Dr. Bennion teaches creative writing and the British novel. He has made a special study of the late Victorian and Modern writer, Thomas Hardy. As a teacher, he specializes in experiential writing and literature programs, including Wilderness Writing, a class in which students backpack and then write personal narratives about their experiences; and England and Literature, a study abroad program during which students study Romantic and Victorian writers and hike through the landscapes where those writers lived. Dr. Bennion received a BA in English from Utah State University (1977), an MA in English from

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BYU (1981), and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston (1989). He lives in Provo with his wife, Karla, who is a psychotherapist and who also writes mystery novels. They are the parents of five children.

COLLEGE OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARD Raissa V. Solovieva, Excellence in Teaching Award

Raissa Vulfovna Solovieva is an associate teaching professor of Russian. She received her PhD in Russian Literature from Kharkov State University in Ukraine. She joined the faculty of the Department of German and Russian as a visiting assistant professor of Russian in 1992 and became a full-time member of the department in 2000. Raissa teaches courses on Russian cultural history, Russian cinema, intermediate Russian language, and the masterpieces of Russian literature. She is one of the co-authors—with Gary Browning and David Hart—of Leveraging Your Russian With Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes, a textbook which is used in intermediate and advanced Russian language courses. Raissa’s professional affiliations include memberships in the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

HUMANITIES+ AWARD Nancy Turley, Humanities+ Award

Nancy Romans Turley grew up in Nebraska, raised her seven children with her husband, Wayne, in Arizona, and then moved to Utah. Her dissertation greatly benefited from taking a BYU corpus linguistics class; life has not been the same since. She graduated with a PhD from Arizona State University in 2009 in Applied Linguistics, receiving her diploma from President Obama. Since then she has taught part-time at BYU in the Linguistics and English Language Department, and has also taught part-time at UVU in the ESL Department. Her BYU undergraduate goal was to someday teach college courses, so there couldn’t have been a happier development in her life! She is busy with teaching and working with the interns in her department. Students today have incredible opportunities, and internships are one of the best. Nancy enjoys music, bike riding, building houses, traveling with her husband, serving in the church, talking to her children, and playing with her 12 grandchildren. And continuing to learn.

OUTSTANDING ADJUNCT FACULTY AWARD Debbie L. Harrison, Excellence in Teaching 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 13 years ago, she has mostly taught Writing 150 for the Composition Department and Modern American Usage (ELang 322) 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

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loves teaching editing and the intellectual pursuit of helping writing to be clear, clean, and compelling. She graduated from BYU in 1976 with a double teaching major in English and Spanish, then earned her Masters in Humanities from BYU in 1978 with an emphasis in 19th 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 6 children and 7 grandchildren, and few things please her more than to listen to her children discuss a book they have read, or to spend time with them anywhere—particularly in the out-of-doors.

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES LECTURESHIPS Greg Clark, James Barker Lectureship

Greg Clark is University Professor of English and associate dean of the College of Humanities. He has taught at BYU since 1985—now courses in rhetorical theory and criticism and, recently, leadership as rhetorical practice. He designs each course around a pressing question. Students use assigned readings, class discussions, and research to develop collective as well as individual answers to that question, sharing their progress with each other along the way. His research and writing explores places in American culture where rhetoric and aesthetic experience meet, including visual art, encounters with symbolic landscapes, and music. That work is informed by the thinking of important American cultural theorists John Dewey and Kenneth Burke, and represented by Rhetorical Landscapes in America (2004), Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice (coedited with Brian Jackson, 2014), and Civic Jazz: American Music, Kenneth Burke, and the Art of Getting Along (forthcoming 2015). At BYU Clark has directed the University Writing and American Studies programs, chaired the English Department, and works closely with the BYU Public School Partnership and the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling. Beyond BYU, he is president-elect of the Rhetoric Society of America, having served that organization previously as executive director and editor of its journal, Rhetoric Society Quarterly. He also teaches occasionally in the Rhetoric and Composition PhD program at the University of Utah. He and his wife Linda live in the foothills east of campus. Dan Graham, P.A. Christensen Lectureship

Daniel W. Graham is A. O. Smoot Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. A student of ancient Greek philosophy and science, he is the author of Aristotle’s Two Systems (1987); the editor of the previously uncollected kleine Schriften of Gregory Vlastos, Studies in Greek Philosophy (2 vols., 1995); translator and commentator of Aristotle, Physics VIII in the Clarendon Aristotle Series (1999); co-editor with Victor Caston of a Festscrift for his mentor, Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos (2002); author of Explaining the Cosmos: the Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy (2006); co-editor with

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Patricia Curd of The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy (2008); and the editor and translator of The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy (2 vols., 2010). His Science Before Socrates: Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and the New Astronomy is forthcoming. He previously taught at Grinnell College in Iowa and at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University and a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge. He has been the recipient of two NEH fellowships.

UNIVERSITY AWARDS Sirpa Grierson, Religion Transfer Faculty Award

Sirpa Grierson, an associate professor of English, specializes in English education and critical reading. She is also a transfer professor for the College of Religious Education, teaching the Doctrine and Covenants. Her major research interests include “the margins”—the field of interplay between reading, the reader, and the text; multigenre research; and classroom-based field studies in literacy. Prior to joining the BYU faculty in 1997, Dr. Grierson taught education courses at UVU and worked with the Utah Office of Education as a reading consultant. She has served on the Legislative Action Team and as a member of the Government Relations and By-Laws committees for the International Reading Association. She is the past president of the Utah Teachers of English Language (UCTE), the Utah Council of the International Reading Association (UCIRA), and currently serves as the UCIRA State Coordinator. At the age of four Dr. Grierson immigrated to Vancouver, Canada from Helsinki, Finland. She and her husband, Lorne, now reside in Orem. Her favorite pastimes include yoga, music, hiking and traveling with family and friends, and of course, reading. Kirk Belnap, Creative Works Award

Kirk Belnap is director of the National Middle East Language Resource Center, a Title VI LRC that brings together language experts from more than twenty universities. He is also co-PI with Robert Blake (UC-Davis) on the award-winning website Arabic without Walls and director of BYU’s Startalk summer Arabic high school camps. His academic interests include teaching of Arabic as a second language, language policy and planning, sociolinguistics, the history of Arabic, and L1 and L2 literacy.

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Brian Jackson, Alcuin Award

Brian Jackson specializes in rhetorical theory and criticism, persuasive writing, and religious rhetoric. He currently serves as coordinator of University Writing. Brian graduated with an MA from BYU in 2003 and a PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from the University of Arizona in 2007. Nate Kramer, Alcuin Award

Nate Kramer is an associate professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and has taught at BYU since 2004. He received his PhD from UCLA in Germanic Languages and Literatures, with an emphasis in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures and has been devoted to General Education at BYU since his arrival, playing a key role in a recent revamping of both the curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities and in the design of the IHUM 201/202 sequence. He also recently designed the department first ever online version of the civilization survey. This past summer he completed BYU’s first study abroad to Denmark. His scholarship focuses on the works of several prominent Danish authors, including Søren Kierkegaard, Villy Sørensen, and H.C. Andersen.

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HUMANITIES CENTER We have another exciting year taking shape, with virtually all of our considerable activity emerging from the work of our faculty. Highlights for the upcoming year include • a new annual theme, “Disappearance,” with K. David Harrison of Swarthmore College invited to give our Annual Lecture (Oct. 17th) and Eric Hayot of Penn State the featured guest for the Annual Symposium (Feb. 27th) • weekly colloquia – Thursdays at 3:00 in JFSB 4010 • “Conversations” meetings – on provocative, cross-disciplinary scholarship or pertinent topics of broad concern – scheduled for Sep. 12th and Oct. 31st • a distinguished lecturer associated with Black History month • special events involving scholars from a dozen institutions (e.g., a symposium on lyric poetry, another on Romantic literature), with other events in the planning stages (e.g., a multi-institution event on environmental studies) • the launch of new research groups (“African Worlds,” “Derrida and the Question of Religion”), with more planned or in discussion (on translation, the origins of critical theory, urban studies, and more) • guest lectures co-sponsored with the Office of Digital Humanities (e.g., Ted Underwood, University of Illinois) • several Humanities Lab DH projects • one-year research fellowships for faculty with CFS • ORCA Symposium Oct. 10th featuring excellent undergraduate research On the horizon, hopefully: • more resources for research groups, enabling greater student collaboration (in the form of research for course credit or paid assistantships) and a symposium for every group the middle year of a three-year funding cycle

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• directed attention – and possibly resources – to what is already, almost unconsciously, one of the most vital public humanities efforts in the nation • cross-departmental lunch groups on topics of shared interest or concern • money for a book manuscript workshop (by application; details to follow) • grant-writing workshops

OFFICE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES (1163 JFSB) The Office of Digital Humanities has now finished the first year of our revised academic minor, the Digital Humanities and Technology (DigHT) program. Our classes continue to be extremely popular for students from all majors in the college (and many from outside the college as well), and we are actively working with faculty from across the college on additional courses and subjects that will serve our students’ academic and career interests. We have also worked closely with the Humanities Center and other departments throughout the college on several significant Digital Humanities-based research projects, utilizing tools such as literary text analysis, authorship attribution, and network-based data visualization. We continue to invite faculty to consult with us on how Digital Humanities methodologies might inform research you are working on.

INTERNATIONAL CINEMA International Cinema has a new committee and a new course! Steve Riep finished his three year term this summer and has moved on to greener and less cinematic pastures. Matt Ancell from Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature joins Dennis Cutchins as faculty co-directors, and together with the indomitable Karmen Smith from the Dean’s Office, Romy Franks, and our terrific projectionists they are our new IC team. We have created a new (or at least resurrected) International Cinema course that will be taught for the first time this fall semester. The 1.5 credit course meets from 4:00 to 4:50 on Tuesday evenings, just before the IC lecture series, and we still have room for more students. 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. Please consider offering extra credit for students to attend lectures. They really are awesome. As we have in the past, we beg a favor from you: as an academic program that operates under the media educational clause, International Cinema cannot advertise to the public or even to the general university community. We therefore depend on you to educate and encourage your students regarding the program and to help them find us. Of course, we also work through social media (Yes, International Cinema is on Facebook and Twitter!) to get the word out about our weekly schedules, lectures, and some fun contests and hope you will give us a thumbs up!

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Here are a few highlights from our 2014/2015 season: • Several films dealing with WWI and marking the 100th anniversary of the start of the war including Joyeaux Noel (French), All Quiet on the Western Front (English), White Ribbon (German), Gallipoli (English), and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Silent). • No (Spanish). The true story of how Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet was voted out of office largely due to an irreverent grassroots ad campaign. Can humor and truth beat guns? In a democracy they can. • The Rocket (Laotian). A great film we discovered at several festivals. It’s the story of a small kid cursed with bad luck who decides to build a really big rocket. It’s sad and funny and inspirational, and we promise you’ll like it. • The Good Road (Gujarati, India). This is one of our favorite Indian films released recently. Karmen likes it because there is neither singing nor dancing! • Poetry (Korean). This is a super-touching film about an older woman who takes an extension course on poetry. If you’re teaching any poetry in the fall you’ll want your students to see this one. • The Eye (Cantonese). A scary Chinese film about a girl who receives a cornea transplant, only to discover that her new eyes are cursed. Look for it during Halloween week. • Romantics Anonymous (French). Simply the best romantic comedy we’ve seen for years. Bring a date to this Valentine’s week film. As you know, International Cinema does not exist simply to entertain. As an academic program our educational objectives are as follows: “To supplement the curriculum of BYU foreign language classes by providing frequent opportunities both to hear native speakers of such languages, and to experience the art and culture of the countries in which those languages are spoken; To supplement the curriculum of BYU English, film and humanities classes by showing classic and quality films from the canon of world cinema, as well as cinematic adaptations of great English literature; and to provide BYU honors students with frequent and consistent opportunities to complete the film component of their Honors Great Works requirement.” 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. Join us, it will be a terrific year!

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HUMANITIES PUBLICATION SERVICES Professor Melvin J. Thorne, Director 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 copyedit 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 of your argument without tripping over mechanical problems. In 2013, the Faculty Editing Service edited approximately 5355 pages of manuscript for 53 faculty members (18 from Humanities). 2. The Humanities Publication Service also helps faculty members prepare journals and books for publication with a full range of production services. Periodicals produced through our service in 2013 (in whole or in part) included the following: Religion in the Age of Enlightenment The Folklore Historian Literature and Belief Slovene Linguistic Studies TESL Reporter Humanities at BYU Locutorium AMCAP Journal Journal of the Western Archivist In addition, we did final editing on book manuscripts (6 books), formatted book manuscripts into pages (2 books), and created indexes (3 books). 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 The advisement center has had a busy year! To start, we changed our name to Humanities Advisement and Careers. It is more in line with our goals to help students understand Humanities + and to encourage them to prepare for life after graduation alongside their studies. We have also spent a great part of our meetings over the past few months working on making sure our guidebook, website and other tools align with our newly revised mission and vision. We are excited for all of the good things we expect to see this coming year!

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We also welcomed Rebecca Brazzale as a new part-time advisor. Rebecca was an intern during her graduate program in Spanish. During that time, she worked to bring the message of Humanities + to the graduate students in Spanish and Portuguese. Now that she has graduated, we are happy to have her working for us and helping us carry on the great work she started. Our other advisors, Cathryn Schofield, Paula Landon and Sherami Jara, are enjoying working with our great students. We look forward to a new year and hope you will let us know how we can support you and your efforts from the advising side.

LDS PHILANTHROPIES AND THE COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES Matthew B. Christensen mbchristensen@byu.edu 4019 JFSB (o) 801-422-9151 or (m) 801-822-3343 My assignment to the College of Humanities has increased my excitement and passion for fundraising and finding ways to connect donors to projects with students and faculty. We have several ambitious goals for which we are actively raising money for and we are engaging both current and new donors that are thrilled about the work our college is doing. By assignment from President Samuelson and the Board of Trustees, LDS Philanthropies (LDSP) is 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 fundraising efforts 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 approached so often for worthwhile projects, the correlation of donors and is imperative and a primary function of LDSP. We respect donor inclination and introduce new opportunities for donor engagement.

DEAN’S PRIORITIES The two priorities Dean Rosenberg has focused my efforts are raising funds for student internships and establishing a Humanities Center endowment. There has been a great deal of recent interest and giving in these two areas that indicates we are on the right track. Occasionally faculty will come to my office to ask for my help on getting a project funded. I love hearing about the research and welcome anyone to stop by and share. In order for me to actively pursue fundraising 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. Before I can approach donors an initiative first needs to be approved by your respective department chair and the dean. Once the dean gives me his approval we can begin taking the next steps.

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WHAT YOU CAN DO 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. You are also encouraged to personally give to the college. One reason is we would like to develop an “every faculty member a donor” culture and legacy (donations are strictly private). Another reason is when the faculty gives to the college it can be a tremendous incentive for donors to give as well. Consider the power in telling donors that the College of Humanities has the highest employee giving percentage at BYU. With so many marvelous projects and evidence-based success in our college, inviting donors to consider making a gift to the college has never been easier. The next year looks promising and will be filled with incredible donor-related experiences that will allow the college to continue to move forward in new and innovative ways.

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 Brigham Young University. Please see the CTL website for more information on Taylor.

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INTRODUCTIONS ASIAN AND NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES RACHEL LIU, assistant professor of Chinese, comes to us with eight years of experience teaching Chinese. She received her BA and PhD from Sun Yat-sen University in China, with emphases on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics. She is not new to BYU, having taught as a visiting professor in the Chinese Flagship Center from 2010-2013, prior to which she also served as an instructor in the “Princeton in Beijing” intensive language program. She and her husband Ryan have a son, Mason. In her spare time she likes to take pictures and cook. STEVE MOODY, assistant professor of Japanese language, received BAs in economics and Japanese from Brigham Young University in 2006, an MA in economics from The Ohio State University in 2009 and an MA in Japanese from the University of Hawaii in 2012. He will finish his PhD in Japanese, also at the University of Hawaii, in December this year. Prior to embarking on his doctoral studies in language he worked as a financial analyst, but eventually found a stronger interest in sociolinguistics. His current research centers around a sociolinguistic analysis of American workers in Japan. Steve is a native of American Fork, Utah, and comes to Provo with his wife, Melissa, a Utah State graduate and Utah native, and their daughter Katelynn. They are expecting another daughter at the end of the year. XINYI WU, visiting instructor of Chinese, Dr. Wu was born and raised in Nanjing, China. She received her PhD in Comparative and International Development Education from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Her research interests include cultural foundations of education, educational policy and practice, critical discourse analysis, curriculum development, and language assessment. She is particularly interested in the issues of ethnicity, ethnic identity, educational inequality, cultural reproduction and production in education, and academic engagement and performance. Prior to joining the BYU Flagship team, she has taught Chinese in the Confucius Institute at Minnesota, Defense Language Institute at Monterey, and in our department. She also worked as a language proficiency test assessor as well as a Chinese intensive course developer and immersion specialist. She is happy to return to BYU and prepare Flagship students to be culturally and linguistically competent before their pursuit of China-related careers in the future. She enjoys reading, traveling, hiking, biking, and cooking.

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JEN POLLEI is replacing Cally Andrus as the office supervisor in A&NEL. No stranger to the college, Jen has served as the secretary of the International Cinema Program, and, at BYU, as the administrative assistant for General Education, an exhibit researcher on the Education in Zion project, curatorial assistant for the Museum of Art, and as a reference librarian in the Harold B. Lee Library. Jen has most recently been serving as the administrative assistant for the Department of Philosophy & Humanities at UVU. She has two boys, Henry and Edward, and likes to be in Zion National Park, put together puzzles, play Mario Kart, rock hound, and watch movies.

ENGLISH NEW HIRES JONATHAN M. BALZOTTI, assistant professor of English, received his PhD from Iowa State University with a dissertation on the study of Roman spectacle during the reign of the emperor Diocletian. His scholarly work explores some of the visual and material aspects of Hellenistic Rome, and one of his principle interests lies in the force of oversized objects to inspire admiration in the spectator. His current research project is a book about the rhetoric of speaking loudly in contemporary dialects, concentrating on interrelations among visual practice, ritual, and politics. The other main focus of his work is on the impact of new and emerging technologies in computer-aided design and the construction of web-based learning environments, particularly simulation pedagogy and various learning management systems. His research in this area centers on interface design such as augmented reality (AR), simulated pedagogy, and the potential value of play and application of game design to create new forms of writing instruction and learning. In short, Jon strives to create “immersive” learning environments for students to engage with realistic issues. He also enjoys adventures in the outdoors, painting, and engaging in mindful dialogue with anyone who will listen. MARY EYRING graduated from BYU as an English major in 2006. She received her MA (2010) and PhD (2012) in literature from the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on the texts that documented, promoted, or constituted benevolent work in transatlantic seaports—urban centers that hosted the commercial activity, along with its negative externalities of poverty and disability, that sustained charitable industry during the zenith of American shipping during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Mary has a particular interest in the eighteenthand nineteenth-century cultural productions of American women, disability theory (including Deaf studies), and transatlantic print culture. She has lived in New York City since 2009, with the exception of a year that she passed pleasantly and occasionally profitably in London. She and her husband, Jacob, are delighted now to return to their academic home.

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JARICA WATTS holds a PhD from the University of Utah and specializes in twentieth-century British literature, the modern British short story, and literature of the First World War. Jarica also works on early and mid-twentieth century middleto low-brow writing and enjoys teaching neglected authors from this time period. She has published work on James Joyce, Zadie Smith, Joseph Conrad, and Chinua Achebe; she is also the editor of the book collection Here Lies Lalo, which brings into the prominence the works of Chicano poet Abelardo “Lalo” Delgado (Arte Público, 2011). Fashion (Italian shoes), fitness (half-marathoner), photography (Canon 5D), and her two children (Saylor, 6; Bauer, 1) are the things that engage her with life.

NEWLY RETURNING JOHN TANNER is returning to the English Department after a mission to Brazil and many years as academic vice president. He is very much looking forward to teaching and research again in early modern British literature and in religious and philosophical approaches to literature. He also is looking forward to hiking and biking and being with grandchildren.

VISITING FACULTY TARA BOYCE is a visiting faculty member with a MA in Rhetoric and Composition and a BA in English Literature. Her research explores how narrative works shape identity through Kenneth Burke’s concept of form and how this understanding impacts teachers of English. She is the proud mother of the loudest one-year-old in the world, Lydia, and the wife of a man who weirdly resembles Walter White, Ryan. In addition to loving her career and spending time with family and friends, she enjoys writing poetry and essays, hosting book clubs, studying church history, debating, playing piano, interior designing, acrylic painting, hiking, biking, volleyballing, basketballing, and let’s be honest: watching Netflix or some other form of non-interrupted television without children and with a variety of foods (depending on the mood and time of the day). REBECCA (BECCA) HAY, a graduate of Brigham Young University, earned her MA in American literature, with her research focusing on nostalgia theory in contemporary American poetry. Her interests include fairy tale, American poetry, folklore, trauma and nostalgia theory, and Western literature. As a native to Texas, Becca’s mild Dr. Pepper addiction fuels her as she teaches fitness classes (particularly the spicy, Latinbased Zumba), shops, swims, and lays out in the sun either pool or beachside.

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DAVE FIFE completed a MA in American Literature at BYU prior to setting out to seek his fortune and prove to his grandmother that he could be successful with a degree in English. Having won that particular wager, he began to pine for the thrill of the classroom and, like a prodigal son, returned to BYU in 2014 (though, out of respect for his environmental sympathies, no fatted calf met its doom). He enjoys researching and teaching about the ways language and literature drive and create human relationships, especially those characterized by an unequal power dynamic, and his current research focuses on the changing moves and methods of the American sermon in its attempt to mediate the relationship between human and deity. Dave enjoys thinking about organic gardening, iron man triathlons, and cheese. He then often eats cheese.

FRENCH AND ITALIAN SARA PHENIX, a visiting assistant professor, is a native of Richmond, Virginia. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Brigham Young University, 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 nineteenthcentury novels and the presse féminine. Her research interests include travel literature, spy novels, and the Empress Eugénie.

GERMAN AND RUSSIAN TALITA WIENER-OSMAN has accepted a one-year appointment as a visiting faculty member in German. Talita graduated from BYU with a bachelor’s degree in German literature and anthropology. She received her master’s degree in German literature from the University of Utah. Talita has experience teaching German grammar courses as well as phonetics, advanced literature, and culture classes. She has also worked as a translator for Novations, Inc. and for the LDS Church, among other organizations. Talita will be teaching third-year German grammar courses at BYU.

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LINGUISTICS AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE JESSE EGBERT has accepted a one-year appointment as a visiting faculty member 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.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTER DEBORAH DE HOYOS is an instructor, vocabulary coordinator, and member of the Executive Council for the English Language Center. She received her MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Brigham Young University in 2013. Her thesis focused on designing a survey that contextualized reading strategies for low-proficient ESL readers. When not teaching, she enjoys cooking, traveling, quilting, and reading.

BROOKE EDDINGTON was born and raised in Northern California. Throughout her childhood, her father’s work brought her to travel to and/or live for short times in 47 countries on six continents. Traveling abroad comprised the majority of her formative years and is the source of her fondest family memories. As a result of these travels, she grew to deeply love cultures and peoples, and from a young age developed an intense fascination with the numerous unique languages that exist in the world. This led Brooke to pursue a BA in Linguistics and then an MA in TESOL, both from BYU. She truly loves working with ESL learners. It is one of her greatest passions and one of the most rewarding things she’s been privileged to do in her life. Brooke’s research interests include second language writing and grammar, specifically error correction and written corrective feedback

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HEIDI HEALY grew up in Sandy, Utah. She received her BA from Utah State University in Elementary and Early Childhood Education with an emphasis in Spanish and ESL. She received her MA in TESOL from Brigham Young University in 2012. She has taught English to international students at the English Language Center at BYU and Utah Valley University. She also was a volunteer English tutor at Guadalupe School in Salt Lake. Heidi enjoys spending time with her family camping and hiking. She likes to watch Pixar and Bollywood movies and Korean dramas. She loves to read. She also loves to quilt.

PHILOSOPHY JUSTIN WHITE grew up in Provo, Utah, with brief stints in Lamoni, Iowa and Bryan, Texas. He graduated from BYU with a double major in philosophy and English with University Honors. He received an MA in philosophy from University of California, Riverside in 2012. While at UC Riverside, he has twice received the department award for teaching excellence. During the 2014-2015 academic year, he will be working on his dissertation with support from a research fellowship from the Templeton Foundation. His areas of specialty are 19th and 20th century European philosophy and contemporary philosophy of agency (at the intersection of ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind). In the last two years, he has presented work at Oxford University, University of Sussex, Claremont Graduate University, University of New Mexico, University of Calgary, and Brigham Young University. He is married to Anna Snyder White and they have three children. DEREK HADERLIE graduated from BYU Idaho with a degree in English and a minor in Philosophy. He spent two years teaching English at BYU-Idaho before continuing his education at Virginia Polytechnic and State University where he received an MA in Philosophy in May, 2014. His research interests include metaphysics of normative realism, moral epistemology and methodology, metaethics more broadly, normative ethics, and philosophy of literature. Haderlie has won multiple awards for his teaching of undergraduates. He will join the philosophy adjunct faculty starting fall 2014.

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SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE BRIAN PRICE, (PhD University of Texas at Austin) is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Before coming to BYU, he worked for seven years at Wake Forest University. His areas of scholarly interest include 20th and 21st-century Mexican literary, film, and cultural studies; Latin America’s historical novel; Hispanic appropriations of Anglo-American high modernism; urban youth subcultures; countercultural movements; and rock and roll. He is the author of Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss (Palgrave, 2012) and has published articles and book chapters on Mexican literature in Comparative Literature, Latin American Literary Review, Explicación de Textos Literarios, AlterTexto, Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, Materias dispuestas: Juan Villoro ante la crítica (Ed. José Ramón Ruisánchez & Oswaldo Zavala, Cadaya, 2011), and Cristina Rivera Garza: Ningún crítico cuenta esto… (Ed. Oswaldo Estrada, Eón, 2010). He is also the coeditor of TransLatin Joyce: Reading James Joyce Globally in Ibero-American Literature (Palgrave, 2014) as well as the editor of Asaltos a la historia: Reimaginando la ficción histórica hispanoamericana (Eón, 2014). Brian is currently working on a new book project, ¡Viva Rockotitlán!: Rock ‘N’ Roll and Mexican Literature and Film, 1960-2010, on the trajectory of literary representations of rock music in recent Mexican fiction and cinema. MAC WILSON, assistant professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Mac did his doctoral work at Rutgers University where he specialized in ecopoetry from Spanish America. He has published an ecocritical study of globalization, urbanization, and the anti-pastoral mode. His scholarly interests include ecocriticism, visual culture, poetry, and Southern Cone culture and literature. Originally from Eden, Utah, Mac graduated from BYU with a BA in Latin American Studies with a double major in Horticulture. He also graduated with an MA in Spanish from BYU. Formally a professional arborist, Mac worked as an arborist at Temple Square in Salt Lake City and still enjoys looking and occasionally climbing up trees. Currently, Mac lives with his wife, Priscilla, and their four children in Provo.

Department Highlights

DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS AMERICAN STUDIES American Studies continues to grow its robust internship program, placing students in such diverse places as the Springville Art Museum, the Utah State Legislature, the Church History Museum, and the Smithsonian. American Studies looks forward to bringing distinguished scholar Ellen Gruber Garvey as part of the American Studies Lecture Series. Finally, in 2015 American Studies will hold two Writing Workshop sessions for students looking to improve their writing in the discipline and prepare for the profession.

ASIAN AND NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES Our department successfully sustained a sabbatical Unit Review from which we are currently recovering with only a few minor casualties. We were privileged to enjoy the association of visiting Arabic professor Sayyed Diafallah January through April 2014. Prof. Diafallah, who specializes in enhancing our students’ spoken Arabic, came to us from The American University in Cairo. After several years of dedicated service to colleagues and students, Steve Riep passed the Chinese Section Head baton to David Honey. Both Arabic and Chinese government programs housed in the department continued this year to have a profound impact on the state of their respective languages nationally, including summer intensive outreach programs on campus. Jim Toronto was appointed Senior Fellow for Islamic Studies, at the International Center for Law & Religious Studies. Don Parry and Steve Ricks were instrumental in facilitating the recent Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit held at The Leonardo museum in Salt Lake City. Our Chinese business case team, under the leadership of Prof. Wang Shu-pei, took first place in national competitions this year. Prof. Van Gessel delivered a keynote speech on Japanese Christian writer Endô Shûsaku for the city of Machida, Japan.

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CENTER FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION • During the 2013-2014 academic year, the center taught beginning and advanced level classes in 39 different languages. They were: Afrikaans, Armenian, ASL, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cebuano, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Fijian, Georgian, Guarani, Hawaiian, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Indonesian, K’iche, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Malay, Mongolian, Navajo, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Samoan, Serbian, Slovenian, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Welsh. • During that year, CLS offered 147 different class sections. • New languages to be added to the CLS FLang curriculum for the 2014-2015 academic year are Albanian, Haitian Creole, and Quechua.

LANGUAGE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM • We awarded our 500th Language Certificate during winter 2013. In fact, we awarded more certificates during the winter semester than we issued throughout 2012. • As more and more students begin to understand the +Humanities benefits of the Language Certificate, the number of major programs represented has grown. We currently have recipients from 99 different major programs across the campus!

TOTALS TO DATE (As of July 2014) 879 Certificates Have Been Issued! Spanish

446

297*

French

40*

Russian

German

88 72

13* 12*

Portuguese 59 41* • During the past couple of years, the Language Certificate coordinator has visited many returned Chinese 52 15* missionary language/culture classes to inform Japanese 44 6* students about the program, but those visits Korean 19 5* interrupted classroom instruction. So beginning in fall 2014, we will no longer be visiting classes. Italian 16 8* Instead, we will launch an email campaign, contacting Arabic 12 6* students enrolled in each of the courses required for the certificate. We have found that students pay *The number of certificates awarded to more attention to their teachers than to their email, Non-Foreign Language Majors. The total so we are hoping that teachers can help publicize of this column = 443. the program. For instance, teachers might consider adding an informational line to their course syllabus, such as, “This is one of the courses that qualifies students for the Language Certificate. For more information see languagecertificate.byu.edu.

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• The Language Certificate program began in fall of 2010, and we have issued nearly 900 certificates so far. We will undoubtedly reach our 1,000th award by the end of the year, and we plan to have a One Thousandth Certificate Celebration when we reach that milestone.

LANGUAGE TESTING • Last calendar year CLS supported College language assessment initiatives by providing a total of 1,176 OPIs and WPTs in 20 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. • The Center hosted the first-ever ACTFL Proficiency Assessments Summer Institute on June 17-20, 2014. Nearly 100 language professionals from all over the United States participated in the 4-day workshops in English, Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Twenty BYU faculty took advantage of this professional development opportunity and participated in the workshops. Following the training received in the workshops, most of the BYU faculty plan to go through a vigorous certification progress to become certified ACTFL testers.

OTHER ACTIVITIES • After many years of service, Han Kelling has stepped down as the Director of the Foreign Language Student Residence. We are grateful for his leadership and his friendly support of the students. We welcome Tony Brown as the new FLSR Director. • A Federal grant for the creation of Computer Adaptive Tests of Reading and Listening in Arabic and French concluded on June 30, 2014. Test items in each modality for each language were developed to create two non-overlapping test forms. We engaged an external consultant to work with our in-house programmer to refine the test implementation and delivery programming.

ENGLISH This year’s English Student Symposium in March showcased some of our top students. A truly collaborative experience between faculty and both graduate and undergraduate students, the symposium is one of the department’s assessment tools. More than 125 students presented creative and research papers, with nearly 50 faculty members advising and mentoring. Dr. Sirpa Grierson directed the symposium with the help of the English Society and the Graduate Student Association. The Charles Redd Center provided funding to award students writing the best papers related to Western Studies. Dr. Grierson also oversaw the publication of Etched in Glass, Illuminated by Light, a booklet featuring a map of and short essays about the artwork and 28 quotations on the English Department Identity Wall. The essays were written by English majors in collaboration with faculty mentors.

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FRENCH AND ITALIAN The department’s annual French Camp hosted 75 students from all over the US (over half from outside Utah) and five from overseas. Students spent 2 1/2 weeks immersed in French and received instruction from public teachers, BYU faculty and BYU students, including an accelerated class taught by Chantal Thompson. Scott Sprenger accepted the job of provost and dean at the American University in Paris. He begins his duties there this fall.

GERMAN AND RUSSIAN Teresa Bell was elected Vice Chair of the Teaching Development Special Interest Group for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Jennifer Bown directed the Nizhny Novgorod, Russia study abroad program. Cindy Brewer is on professional development leave fall semester 2014. Tony Brown worked with the following institutions to set up internships for BYU students participating on the Moscow Internship Program: Gorky Institute of World Literature, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Academic Choir at Moscow State University, Gadar Institute for Economic Policy, and KidSave International. He also organized the American delegation for the annual Russian-American conference held at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Christian Clement and Laura Catharine Smith organized and directed the spring / summer Heidelberg study abroad program. Michelle James hosted illustrator and graphic designer E.J. Barnes. E.J. gave a lecture titled, “Seeking the von Medems: Historical, Genealogical, and Visual Research for a Graphic Novel on Count Cagliostro in Courland in 1779.” She is currently working on a graphic novel about author Elisa von der Recke and her encounter with Count Cagliostro, a spiritualist who traveled Europe, claiming the ability to summon and speak with spirits. Grant Lundberg worked on internship development with Tony Brown. They made contacts with the American Chamber of Commerce as well as major companies like Exxon and Chevron in Moscow. Grant received research funding from the US Department of Education and BYU’s Center for the Study of Europe. Robert McFarland hosted Gabriel Trop (UNC Chapel Hill), Wolfgang Fichna (U Vienna) and Kristin Kopp (U Missouri Columbia) for a BYU master class and workshop on cultural studies and film. Rob also organized a session at the 2014 conference of the Berkeley/Tübingen/Vienna/Harvard Working Group on Cultural Poetics (BTWH).

Department Highlights

Mark Purves hosted Yekaterina Jordan from the University of Virginia. Laura Catharine Smith was one of organizers of the annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), held 31 October through 2 November 2013 at the Utah Valley Convention center. She also received a one-year Humanities Center fellowship. Laura spent winter semester 2014 on professional development leave. Raissa Solovieva hosted Alexandra Sviridova, a director, writer, and film critic from New York. Ms. Sviridova gave three lectures on Russian cinema to students in upper-division courses. The 39th annual Adventssingen Christmas program took place on Sunday, 1 December 2013 in the DeJong Concert Hall. Kathryn Isaak was the director.

HUMANITIES, CLASSICS, AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Stan Benfell directed BYU’s London Study Abroad this summer and will remain there through December.

George Handley received the Utah Conservation Partner of the Year Award from The Nature Conservancy. He was an invited plenary speaker for “The Future of the Environmental Humanities” at the University of Washington last fall. Seth Jeppesen displayed his acting and directing abilities in his classroom production of Plautus’ Amphitro. It was met with rave reviews. Nate Kramer directed a Study Abroad program for the first time to Denmark this summer. He successfully organized Kierkegaard and the Present Age, a conference held at BYU in November. Francesa Lawson was appointed as section head of Interdisciplinary Humanities. Roger Macfarlane completed a spring term Study Abroad program to Europe focused on classical antiquity and classical civilization. Kerry Soper successfully completed four years as section head of Interdisciplinary Humanities. He was an invited plenary speaker at the Festival for Cartoon Art at The Ohio State University in November. Charlotte Stanford received an honored alumni award from the Pennsylvania State University College of Art and Architecture in April 2014.

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LINGUISTICS AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE Neil Anderson was awarded the 2014 James Alatis Award for Service to TESOL. The award honors outstanding service by TESOL members and is the most prestigious award given by the TESOL International Association. Alan Melby received the 2013 Alexander Gode Medal from the American Translators Association. This is ATA’s most prestigious award presented to an individual or institution for outstanding service to the translating and interpreting professions. Wendy Baker Smemoe was awarded the 2014 Faculty Mentoring Award at the BYU’s Faculty Women’s Association banquet on April 23, 2014. Mark Davies received a large sub-contract to work on an $810,000 grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK titled: Semantic Annotation and Mark Up for Enhancing Lexical Searches (SAMUELS). Mark also continues his work on an NSF-funded project with Doug Biber (Northern Arizona University) titled “A Linguistic Taxonomy of English Web Registers.” He has given invited plenary talks and workshops on his various corpora at Oxford University (for collaboration on the OED), University of Athens (Greece), the University of Indiana, and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. Bill Eggington spent a year-long leave in an appointment as a visiting scholar at Kyung Hee University, Global Campus in South Korea, as part of a faculty-student exchange arrangement that our college has with that university. He taught graduate and undergraduate classes in socio-linguistics, applied corpus linguistics, and language and culture. He conducted research on cross-cultural communication, language planning and policy, and was an invited plenary speaker to the Korean Linguistics Society and the Korea Association of Multi-Media Assisted Language Learning. He presented on forensic linguistics and applied corpus linguistics. Dee Gardner collaborated with Mark Davies to produce a new Academic Vocabulary List, a corpus-based list of words typically appearing in academic English. In their article appearing in Applied Linguistics, Gardner and Davies describe the list and tell how it can be used in settings where academic English is the focus of instruction. Our department organized the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) for the BYU site. This olympiad is a contest in which high-school students at designated sites all over the country solve linguistic puzzles. In solving the problems, students learn about the diversity and consistency of language, while exercising logic skills. The top-scoring student from the BYU site placed 26th (out of about 1600) in North America.

Department Highlights

PHILOSOPHY Dr. James Faulconer is serving in London England as the Resident Director of the study abroad program. Dave Grandy returned from a semester long professional development leave in Germany and will begin teaching again this fall. Oxford Press published Dr. Dan Graham’s new book Science before Socrates. We have hired two new adjuncts this year on a temporary basis. Justin White is ABD from UC Riverside, California. He taught Summer Term 2014 and will be returning to Riverside to finish his dissertation. We also have hired Derek Haderlie, who will be teaching for us this fall and winter before he starts his PhD. program in Philosophy next year. Camilla Dudley joined the Philosophy Department in 2014 as our first student secretary. She has already become a valued member of the department and is very much appreciated.

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE MINI COURSES: The department hosted five very successful week-long mini-courses on the following topics: • Mary O’Donnell, James Madison University, 21-25 October 2013, “Designing and Implementing a Standards-Based Spanish Course” • John Slater, University of Colorado, Boulder, 4-8 November 2013, “From Literature to Case History: The Baroque Comedia, Science and Medicine” • Orlando Alba, 24 -28 February 2014, “Unidad y diversidad del español en el Caribe insular: visión sociolingüítica” • Cecelia Cavanaugh, Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA, 17-12 February, “García Lorca” • Robert Newcomb, UC Davis, 24-28 March 2014, “Theories of Iberia and Latin America” 8th Annual Summer Workshop for Spanish Teachers, 25 and 26 June 2014. More than 100 high school and junior high school Spanish teachers from Utah and surrounding states (two even came from California) attended. Sessions were imparted rom Spanish Resource Center director, graduate students in the Spanish Pedagogy and FlaT MA, and every member of the Spanish Pedagogy section in the Department. Topics included everything from “Performance to Proficiency” to “Tips & Tricks for Moving Students to the Next Level.” And let’s not forget “assessment, assessment, and assessment.”

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It was the Department’s turn for the Summer Institute for Spanish Teachers in Spain. Prof. Nieves Knapp directed the group comprised of eight Spanish teachers from Utah and our own graduate students. James Krause and Frederick G. Williams drafted the application for the establishment of the Portuguese National Honors Society (Phi Lambda Beta) of the AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese). Our BYU Chapter is Beta Ypsilon, and Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish Honor Society, is our sister institution. The inaugural members were recognized at the initiation ceremony on 2 April 2014. “Brazil Beneath the Surface,” a major semester-long conference and program involving the department, Brigham Young University, and guest speakers outside of BYU. Rex Nielsen, with Frederick G. Williams as a member of the organizing committee, headed up the conference. Prof. Williams was one of the speakers, presenting From Acorn to Oak Tree: the Beginnings of the Remarkable Growth of the Church in Brazil. Vanessa Fitzgibbon received a 2014 Brigham Award, for her genuine commitment, example, and contributions to others throughout the world and the BYU community. Robert N. Smead was on professional development leave fall semester 2013. Research in Hawaii on Spanish in the islands. Jeffrey S. Turley was on professional development leave winter semester 2014. Blair Bateman was on professional development leave winter semester 2014. Scott Alvord directed the Fall Semester 2013 Study Abroad program to University of Alcalá, Spain. Rob Martinsen directed the Spring Term 2014 Study Abroad program to University of Alcalá, Spain. Daryl Hague directed the Spring Term 2014 Study Abroad program to Mérida, Mexico.

MAJOR SCHOLARLY WORKS PUBLISHED IN 2013-2014

Published Works

ASIAN AND NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES Parkinson, Dilworth B and Tim Buckwalter. “Arabic Lexicography.” The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. Ed. Jonathan Owens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013: 539-560. Parry, Donald W. The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, Vols. 1-2. Eds. Donald Parry and Emanuel Tov. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2013. Riep, Steven Le Cain. “Representations of Blindness and Visual Disabilities in China: An Historical Overview.” Delivered as part of the conference “Histoire de la cécité et des aveugles” held in Paris, August 2013. Stoneman, Jack Chris. “Recluse Literature: Saigyo, Chomei, and Kenko.” Cambridge History of Japanese Literature. Ed. Haruo Shirane. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Gessel, Van C. “What’s So Rank About Our Rank and Status System?: A Memorial to the Throne.” The AVP/AAVP Bulletin. Vol. 1, 1st ed. Provo, UT: HP LaserJet P2015, (2013) 74 pages.

ENGLISH Christiansen, Nancy L. Figuring Style: The Legacy of Renaissance Rhetoric. University of South Carolina Press, 2013. Cronin, Gloria L. and Lee Trepanier, eds. A Political Companion to Saul Bellow. University Press of Kentucky, 2013. Jackson, Brian and Gregory Clark. Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice. University of South Carolina Press, 2014. Johnson, Kimberly. Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Johnson, Kimberly and Jay Hopler, eds. Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry. Yale University Press, 2013. McInelly, Brett. Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism. Oxford University Press, July 2014.

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Wilcox, Miranda and John D. Young, eds. Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy. Oxford University Press, May 2014.

FRENCH AND ITALIAN Daryl Lee. The Heist Film: Stealing with Style. London and New York: Wallflower/Columbia UP, 2014. Noble, Cinzia Donatelli. Walking through Siena’s History. Walks for BYU Siena Study Abroad. Provo, Utah: BYU Kennedy Center Publications, 2014. Scott Sprenger and Arnaud Huftier. Washington Irving au temps des nations, special issue of Otrante, 36, Paris, Editions Kimé, June 2014.

GERMAN AND RUSSIAN Clement, Christian. Rudolf Steiner: Writings Critical Edition, Vol.5: Writings on Mysticism Mysteries and Religion. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzbook, 2013. Hart, David K. and Grant H. Lundberg. Fundamentals of the Structure and History of Russian: A UsageBased Approach. Bloomington: Slavica, 2013. Lundberg, Grant H. Dialect Leveling in Haloze, Slovenia. Maribor: Zora, 2013. McFarland, Rob and Michelle Stott James, eds. Sophie Discovers Amerika: German-Speaking Women Write the New World. (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture). Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2013.

LINGUISTICS AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE Janis Nuckolls and Lev Michael. Evidentiality in Interaction. Benjamins Current Topics. John Benjamins, 2014.

PHILOSOPHY Graham, Daniel. Science before Socrates: Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and the New Astronomy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Published Works

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE Mara García: Published

César Vallejo: Poeta universal. Lima: Fondo Editorial Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2013. Edited

Piedra de alero de Canilo Sánchez Lihón. Prologue and Analysis by Mara L. García. Callao: Capulí, Vallejo y su Tierra, 2014. Piedra viva de Danilo Sánchez Lihón. Prologue and Analysis by Mara L. García. Trujillo: Papel de Viento Editores, 2014. Prologues

Lámpara y telones en los Patios Santiaguinos. Memoria colectiva de las veladas literario musicales en Santiago de Chuco 1900-1995 de Wellington Castillo. Trujillo: EDUNT, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo: V-XII, 2014. International Honors:

Homenaje a Baluartes del Vallejismo y de la Cultura liberteña del Perú, 22 May 2014. Diploma Honor al Mérito, Instituto de Estudios Vallejianos, 15 November 2013. Brian Price: Edited

Asaltos a la historia: Reimaginando la ficción histórica hispanoamericana. Mexico City: Ediciones Eón, 2014. Gregory C. Stallings: Edited

Material Spirit: Religion and Literature Intranscendent, Fordam University Press, 2014. Frederick G. Williams: Published

Poets of Portuguese Asia: Goa, Macau, East Timor, A Bilingual Selection, fifth volume in translation series. Provo & Lisbon: Brigham Young University Studies & Camões Institute of Lisbon, 2013.

BYU Humanities College Meeting 2014

EMERITI HIGHLIGHTS RETIRING DURING 2013-2014 Penny Bird English Gloria Cronin English Bruce Jorgensen English Suzanne Lundquist

English

Alan Melby

Linguistics and English Language

L. Howard Quackenbush

Spanish and Portuguese

UPDATES Bob and Candy Russell (ANEL) are now serving on a teaching mission at BYU-Hawaii. Elouise Bell (English) received the Volunteer Achievement Award presented by the Oklahoma Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Her job is to read books aloud so that they can be recorded and then distributed without charge to those around the state who cannot see or physically manage print materials. As of June 2014, she’s recorded about fifteen books. This fall, Signature Books will publish Doug Thayer’s (English) new novel Will Wonders Never Cease (a hopeful novel for Mormon mothers and their fifteen-year-old sons). He’s finished another, The Redemption of Emerson Nelsen, and has a new collection of stories in progress. Gary Browning (German and Russian) will be a visiting professor for one year at Southern Virginia University. Mike and Connie Call (HCCL) continue to serve a mission in Tahiti. George and Karen Tate (HCCL) are serving at the Kiev Ukraine Temple. Norbert Duckwitz (HCCL) is teaching at Southern Virginia University.

Emeriti Highlights

Alan Melby (LEL) is making a career shift after 37 years of service at BYU. Alan is an international leader in the translation field in areas such as translation technology; terminology management and exchange; translator certification; and globalization and localization. As teacher and mentor, he has helped many of his students become valuable members of the translation profession. Alan plans to continue his work in translation for a few more decades. Neil Anderson (LEL) has accepted a position at BYU-Hawaii beginning September 1. Neil has made significant contributions to the department, college, and university over the past 17 years, including 10 years as director of the English Language Center. He is a passionate educator, and his students have consistently expressed admiration for his skills as a teacher and mentor. While we will miss working with Neil, we know that he will be instrumental in helping BYU-Hawaii accomplish its mission. Jerry Larson (Former Director, ODH) embarked on a mission with his wife, Jan, to Nauvoo. These days, instead of spending his time crunching statistical-based reports of online language assessment tools, Dr. Larson is driving a team of horses and giving tours around the town, while Jan is working in the ticket office and giving tours of past church president’s homes. They also perform in the pageants at night.

OF NOTE George Perkins (Asian and Near Eastern Languages), John S. Harris (English), Ray Williams (English), Josette Britte Ashford (French) Alan R. Meredith (Spanish), and Amy Young Valentine (Spanish) passed away since our last meeting.

BYU Humanities College Meeting 2014

UPCOMING EVENTS Please mark the following dates on your calendar:

FALL 2014 September 2

MEG Grant Applications Open

ORCA Grant Applications Open September 11

American Studies / Women’s Studies guest Ellen Gruber Garvey

September 16

Language Acquisition Research Colloquium (CLS)

September 18–19

Linguistics and English Language: Guest Lecturer Brian Stubbs

September 25–27

Much Ado About Nothing performed in the JFSB courtyard

October 2

Derrida Reading Group: “Derrida at Montaigne”

October 3

English Reading Series: Robert Pinsky

October 16

Homecoming, Honored Alumna Lecture: Sharon Eubank

October 17

College Assessment Day

Humanities Center Annual Lecture: K. David Harrison

October 23

Annual Britsch Lecture (HCCL): Robert Pogue Harrison

Nan Osmond Grass Lecture: Catherine Loomis

MEG Grants Application Deadline October 30

Ray and Ida Lee Beckham Lecture in Communications: Marc Olivier

ORCA Grants Application Deadline

November 6

Barker Lecture, Greg Clark

November 20 and 21

Devotional Lyric Symposium hosted by Kimberly Johnson (English)

December 18

College Meeting with President Worthen

December 29

MEG Grants Announced

Upcoming Events

WINTER 2015 February 6

ORCA Grants Announced

February 11

College Banquet

February 26

P. A. Christensen Lecture: Daniel Graham

February 27

University Conference on Undergraduate Research

March 5

College Assessment Day

April 25:

College Convocation

April 30–May 1

Camp Assessalot

May 14–15

Workshop for Second-Year Faculty

BYU Humanities College Meeting 2014

The following faculty members were granted Continuing Faculty Status: Brian Roberts English Paul Westover English Miranda Wilcox English Matt Ancell HCCL Michael Call HCCL Christian Clement German and Russian Rob Martinson Spanish and Portuguese

The following faculty members were granted rank advancements: Professor Kim Johnson English Nick Mason English Kerry Soper HCCL Associate Professor Brian Roberts English Paul Westover English Miranda Wilcox English Matt Ancell HCCL Michael Call HCCL Christian Clement German and Russian Rob Martinson Spanish and Portuguese

BYU Humanities College Meeting 2014

COLLEGE LUNCHEON MENU APPLE SPICE JUNCTION GARDEN VEGETABLE SALAD BAR Diced chicken, shredded cheese, olives, bacon, green peppers, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, sliced mushrooms Dressings: ranch, raspberry vinaigrette, blue cheese dressings PASTA BAR Penne and fettuccini, marinara and alfredo sauces, breadsticks TACO BAR Flour tortillas, mango chicken or sweet pork, Spanish rice, black beans, shredded cheese, diced onions, sliced olives, sour cream, shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes, guacamole, chips and salsa BEVERAGES Lemonade and lemon water DESSERT Cookies and brownies

KONA ICE SNOW CONES Assorted flavors

University Conference Booklet 2014

Articles inside

Department Highlights

Emeriti Highlights

Introductions

College Centers and Services

College Honors and University Awards