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PROGRAM Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dean Scott Miller

Invocation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sherami Jara

College and University Awards Introductions State of the College Dean’s Remarks Benediction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grant Lundberg

All are invited, full-time and part-time faculty and staff, to attend via Zoom on Wednesday, August 26, at 11:00 a.m. https://byu.zoom.us/j/96651516809?pwd=SmU3 OGhKM2NLNG5BMGkySEZBdTJNUT09

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 College Professorships and Fellowships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 College of Humanities Lectureships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 University Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Faculty Advisory Council Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 College Centers and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 New Faculty and Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Department Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Major Scholarly Works Published in 2019–20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Emeriti Highlights, Deaths, and Retirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Rank and Status Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Upcoming Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 International Cinema Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Acronym & Initialism List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 English Reading Series Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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COLLEGE PROFESSORSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS Mike Taylor & James Swensen Humanities+ Public Humanities Award James R. Swensen is an associate professor of art history and the history of photography. His research interests include documentary photography, American photography, and the visual representation of the American West. He is the author of several articles and two books: Picturing Migrants: The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015), and In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954 (University of Utah Press, 2018), which, in 2019, received the Joan Paterson Kerr Book Award from the Western History Association and the Best Book Award from the Utah Historical Society. He is the recipient of the 2016–19 Butler Young Scholar from the Charles Redd Center for Western American Studies. Mike Taylor is an assistant professor of English and associate director of American Indian studies. His first book, Co-National Networks: Writing Indigenous Solidarity into the Twentieth Century, is forthcoming from University of Washington Press. His research

engages Indigenous archives to expand Indigenous literary histories and support community-centered efforts of Indigenous resurgence. Their traveling exhibition, Returning Home: The Art and Poetry of Intermountain Indian School, 1951–84, has been featured at the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University; the Gallup Cultural Center in Gallup, New Mexico; the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona; the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University; and will conclude its run at the Merrill–Crazier Library at Utah State University in 2021. The exhibition was made possible, in part, by a College of Humanities Mentored Experience Grant.

Elliott Wise Humanities+ Student-Centered Research Award Elliott D. Wise joined the Art History and Curatorial Studies Area in the Department of Comparative Arts & Letters in 2015. He received a PhD in art history from Emory University, having spent one of his years of study in New York City as a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His research and publications focus on the devotional function of late medieval and early modern art. In particular, he is

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interested in art and liturgy, Eucharistic piety, representations of the suffering Christ and the Virgin Mary, and the visual culture of the great mendicant and monastic orders. Images from the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Low Countries are his primary expertise, but he also teaches upper-division courses in the Middle Ages and Italian Renaissance, as well as survey courses and devotional art seminars. He haunts antique shops and consignment stores, looking for old rosaries, well-priced Eastern Orthodox icons, and crucifixes. Rome is his favorite city, and more than almost anything he loves to cook, especially la cucina italiana.

Heather Belnap Humanities+ Experiential Learning Educator Award Heather Belnap is an associate professor of art history in the Department of Comparative Arts & Letters and coordinator of European studies in the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies. She earned her MA in humanities from BYU and PhD in the history of art from the University of Kansas. Her research interests include the intersections of women, art, and culture in modern Europe, with a particular emphasis on nineteenth-century France. In the last few years, she has also turned her attention to Mormon studies. Belnap has an abiding commitment to fostering experiential learning initiatives. A self-described study abroad junkie,

she has led numerous programs to Europe, including stints at the London Centre, several art history grand tours, and a Western Civilization Program in France and Italy. She has a long history of university committee work related to experiential education, and she is currently serving on the General Education Study Abroad (SAGE) executive committee, which seeks to cultivate innovative and effective sitebased programs in European cultural capitals. In the capacity of European studies coordinator (a position she has held since 2017), Belnap coordinates the Brussels Government and Society internship program, placing students with leading social and economic think tanks, political organizations, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints government relations office; she also works closely with other internship coordinators to support and expand European-based programs. Additionally, she has organized a number of student internships in prestigious art institutions, including the Château de Versailles, the Warburg Institute in London, and the National Gallery of Ireland. Closer to home, Professor Belnap promotes experiential learning opportunities by organizing student symposia and sponsoring mentored learning projects, and she was the inaugural faculty advisor for the Global Women’s Studies student publication, AWE: A Women’s Experience. Belnap is also committed to public humanities and service to the profession.

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Debbie Dean College Excellence in Teaching Award Deborah Dean is a professor of English, with a specialization in English teaching, particularly writing pedagogy. She is the author of many articles and five books, including two in second editions: Strategic Writing and What Works in Writing Instruction. She directs the Central Utah Writing Project, a site associated with the National Writing Project, and is the recipient of an EIR grant through the NWP to implement and study the effect of the Pathway to Academic Success project in Utah schools. She regularly presents workshops on writing and grammar instruction to schools and teachers across the country. Dean taught secondary school in Washington before coming to BYU to work in preparing teachers for their own secondary teaching careers. She regularly teaches courses in the English teaching major, particularly teaching grammar in secondary schools, teaching writing in secondary schools, and English-teaching methods. At BYU, she has also taught first-year and advanced writing and graduate courses in writing instruction; for a couple of years she taught courses in general education (currently HONORS 225) as part of her work as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education. She currently directs the English Teaching Program.

Outside of work, Dean enjoys spending time with her husband, children, and grandchildren. She likes to travel, and she loves to bake cookies.

Cristie Charles Adjunct Faculty Achievement Award Cristie Cowles Charles is adjunct faculty in the English department where she teaches advanced writing and literature courses. She has spent the past two years co-writing, managing, and editing the department’s first collaborative, free, open-source textbook Writing in the Social Sciences (EdTechBooks.org/writing). She is a passionate advocate for her fellow adjunct faculty and the idea that they should be compensated for their work outside the classroom. In order to pay the textbook writers, many of whom are fellow adjunct faculty, she procured funding through grants from the Harold B. Lee Library and Friends of the Harold B. Lee Library. In 2019, Cristie received grants from General Education and the English department to lead the project adapting this textbook into a general, non-majorspecific version called Advanced Writing (EdTechBooks.org/advancedwriting) that has been used by faculty across campus. Another adaptation, Writing in the Arts and Humanities, is expected to come out Winter 2021. For her work on these textbooks, Cristie was

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recently awarded the inaugural English Department Adjunct Creative Works and Scholarship Award.

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Cristie graduated magna cum laude at BYU with a BA in English with Honors and a French minor and was named the College of Humanities Student of the Year. She received an MA in English at BYU where she was given the P.A. Christensen Award and Clark-Harris Graduate Student Achievement Award. She spent the next decade on the East Coast as a fulltime mother of five children while her husband finished his PhD and postdoc in medical engineering. While at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she advocated for graduate student families and was presented with the highest award given to a member of the greater MIT community: the Laya Wiesner Community Award. Cristie has been adjunct faculty in the English department since 2010 and feels an affinity to Minerva Teichert, who spent a lifetime balancing family life with her work. If you download the new BYU Museum of Art app and go to the Becoming America exhibit, you can hear Cristie read an ekphrastic poem she wrote about Teichert’s painting The Miracle of the Gulls and modern mothering life.

Rose Bybee was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the US with her family when she was 18 years old. She attended Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California for a couple of years then left to serve a full-time mission in Hong Kong. After her mission she moved to Provo, Utah and resumed her education at Brigham Young University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in linguistics with a minor in computers and languages. Afterwards, she attended the University of Utah where she received her MEd in education, culture & society. She is certified in ILR/ACTFL OPI testing and OPI/WPT testing for the Seal of Biliteracy (SOBL). She enjoys teaching Tagalog and Cebuano classes to returned missionaries at BYU. She finds a great sense of fulfillment in helping students become critical thinkers and gain a sense of informed global awareness through the study of language and culture. In her spare time, she likes to garden, write, cook and listen to music and talks.

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Rose loves spending time and just hanging out with her family both indoors and outdoors. She and her husband, Lars, have three amazing children and two fun-filled and energetic chihuahuas.

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Nancy Turley Adjunct Faculty Professional Contributions Award Nancy Turley grew up in Nebraska, raised seven children with her husband 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 Department of Linguistics and has also taught part-time at UVU in the ESL department. 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, serving in the church, talking to her children, and playing with her grandchildren.

Teresa Bell Humanities Center Fellow (1 year) Teresa Reber Bell joined the Department of German & Russian at BYU in August 2013. She received a PhD from the University of Arizona in second language acquisition and teaching and taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Oklahoma before coming to BYU.

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She supervises German 101 and 102, advises German teaching majors and minors, and teaches courses in the SLaT MA Program. She is currently writing the textbook Master German through Global Debate with two colleagues outside BYU and is leading the revision of the ACTFL national standards for the preparation of language teachers.

Pancho Villa, William Faulkner, Julio Cortázar, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is currently working on a booklength project on the English-language translations of Jorge Luis Borges’s short fiction.

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Laura Catharine Smith joined the faculty in 2004 after earning a Joint PhD in theoretical and Germanic linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She had previously earned a BA (honors) and BEd (intermediate and secondary teaching of French and history/social sciences) at Queen’s University and an MA in historical linguistics (Calgary). Thanks to DAAD fellowships, Laura has twice studied under Theo Vennemann at the University of Munich and is currently co-editing a Festschrift in his honor.

Laura serves as co-editor for the sister series, (Open) Studies in Germanic Linguistics (LSP and Benjamins respectively) and is on the Executive Board for the Society for Germanic Linguistics. She has also served as Utah chapter president for the AATG and this fall begins her term in the FAC.

An associate professor of Germanic linguistics, Laura regularly teaches classes in phonetics, the structure of German, the history of German, and senior (and graduate) seminars on proficiency, second language acquisition, experimental linguistics, and older Germanic languages. She enjoys helping students develop their academic writing skills, including the SLaT students she advises. Her

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Humanities Center Fellow (1 year) Emron Esplin has been teaching in BYU’s English department since 2013 after working for 5 years at Kennesaw State University. He is the editor, with Margarida Vale de Gato, of Translated Poe (Lehigh UP, 2014) and Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons (Lehigh UP, 2020), and he edits the journal Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation (Johns Hopkins UP). His first monograph, Borges’s Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America, was published by the University of Georgia Press in the New Southern Studies series in 2016. He received the 2013 James W. Gargano Award from the Poe Studies Association for his article “Borges’s Philosophy of Poe’s Composition,” published in Comparative Literature Studies. He has also published articles on Katherine Anne Porter, Nellie Campobello,

Laura Catharine Smith Scheuber-Veinz & Humanities Center Fellow (3 year)

research spans L2 pronunciation and perception, increasing L2 proficiency, and theoretical and historical morphophonology, especially the role of prosody in shaping language change and acquisition. Her work has appeared in major handbooks (Oxford and Cambridge) and has been cited in textbooks/grammars on Old Frisian, Gothic, and the History of German.

During downtime, Laura hangs out with her retired dressage horse, Eddie Vann Halenn, and her cat, Molly, whose tail occasionally Zoom bombs meetings.

Earl Brown Earl Kjar Brown works as an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics. He received a PhD in Hispanic linguistics at the University of New Mexico in 2008, and his doctoral thesis was published in the LINCOM Studies in Romance Linguistics series in 2009. His research agenda centers on the quantification

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of language variation, especially in Spanish. In most of this research, he employs the acoustic software Praat and uses the corpus linguistics techniques of text searching, data manipulation, and statistical analysis with the programming languages R, Python, and Julia. Some of his research has appeared in the journals Language Variation and Change, International Journal of Bilingualism, Journal of Linguistic Geography, Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science, and Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.

Brian Jackson Humanities Center Fellow (3 year) In his first few years at BYU, Brian Jackson studied rhetorical criticism and the theories of American pragmatist John Dewey. Recently he’s turned his attention to how people learn to write (or not) in college. This year he completed a book project (Teaching Mindful Writers, Utah State University Press) about how we can help students develop metacognitive strategies as writers.

Francesca Lawson Marshall Professorship & Humanities Center Fellow (3 year) Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson received an undergraduate degree in harp

performance from Brigham Young University, a master’s degree in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington in Seattle. She conducted research on the interrelationships of language and music in the narrative arts of Tianjin, China, as a Fulbright-Hays and National Academy of Sciences Research Fellow. She was also a President’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught courses in the Asian humanities and in gender-music relationships at Columbia University. Formerly the humanities professor of ethnomusicology, she is currently the section head of interdisciplinary humanities in the Department of Comparative Arts & Letters. She regularly teaches classes on the interdisciplinary relationships among the arts, the humanities of South Asia, and the performance of gender in theater and music. She has also mentored students from engineering, food science, information technology, anthropology, and premedical studies in a variety of research projects that have intersected with her own interests in music, science, and East and South Asia.

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Her ongoing research interests include the interplay between music and language, the cultural and biological implications of the gendered voice, and the divergence between cultural and neurological perspectives on music and consciousness. Her first book, The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language, was published by Ashgate in 2011 as part of the SOAS Musicology Series; and her second book, The Women of Quyi: Liminal Voices and Androgynous Bodies, was published as part of Routledge’s Ethnomusicology series in 2017. As the 2015 winner of the Jaap Kunst prize for the most significant article published in the field of ethnomusicology and the 2019–20 recipient of the P.A. Christensen Lectureship through the College of Humanities, she continues to pursue research that straddles the boundaries between music and science.

Miranda Wilcox Nan O. Grass Professorship (3 year) Miranda Wilcox is an associate professor of English and holds an MMS and PhD in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame. Her classes aim to entice students to the wonderful and wacky imaginaries of medieval literature, particularly composed in Old and Middle English. She also has enjoyed team teaching,

co-directing study abroad programs at the London Centre, and developing a one-credit discussion course—HCOLL 480R Humanities & Belief—for the College, but available to all students. Her research focuses on early medieval religious culture, particularly the practices of professing Christian faith, which has led her to European archives to transcribe manuscripts and a visiting fellowship at the University of York. She writes about Latter-day Saint historical consciousness, drawing on much more recent, local archival media, including pageants, periodicals, and photographs. She serves on the executive advisory board of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and co-edits their Living Faith book series. Playing the organ is one of her favorite pastimes, and she recently started her term as dean of the Utah Valley chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

Thomas Wayment Scheuber-Veinz Professorship (3 year) Thom Wayment is a professor of classics in the Department of Comparative Arts & Letters. He earned his PhD in New Testament studies from the Claremont Graduate University (2000) and has taught at BYU for the past 20 years. His research focuses on the intersection of textual

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production and community formation with particular emphasis on the way communities create and adopt literary texts. Much of his work engages the dynamics of early Christian networks as evidenced through literary and documentary papyri. He has also focused on the scribal culture evidenced in the production of New Testament manuscripts. Through the work of the Ancient Textual Imaging Group (ATIG), Wayment has published the first known Christian amulet containing a passage from Colossians (P.Petrie 32070), he has re-edited the Papyrus 69 (𝔓69), a third-century papyrus containing Luke 22:43–45, and he has edited a collection of papyri from the early Christian community of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Most recently he has published on the reception of the Gospel of Thomas at Oxyrhynchus. In the College of Humanities, he serves as section head of Classics and on the College Rank and Status Committee. In his spare time, he enjoys building Arts and Crafts (Mission) furniture.

Spencer Scoville Ludwig-Weber-Siebach Professorship (3 year) Spencer Scoville is an associate professor of Arabic. He completed a PhD in Arabic literature at the University of Michigan in 2012. His

research and work most often take him and his family to Cairo, Palestine, Syria, Moscow, the University of Utah, and Amman. His research focuses on the intersection of Russian and Arab culture, particularly in the literary and religious spheres; modern Arabic literature; and translation studies. He dabbles in translation, having published literary and scholarly translations from Arabic and Russian. Since coming to BYU in 2012, he has taught Arabic language courses at all levels, seminars in modern Arabic literature and culture, and developed the first ever Provo-based, coronavirusinspired Arabic study abroad program. He is currently head of the Arabic section. Spencer’s hobbies include cycling, hiking, reading out loud to his kids, and making music.

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COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES LECTURESHIPS Dan Dewey Barker Lectureship Dan P. Dewey, professor of linguistics in the Department of Linguistics, received a PhD in second language acquisition from Carnegie Mellon University. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh before coming to BYU, where he has primarily taught courses in linguistics, TESOL and language acquisition. He has also taught Japanese at four universities over the course of his career, including BYU. Dan’s research focuses largely on language acquisition in settings other than the classroom, such as study abroad, internships, foreign language housing, autonomous online learning, and so forth. He is interested not only in the language development of individuals but also in the social and psychological forces that shape that development. His recent research addresses social interaction and social network development—who learners interact with and how this interaction influences their language development. In terms of psychological factors, Dan’s research has addressed anxiety, self-regulation, motivation and other individual variables that affect acquisition. His research appears in journals ranging from

Language Learning and Studies in Second Language Acquisition to Foreign Language Annals and Japanese Language and Literature. Dan has co-authored with faculty members from every language department in the College and is proud to have produced more articles with these co-authors than on his own. He firmly believes that better ideas are generated and better learning occurs when social interaction takes place.

Michelle James P.A. Christensen Lectureship Michelle Stott James has a PhD in German literature with a minor in philosophy from the University of Utah. Since she joined the BYU faculty in 1988, she has taught numerous courses in literature, writing and critical theory. After the publication of her first book, Behind the Mask: Kierkegaard’s Pseudonymic Treatment of Lessing in the “Concluding Unscientific Postscript,” James turned her research interests to early German-language women writers. Through the Sophie Mentored Research Project, she and her colleagues Rob McFarland and Cindy Brewer have developed the extensive online Sophie Digital Library, and have engaged numerous students in textual preparation, editing, and

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research. She and her students are currently preparing the Critically Annotated Collected Works of Elisa von der Recke, the first volume of which is nearing completion. In 2016, with Rob McFarland she published an edited collection, Sophie Discovers Amerika, and is now collaborating with Lisa Hock on a companion collection titled Afrika and Alemania. A book chapter, “‘Collaborating with Spirits:’ Cagliostro, Elisa von der Recke, and the Phantoms of Unmündigkeit” written in collaboration with Rob McFarland, appeared in 2019 in the volume Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture. In 2010 she received a Douglas R. Stewart Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship, in 2018 a Humanities College Excellence in Teaching Award, and in 2019 a Humanities+ Studentcentered Research Award. James served for several years as the German section head, and then as chair of the Department of German & Russian from 2010–16.

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UNIVERSITY AWARDS Chris Crowe Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer A BYU faculty member since 1993, Chris Crowe has published three award-winning novels, 13 books, 85 articles, and 19 book chapters. He is the recipient of a Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award, the Nan Osmond Grass Professorship in English, and a Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Research and Creative Arts Award. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in young adult literature, English education, and creative writing, and has served on more than 70 thesis committees. He has also spoken to thousands of students around the country about the Emmett Till case and the civil rights movement.

Grant Eckstein Early Career Teaching Award Since joining BYU’s Department of Linguistics faculty in 2015, Grant Eckstein has exemplified excellence in teaching, citizenship, and scholarship. His students and colleagues consistently rate his teaching and mentoring highly. He has published multiple encyclopedia entries and book chapters, six editorial introductions, and 14 articles. He has a book and

nine manuscripts currently under review. In addition to many citizenship responsibilities, he recently concluded a four-year presidential term for Intermountain TESOL. He serves on boards of multiple journals in his field, is a prolific reviewer, has reviewed for 16 journals and organizations, and is a founding editor of the Journal of Response to Writing.

Valerie Hegstrom Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Award Valerie Hegstrom is a professor of Spanish literature and the coordinator of the Global Women’s Studies Program. Her research and teaching focus on the performance of Spanish “Golden Age” plays and the recovery of women writers from the early modern period. She has recently developed and taught courses comprising Spanish Culture and Regional Difference, Women’s Rights (in London), Wonder Woman and the “Manly Woman” in Early Modern Spanish and British Literature, and Teaching Hispanic Literature to High School Students. Her current projects include editions and translations of works by Maria do Céu, Leonor de Almeida Portugal, Ana Caro, and studies of astrology and the embodiment of the soul in convent theater, and pro-war poetry by Portuguese nuns and noblewomen.

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Nieves Knapp

Elodie Petelo

Karl G. Maeser Professional Faculty Excellence Award

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Nieves Pérez Knapp moved from Spain to teach Spanish pedagogy courses at BYU. She works with Spanish teaching majors and supervises the Spanish 200-level and conversation classes. She directs Españolandia (a simulation of a country that runs as part of the Foreign Language Fair and is attended by thousands of students every year), and organizes workshops and summer institutes for teachers. Knapp works in the leadership structures of international exams such as AP and Praxis and develops materials for ACTFL proficiency tests. She has presented in numerous conferences, coauthored two textbooks, and received the UFLA’s Teacher of the Year award.

Elodie Petelo has been instrumental over the past decade in helping to standardize French language grammar courses at BYU in ways that will benefit and enrich student learning for years to come. A model colleague and peer, Elodie has been active in the leadership of the department’s French Club, annual French Fair, summer French Camp, and has been instrumental in helping the Utah Board of Education implement a robust and rigorous Dual Language Immersion (DLI) Program. More recently, her efforts with the French AP exam and DLI Bridge Program help create a dynamic pool of future students.

Faculty Advisory Council Report

FACULTY ADVISORY COUNCIL REPORT The Faculty Advisory Council (FAC), made up of 25–30 elected faculty from all colleges, recommends policy changes to the administration. In 2020, college representatives Blair Bateman, Heather Belnap, and Anca Sprenger complete their dedicated service to the FAC. This fall Julie Allen and Laura Catharine Smith join Jamie Horrocks and Brian Jackson as our college representatives. Please email any of these representatives about student and faculty issues you would like the FAC to consider. This year FAC gave the AVP Council twelve proposals on the following topics: experiential learning, clean air, diversity and inclusion, evaluation of administrators, parental leave policy, BYU seminar website, child care options, mental health resources, women’s health, respect and antiracism, COVID-19 response, and family-friendly policies. FAC co-chairs Eva Witesman and Eric Huntsman will distribute a summary of 2019–20 initiatives to all faculty through the Dean’s Office.

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COLLEGE CENTERS AND SERVICES Arabic Flagship Center

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We were awarded funding for four more years and welcomed back our first two capstone students after nearly a year of study in Morocco—returning early, thanks to COVID-19. Both acquired impressive linguistic and cultural proficiency and felt richly rewarded for their efforts. Three students are currently doing an online version of the capstone, hoping to travel to Morocco in January. Two of these and one other Arabic student, who is holding out for 2021, were offered Boren Scholarships, a first for BYU. We are pleased to announce that Ahmad Karout assumed the role of academic coordinator in June. As a visiting professor in A&NEL, he took four BYU Arabic students to Harvard University for a national Arabic debate competition. Our students won first place for the best non-native team and one of our students took first place for the best non-native debater. All five of our capstone students give Karout the lion’s share of the credit for the impressive gains they made at BYU that allowed them to qualify for the capstone experience. We look forward to many more good things to come, thanks to his joining the team.

Our center was awarded five Boren scholarships and one alternate scholarship for overseas Flagship language study totaling approximately $100,000 in funding for students. Due to COVID-19, the five students who were in the Chinese Flagship Center in China returned home. Also, due to the continued pandemic and associated travel restrictions, the overseas Flagship programming moved online for fall 2020 with plans for in-country study during winter semester. Flagship tutorials and instruction continued to produce high language proficiency outcomes. Post-program assessment scores demonstrate Advanced High or Superior language outcomes. Since 2004, 70 percent of Flagship graduates have tested Superior on the ACTFL Proficiency Scale.

Extensive alumni outreach was conducted showing that Flagship alumni are working in multiple Fortune 500 companies, in the government sector, in private business, and so forth. We continued to manage the overseas Flagship Center in Nanjing, China, for 60 students from twelve universities across the country. We received renewal funding for the overseas Chinese Flagship grant project

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for academic year 2020–21 of about $800,000. We are now operating in the final year of the overseas program. Our domestic Flagship grant project was awarded about $1.3 million of funding for four more years to operate through 2024.

Center for Language Studies (3086 JFSB) The Center for Language Studies has collaborated with individual language departments to meet specific needs for proficiency testing, research data collection, faculty OPI rater certification, and faculty instruction on language proficiency teaching methods for higher ratings in student language proficiency in speaking, writing, reading, and listening skills. Some notable achievements include § 19 languages offered in the Language Certificate Program with the newest, Vietnamese, added fall 2020 § More than 1,700 OPI and WPT proficiency assessments administered § More than 4,400 reading and listening tests administered § 529 Language Certificates awarded during the 2019–20 academic year § 3 new language course offerings: Hiligaynon, Kekchi, and Marshallese § 49 languages taught with 1,763 LessCommonly Taught Language classes instructed in 2019

§ Development of the Language Proficiency Diagnostic Assessment (LPDA) to help in determining course-level placement for students entering college-level language courses. ú A return-missionary (RM) version was created to help correctly place foreign language serving missionaries after returning early from their mission during the COVID-19 pandemic

§ Home to the translation & localization minor, dual-language immersion minor, Language Certificate Program, and American Sign Language (ASL) Program. Effective fall semester 2020, the FLSR Program is pleased to announce the College of Humanities has approved experiential learning student scholarships for humanities majors and minors participating in the FLSR Program, not including language facilitators.

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) (3830 HBLL) Joshua Holt is the Center for Teaching and Learning (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

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integrating technology into teaching and learning. Joshua’s professional interests include the effects of learning externalization, such as the impacts on learners when they prepare to teach what they are learning. He completed a PhD at BYU in instructional psychology & technology. His master’s degree in instructional technology and learning sciences and bachelor’s degree in business information systems are from Utah State University. Learn more about the Center for Teaching and Learning services and tools at ctl.byu.edu.

English Language Center (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 2019–20 academic year, the ELC taught 148 courses. In addition to opportunities to refine their teaching skills, BYU students benefited from participation in class observations. At the same time, the ELC also helped to facilitate 30 student practicum experiences, 10 internships, the

completion of 10 MA theses or projects, 17 academic conference presentations, and several peer-reviewed publications.

Faculty Publishing Service (4092 JKB) The Faculty Publishing Service (FPS) continues to offer a variety of publishing-related services to members of the College of Humanities, as well as to other entities across campus. In addition to editing books, articles, and other documents, the FPS staff can design and typeset books and journals, create indexes, manage image permissions, transcribe interviews, and help with many other publishingrelated tasks. 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. As a result, the finished product meets high-quality standards and the interns receive feedback on how to continue refining their skills. Thanks to financial support from the College of Humanities, faculty in the College can use the service for free. To request the FPS’s services, please fill out the form at https://bit.ly/FPSrequest If you have any questions, please contact Suzy Bills (suzy_bills@byu .edu).

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Global Women’s Studies (216 HRCB) In preparation for 2020 (the celebration of 100 years of women’s suffrage in the US and 150 in Utah), the Global Women’s Studies fall 2019 conference, Women, the Vote & Political Participation, featured women historians, political scientists, sociologists, and activists, including Lori Schuyler (U of Richmond), Lynne Ford (College of Charleston), Bettye Collier-Thomas (Temple U), Jessica Preece (BYU), and representatives from the Utah-based Women’s Leadership Institute and Better Days 2020. The conference included displays, a service project, discussion groups, and mentoring sessions. Just before the university closed its doors due to coronavirus, we commemorated Women’s History Month 2020 with Women’s Voices in the Middle Ages & Renaissance. This symposium, co-sponsored by GWS, CAL, French & Italian, and four more departments and programs, involved 18 speakers in six sessions (most of whom made it to campus and a few of whom joined us via Zoom); plus our keynote speaker, U of Chicago emerita Professor Elissa Weaver; as well as a one-woman show, Je Christine, performed by actress Suzanne Savoy. During 2019–20, we were also delighted to co-sponsor campus visits with historians Victoria Grieve and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, literary critic Meredith

McGill, Middlebury College President Laurie Patton, New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine, and art historian Cathy Hall-van den Elsen. Each guest taught us about the struggles and contributions of women and generously mentored faculty and students. What to Watch for in Fall 2020: We will welcome seven speakers via Zoom to our Fall Semester GWS Colloquium (Fridays at noon), including three Emmeline B. Wells Grant recipients—Paul Adams (BYU Photography) on “Vanishing Voice,” his project to photograph the last speakers of dying languages, Adam Rogers (BYU Family Life) on “Advancing Health and Education for Adolescent Development,” and Elizabeth Gibbons Bailey (BYU Biology) on “Gender Gaps in Utah County K-12 Math and Science Classes”; a Women’s Research Initiative grant recipient—Stephanie Plamondon Bair (BYU Law) on “Gender Norms and Innovations”; and three distinguished guests from other universities—LaKisha Simmons (U of Michigan History) on Black Motherhood, Farina King (Northeastern State U History) on Women in the Navajo Nation, and Juliet White-Smith (Ohio State Music) on Women Composers. Check out our colloquium poster at womensstudies .byu.edu/colloquium. We have 17 GWS capstone students this fall, who will present their senior research projects as part of our GWS

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Capstone Conference during the last two weeks of this semester. Join us by Zoom! How to Become a GWS Faculty Affiliate: If your research, teaching, or service involves women or gender issues, we would love to have you affiliate with GWS. Send us 125 words about your work and a photo of yourself that you would like us to include on our website. Please also send a list of any recent publications about women or gender. Let us know if you want to get involved: globalwomensstudies@byu.edu.

Humanities Center (4103 JFSB) Fortunately, nobody seems to have contracted COVID-19 from any Humanities Center event. However, the Humanities Center itself, like so many other entities on campus, seems to have fallen ill. In any case, it just isn’t itself. So, this year, we will not hold our usual slate of events: Annual Symposium, Annual Lecture, weekly colloquia, and most other meetings. But that does not mean the center will be laid up entirely. Like Chris Cuomo reporting on his illness from the basement of his home, the Humanities Center will soldier on, offering a consistent, if scaled back, calendar of appealing meetings. Most of these will be held over Zoom and will involve multi-person discussions of topical issues. Other meetings will feature our research groups. We will also conduct a series of podcasts on engaging

new scholarship and important issues across the humanities. So, stay tuned – and thank you, always, for your excellent work and sustained support of the intellectual life of our college.

International Cinema (3182 JFSB and 250 KMBL) The International Cinema (IC) Program is back with a lineup of great films for fall 2020! During the 2019–20 academic year, IC screened over 100 films in dozens of languages. We were on our way to setting attendance records before the pandemic forced the program to go online in March. Still, IC hosted close to 20,000 cinemagoers over the course of the year, thanks, in part, to several massive screenings of Jo Jo Rabbit and Parasite, including one showing of the South Korean Oscar winner attended by 900 people! Thanks to all who participated in our lecture series this past year. We hosted 30 lectures and post-screening discussions by faculty experts and visiting scholars.

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permission to screen a selected number of films in our theater in 250 KMBL*. Current faculty, students, and staff with a BYU NetID will be able access our online offerings through Hummedia in the same way they did at the end of the winter semester. Information on how to access the IC collection on Hummedia will be sent in our weekly email and posted online at ic.byu.edu. Please consult our poster and website for more information. * Screenings in 250 KMBL are subject to approval by the University. All screenings will be limited to 67 cinemagoers and will follow campus policies on face coverings, physical distancing, and cleaning and hygiene.

recording a presentation on Zoom, which will be posted online, or giving a live presentation to the IC 290R class, which will be recorded and uploaded each week. Please click the Lectures tab at ic.byu.edu for details on weekly speakers and links to presentations. We will also send out links to lectures in our weekly email. IC Podcast: Now in its third season, IC’s weekly podcast “From the Booth” will return with previews and in-depth analysis of films by IC directors and guests. You can subscribe to the podcast at ic.byu.edu or through any of the major podcast services.

Electronic Poster: In an effort to go touchless this semester, the iconic IC poster will be available to download in PDF form at ic.byu.edu. We will also print a limited number of physical copies for departments and faculty to post on their poster boards.

ICS Minor: Please consider talking with your students about the international cinema studies minor. You can learn more about this program at ic.byu .edu. Notice as well the list of upcoming classes taught by our amazing colleagues. If you have an upcoming class that would be appropriate for ICS minors, please contact the IC co-directors, Marc Yamada and Doug Weatherford.

Although massive screenings and events may not be possible during the current pandemic, we still have a full schedule of the best in international cinema, including many films not available on disc or through streaming services. Some of the things to watch for this fall include:

Weekly Film Series: As always, IC will feature a number of weekly film series formed around relevant social, cultural, and aesthetic issues, including Long Takes, Displaced at Home and Abroad, Remembering World War II, Caught up in Crime, The Rise and Fall of Democracy, International Horror, Voice and Suffrage, and more.

If you want to stay on top of everything going on at IC, make sure to subscribe to our weekly email update by sending a request to int-cinema@byu.edu. We would love to hear from you if you have ideas about how to incorporate IC into your syllabus or have suggestions for us of films we should consider for future schedules.

Hybrid Schedule: IC will stream several new feature films and documentaries online each week, while seeking

Virtual Lectures: The IC Wednesday lecture series will be offered online this semester. Speakers will have the option of

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Liberal Arts Advisement & Careers (1041 JFSB) The primary goal of the Liberal Arts Advisement and Careers Center (LAAC) is to help students strategically gain essential competencies, skills, and experience for success in their life and career. Students who master and regularly practice this framework are considered career ready. Our role as academic and professional development managers is to help students recognize opportunities in their coursework for skill and competency development. We help them create intentional, informed plans to approach coursework in a way that allows them to get the most out of classroom experiences, assignments, projects, and interaction with faculty. In addition, we help students identify other development opportunities through experiential learning such as internships and study abroad. We help them learn to effectively reflect on their goals, experiences, and coursework, and we coach them to use those reflections to create an effective and compelling narrative about their value in the world. Despite our current conditions, we continue to provide these services to students through Zoom, email, and over the phone. Our undergraduate specialists are also working during regular hours to help students with class planning, graduation questions, substitutions, registration, etc. Our new website is constantly updated to reflect changes in

programs and university protocol. We will be adding a new, interactive page on career readiness soon. Please visit it at liberalarts.byu.edu. During this unprecedented year, we have added two new members to our team: Lindsey Blau and Jon Cook. Lindsey came to us from BYU–I and brings an impressive experience and skills in coaching, career development and academic success. Jon came to us from the University of Utah where he worked as an assistant registrar over NCAA student academic eligibility. Jon has a law degree from Florida Coastal School of Law, and he brings exciting and sought-after skills and experience both in higher education as well as in the private sector. Emily Christian also joined our team this year as our office manager. Emily has notable experience in creating awareness and buy in from consumers, and she has helped us in immeasurable ways to not only keep our operations running, but to help draw students to us and our services. All three have been an incredible addition to our team, and we are grateful to have them. We expect to have another new team member join us when our loved and treasured colleague, Jay Oliver, retires in October. Jay has given a great deal to BYU over the last 15+ years, and we and our students have benefited from his kindness, thoughtfulness, and professionalism. We wish him the very best in this new chapter of his life!

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Office of Digital Humanities (1163 JFSB) The Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) offers the following programs and services as part of its mission to provide research and technical support to the College, faculty, and students: § Digital Humanities and Technology (DigHT) Minor: This minor is available to all who wish to develop technological and analytical skills to support any humanities discipline. Minor requirements and courses for digital humanities, programming, print publishing, web development, and linguistic computing tracks are described at http://dight.byu.edu. Contact Jeremy Browne, 2-7439. § Digital Humanities Research Consulting: Help in incorporating digital tools and methods into your humanities research, including textual analysis software, geographic information systems tools, and digital pedagogical tools. Contact Brian Croxall, 2-7425. § Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Consulting: We offer help in incorporating or creating ICALL, or intelligent CALL, software tools in your language learning. For instance, we have access to tools that allow you to digitally parse L2 texts for the purpose of morphological analysis and automated creation of drill and

practice exercises. Contact Rob Reynolds, 2-7426. § Curriculum Development: Our programming staff can help create and administer technology-assisted instruction, including maintaining legacy programs, such as http:// webclips.byu.edu for grammar testing and remediation; Learning Web, for customized online tutorials; and textbook programs. Contact Rob Reynolds, 2-6448. § Research Programming and Web Services Support: Sponsor, advance, and sustain humanities research activities throughout the university with programming and web development. Contact Tory Anderson, 385-207-8454. § Humanities Computer Support: CSRs in 4138 JFSB provide desktop and laptop support for all full- and part-time college faculty and staff. Contact the CSR staff at 2-2600 or our full-time CSR, Brad Woodward, 2-2739. § College Server Administration: We offer local expertise for allocating server space for college, department, and other projects; monitoring college-supported websites; and filesharing capabilities. Contact Mark Wilson, 2-8927. § Foreign Language Achievement Testing Services (FLATS): FLATS provides both BYU and non-BYU students the opportunity to receive

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up to 12 semester hours of university credit by online examination. More information is at http://flats.byu.edu. Contact FLATS Testing, 2-3512. § Humanities Testing Lab: Our testing lab offers a proctored environment for computer-based multimedia exams. Professors within the College of Humanities wishing to have their exams administered in this location may have customized tests created and administered here: http://odh.byu.edu/lab/?id=4. Contact Russell Hansen, 2-9295. § Humanities Learning Commons (HLC): Flexible study spaces in 1141 JFSB provide a setting for language students to work collaboratively on communicative language skills. § HLC computer lab in 1131 JFSB provides students with both Mac and Windows computers and the software required for college programs. § The HLC also maintains digital access to audio, video, and textual material. Other HLC services include: ú Audio recording studio ú Group study/testing/video conference rooms ú Projectors, cameras, laptops, iPads, and equipment checkout ú Customized streaming video services: Hummedia ú Region-free DVD & Blu-ray players ú NTSC, PAL, SECAM VHS conversion to digital formats

ú R eel-to-reel and audio cassette digital conversion ú Slide and document scanners ú Audio transcription system ú Support and access for Mango and Pronunciator Language Programs ú Kennedy Center Flag and Culture Kit collections

For further information on these or other HLC services, see our website: http://hlr.byu.edu or call the HLC at 2-5424 or the supervisor, Russell Hansen, 2-9295. § Foreign Language Activity Commons: This nontraditional social space offers 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 Russell Hansen, 2-9295, or the FLAC directly at 2-7103. § WordCruncher Team: WordCruncher is a state-of-the-art research tool for searching, studying, and analyzing e-books and text corpora. It is available for your use free of charge. The WordCruncher Team is available to come to your office, demonstrate, and install WordCruncher; answer questions; discuss your projects; and help you as needed. Their website is wordcruncher.com, or email them at wordcruncher@byu.edu. Contact Monte Shelley, 2-7325.

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§ Web Support Team: For questions and problems with department websites, we offer a college Web Team and hotline. Call John Cheng at 2-7400 or email humwebhelp@ byu.edu. The Team can be found in 4138 JFSB. § JKB Commons Area and Services: If there is a billing issue because of JKB copy machine errors, a refund may be obtained through the ID Center at 2-5092. JKB computer support will still be available from the ODH CSRs at 2-2600. Computer Support Team, 2-2600 Web Support Team 2-7400 For a quick who-to-call list, go to

Bonnie Bingham, 2-5360 ú D epartment Secretary ú F LATS administrator of 12-credit, pass/fail foreign language tests for non-BYU students and certain languages for BYU students ú J KB lab attendant supervisor

Jeremy Browne, 2-7439 ú C oordinator for Digital Humanities (DigHT) program ú Internships—DigHT ú H TML, CSS, JavaScript, Python

Brian Croxall, 2-7425 ú ú ú ú

D igital Humanities D H Pedagogy D igital methods for textual analysis Python

humsupport.byu.edu Russell Hansen, 2-9295 or 2-5424 ODH Directory and Specialties: Tory Anderson, 385-207-8454 ú Application development ú Databases ú Online funding applications for students and faculty

Devin Asay, 2-6510 ú ú ú ú ú ú

ODH Director LiveCode Database development Mac Lab configuration Mac troubleshooting and support Room Scheduling

ú L abs—HLC, FLAC, computer labs (including supervising employees) ú D oor codes/locks for all ODH rooms ú V ideo conferencing ú R ecording Studio ú E quipment checkout and questions ú M edia conversion—audio, video, obsolete formats ú T esting Lab Supervisor ú T est scheduling ú Test development ú LiveCode ú Computer Lab Software

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John Cheng, 2-7400 ú H umanities College Webmaster ú Website development and maintenance ú Databases ú Domain name services ú WordPress questions ú Website support team supervisor ú Linux

Brad Woodward, 2-2739 ú C ollege of Humanities Computer Support Representative (CSR) ú IT Manager (for BYU IT Services questions) ú Video conferencing/Zoom ú Ordering computers and equipment for the College of Humanities ú Software Purchasing ú Problems with digital signage monitors

Robert Reynolds, 2-7426 ú C omputer Assisted Language Learning ú Text processing (machine-learning and rule-based) ú Python ú Linux ú CLIPS ú Hummedia/Y-Video/Audio/Video questions ú Software development ú Intelligent CALL development (ICALL)

Mark Wilson, 2-8927 ú H umanities College Server Administrator ú Server security issues ú User management on college servers ú BYU internal domain name services ú Server backups ú Linux ú Faculty space allocation on college servers ú Database management ú Active Directory user management

WordCruncher Team, 2-7325 Monte Shelley: Managing Director Jason Dzubak: Application Developer Jesse Vincent: Text Preparation & Testing

Research and Writing Center (3340 HBLL) Rwc.byu.edu 801-422-1885 Mission: The RWC provides a supportive and resource-rich environment where trained undergraduate consultants collaborate with students across campus to increase awareness, abilities, and confidence in any part of the research and writing process. For an overview of services, visit rwc.byu.edu/about us. Note: Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the RWC is offering remote-only consultations and services until further notice.

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Supporting Students: The RWC offers research and writing help via synchronous (Zoom) and asynchronous (email) consultations. Students can schedule appointments or drop in virtually. Consultants help students understand assignment expectations, use library resources to locate sources, consider a reader’s response to their writing, discuss and model revision strategies, learn how to become selfeditors, follow citation and formatting guidelines, receive referrals to subject librarians, and more. The RWC offers nearly 60 handouts on topics ranging from types of writing to grammar and usage, as well as access to reference materials and style handbooks (APA, Chicago, MLA, and more). Supporting Faculty: The RWC offers virtual classroom visits to briefly introduce RWC services to students; email notification of student visits; handouts, resources, and virtual presentations and workshops to support classroom instruction and peer review; training for writing consultants on specific genres and writing assignments; course-embedded consultant services; and a syllabus statement. For details, visit rwc.byu. edu/faculty. Note: In May 2020, the Writing Fellows—a course-based peer writing tutoring program previously housed in University Writing’s Writing Across the Curriculum program—was integrated into the RWC; writing fellows are

now course-embedded consultants. For questions about course-embedded consulting services, contact Zach Largey. Program Highlights (2018–19 academic year) § 16,586 total consultations: 1,264 research and 15,317 writing (255 online) § 6,758 learners participated in writing or research consultations; 51% visited multiple times § 16% of consultations were with learners who self-identified as ESL writers § 802 courses were served, representing 11 colleges § 52% of courses served represented the College of Humanities Program Coordinators David Stock, associate professor of English, coordinator: david_stock @byu.edu, 801-422-3737 Suzanne Julian, senior librarian, instruction dept chair: suzanne _julian@byu.edu, 801-422-2813 Shannon Liechty, associate coordinator: shannon_liechty@byu .edu, 801-422-9784 Zach Largey, associate coordinator: zach_largey@byu.edu, 801-422-4306 Jessica Green, RWC specialist: jessica_green@byu.edu, 801-422-1165

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NEW FACULTY AND STAFF Asian & Near Eastern Languages Jeff Peterson is a visiting assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages. He completed his PhD in applied linguistics/ foreign language acquisition with a concentration in Japanese at Purdue University. His recent research focuses on extensive reading in Japanese and its effect on learner reading rate. He’s also interested in CALL and corpus research. Recently, he worked with the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources as a consultant on the council’s Tadoku-Extensive Reading LibGuide.

English Drew Chandler (visiting) teaches first-year writing and advanced writing courses at BYU. He earned both his BA and MA in English from BYU, with a minor in Spanish. His research centers on American literature and film, adaptation studies, and gender theory. Drew was born and raised in Austin, Texas, and loves

watching old movies, a passion which unexpectedly turned into a research interest. He and his wife Christa are the parents of twin boys. Brice Peterson (visiting) earned his MA (’15) and PhD (’19) from Penn State University, where he also recently finished a Postdoctoral Fellowship. He studies early modern British literature, specifically the ways that religion, medicine, gender, and genre intersect in poetry and drama. His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Studies in Philology; Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal; Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900; and American Literature and the New Puritan Studies (Cambridge UP, 2017). Brice and his wife, Rebecca, met at BYU as undergraduates in a Victorian literature class. They have a three-yearold daughter, Darcy, and are excited to be back in the Intermountain West!

English Language Center Lynne McPhie (visiting) is from Twin Falls, Idaho. She received a BA from BYU in English

language with minors in editing and TESOL. She continued her studies at BYU and received a TESOL MA degree. Her research interests are related to reading and vocabulary. When she’s not teaching English, she enjoys reading, rock climbing, and watching Korean dramas. Maria Summers (visiting), is from Bucharest, Romania, and has lived in the United States for about 16 years. She graduated from BYU with a BA in European studies and a minor in communications. She also received an MA in TESOL in 2017. She loves reading, running, and grammar, as well as spending time with her family in nature.

French & Italian Jim Law is joining the Department of French & Italian as an assistant professor. He received his MA and PhD in French linguistics from The University of Texas at Austin. He has published in Cognitive Linguistics, Constructions and Frames, and Language Learning and Technology. He is primarily interested in semantic change, and uses digital corpora to investigate how cognitive mechanisms

like metaphor and metonymy lead to lexical and grammatical changes in language. His research interests also include French variation in internet genres and uses of technology in language teaching. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, baking, and rocking out on his electric violin.

Liberal Arts Advisement Center Lindsey Blau—Aside from her dream job as a mother of two hilarious, adventurous little boys, Lindsey Blau has 16 years of professional experience, 11 years of management experience, and nine years of project management experience. Clearance: Top Secret. She holds a master of public administration degree (MPA) with an emphasis in education leadership and two bachelor’s degrees: communication with a specialty in public relations and English with a specialty in technical writing. She currently works as an academic and professional development manager for the Liberal Arts Advisement and Careers Center. Lindsey worked with various government agencies, PR firms, software companies, small businesses, large corporations, and non-profit organizations nationwide, and started over after her master’s as a lifeguard,

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substitute teacher, and intern. Lindsey has learned to walk with faith and magnify her strengths as a result. During a time of enormous stretching and change, Lindsey worked as a communication specialist for the Executive Office of the President of the United States (yes, the White House) in order to prepare her for the work she does now. More than where she has been, Lindsey is finally doing what she set out to do nine years ago, helping students. She thrives on getting to know students their dreams, interests and pursuits, and is passionate about coaching students through life’s decisions and challenges. Lindsey’s multi-passions, personal experiences, and non-linear career path have given her insight that helps her empathize with students and broaden their minds to possibilities. Emily Christian joined the Liberal Arts Advisement & Careers Center as an administrative assistant in February 2020. She is passionate about education and helping young adults find their potential, leading them to an exciting and fulfilled life. She enjoys helping her supervisors create efficient office processes with creative solutions to aid students with liberal arts majors.

She graduated from BYU with a degree in humanities with an English emphasis. She is excited to be working on campus, where two of her four children attend. She plans to get a master’s degree in advisement. She has volunteered for many years in PTO/ PTA organizations and has experience in sales and customer relations. She loves to bake, quilt, read and be anywhere the sun is shining, as long as there is sunscreen available and an option to swim. Jon Cook was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended the University of Utah where he earned a bachelor’s degree in communications with a minor in English literature. He then went on to attend Florida Coastal School of Law, where he earned his juris doctor degree. He was admitted to the Utah State Bar in 2011. Jonathan has worked as an NCAA academic rules expert at a variety of different universities over the past 10 years, including Texas A&M and the University of Utah. Jonathan currently works as an academic & professional development manager in the Liberal Arts Advisement & Careers Center, over the English and linguistics majors. In his spare time he enjoys skiing, reading, and football.

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Kamee Nuzman is from everywhere. Her family moved with the Air Force often when she was a child, which helped her develop a love for travel and people. Her favorite place to claim as her hometown is London. Kamee studied secondary education/ English at BYU and then moved to California, where she obtained a master’s degree in education from Cal State–Fullerton. She has not only taught and tutored AP English, Spanish and college prep classes for 11 years, but she is also a successful photographer and entrepreneur. In her heart, she is an educator and finds joy in preparing and mentoring new teachers. This makes her a perfect fit for advising, coaching, and developing our secondary education students. We are excited for the wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm she brings to this work.

Linguistics Brett Hashimoto is joining the Department of Linguistics as an associate professor. Brett received his PhD in applied linguistics from Northern Arizona University, his MA in linguistics from BYU, and his BA in linguistics from

the University of Utah. His primary research interest is in corpus linguistics and its application to other areas, including legal linguistics, language assessment, pragmatics, grammar, and vocabulary. He has recently been working at the J. Reuben Clark Law School as a research fellow in helping them develop corpus tools to aid in legal interpretation. In connection with the law school, he has also developed a corpus of the US code, a corpus of US patents, and three corpora of legislative histories. He is currently involved with many projects that include automatic register classification using deep learning techniques, assessing linguistic alignment using lexico-grammatical features, automatic formulaic language identification for use in both research and teaching settings, assessing corpus interface tools, comparing corpora used to identify original public meaning versus original intent in legal interpretation, and the development and evaluation of a new sentiment analysis tool. He has developed several useful automated tools for corpus research including annotation tools to tag for over 120 meaningful grammatical features, to tag a text for word families, and to identify formulaic language. In his free time, he enjoys tennis (and all racquet sports), volleyball, hiking, traveling, and spending time with his wife and two very adorable little girls.

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Joey Stanley joins the Department of Linguistics as an assistant professor. Joey recently received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Georgia after studying linguistics at BYU. He specializes in sociolinguistics, dialectology, and quantitative and statistical methods. He is especially interested in accents in the Western United States: his dissertation analyzes pronunciation of vowels in southwest Washington and, now that he lives in Utah, he is excited to continue research on Utah English and “Mormonese.” He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and pronounces cot and caught differently, pull and pole the same, and beg as a rhyme of vague. He enjoys breadmaking, playing piano, and reading linguistics books. He met his wife, Kelly, at a ward activity eight years ago and has two children (Lena and Walter).

Philosophy Derek Haderlie grew up on a dairy farm in Star Valley, Wyoming. After completing his mission in the Canada Calgary Mission, he studied English literature and philosophy at BYU– Idaho. His master’s thesis at Virginia

Tech focused on a puzzle for those who believe that whenever one believes she should do something, she will have at least some motivation to do it. After starting his PhD at the university of Texas at Austin, he turned his attention to the metaphysics and epistemology of morality. His dissertation is about the nature and role of moral laws. Besides moral metaphysics and epistemology, he has written on topics in philosophical theology, moral semantics, and issues in metaphysics more generally. Derek has previously taught at St. Edward’s University, Utah Valley University, and BYU–Idaho. Derek is married to Amanda Haderlie. They have four children. Derek enjoys playing the piano, composing music, trail running, and reading broadly. Angela Wentz Faulconer (visiting) is not new to BYU. First on campus as an undergrad, she returned both during and after earning her PhD from the University of Notre Dame. She will be teaching full-time for the first time this fall after more than twenty semesters of part-time service at BYU. Faulconer has enjoyed teaching courses like Aristotle’s Moral Theory, Utilitarianism, and Philosophical Writing. Her passion, however, is medical ethics. This fall she will teach intro to medical

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ethics, a course she championed and developed, newly approved by the University. Faulconer believes that because we all have bodies and we all have people with bodies that we care about, medical ethics is always worthy of study. That said, a pandemic is a particularly fascinating time to be a medical ethicist and she looks forward to exploring the questions it raises about justice and scarce resources, autonomy and coercion, risk and public health, ageism and disability, race and inequality this coming year.

Spanish & Portuguese Barbara Gordon Bonyata is a visiting instructor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. She received an MA in Spanish literature from BYU, and her primary area of interest is Spanish literature. Bonyata lives in Orem, Utah, with her husband, daughter, and son. She enjoys doing family history work and playing with her little dog, Sadie.

Spanish translation and business Spanish courses. Her research interests include digital tools in second language writing, digital learning communities and machine translation and quality assurance. Professor Perez graduated in Spanish translation from BYU, has an MA in higher education and a PhD in applied linguistics from University of Southampton, UK. Rob Strong (visiting) holds a PhD in Hispanic linguistics from the University of Minnesota. He specializes in Spanish applied linguistics and has previously taught at Wartburg College, the University of Utah, and most recently at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He and his wife Karen have seven children and one grandson.

Elsa Perez is a visiting professor in the Spanish and Portuguese department. She is a certified legal translator and teaches

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DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS American Studies In 2019–20, in collaboration with some dozen departments and programs across campus, the American Studies Program undertook a full update to it electives list. In 2020, a handful of American Studies affiliated faculty have or will publish books: Jill Terry Rudy and Pauline Greenhill’s Fairy-Tale TV (Routledge), Emron Esplin and Margarida Vale de Gato, eds, Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons (Lehigh UP), and George Handley, The Hope of Nature: Our Care for God’s Creation (Maxwell Institute).

Asian & Near Eastern Languages The Cambodian Oral History Project is nearing 5,000 stories and has recently been featured in Y News, Humanities magazine, BYU Today, and more. To watch the video produced by University Communications about the project, visit https://humanities.byu .edu/remembering-5000-stories-ofcambodia/.

Comparative Arts & Letters Cecilia Peek has been appointed as coordinator for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, and Chip Oscarson has been named Assistant Dean of

Undergraduate Education in charge of General Education. Julie Allen received the Humboldt Fellowship and has spent the past year doing research in Frankfurt, Germany, on Scandinavian and Russian film. CAL joined with Spanish & Portuguese in hosting a five-day mini-seminar for the advanced undergraduates and master’s level students, taught by Enrique Garcia Santo-Thomas from the University of Michigan. Martha Peacock gave a presentation titled “The Mermaid of Edam” at the conference of Fantasy and Imagination in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age at the University of Arizona. Francesca Lawson presented “The Mystery of Musicality” at the P.A. Christensen Lecture in March, and was also invited to lecture at Princeton University on “Creating Connections: What Chinese Culture Teaches Us About Music’s Capacity to Convey and Shape Narratives” in April (virtually). Elliott Wise presented “Spiritual Conflagrations and Ekphrastic Mysticism” at Emory University in December, “Worthy Vestment for the Sovereign Priest” in St Louis in October.

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Larry Peer presented “English Language Romanticism and the Problem of Cognition” at the International Conference on Romanticism in Manchester, England. The Humanities Student Symposium took place on April 10. Due to the pandemic, presentations took place online or were prerecorded. The symposium included ten panels on a wide range of topics and featured thirty-four student presentations, all of which are available on the symposium website, humss.byu.edu.

English The most influential event in the English Department during the 2019–20 academic year was, hands down, COVID-19. But other significant things happened, too. Here’s a list of some of them, in no particular order. Kristin Matthews hosted the Reception Studies Society conference in September, and the hallways smelled of roasted coffee beans for two lovely days. Jon Balzotti helped organize BYU’s first experiential learning summit in fall. Miranda Wilcox co-organized the Faith in a Secular Age conference. Nancy Christiansen launched the Education for Leadership faculty research group. Greg Clark collaborated with Marcus Roberts and his Modern Jazz Generation to present a forum about jazz and public humanities. Trent Hickman, as Nan

Grass Professor, invited poet Maurice Manning to campus. Bruce Young (with Margaret Young) made a movie, Heart of Africa, that was released in theaters just as the pandemic took off. He also invited playwright Tim Slover to lecture about J.R.R. Tolkien. We were able to pull off another successful student symposium under the direction of Ben Crosby and Amber Jensen, missing COVID by a few days. Pat Madden and Joey Franklin brought editorship of the creative nonfiction literary journal Fourth Genre to campus. Poe Studies came to BYU under the editorship of Emron Esplin. Jon Balzotti created the College of Humanities journal Experience. Gideon Burton created a popular podcasting class. Brian Jackson and Steve Tuttle initiated an overhaul of the English major with the help of most of the faculty. Dawan Coombs oversaw a proposal for an English education track in our MA Program. Awards given during the year include: Cristie Charles, English Department Adjunct Faculty Research and Creative Works Award Jamie Horrocks, English Department Teaching Award Kimberly Johnson, Distinguished Publication Award, John Donne Society

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Lisa Johnson, English Department Adjunct Faculty Teaching Award Michael Lavers, English Department Scholarship Award and Tampa Review Prize for Poetry David Stock, English Department Citizenship Award Mike Taylor, Redd Center Young Scholar Award Darlene Young, Association of Mormon Letters Poetry Award

French & Italian In the wake of the university shutdown, Bob Hudson, Jennifer Haraguchi, Valerie Hegstrom, and Shelley Williams presented a successful hybrid conference (in person and online) in the Education in Zion Theater: Women’s Voices of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Symposium, March 13–14, 2020. The symposium featured 18 presentations of students and faculty from BYU and other universities, with a keynote by Elissa Weaver, professor emerita, University of Chicago, “Talking to the World from the Convent in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Italy.” One highlight of the symposium was the performance by Suzanne Savoy, Je Christine, The Works of Christine de Pizan. Special funding thanks to the College, Global Women’s Studies, French and Italian, Comparative Arts and Letters, English, Theatre

and Media Arts, History, European Studies, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS). In conjunction with the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, the Department hosted two French Political Pamphlet Fellows this past year, Scott Francis (University of Pennsylvania) and Bruce Hayes (University of Kansas; BA ’93, MA ’95). Following research in the HBLL, Francis lectured in September—“No Offense? The Weaponization of Scandal in the Reign of Charles IX (1560–74)”—and Hayes in February—“The Unusual Origins of Anti-Religious Satire in Early Modern France.” The department joined forces with CLS to host Elizabeth Bernhardt, Director of the Language Center, Stanford University, for a roundtable and workshop on Advanced- and SuperiorLevel learning using literature. New Faculty Coordinator Yvon Le Bras was recently appointed to be faculty coordinator for the translation and localization minor, effective May 1. Le Bras is a professor of French, the current internship coordinator for French majors and minors, and brings much experience with professional and business translation to the position. He is a French native and is a certified translator with the American Translator’s Association. He has also worked for WordPerfect Corporation

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as manager of translations. He will be students’ main contact for course substitutions, program requirements and will work closely with Doug Porter in internship and career development.

German & Russian Teresa Bell has been awarded a oneyear Humanities Center fellowship for 2020–21. Teresa led the German Teachers Institute in June–July 2019. She taught two graduate courses focusing on intercultural competence and communication for a group of Utah German teachers. Teresa also was appointed to the inaugural editorial advisory board for ACTFL’s magazine, The Language Educator. Tony Brown hosted Nadzeya Charapan of Uppsala University, who gave a guest lecture titled “From the Baltic States to the Baltic: The Baltic Path 1989–2019.” In February, Tony hosted Elizaveta Kurganova of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, who gave a guest lecture titled “The Russian Language in the 21st Century.” Christian Clement is the founder and editor-in-chief of Steiner Studies. International Journal for Critical Steiner Research. The journal can be accessed at https://steiner-studies.com. The scope of Christian’s compilation of a critical edition of the works of Rudolf Steiner has been extended by publisher

from the original eight volumes to 16. The project should be completed by 2025. Christian also hosted Eugene Schwartz, a Waldorf educator and founder of Millennial Child, Inc., The Waldorf Method is based on the educational philosophy of Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Grant Lundberg hosted Nada Šabec, a professor of linguistics from the University of Maribor in Slovenia. Mark Purves gave a lecture titled, “This is Not a Novel: Tolstoy’s War and Peace” on 29 January as part of the International Cinema’s lecture series. The 45th annual Adventssingen Christmas fireside took place on Sunday, 8 December 2019 in the de Jong Concert Hall. The director was Kathryn Isaak.

Linguistics Our department continued for the second year with the Linguistics Discussion Group. The Linguistics Discussion Group is a way to facilitate discussion among linguists across the College and completed its second full year in Winter 2020. We encourage those doing research in any domain of linguistics to participate. We have heard from people in multiple departments/sections on a wide variety of topics. Here are some recent topics: a Russian morphological analyzer for language learning; humor, power and

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identity in Japanese foreign language residence; perception of Portuguese mid-vowel contrasts; very informal and very large corpora; bats, zombies, and homophony: the dangers of fieldwork. Feel free to join us for future meetings! Contact Jeff Parker (jeff_parker@ byu.edu) to get updates. In March the Department of Linguistics hosted two guest speakers. Jeff Green gave a lecture titled “Psycholinguistic processing, reference resolution, and language acquisition.” In his talk, he discussed evidence from eye tracking and electroencephalography about the kinds of information native and nonnative speakers of a language use to resolve reference and in processing more generally, and discussed potential implications for second language acquisition. Bret Linford’s lecture was “The Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence.” This presentation discussed the second language (L2) acquisition of sociolinguistic competence, that is, the ability to vary across linguistic forms when more than one form is grammatically possible. Pedagogical implications regarding the acquisition of this competence were also discussed. Faculty in the news: Jacob Rawlins, received the 2019 Distinguished Book on Business Communication Award at the Association for Business Communication’s 84th Annual

International Conference in late October. Chris Rogers was interviewed by BYU Magazine about his work studying and preserving dying languages, like Guazacapan Xinkan. In 2008, Rogers visited the last native speaker of Guazacapan Xinkan, Carlos. Rogers listened and recorded Carlos’ language so that it wouldn’t be lost after his death. Today Xinkan lives on as it is studied in classes by local people in Guatemala.

Philosophy Dan Graham was a keynote speaker at the London Ancient Science Conference on February 19, 2020.

Department Highlights

Letras Hispanas de Asorbaex, 2020. Virtual Literary Conference. Via Jitsi, September 4; 18, 2020. Madrid–Spain. Samuel Lopez was awarded a Charles Redd Fellowship Award in Western American History by the Charles Redd center for his ongoing research project “Interpreters of the American West.” Valerie Hegstrom received the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG) award in fall 2019, Best Translated Edition of a Work on Women and Gender Published in 2018, for her edition of Ângela de Azevedo’s El muerto disimulado.

Philosophy hosted Robert Larmer, from the University of New Brunswick in Canada in October for our Philosophy Lecture Series and a colloquium presentation to the Philosophy faculty called “Interpreting Hume on Miracles.” It is the 30th year anniversary of the student journal Aporia.

Spanish & Portuguese Blair Bateman was elected President, Utah Foreign Language Association, 2020–21. Mara García was Coordinadora General de las Jornadas sobre Vallejo en el II Congreso Mundial de las

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MAJOR SCHOLARLY WORKS PUBLISHED IN 2019–20 Asian & Near Eastern Languages Baik, J., Nam, Y., Kim, Y. (2019). “The relative difficulty of processing Korean modifying clauses: An eye-tracking study.” Korean Language and Literature, 189, 147–184. Bourgerie, D. (2019). “Dialects of the Southeast Asian Chinese Diaspora: A Cambodian Case Study.” In The Landscapes of World Dialectology: Festschrift in Commemoration of the Retirement of Yŏsu, Prof. Yi Sanggyu, (pp. 447–512). K. Wiwonhoe, Ed. Seoul: T’aehaksa. Damron, J & Baik, J. (2020). Easy Korean. Vermont: Tuttle Publishing. Honey, David. “Fushen Guwen Shangshu an ceji: yi ‘Xianyou yide’ weili” 復審《古文尚書》案側記: 以《咸有一德》為例 (“Sidelights on Reviewing the Case of the Old Text Esteemed Documents: ‘Both Possessed this Single Virtue’ as Example”). Huang Ren’er 黃人二, et al. eds. Chutu wenian yu Zhongguo jingxue, gushi yanjiu guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwenji (Taibei: Gaowen chubanshe 高文出版社, 2019), 124–46. Liu, Yu. “Disfluency in L2 Chinese Academic Oral Presentation and Formulaic Language Teaching.” In Chinese for Specific and Professional Purposes, Edited by Tao, Hongyin, and Howard Hao-Jan Chen, Springer, pp. 95–130, 2019. McBride, Richard D., II. Aspiring to Enlightenment: Pure Land Buddhism in Silla Korea. Pure Land Buddhist Studies Series. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2020. Moody, S. (2019). “Interculturality as social capital at work: The case of disagreements in American-Japanese interaction”. Language in Society, 48(3). Parry, Donald W. Exploring the Isaiah Scrolls and Their Textual Variants. e-book: Brill, 2019. Tsuchiya, S. & Moody, S. (2020). “Social interaction in the Japanese House: Does it encourage learning?” In Bown, J., Dewey, D. P., & Smemoe, W. B. (Eds.) Language Learning in Foreign Language Housing (pp. 263–332). Auburn: International Association for Language Learning Technology.

Comparative Arts & Letters Peacock, Martha. “The Maid of Holland and Her Heroic Heiresses,” Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500–1750 (Brill, 2019), 68–127. Peer, Larry H. Romanticism: Seminal Insights. Provo, UT: International Conference on Romanticism, BYU, 2019. Wayment, Thomas. A New Edition of Codex I (016) The Washington Pauline Manuscript. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019. Yamada, Marc. Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades. London: Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge, 2019.

Major Scholarly Works

English John Bennion. Ezekiel’s Third Wife. Hampshire, England: Roundfire Books, 2019. Dennis Cutchins, ed., with Dennis Perry. Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2018. Eric Eliason. The Island of Lace: Drawn Threadwork on Saba in the Dutch Caribbean. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi 2019. Spencer Hyde. What the Other Three Don’t Know. SLC: Shadow Mountain, 2020. Brian Jackson. Teaching Mindful Writers. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2020. Michael Lavers. After Earth: Poems. Tampa: University of Tampa Press, 2019. Peter Leman. Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the Culture of Colonial Modernity in East African Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Patrick Madden. Disparates: Essays. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. Brett McInelly, ed. with Paul E. Kerry. New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment. Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018. Brian Roberts, trans. Oceans of Longing: Nine Stories. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, 2019. Brandie Siegfried, ed. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Poem & Fancies with The Animal Parliament. Toronto, Canada: Iter Press, 2018.

French & Italian Marc Olivier has published Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects (Indiana University Press, 2020). He invites readers to take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine fashioned Carrie’s prom dress (admit it—you saw it), and houseplants might kill you while you sleep. Marc highlights the wonder and terrifying dimension of objects in horror cinema, room by room, with fourteen household objects that manifest their own power and expose cultural fears and anxieties. Marie Orton translated Kossi Komla-Ebri’s EmbarRacements: Daily Embarrassments in Black and White and Color (Bordighera Press, 2020). The author is an Italian citizen of Togolese origin, a medical doctor and award-winning writer who recounts 145 everyday incidents that foreground problems of race in contemporary Italy.

German & Russian Clement, Christian. Rudolf Steiner. Schriften—Kritische Aufgabe. Bd 4: Intellektuelle Biographien (Nietzsche, Goethe, Haeckel). frommann-holzboog, 2019. https://www.frommann-holzboog.de/editionen/127/127000310?lang=en-gb.

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Clement, Christian. Literatur und Apokalypse. Perspektiven einer anthroposophisch orientierten Texthermeneutik. Verlag Koenigshausen-Neumann, 2020. https://www.verlag koenigshausen-neumann.de/product_info.php/info/p9498. James, Michelle Stott and McFarland, Rob. Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture: Literary Joint Ventures, 1750–1850.

Linguistics Bown, J., Smemoe, W. B., Dewey, D. P. (2020) Language learning in foreign language houses: immersion and integration. Publisher, International Association for Language Learning Technology Cox, T. L., Dewey, D. P., (2019) Measuring language development through self-assessment. Routledge Handbook of SLA and Language Testing. Routledge Davies, M. E., Egbert, J. (2019) If olive oil is made of olives, then what’s baby oil made of? The shifting semantics of Noun+Noun sequences in American English. Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis. Routledge Eckstein, G. T., (2019) Excessive peer review and the death of an academic article. Navigating Challenges in Qualitative Education Research: Research Interrupted. Routledge Fidler, J. A., Lonsdale, D. W. (2019) A Japanese accent database for L2 learners. New Sounds 2019: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, p.55 Hartshorn, K. J., Andrade, M. S., (2019) International Student Transitions: A Framework for Success, Cambridge Scholar, Newcastle, England. James, J., Henrichsen, L. E., Tanner, M. W., McMurry, B. C. (2019) A case study in the administration and operation of an L2 conversation-partner program. TESL Reporter, vol. 52, pp.52–71. Messenger, R. A., Evans, N. W., Hartshorn, K. J. (2020) Managing dynamic written corrective feedback: perspectives of experienced teachers. Journal of Response to Writing. Nuckolls, J. B., Eddington, D. S. (2019) Examination of manner of motion sound symbolism for English Nonce verbs. Languages. Nuckolls, J. B. (2019) Introduction to Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Grammar, Culture, and Discourse Patterns from Pastaza and Upper Napo Speakers. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. Oaks, D. D., Oaks, M. S. (2020) Historical language dynamism and humor: some English language examples. Southern Journal of Linguistics, pp. 29–63. Parker, J. (2019) Case and syncretism. The Oxford Guide to the Slavonic Languages. Rawlins, J. D., Chapman, D. W. (2019) Language Prescription: Values, Ideologies and Identity. Multilingual Matters.

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Rogers, C. L. (2019) Xinkan vowel harmony revisited. Journal of Anthropological Linguistics, pp. 320–45. Skousen, R. J. (2019) The King James Quotations in the Book of Mormon, part 5, vol. 3 of the critical text of the Book of Mormon. Brigham Young University Studies, Provo, Utah. Smith, Z., Eggington, W. F., Brown, E. K., Heilpren, J. (2020) Corpus linguistics and trademark genericity. BYU Law Review.

Philosophy Graham, Dan. Ancient Philosophy: The Fundamentals. Wiley Blackwell Laraway, David. Borges and Black Mirror. Palgrave Macmillan White, Justin. “Agency, Identity, and Alienation in The Sickness unto Death,” in The Kierkegaardian Mind, edited by Adam Buben, Eleanor Helms, and Patrick Stokes. Routledge, 2019.

Spanish & Portuguese Alvord, Scott M. & Greg L. Thompson. 2020. Spanish in the US: Attitudes and Variation. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Andrade, P. (2020). Empatia e conflito entre o trágico e o cômico: uma leitura de “Comédia em tom menor” de Hans Keilson. Pandaemonium Germanicum, 23(41), 176–90. Benito Cox, C., & Montgomery, C. (2019). A study of 21st century skills and engagement in a university Spanish classroom. Foreign Language Annals, 52(1), 822–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12426 Garcia, Mara. Esther Díaz Llanillo: Una mujer fantástica. Trujillo: Industria Gráfica ABC SAC, 2019. Halling, Anna-Lisa. “Soror Maria do Céu’s Virgin Mary and the Male Gaze.” Via Spiritus 26 (2019): 165–83. Martinsen, R. A., Thompson, G. (2019). Virtual Conversations: Research and Practice in Online Language Exchanges. Publicaciones, 49(2). faedumel.ugr.es/pages/ investigacion/revistapubli Nielson, R. P., Montgomery, C. M. (2019). Fostering cultural competency through technology-infused pedagogical approaches to literary studies. ADFL Bulletin, 45(2), 97–114. Nielson, R. P. (2019). Utopic Masculinity: Humor, Xenophobia, and Homophobia in José Paulo de Araújo’s ‘XRM-2600.’. Brasil/Brazil: a Journal of Brazilian Literature, 32(60), 61–74.

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Pratt, D. J. (2020). Bacteria, Thought, and Ideological Infections in Galdós’s Novelas Contemporáneas. In Jorge Avilés Diz and José Manuel Goñi Pérez (Ed.), Literatura y medicina: teoría y praxis (1800–1930). Volumen I. (192–221). Madrid: Ediciones de La Torre. Price, B. L. (2019). Del rock a la palabra. La música popular y la literatura mexicana. Historia de las literaturas mexicanas: Hacia un nuevo siglo (1968–2012). Mexico City: UNAM-IIB-IIFl-Coordinación de Humanidades. Rogers, Brandon M. A., Scott M. Alvord, & Doug Porter. 2020. The effect of study, dialect, and extended time abroad on the L2 acquisition of Spanish speech rhythm: Results and methodological concerns. In Spanish in the US: Variation, Attitudes, and Pedagogy, ed. by Scott M. Alvord & Greg Thompson. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 111–36. Thompson, G. L., Brown, A. V. (2019). Heritage language learners and Spanish for specific purposes: Bridging the gap through community service learning. Revista Signos. Estudios de Lingüística, 52(101), 908–30. Weatherford, Douglas J. Juan Rulfo en el cine: Los guiones de Pedro Páramo y El gallo de oro. Edition and study by Douglas J. Weatherford. Mexico City: Fundación Juan Rulfo-Editorial RM, 2020. Williams, G. L. (2019). Alistair Malcolm, Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640–1665. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, XCVI (5, 2). Provo: Taylor & Francis.

College Honors and University Emeriti Updates Awards

Chantal Thompson (F&I) and her husband, Bill, recently returned from a mission to West Africa where they implemented YSA Institute programs in French-speaking units of the Area, based in Accra, Ghana. Midway through their mission, they were reassigned to serve in Senegal to be MLS and humanitarian missionaries.

RETIRED DURING 2019–20 Mark Davies

Linguistics

Bill Eggington

Linguistics

Van Gessel

Asian & Near Eastern Languages

Dan Graham

Philosophy

Cynthia Hallen

Linguistics

Brian McGhie

Office of Digital Humanities

Danette Paul

English

Royal Skousen

Linguistics

Nicolaas Unlandt

French & Italian

EMERITI HIGHLIGHTS Rob Erickson (F&I) and his wife (Jean) are currently serving a mission as a senior couple to the cadets of the United States Academy at West Point.

DEATHS OF EMERITI SINCE AUGUST 2019

Ilona Klein (F&I) stays busy as a beekeeper, gardener, and seamstress—she is part of a volunteer group making face masks for nursing homes and the homeless. Her scholarly work hasn’t suffered either: she’s just published an article in MLN (“When Good Girls Go Bad (Or Do They?): Nymphomania and Lycanthropy in Verga’s ‘La Lupa’.”), crowdsource translates medieval manuscripts for the Newberry, and continues work on Primo Levi for a book manuscript.

Karen Lynn Davidson

English

O. Glade Hunsaker

English

F. Kent Nielsen

Philosophy

Elray Lincoln Pedersen

English

Norman Clyde Turner

French & Italian

Cinzia Noble (F&I) occupies her days with grandchildren, a very long reading list of titles she didn’t get to while teaching, the tactical dismantling of bridge opponents, and assisting the Dante Alighieri School in Siena, Italy, with distributing study abroad scholarships to worthy students.

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Rank and Status Information

RANK AND STATUS ADVANCEMENT RESULTS 2019–20

DUE DATES FOR RANK AND STATUS ADVANCEMENT

Successful candidacy for continuing faculty status (passed Initial Review):

Deadlines for Final (CFS) Review and Full Professor Review

Matt Baker Juno Baik Suzy Bills Brian Croxall Adam McBride Rob Reynolds Amy Williams

October 1 Candidate files to Dean’s Office

Linguistics Asian & Near Eastern Languages Linguistics Office of Digital Humanities French & Italian Office of Digital Humanities English

Faculty members granted continuing faculty status as associate professor: Jon Balzotti Mary Eyring Chris Flood Seth Jeppesen Cherice Montgomery Mike Pope

English English French & Italian Comparative Arts & Letters Spanish & Portuguese Comparative Arts & Letters

Faculty members granted rank advancement to associate professor: Mark Tanner

Linguistics

October 20 Department committee letter, department vote memo, and chair’s letter due to Dean’s Office November 15 College committee review complete December 1 File submitted to University

Deadline for Initial Review February 1 Candidate files to Dean’s Office February 20 Department committee letter, department vote memo, and chair’s letter due to Dean’s Office March 10 College committee review complete March 20 File submitted to University

The College deadline to declare intent to sit for full professor is February 15.

Faculty members granted continuing faculty status: Earl Brown

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Faculty members granted rank advancement as full professor: Scott Alvord David Laraway Roger Macfarlane Brian Roberts

Spanish & Portuguese Spanish & Portuguese Comparative Arts & Letters English

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Upcoming Events

UPCOMING EVENTS (ALL EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR CANCELLATION) Fall 2020

Winter 2021

October 8 Homecoming, Honored Alumni Lecture: Bonnie Oscarson 11:00, B092 JFSB

February TBD College banquet

October 22 Barker Lecture: Dan Dewey 11:00, B092 JFSB October 30 HUM grants proposal deadline November 6 HUM grants mentor endorsement deadline November 24 College Assessment Day December 1 HUM grants awards announced

February TBD College of Humanities 3MT Competition March 11 P.A. Christensen Lecture: Michelle James 11:00, B092 JFSB March 9 College Assessment Day April 15 Language Fairs April 23 College Convocation April 29–30 Assessment Retreat May 3–7 Faculty Development Series–Spring Seminar for first-year faculty May 13–14 Second-year faculty Retreat

Visit humanities.byu.edu/calendar for updates throughout the year.

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INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SCHEDULE FALL 2020 This schedule is subject to change. Films will be streamed on Hummedia or screened in 250 KMBL. Please consult ic.byu.edu for screening and streaming schedules. 4–5 September (Encore Week) Parasite (Joon Ho Bong, 2019, Korean) Woman at War (Benedikt Erlingsson, Icelandic, 2018)*

9–12 September (Long Takes) 1917 (Sam Mendes, English, 2019)* Victoria (Sebastian Schipper, German, 2015) Long Day’s Journey into Night (Gan Bi, Mandarin, 2018)

College International Honors and University Cinema Schedule Awards

14–17 October (Reconciliation continued) The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa, Spanish/Quechua, 2009) Our Mothers (Cesar Diaz, Spanish, 2019) I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, English, 2016)

21–24 October (Artists & Writers) Varda by Agnès (Agnès Varda, French, 2019) Becoming Astrid (Pernille Fischer Christensen, Swedish/Danish, 2018) Santiago, Italia (Nanni Moretti, Spanish/Italian, 2018) Central Station (Walter Salles, Portuguese, 1998)

28–31 October (International Horror) Ringu (Hideo Nakata, Japanese, 1998) The Eye (Danny Pang & Oxide Chun Pang, Cantonese/Thai/Mandarin, 2002) Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, Spanish, 2006)

16–19 September (Displaced at Home and Abroad)

Beyond The Visible – Hilma af Klint (Halina Dyrschka, Swedish/German, 2019)

Les Misérables (Ladj Ly, French/Bambara, 2019)*

4–7 November (The Rise and Fall of Democracy)

Adam (Maryam Touzani, Arabic, 2019) Buoyancy (Rodd Rathjen, Khmer/Thai, 2019) Fig Tree (Aalam-Warqe Davidian, Amharic/Hebrew, 2018)

Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Justin Pemberton, English/French, 2019) Iphigenia (Michael Cacoyannis, Greek, 1977) Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi, French/Persian/German, 2007)

23–26 September (Remembering World War II)

No (Pablo Larraín, Spanish, 2012)

Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, English, 2017)*

11–14 November (Voice and Suffrage)

Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, Japanese/English, 2006)* Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, French/Japanese, 1959) The Accountant of Auschwitz (Matthew Shoychet, English/German, 2018)

Suffragette (Sarah Gavron, English, 2015)* The Cave (Feras Fayyad, Arabic, 2018) Papicha (Mounia Meddour, French/Arabic, 2019)

30 September – 3 October

Zana (Antoneta Kastrati, Albanian, 2019)

16 Bars (Sam Bathrick, English, 2018)

18–21 November (International Animation)

Selma (Ava DuVernay, English, 2014) There is No Evil (Mohammad Rasoulof, Persian/German, 2020)

7–10 October (Caught up in Crime) Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, English, 2010)* The Painter and the Thief (Benjamin Ree, English/Norwegian, 2020) The Vanishing (George Sluizer, Dutch/French, 1988) Lucky Grandma (Sasie Sealy, English/Mandarin/Cantonese, 2019)

Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, Japanese, 1991) Coco (Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina, Spanish, 2017)* Approved for Adoption (Laurent Boileau & Jung, French/Korean, 2012) The Eternal Feminine (Natalia Beristáin, Spanish, 2017)

2–5 December The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, Russian, 1957) Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair, Hindi, 2001)

14–17 October (Reconciliation)

Collective (Alexander Nanau, Romanian, 2019)*

Out Stealing Horses (Hans Petter Moland, Norwegian/Swedish, 2019)

*Not available on Hummedia.

BYU College of Humanities Meeting 2020

Acronym List

SOME COMMONLY USED ACRONYMS, INITIALISMS, & VOCABULARY TO KNOW 3MT

Th ree Minute Thesis

A&NEL, Asian & Near Eastern Languages ASNEL

CAS

entral Authentication Service C (login protocol for web, where you enter your NetID and password)

ESCP

École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris

ILR

Interagency Language Roundtable

ESL

English as a Second Language

ISLA

Instructed Second-Language Acquisition

Associate of Arts Degree (not Alcoholics Anonymous)

CEA

College English Association

ESSWE European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism

JFSB

Joseph F. Smith Building

CFS

Continuing Faculty Status

FAC

Faculty Advisory Council

JKB

Jesse Knight Building

AAC

Administrative Advisory Council

CLIPS

FERPA

merican Association of Teachers of A German

e Family Educational Rights and Th Privacy Act

JKHB

AATG

Language Integrated Production C System

J esse Knight Humanities Building, to pre-millennial alumni

CLS

Center for Language Studies

FHSS

Joseph Smith Building

All But Dissertation

CLVS

College Leadership Visiting Services

YU College of Family, Home, and B Social Sciences

JSB

ABD

ACMRS Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

CPMS

YU College of Physical and B Mathematical Sciences

YU Kennedy Center B (Provo, not D.C.)

KMBL

ACTFL American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

CrossFit A high-intensity interval training regimen combined with weightlifting, gymnastics, and other exercises

Spencer W. Kimball Tower (formerly SWKT)

LAAC

Liberal Arts Advisement & Careers

LARC

L anguage Acquisition Research Conference

ACTFL– American Council on the NYSAFLT Teaching of Foreign Languages New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers AD

A nno Domini

ADA

Americans with Disabilities Act

A nno Hegirae or Arts and Humanities

APA

A merican Psychological Association (style/format)

Assessalot Training Retreat for College Faculty ASI

Annual Stewardship Interview

ATIG

Ancient Textual Imaging Group

AVP

Academic Vice President

Bachelor of Arts Degree

Bachelor of Science Degree

BTWH

Berkeley-Tübingen-Wien-Harvard

BYU, Brigham Young University, The BYU BYU, to pre-Wilkinson era alumni CAC

College Administrative Council

CAL

Comparative Arts & Letters

CALL

Computer-Assisted Language Learning

CAPS

YU Counseling and Psychological B Services

FLAC

Foreign Language Activity Commons

FLATS

Foreign Language Achievement Testing Services

FLSR

Foreign Language Student Residence

FPS

Faculty Publishing Service or Faculty Profile System

LDS

General Education

Latter-day Saints, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Harold B. Lee Library

LDSP

Philanthropies

Humanities Center

LEP

Limited Enrollment Program

HEC

Shortened, anglicized form of ESCP

LocLand E vent held by The Translation and Localization Club LPDA

anguage Proficiency Diagnostic L Assessment

LSP

Language for Special Purposes

Master of Arts Degree

Master of Ceremonies

MARS

BYU Medieval & Renaissance Studies

MEd

Master of Education Degree

CSR

Computer Support Representative

CSS

Cascading Style Sheet (format)

CTL

Center for Teaching and Learning

DAAD

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst German Academic Exchange Service

HBLL

Digital Humanities

HLC

DigHT

Digital Humanities and Technology, the Digital Humanities and Technology Minor

Humanities Leadership Council

HLR

Humanities Learning Resources

HMEG

Humanities Mentoring Grant

efense Language Institute Foreign D Language Center

BYU Human Resources Office

HRCB

Herald R. Clark Building

DMBA

eseret Mutual Benefit D Administrators

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language (format)

EIR

Education Innovation and Research

HUM

Humanities

EIZ

E ducation in Zion

EEO

Equal Employment Opportunity

HUMGrant, Humanities Grant HumGrant (Formerly ORCA Grant)

ELC

English Language Center

DLI

EMISAJ Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures Journal EOO

Equal Opportunity Office

HUMBUG

A Flaw in DH Code

MFA

Master of Fine Arts Degree

MLA

Modern Language Association

MLN

J ournal published by Johns Hopkins University Press, featuring critical studies in the modern languages

MOA

BYU Museum of Art

MPA

aster of Public Administration M Degree

HUMDINGER A Humanities Home Run

International Cinema

ICS

International Cinema Studies Minor

ICALL

Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning

BYU College of Humanities Meeting 2020

English Reading Series Schedule

University of California, Los Angeles

MTC

Missionary Training Center

NCAA

ational Collegiate Athletic N Association

NEA

National Endowment for the Arts

UCOTE U niversity Council on Teacher Education

NEH

ational Endowment for the N Humanities

UFLA

Utah Foreign Language Association

User Interface

NFL

National Football League

UEP

Universal Enrollment Program

NTSC

National Television System Committee (format)

United Nations

NWP

National Writing Project

ODH

Office of Digital Humanities

UVU

Utah Valley University

OIT

YU Office of Information B Technology

UVX

tah Valley Express bus rapid U transit system

OPI

Oral Proficiency Interview

User Experience

ORCA

Office of Research and Creative Activities

WPT

ACTFL Writing Proficiency Test

WSR

Web Support Representative

PAL

Phase Alternating Line (format)

PhD

Doctor of Philosophy Degree

QPR

uestion. Persuade. Refer. Q (suicide prevention steps)

R&S

Rank and Status

Returned Missionaries

RWC

Research and Writing Center

SAC

Student Advisory Council

UCLA

Please note that only registered students may attend the English Reading Series in person. Zoom attendance or recordings may also become available.

The English Reading Series — Fall 2020 Sunni Brown Wilkinson

UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista

Ashley Mae Hoiland

Search Engine Optimization

SOAS

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

SOBL

Seal of Biliteracy

TBD

To Be Determined

TESL

Teaching English as a Second Language

TESOL

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Translation Studies

University of California

September 25

Young Adult

October 23 Jennifer Sinor is the author of several books, including Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe and the memoir Ordinary Trauma. Her forthcoming essay collection, Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World, will appear in the fall of 2020 from the University of Nebraska Press, and her essays have been published in many literary journals including The American Scholar, Utne, Creative Nonfiction, and Gulf Coast. The recipient of the Stipend in American Modernism as well as nominations for the National Magazine Award and the Pushcart Prize, Jennifer teaches creative writing at Utah State University where she is a professor of English. She lives in Logan with her husband, poet Michael Sowder, and her two sons.

Mike White

October 30 Mike White is the author of the collections How to Make a Bird with Two Hands (Word Works, 2012) and Addendum to a Miracle (Waywiser, 2017), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in journals including The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, Rattle, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, and Kenyon Review Online. Originally from Montreal, Canada, he now lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah.

YANCON Young Adult Novel Conference YSA

Young Single Adult

Patrick Madden

October 2

Kristen Chandler

Patrick Madden is the author of three essay collections, Disparates (2020), Sublime Physick (2016), and Quotidiana (2010), and co-editor of After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays (2015). He curates www.quotidiana.org, co-edits the journal Fourth Genre with Joey Franklin, and, with David Lazar, co-edits the 21st Century Essays series at the Ohio State University Press. He has taught English at BYU since 2004.

SECAM Sequential Color and Memory (format) SEO

Jennifer Sinor

Ashley Mae Hoiland is the author of One Hundred Birds Taught me to Fly and A New Constellation, both of which were nominated for various awards. She received a BFA in painting and an MFA in poetry, both at BYU. She teaches online writing classes through her platform, Mine To Tell and is currently working on writing and illustrating her next book. She lives in Provo with her husband and three children.

Y, The Y BYU (not the YMCA) YA

September 18

Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Adirondack Review, Sugar House Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Sou’wester and other journals and anthologies. She is the author of The Marriage of the Moon and the Field (Black Lawrence Press 2019), and winner of New Ohio Review’s inaugural NORward Poetry Prize. She teaches at Weber State University and lives in northern Utah with her husband and three young sons.

Jack Harrell

October 9

Jack Harrell grew up in southeastern Illinois and moved west to Utah in 1981, where he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age 21. His first book, Vernal Promises, won the Marilyn Brown Novel Award. He is the author of A Sense of Order and Other Stories, and Writing Ourselves: Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism. His latest book is the novel Caldera Ridge. Harrell’s interests include classic rock and progressive metal music, bird watching, and the history of the English language. Harrell has been a writing teacher at BYU-Idaho since 1995.

Yamile Said Méndez

October 16

Yamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is a fútbol-obsessed Argentine-American who loves meteor showers, summer, astrology, and pizza. She lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband and their five kids, two adorable dogs, and one majestic cat. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, she’s also a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Writing for Children’s and Young Adult program. She’s a PB, MG, and YA author. Yamile is also part of Las Musas, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latinx MG and YA authors. She’s represented by Linda Camacho at Gallt & Zacker Literary.

November 6

Kristen Chandler is the author of Thief of Happy Endings and the award-winning Girls Don’t Fly and Wolves, Boys, and Other Things That Might Kill Me. She was nominated for the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award. She thrives on making readers laugh, cry, and worry about what will happen next, so she isn’t the nicest person in the world. She teaches Creative Writing and Composition at Brigham Young University.

Joey Franklin

November 13 Joey Franklin is the author of Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays (Nebraska, 2020) and My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married (Nebraska, 2015). His essays and articles have appeared in Poets & Writers, Gettysburg Review, The Norton Reader, and elsewhere. He currently serves as co-editor of the literary magazine Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, and coordinates the MFA program at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His active projects include a memoir about the saints and scoundrels in his family tree, and a practical guide to professionalization in creative writing.

Paxman Student Reading

November 20

Three student readers will share their own creative work—one in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Students may be pursuing graduate or undergraduate degrees.

Go to ers.byu.edu to find out more about BYU’s English Reading Series.

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