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PROGRAM Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dean Scott Miller Opening Hymn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lord, I Will Follow Thee (#220) Directed by. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sharon Harris Accompanied by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greg Stallings Invocation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Devin Asay

College and University Awards Introductions State of the College Dean’s Remarks Benediction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrícia de Andrade

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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 College Professorships and Fellowships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 College of Humanities Lectureships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 University Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Faculty Advisory Council Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 College Centers and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 New Faculty and Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Department Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Major Scholarly Works Published in 2020–21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Retirements and Deaths of Emeriti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Upcoming Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Rank and Status Advancement Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 International Cinema Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Acronym & Initialism List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Education in Zion Gallery Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 English Reading Series Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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COLLEGE PROFESSORSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS Dawan Coombs

Humanities+ Public Humanities Award

Dawan Coombs teaches courses in English/language arts methods, adolescent reading, and young adult literature. Her research explores adolescent reader identity, preservice teacher identity, and dialogical approaches to literacy education. Her coauthored book, Novice Teachers Embracing Wobble in Standardized Schools: Using Dialogue and Inquiry for Self- Reflection and Growth, was published by Routledge in 2020. The Humanities+ Public Humanities Award recognizes Dawan's contributions to public education and her influence at BYU and in the community. In addition to her her many students and working with English teachers in the public school system, she currently serves as the BYU Secondary Education Coordinator, working with the BYU Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education (CITES), BYU's Education Preparation Program, partnership school districts, and all the faculty members at BYU responsible for preparing future teachers.

Jill Rudy

Humanities+ Student-centered Research Award

Jill Terry Rudy has received university and college support since 2013 for mentored student research on fairy tales and media, involving superb graduate and undergraduate students: Madeleine Dresden, Kristy Stewart, Jessie Riddle, Megan Armknecht, Lauren Matthews, Grace Taito, Ariel Hubbard, Lauren Redding, Preston Wittwer, Gigi Valentine Knapp, Eliza Schow, Logan Groll, Jacqueline Smith, Cortlynd Olsen, Erica Smith, and Claire Gillett. Four graduate students, Emma Nelson, Ashley Walton, Christa Baxter, and Becca Hay, published two coauthored chapters in her book Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television coedited with Pauline Greenhill. The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures, coedited with Greenhill, Naomi Hamer, and Lauren Bosc, includes a chapter by Jessie Riddle. Fairy-Tale TV, a Routledge Television Guidebook coauthored with Greenhill, was published in 2020. For more student work, visit fttv.byu.edu.

Spencer Scoville

Humanities+ Experiential Learning Educator Award

As Arabic Section Head in the Department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages, Spencer Scoville was faced

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with a particularly difficult pandemic challenge. Given the proscription on student travel abroad, and the Arabic program’s major requirement for student participation in the Amman Jordan Study Abroad Program, Professor Scoville supervised arrangements for dozens of students to participate in a remote, intensive Arabic program (“abroad” in Provo) during Fall Semester 2020. Students interacted remotely with mentors and tutors tuning in daily from Jordan and participated in other activities to strengthen their Arabic language skills and deepen their cultural understanding.

Allen Christenson

College Excellence in Teaching Award

Allen J. Christenson has been a fulltime professor at BYU since 1998 (having come to us from his previous life as a Maya shaman, Air Force major, general dentist, oral surgeon, and aged art history graduate student). He teaches a wide variety of courses, emphasizing the art and literature of the ancient Maya, the United States, and Latin America, as well as senior and graduate seminars in Early Modernism, Victorian Great Britain, and Europe in La Belle Époque. He would be the first to tell you that there is a lot of Emerson in the worldview of the ancient Maya and a lot of Aztec philosophy in the writings of Stéphane Mallarmé, so his lectures are not as unrelated as it might appear at first glance. He is the author of seven books,

eighteen book chapters, and a number of journal and encyclopedia articles. His work as an anthropologist, art historian, and highland Mayan language translator informs his teaching and mentoring opportunities in ways that, as he describes, make it a transcendent joy to go to work each morning. Dr. Christenson is a dedicated and passionate teacher who inspires his students to excel in all that they do. His student ratings routinely point to his enthusiasm for course materials and for the ways he brings to life topics ranging from the worlds of the ancient Maya to Victorian art.

Matthew Gibbons

Adjunct Faculty Achievement Award

Matthew Gibbons is the longestserving adjunct in the Digital Humanities and Technology program and one of two resident Whovians in the Office of Digital Humanities. He developed curricula for three DigHT web technology courses, which he continues to refine each semester. Matt is very cognizant of his students needs, tailoring his instruction to what will be of most use to them in their studies and future employment. He recently went above and beyond the scope of his responsibilities when he restructured his web publishing course to focus on accessibility issues after a legally blind student enrolled in his section.

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Berenice Ventura

Adjunct Faculty Achievement Award

Berenice Ventura, a native of Uruguay, is an excellent teacher that has proven invaluable for the department of Spanish and Portuguese’s 300-level courses (teaching SPAN 321, 322, 339, and 355). She has also been instrumental in piloting and editing materials for the new SPAN 321 curriculum and serves as a member of the College's INSIGHT committee. Berenice is a talented translator and writer, an amazing and well liked instructor, and is loved and respected across the college. She loves nature, friends, and books, but not necessarily in this order.

Jeff Beatty

Adjunct Faculty Professional Contributions Award

Jeff Beatty has been a key adjunct faculty member for the translation and localization minor since 2015. He has made meaningful contributions in all areas of the program, including curriculum development, adjunct mentoring, and software training. He has been willing to take on additional assignments and has been a valuable consultant to the Center for Language Studies. His expertise, vast professional network, and genuine concern for the students has allowed the program to progress and develop into a fullfledged, content-rich minor. It is fair to say that his contributions will benefit

translation and localization students for years to come.

Marc Yamada

Humanities Center Fellow (1 year)

Marc Yamada has been teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities section of the Department of Comparative Arts & Letters since 2013, after teaching Japanese literature and East Asian film for three years at Wake Forest University. He has published articles on Japanese and East Asian film, literature, and culture, and a monograph on Japan’s Heisei period: Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction & Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades (Routledge, 2019). He is currently working on a monograph on the films of Koreeda Hirokazu, which is under contract with the Contemporary Film Directors Series at the University of Illinois Press.

Mary Eyring

Humanities Center Fellow (1 year)

Mary Eyring has been teaching English and American studies at BYU since 2014. She received her PhD in Literature from the University of California, San Diego, and taught English for one year at Pace University’s Manhattan campus. Her book, Captains of Charity: The Writings and Wages of Postrevolutionary Atlantic Benevolence, was published by the University Press of New England in 2017. She has coedited special issues

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of Early American Studies and the Journal of Transnational American Studies and contributed a chapter to the collection Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). She has also published in American Literature, Early American Literature, and other journals. She is completing a second book, Saltwater: Globalizing Early American Grief. It studies common afflictions—such as miscarriage, homelessness, unhappy marriages, and disability—that shaped the mood of early American life even more than the tragedies and crises we usually associate with early American grief. When it is finished, this book will be published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press.

has collaborated with Nick Mason and other colleagues, including some terrific students, on two major electronic critical editions: William Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes (published by Romantic Circles in 2012, revised in 2020) and Dorothy Wordsworth’s Lake District (currently under review). He has just completed a three-year term as graduate coordinator, and he is also a recovering book review editor for the Journal of British Studies. Paul teaches, among other things, courses in post-1800 Anglophone literature, and currently he supervises our BYU interns at the Wordsworth Trust. Though wounded by missing out on this year’s Literature and Landscape study abroad program, he is jazzed to be back on campus and eager to contribute as a Humanities Center fellow.

Paul Westover

Humanities Center Fellow (3 year)

Scheuber-Veinz & Humanities Center Fellow (3 year)

Paul Westover joined the Department of English in 2008 after completing a PhD at Indiana University. He specializes in British Romanticism, literary geography, and the history of literary tourism. Paul is the author of Necromanticism: Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1750–1860 (2012) and coeditor, with Ann Wierda Roland, of Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century (2016). Over the last several years, Paul

Brian Price is Professor of Spanish American Literature and Culture at Brigham Young University. Before joining the faculty at BYU, he completed doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin and taught at Wake Forest University. His areas of scholarly interest include 20th and 21st-century Mexican literary, film, and cultural studies; Latin America’s historical novel; comparative literature; and rock and roll. He is the

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author of Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss (2012), editor of Asaltos a la historia: Reimaginando la ficción histórica hispanoamericana (2014), and coeditor of TransLatin Joyce: Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature (2014) and The Lost Cinema of Mexico: From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros (2022). He is currently completing two book projects on the ways that rock music transformed Mexican literature and cinema. Over the last couple of years, Brian has spent a fair amount of his spare time practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and is trying to figure out a way to turn this extracurricular interest into another book.

David Laraway

Britsch Professorship (5 years)

David Laraway received his BA with majors in Spanish and philosophy, as well as an MA in Spanish, at BYU. At Cornell University he received an MA and PhD in Romance studies with an emphasis in Hispanic literature. He also did doctoral coursework in philosophy at Cornell University and the University of Utah and received a PhD in philosophy, art, and social thought from the European Graduate School in 2015. He joined the BYU faculty in 1998 and served as chair of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese from 2011–2017. He currently serves as visiting chair of

the Department of Philosophy. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he is the author of three books: Árbol de imágenes: nueva historia de la poesía hispanoamericana (2007, with Merlin Forster), American Idiots: Outsider Music, Outsider Art, and the Philosophy of Incompetence (2018), and Borges and Black Mirror (2020). He and his wife Michelle are the parents of Alex, Simon, and Eva, all currently BYU students.

Heather Belnap

Humanities Professorship (3 year)

Heather Belnap is an associate professor of art history and the coordinator of the European Studies program. Her work is guided by the core value of the advancement of women and other underrepresented communities. She is an ardent promotor of experiential learning and a dedicated mentor, and values collaboration with her peers and former students. In addition to her work at BYU, she is also engaged in professional citizenship and with a number of public humanities initiatives. In recent years, the purview of her work has expanded to include religion in modern art and culture— more specifically, transatlantic Mormonism and the Latter-day Saint tradition.

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COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES LECTURESHIPS Lynn Williams

James Barker Lectureship

Lynn Williams was born in Wales, the United Kingdom. From 1971–1978, he studied at the University of London, where he majored in Spanish, minored in Portuguese, and completed a PhD in Spanish sociolinguistics. During the last year of his doctoral studies, he taught part-time at the University of Wales, Cardiff. In 1978, Lynn secured a permanent position at the University of Exeter. There he taught Spanish language, Spanish linguistics, Medieval Spanish literature, as well as various aspects of the history and culture of Spain. At Exeter, Lynn served as Deputy Chair of the School of Modern Languages, as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and as Chair of the Department of Spanish. From 1997–1998, he was external examiner for Spanish language and linguistics at Oxford University; in 1998, he spent two semesters at Cambridge University, where he taught history of the Spanish language. He has also lectured at various universities in Spain. Over the years, Lynn has written and published on Medieval Spanish literature, Cervantes, Spanish sociolinguistics, language and national

identity in Spain and the United Kingdom, seventeenth-century Spanish diplomatic history, as well as the language and culture of the court of Philip IV of Spain. In July 2000, Lynn left Exeter to come to BYU, where he joined the linguistics section of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. In the department, he has served as associate chair, section head, and graduate coordinator. He is currently working on two research projects: the preparation of the Spanish text of the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) and, in collaboration with Jeff Turley, the transcription and translation of BYU’s Philip II letters. Lynn is married to Mabel, a native of Spain. They have three children and five grandchildren.

Kristin Matthews

P.A. Christensen Lectureship

Kristin L. Matthews, Professor of English, received her PhD in American Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since joining the faculty at BYU in 2004, she has taught courses in American literature, women’s literature, African American literature, and writing, as well as courses for the American Studies

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Program of which she was coordinator from 2011–2016. She has received multiple teaching awards, including the College Teaching Award (2019), American Studies Professor of the Year award (2016 and 2007), an Alcuin Fellowship (2013), the Faculty Women’s Teaching Award (2012), and the English Department Teaching Award (2008). Dr. Matthews’s research focuses on how reading Cold War literature creates responsible citizens and a more just society. She explored these ideas in articles published in Book History, Arizona Quarterly, Journal of American Culture, and Journal of Popular Culture, etc. These publications led to Dr. Matthews’s first monograph, Reading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature (2016). Dr. Matthews is also interested in how African Americans used reading as a tool during the civil rights movements of the mid-twentieth century. She’s currently working on a coedited volume about Mari Evans’s influence on Black poetry and community activism and a monograph investigating how contemporary Black women are using reading as a weapon in today’s freedom struggle. Along with her research, Dr. Matthews is a fierce advocate of the public humanities. She co-curated the MOA exhibit “At War!” and hosted an

accompanying public symposium in 2011—efforts for which she received an Albert J. Colton fellowship from the Utah Humanities Council. Like those she studies, Dr. Matthews believes in the power of reading to enact positive social change and create a “beloved community.”

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UNIVERSITY AWARDS Brian Roberts

Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award

Brian Russell Roberts specializes in US literary and cultural studies. Since arriving at BYU in 2008, he has published two scholarly monographs and two coedited collections with some of the finest presses in the fields of American literature and cultural theory. These books have focused on Black transnationalism and US cultural geography. His work has also appeared in prestigious journals including PMLA, American Literature, and American Literary History. At BYU, Roberts has been a Humanities College professor, a Humanities Center fellow, and coordinator of the American Studies program. In 2015 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Indonesia.

Cherice Montgomery

Douglas K. Christensen Teaching & Learning Faculty Fellowship

Not only is Cherice Montgomery loved and admired by her colleagues at BYU, she is also nationally recognized as an innovative and caring foreign language teacher educator and trainer. She is frequently invited to give presentations and training on professional development around the country and has received numerous teaching

awards, including the prestigious Anthony Papalia award from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in 2018. Countless students and educators have been blessed by her personal mentoring and testimony, as well as by her online wikis and articles dedicated to foreign language pedagogy.

Wendy Baker-Smemoe

Wesley P. Lloyd Award for Distinction in Graduate Education

Since her faculty appointment in 2003, Wendy Baker-Smemoe has established a remarkable record of distinguished teaching and mentoring graduate students. In addition to developing important graduate courses, BakerSmemoe has served on more than 85 thesis or dissertation committees. She has made an extraordinary difference in the lives of her students. As a prolific scholar, well-recognized by her peers, she loves to help her students become effective researchers and has coauthored important publications with many of them. Those she has mentored over the years are now leaders around the world in fields such as linguistics, education, law, and business.

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Elliott Wise

Kathryn Isaak

Elliott Wise is a master teacher in the field of art history. He is a fascinating lecturer and his enthusiasm for the subject matter profoundly inspires and motivates students in their learning and research. Moreover, his innovative teaching techniques engage students in a variety of amazing projects including museum exhibitions and art documentaries.

A third generation teacher, Kathryn Isaak has taught GE humanities and writing courses at BYU for over two decades. In 2020–21 she served on the university’s GE Design Committee. Working with her humanities colleagues, she has revised a course textbook, created one online course, and re-designed another.

Early Career Teaching Award

In his interactions with students, Professor Wise consistently shows Christian kindness and charity. His daily life is a constant demonstration of his testimony and students regularly express gratitude for his example as they progress toward their own educational and spiritual goals.

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Kathryn has also partnered with the BYU Department of German & Russian as a humanities instructor for their Vienna and Berlin study abroad programs and as director of the annual German Adventsingen program. Kathryn is deeply committed to creating inclusive places of learning and is known for her genuine care for her 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 2021, college representative Brian Jackson completed his dedicated service to the FAC. This fall, Emron Esplin and Rob Martinsen join Julie Allen, Jamie Horrocks, and Laura Catharine Smith as our College representatives. Please contact any of these representatives about student and faculty issues you would like the FAC to consider. This year the FAC gave the AVP Council thirteen proposals on the following topics: adjunct representation on the FAC, diversity and inclusion, childcare, birth control (for non-family planning reasons), sustainability, policy review practices, teaching evaluations, students of other faiths, and more. The FAC also produced documents relating to campus sustainability, tuition benefits for children of faculty and staff, and impacts of the new out-of-state work policy. FAC members participated in reviews of policies relating to final exams, clubs, surveys on campus, background checks for the protection of minors visiting campus, scholarly work, and breastfeeding facilities. FAC co-chairs Eva Witesman and Sarah Coyne will make available a summary of 2020–21 initiatives in the dean’s office, or you can access the full report by scanning this code:

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COLLEGE CENTERS AND SERVICES Arabic Flagship Center (3122 JKB)

Despite being forced to do everything online this past year, our two capstone students nevertheless certified at ILR 3 in speaking in May. One is now at the American University in Cairo for further study and the other will begin a graduate program in natural language processing at the University of Washington. An Arabic capstone student from our first cohort will begin working shortly as a researcher for the US Department of Justice. Six students are currently doing an online version of the capstone and are planning on traveling to Morocco in August. Three are Boren Scholars and one received a Gilman. Dr. Ahmad Karout, academic coordinator, played a decisive role in recruiting these and helping them to qualify for the capstone experience. All are Arabic second majors. We assisted the University of Arizona in winning the grant competition to take over management of the Overseas Arabic Language Flagship Program. We are grateful to finally see a seasoned Arabist in charge of this key program and anticipate that the capstone year will be an excellent experience for our students. This year, Dr. Belnap will be running BYU’s Fall Intensive Arabic Program in Meknes, Morocco and will therefore have good opportunity

to observe our capstone students’ experience.

Chinese Flagship Center (3122 JKB)

The Chinese Flagship Center was online due to the COVID pandemic. In spite of this, students did very well on their final OPI, reading, and listening tests. Six students participated in the online academic portion of the capstone program, and two continued on to the online internship portion. Those two that completed the full capstone program scored in the 2+ to 3+ range in the speaking, listening, and reading modalities. These six are now finishing up BYU courses, applying for graduate and programs and medical school, and so on. One student completed his capstone year online through the Taiwan Flagship Center. He scored at the 3 level in all modalities. Four current advanced flagship students are starting their capstone program, one this fall, and three in the coming winter semester. They are planning on going to the Taiwan Flagship Center, unless the COVID situation prevents that. One student received a Boren scholarship which will pay for the entire overseas capstone program. After 30 years in operation, the Nanjing Flagship Center in China,

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managed by BYU, closed its doors on June 30, 2021. The program enjoyed great success, serving thousands of students from 12 universities. Many of these students achieved high proficiency levels. Of the BYU students (approximately 300), 75% were fully certified by the National Flagship Program, achieving Level 3 proficiency on at least two modalities (speaking, listening, reading) and 2+ on a third.

Center for Language Studies (3086 JFSB)

The year 2020 was unlike any year that the Center for Language Studies (CLS) has ever experienced. Because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, the CLS, like all of Brigham Young University, had to adapt and find new, creative ways to bring language education to BYU students. Some notable achievements include: § 1 new master’s degree, the MA in Professional Languages, approved. First cohort to start in Fall 2022. § 2 new language course offerings in Burmese and Guaraní. § 19 languages offered through the Language Certificate program incorporating remote oral proficiency interviews. § 50 languages taught regularly, bringing the BYU total to 70 languages taught on a regular basis.

§ 100 language class sections transitioned to Zoom within in a week during March 13–17, 2020. § 455 Language Certificates awarded during the 2020–2021 academic year. § 1,600+ Language Proficiency Diagnostic Assessments (LPDA) administered to help in determining course-level placement for students entering college-level language courses. § 250,000+ English tests administered to over 100,000 learners worldwide as part of the BYU-Pathway Worldwide and Global Education Initiative. The CLS continues to manage the translation and localization minor, dual language immersion minor and second language teaching MA. It is also planning on continuing the Language Acquisition Research Colloquium (LARC) and OPI Familiarization workshops in 2021– 2022. Visit cls. byu.edu for more information.

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Julie Swallow 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

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with integrating technology into teaching and learning. Julie has over fifteen years of teaching experience and has spent the last five years mentoring faculty at BYU Salt Lake. She earned a master’s degree in English from BYU and a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and sciences from Utah State University. Learn more about the Center for Teaching and Learning services and tools at ctl.byu.edu.

Digital Media and Communications Team Digital Media and Communications (DMaC) oversees the public-facing and internal communication efforts of the College. These inlcude creating and publishing a bi-annual alumni magazine; managing the college social media accounts, college and department websites, faculty directories, and digital signage for the JFSB and JKB; and sending out a weekly email newsletter to faculty and staff. In addition, DMaC provides support to the departments for PR campaigns, posters, swag, digital signage, social media, news, and event announcements. Their team of oustanding student writers, designers, and photographers can also help with

a limited number of video production projects and with taking faculty head shots. Josh Perkey: Manager, 2-2824 Jess Dansie Anderson: Art and Media Specialist, 2-2173

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 2020–21 academic year, the ELC taught 98 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 25 student practicum experiences, 19 internships, the completion of several MA theses and projects, and several peer-reviewed publications. The English Language Center is actively involved in research in collaboration with the Department of Linguistics and the Center for Language Studies.

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Global Women’s Studies (216 HRCB)

In memory of our colleague and friend, GWS has established the Brandie R. Siegfried Annual Lectureship in Global Women’s Studies to encourage and support future research on women and the Brandie R. Siegfried Global Women’s Studies Scholarship to help fund the education of a student whose academic work focuses in some significant way on women and who demonstrates financial need. You can contribute to the scholarship endowment fund at this link: https://donate. churchofjesuschrist.org/donations/ byu?funds=301501129. What to Watch for in Fall 2021 and Winter 2022: § Every fall and winter semester, GWS sponsors a colloquium (lecture series) with seven speakers presenting their latest research related to the accomplishments of women and the challenges they face. During fall semester, colloquium will meet on Fridays at noon in 238 HRCB. Check out our colloquium poster at womensstudies.byu.edu/colloquium. § GWS will sponsor a fall film festival. More details coming soon to a screen near you. § Every year, the university awards the Emmeline B. Wells Grant (up to $25,000 to support research and creative work with a focus on contexts and issues related to women’s lives) and

Women’s Research Initiative Grants (up to $5000 to support research and creative work focusing on women). Apply by October 30, 2021. All the details: https://womensstudies.byu.edu/ faculty-awards-grants. § We have twenty GWS capstone students this fall, who will present their senior research projects as part of our GWS Capstone Conference during the last two weeks of this semester. Join us in person or by zoom! § During Women’s History Month in March, Elizabeth Hodgson, Professor of English Literature at the University of British Columbia, will present the inaugural Brandie R. Siegfried Lecture. Dr. Hodgson is the author of Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance (Cambridge UP, 2014) and articles and book chapters on Lanyer, Philips, Milton, and Shakespeare. She and Brandie were classmates at Brandeis University. § On March 24–25, 2022, GWS will co-sponsor the Utah Southwest Regional Conference on Student Research in Gender and Women’s Studies to be held on BYU’s campus and virtually. Keynote speakers will include Katherine Kitterman and other leaders of the Better Days 2020 campaign, as well as visual artists Jann Haworth and Liberty Blake, creators of Work in Progress and the Utah Women 2020 mural.

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Encourage your students to get involved: Interested students can join the editorial team or contribute their best essays and creative work to our student journal, AWE: A Woman’s Experience (byuwsj@ gmail.com). You and they can read past issues at https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ awe. GWS honors the best student essay related to women’s studies each year with the Susa Young Gates award, and the new Minerva Teichert Prize for Creative Work supports visual and performing arts that honor and advance the creative work of women. 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. Let us know you want to get involved: globalwomensstudies@byu.edu. Join WSTAR, the Women’s Studies Faculty Teaching and Research group: If you would like to join our research group, please let us know: globalwomensstudies@byu.edu. If you are currently writing an article or a chapter that involves women or gender issues and you would like to share your work and receive feedback from colleagues, please reach out to schedule a meeting: sara_phenix@byu.edu.

Humanities Center (4103 JFSB)

After a long, strange hiatus nobody saw coming, the Humanities Center begins its tenth year by returning tentatively, gingerly to normal. This means we’ll be holding meetings according to our usual schedule, welcoming guests whose presence was postponed, and scheduling events throughout the year. Here are a few upcoming items: § Our theme for the coming year— which is to say, the subject of one of our big upcoming events—is “On Belief.” It will be the subject of our third annual (well, almost annual) symposium Friday and Saturday, September 24–25. Eight scholars from different universities will be joining us Friday on campus and Saturday up at Sundance. § Weekly colloquia (and the receptions Brooke always organizes for us!) return most Thursdays at 3:00. They will begin September 9 and will include a mix of presentations by individual faculty, guests from other universities, and roundtable discussions. § Faith and Imagination is now the name of a Humanities Center podcast, but beginning October 22, it will also resume as a lecture series. Heidi Hornik, an art historian from Baylor, will speak with interested faculty about her acclaimed book The Art of Christian Reflection, and she will lecture to faculty and students on a subject of her current scholarship.

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§ We’re partnering with the Faculty Center to co-host a faculty workshop by Christina Bieber Lake, the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College, on November 12, with a follow-up discussion in December. In addition, interested faculty and students will have the opportunity to talk with Christina about her recent book Beyond the Story: American Fiction and the Limits of Materialism. § Our undergraduate HumGrant Symposium can handle anything, even a pandemic (as it’s one of the few traditional events we actually held last year). This year’s version is scheduled for Friday, October 29. § We will hold our annual lecture during the winter semester, though that event is still in the planning stages. § The university and College generously support the Humanities Center—which is to say, they generously support faculty scholarship. So we will be taking proposals for research groups, book manuscript workshops, and one-year Humanities Center fellowships. Keep an eye out for upcoming announcements and deadlines. More information on all these events will be forthcoming. As ever, if you have ideas for ways the Humanities Center can help you with your scholarship or more fully realize the intellectual life of our college, please contact Matt Wickman.

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/3xy6N7X. If you have any questions, please contact Suzy Bills (suzy_bills@byu.edu).

International Cinema (3182 JFSB and 250 KMBL)

The International Cinema (IC) program is back for fall 2021! After scaling back our offerings last year, IC plans to return this fall with a

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full schedule of in-person screenings of the best in international feature films and documentaries in our home in 250 KMBL. Things to look forward to this semester include: § IC POSTER: Grab a copy of our iconic IC poster, or download a PDF at ic.byu.edu, to see all the films that will be screened this semester. § ENCORE WEEKEND: Three popular films from Winter 2021 semester will return for screenings on Friday, August 27th and Saturday the 28th: Weathering with You (2019), Emma (2020), and Identifying Features (2020). § WEEKLY FILM SERIES: As always, IC will feature a number of weekly film series formed around relevant social, cultural, and aesthetic issues, including Morricone Around the World (celebrating the film scores of composer Ennio Morricone), War and Reconciliation, The Gift and Burden of Years, Indigenous Voices of the Americas, The Garden of Childhood, Films about Filmmaking, International Fantasy, and others. § IC LECTURES: Our popular Wednesday night lecture series will also resume in person in 250 KMBL along with post-screening discussions and other events. § IC PODCAST: Now in its fourth season, IC’s weekly podcast From the Booth will return with 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. § ICS MINOR: Please consider talking with your students about the international 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 directors: Doug Weatherford, Marc Yamada, and Marie-Laure Oscarson. 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.

Liberal Arts Advisement & Careers (1041 JFSB)

The Liberal Arts Advisement and Careers Center (LAAC) helps students become career-ready. We do this by helping them create intentional, informed plans for their coursework and experiential learning that allow them to gain essential competencies and skills. We coach them to reflect on their goals and experiences and to translate them into a compelling professional

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narrative. We are most successful in these endeavors when we collaborate with faculty. We look forward to a new year of partnership for the good of our students. Since March 2020, we have continued to provide services to students through Zoom, email, and over the phone. Our undergraduate specialists also worked during regular hours to help students with class planning, graduation questions, substitutions, registration, etc. We have learned a great deal about what we can do, and we look forward to offering students in-person and remote options for meeting with us. We invite you to visit our website, liberalarts.byu. edu, for more information on our center and the programs we advise.

academic advisor and student success manager will be honed further as he continues his path with us. Our newest advisor, Sara, has joined us after three years at Indiana University as a career coach. She brings an impressive history of both international and domestic teaching experiences. We look forward to an exciting year of growth!

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:

We all saw many changes during the past academic year. We said goodbye to esteemed colleagues: Jenny Hoggan, Heather Sanborn, and Doug Porter. We miss them but are excited for the opportunities each of them is experiencing now. We have since hired Bryan Walker, Andrew Roberts, and Sara White. We are already reaping the benefits of their work and are excited for their futures with us.

§ 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 https://dight. byu.edu. Contact Dr. Jeremy Browne, 2-7439.

Bryan comes to us from St. George where he was previously advising professional graduate students. His passion for coaching and mentoring students is reflected in his work. Andrew has left the Arizona desert for the Utah desert to continue his work in advising students. His previous work as an

§ 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 Dr. Brian Croxall, 2-7425.

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§ Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Consulting: We offer help in incorporating or creating CALL 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 collegesupported websites; and file-sharing capabilities. Contact Mark Wilson, 2-8927. § Foreign Language Achievement Testing Services (FLATS): FLATS provides both BYU and non-BYU students the opportunity to receive 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 in B151–B153 JFSB offers a proctored environment for computer-based multimedia exams. Instructors within the College of Humanities wishing to have their exams administered in this location may have customized tests created and administered in this lab. Contact Russell Hansen, 2-9295. § Humanities Learning Commons (HLR): Flexible study spaces in 1141 JFSB provide a setting for language students to work collaboratively on communicative language skills. This space can also be reserved on approval for departmental events. Contact Russell Hansen, 2-9295. § HLC computer lab: Located in 1131 JFSB, the HLC computer lab provides students with both Mac and Windows computers and the software required for college programs. The HLC also maintains digital access to

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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 Reel-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

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. § 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.

§ 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.

§ 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.

§ 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.

Computer Support Team, 2-2600 Web Support Team 2-7400

§ 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

For a quick who-to-call list, go to humsupport.byu.edu

ODH Directory and Specialties: Tory Anderson, 385-207-8454 ú A pplication development ú Databases ú Online funding applications for students and faculty

Devin Asay, 2-6510 ú O DH Director ú LiveCode ú Database development

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ú M ac Lab configuration ú Mac troubleshooting and support ú Room Scheduling

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

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

Brian Croxall, 2-7425 ú ú ú ú

igital Humanities D DH Pedagogy Digital methods for textual analysis Python

Russell Hansen, 2-9295 or 2-5424 ú L abs—HLC, FLAC, computer labs (including supervising employees) ú Door codes/locks for all ODH rooms ú Video conferencing ú Recording Studio ú Equipment checkout and questions ú M edia conversion—audio, video, obsolete formats ú Testing Lab Supervisor ú Test scheduling ú Test development ú LiveCode ú Computer Lab Software

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

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

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

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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. Note: Beginning in Fall 2021, the RWC will return to face-to-face consultations while also continuing to offer both synchronous and asynchronous online consultations. Students can drop in at 3340 HBLL or schedule an appointment at rwc.byu.edu.

Student Resources: § Peer Consultations (face-to-face and online) – Individualized sessions with trained consultants who help students understand assignment expectations, brainstorm ideas, use library resources to locate sources, consider a reader’s response to their writing, discuss and model revision strategies, learn how to become self-editors, follow citation and formatting guidelines, and more. § Email Consultations (asynchronous)– Trained consultants offer a reader’s response over email to a student’s

specific questions about their writing project. *Intended for students who might be unable to attend synchronous consultations.

§ Writing Tutorial for Multilingual Writers – A new program designed to provide ESL and multilingual students longitudinal support during a semester when their coursework is particularly writing-intensive. In the tutorial, students are paired one-on-one with a specially-trained peer writing consultant and will meet with this same consultant every week throughout the semester to work on their individual writing goals. § Writing Guides – 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). Faculty Resources: § Class Visits: Consultants can visit classes to briefly introduce students and faculty to RWC services. § Email Notification: Faculty can receive a post-session report following a student visit. § Syllabus Statement: A sample description of RWC services is available on our website. § Writing Center Representatives: Experienced writing consultants coordinate with an instructor who is planning to send students to the RWC for a specific writing assignment(s).

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These consultants meet with the instructor to gather information about a specific assignment and then help prepare RWC consultants to support students with that assignment. Additionally, Writing Center Representatives also visit the course to introduce students to RWC services and show students how to schedule an appointment. § Course-Embedded Consultants: Experienced writing consultants work within a specific class for an entire semester, assisting students through all stages of the writing process. Courseembedded consultants meet with students and respond to their writing, hold office hours, run in-class or out-of-class workshops, teach writing principles as needed, and offer students an informed reader-response to their writing. Program Highlights (2020–21 academic year) ú 13,109 total consultations: 1,027 research and 12,082 writing ú 5,998 learners participated in writing or research consultations; 45.5% visited multiple times ú 13.3% of consultations were with learners who self-identified as English language learners ú 835 courses were served, representing all 11 colleges ú 52% of courses served represented the College of Humanities (including University Writing) Program Coordinators

Writing Administrators Tyler Gardner, Manager: tyler_ gardner@byu.edu, 801-422-7844 Zach Largey, Associate Manager: zach_largey@byu.edu, 801-422-4306 Katie Watkins, Associate Manager: katie_watkins@byu.edu, 801-422-9784 David Stock, Associate Professor of English, Faculty Coordinator: david_ stock@byu.edu Research Administrators Jessica Green, RWC Specialist: jessica_green@byu.edu, 801-422-1165 Suzanne Julian, Senior Librarian, Instruction Department Chair: suzanne_julian@byu.edu, 801-422-2813

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NEW FACULTY AND STAFF Asian & Near Eastern Languages Wendy Vincent (staff) joined the Department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages as an office supervisor in June 2021. For many years she has been the principal home manager, specializing in family access, growth, and security solutions for the Vincent family. After her children were old enough to make their own lunch, she became the administrative director of an outpatient mental health facility where she could continue her journey in meeting the needs of others. She is excited to be working on campus and plans to finish a long-ago started degree. Wendy loves the attention of her two grandsons, while her teenage daughter wants anything but her attention. Her neighbors wish she would do more yardwork. She loves to read, quilt and is trying to love hiking.

Chinese Flagship Chen Wang (visiting) received her PhD in Asian literatures, cultures, and media with a graduate minor in comparative studies of discourse and society at the University of Minnesota, 2019. Prior to joining the Flagship Program at BYU, she worked as a

visiting assistant professor of Chinese at Williams College, where she taught a variety of language, literary, and cultural courses as well as trained language fellows and teaching associates. She also worked as a graduate instructor for the Chinese Program and Flagship Program at the University of Minnesota. Her academic interests include Sinophone studies, translation theory, world literature, cultural geography, urban studies, and Chinese language pedagogy. Wang is dedicated to helping students cultivate their professional interests and critical thinking skills through learning languages and the relevant cultures. Shasha Yang (visiting) received her MA in teaching Chinese as a second language from Brandeis University. Prior to joining the BYU Chinese Flagship Center, she taught Chinese at all levels at Brandeis University and in programs including the Chinese Flagship Intensive program at the University of Rhode Island, the “Princeton in Beijing” program, the CIEE program at Peking University, and the CET summer program in Beijing.

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Her research interests are second language acquisition, language teaching pedagogy, and educational technology. She is engaging in helping her students to learn and use Chinese in a communicative way with accuracy and propriety.

Center for Language Studies Janelle Bullock (staff) was recently hired to be a coordinator for the American Sign Language program. Janelle grew up in southeastern Idaho. She has two undergraduate degrees in speech language pathology/audiology and educational interpreting from Idaho State University, as well as a master’s degree in deaf education. Janelle has been an active member of the Deaf community for over twenty years. She is married to Aaron Bullock and they have four children of whom they are very proud. They reside in Utah County. Cami Wilding (staff) was recently hired to be a coordinator for the American Sign Language program. Cami Wilding grew up in Gooding, Idaho with Deaf parents and eight Deaf siblings. She began her teaching career as a community education ASL teacher 26 years ago. Since that time, Cami has worked in

education in various capacities. Some of her experience covers work as a Deaf Mentor, ASL instructor, Teacher of the Deaf, ASL Specialist, and as a member of the Alpine School District’s World Languages Leadership Team. Cami is passionate about learning and growing each day and she delights in learning from others. Cami has four beautiful daughters, two sons-in-law, one adorable grandson, and another precious grandson due in November. When circumstances allow, Cami enjoys baking, hammocking, machine embroidering, and game nights.

Dean's Office Jess Anderson (staff) is the new Art & Media Specialist for the College. As the owner of “Joshua Tree Media” she has created videos for “Bagpipe Master” on YouTube that have garnered millions of views, directed a Kickstarter video starring Natalie Madsen that was funded with over $60,000 in under 33 hours, filmed an interview with Olivia Wilde at Sundance 2020, and had her work nominated for Best Cinematography in the Austin Comedy Short Film Festival. A former Spanish major and

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University of Utah alumni, Jess also completed a summer film production program at UCLA in 2018 and a subsequent film production internship at Deseret Book. Jess loves reading to her three adorable children, going on outdoors adventures, swimming, and playing pickleball. Josh Perkey (admin) is the new manager of Digital Media and Communications (DMaC)— the redesigned communications arm of the College of Humanities. Prior to joining the college, Josh worked for fourteen years at the Church magazines, most recently as the marketing manager. His favorite job there was managing the print and digital youth content development team. He also worked for seven years as an associate editor with Glencoe/ McGraw-Hill Companies creating social studies textbooks. He has an MA in medieval history from The Ohio State University and a BA in history with minors in English and Classics from BYU. He and his wife (whom he met in Latin class at BYU) have four children. Josh loves rich story telling (he has a particular fondness for fantasy stories and British period or detective stories), biking, and generally being a little silly. If you need help with communications, promoting your work, or some dark chocolate

and a chat (especially about Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Hercule Poirot, or personal development), feel free to drop by and say hi!

English Johnny Allred (visiting) earned a PhD from the University of Arkansas, a master in education from Weber State University, and a BA in English teaching from BYU. Most recently, he was an assistant professor in the teacher education department at Fort Hays State University in western Kansas. He studies English education, especially focused on purposeful technology integration and dialogic pedagogy in secondary English classrooms. His publications have appeared in Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Voices from the Middle, The ALAN Review, and Contemporary Issues in Technology & Teacher Education. Johnny and his wife, Sarah, have three children, and— after living in rural Kansas—they are happy to be living near In-N-Out, Cafe Rio, multiple donut shops, and a Costco. Christopher James Blythe (CFStrack) received his PhD in religion from Florida State University, his MA in history from Utah State University, his second BA in religious studies from USU, and his BA in anthropology from Texas A&M University. Before coming

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to the Department of English, he held positions at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Studies, the Joseph Smith Papers, and Utah State University. Blythe is the author of Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is married to Christine Elyse Blythe, who is the folklore archives specialist at Brigham Young University. Together they serve as co-presidents of the Folklore Society of Utah. They have three boys: Chris Jr., Blaine, and Jack.

Ann Dee Ellis (visiting) is the author of the novels This is What I Did: Everything is Fine, The End or Something Like That, You May Already Be a Winner, and The War with Grandma (coauthor). Her books have received starred reviews, been named Junior Library Guild picks, and been featured on multiple lists. She lives in the foothills of her favorite mountains, and when she’s not writing or teaching creative writing, she’s hanging around with her husband and five laffy-taffy children.

Joseph J. Darowski (visiting) earned a BA and MA in English from BYU and a PhD in American studies from Michigan State University. His research focuses on American popular culture, especially comic books and television. He has edited nine volumes in The Ages of Superheroes essay collections, as well as authoring X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor: Race and Gender in the Comics and coauthoring Frasier: A Cultural History and Cheers: A Cultural History. He is the host of The Protagonist Podcast, where he and a guest discuss a great character from a great story each week. He has taught writing and American literature at BYU-Idaho and BYU.

Debi M. Galley (visiting) uses her legal experience to teach advanced writing courses. She thrives in teaching students of various majors to embrace the struggles of writing and is interested in the development of major-specific writing programs. Recently, she developed a course with the HBLL instructing students to create TED talks, in addition to a report and infographic, about their research. Debi enjoys short hikes with her three kids, long biographical or history books, small road trips with her husband, and large portions of Korean food.

Tyler Gardner graduated from BYU with a BA in English and a whole lot

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of questions—questions that propelled him through an MA at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and a PhD in English at the University of Notre Dame, where he was a Mellon Fellow in religion. Along the way, he stumbled into a campus writing center and discovered the unparalleled thrill of collaborating with peers on how to effectively approach questions and communicate potential answers. His enthusiasm for this magical space led him to pursue opportunities in writing center administration, most recently at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and now as the Writing Center manager in the BYU Research & Writing Center. Originally from Southern California, he lives in Provo with his family and enjoys sunshine, water sports, and conversation. Brice A. Peterson (CFS-track) earned his MA (’15) and PhD (’19) from Penn State University. He studies early modern British literature, specifically the ways that religion, medicine, gender, and genre intersect in poetry and drama. His publications have appeared 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. Consequently, they have a fouryear-old daughter, Darcy, and fivemonth-old son, Bingley. Erika Dahl Price (visiting) earned both her BA in humanities and her MA in English at BYU. As an adjunct, she has taught writing in the honors program and the Department of English for a combined total of 18 years. She is the mom of five boys, the wife of a computer-programming introvert, and the owner of an enormous golden retriever named Rockefeller. Erika's lesser accomplishments include making chocolate chip cookies from start to finish in fifteen minutes, working as a DJ for a classical music radio station, and being the fifth best pickleball player in her family of seven. Juli Shelley (staff) is joining the department as the new secretary. She was born and raised in Highland, Utah. She graduated with her BS in food science and minors in chemistry and family life. While working in the computer science department

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as a student, she found a passion for helping students, faculty, and staff succeed. In her spare time, Juli enjoys hiking, playing the guitar, and reading. She loves anything Disney and will take any chance to take a trip to Disneyland. She also enjoys traveling and exploring new cultures. Jarron Slater (visiting) earned both a BA (with a minor in logic) and MA in English from BYU. He also earned a PhD in rhetoric and scientific and technical communication from the University of Minnesota in 2018. He has taught rhetoric and writing at four different universities, and he is excited to return to BYU. His publications have appeared in Rhetoric Review, Philosophy and Rhetoric, the Journal of Religion and Communication, and Style and the Future of Composition Studies (Utah State UP, 2020). In his spare time, he enjoys reading, hiking, playing the piano, and visiting with family. Shelli Spotts (visting) is an essayist, advocacy writer, and sometime poet. Her favorite punctuation mark is the em dash. She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from BYU, and she is passionate about exploring the stories of ourselves, building bridges

with the communities around us, and languaging our lived experience. Her research interests include experiential learning, embodied rhetoric, visual rhetoric, and composition pedagogy, most of which she put into practice in an advanced writing class she developed for dance majors. When she is not teaching, writing, or reading, Shelli loves to spend time with her husband and four ‘almost adult’ children watching Marvel movies, attending the theatre, or dragging everyone outside to “look at the sky.” Makayla C. Steiner (CFS-track) is joining the English faculty as an assistant professor. She earned her PhD in 2021 from the University of Iowa, and she holds both a BA (’09) and MA (’13) from BYU in English. Her intellectual interests are concentrated in 20th/21st century American literatures, postsecular studies, and contemporary American religious writing. She has published essays in Literature and Belief and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, coauthored an essay published in Resources for American Literary Study, and has essays forthcoming in Religion and Literature, Intégrité, and Marilynne Robinson: Collected Essays, published by Manchester University Press. She loves watching the Jazz win, taking road

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trips, and hanging out with her nieces and nephews. Katie A. Watkins (staff) recently joined the department as an associate Writing Center manager in the BYU Research & Writing Center. She is originally from Provo and has spent the majority of her life living in, well, Provo (with brief interludes living in Mexico, Peru, and the Philippines). She received her BA in Latin American studies and her MA in linguistics, both from BYU. Katie loves helping students learn; she spent many years as an ESL teacher, graduate student instructor, and most recently an adjunct instructor for BYU's linguistics and anthropology departments. Beyond teaching, Katie is passionate about research: her primary interest is ethnography and its applications to language learners, language-minoritized writers, and community development. When she's not teaching, researching, or engaged in other work at the RWC, Katie loves hiking, rock climbing, cooking vegetarian food, and spending time with her chihuahua, Sammy.

English Language Center Allison Wallace Baker (visiting) calls Provo, Utah her hometown [Timpview, class of ’90]. She earned both her BA in

humanities and her TESOL MA from BYU. She delights in helping English learners successfully acquire language skills, perhaps because her own attempts to learn French and Mandarin Chinese have not reached the level of linguistic comfort she has desired. Understandably (and selfishly), her linguistic research interests include the self-regulated learning skills and psychological state of mind necessary for language learners to master second language acquisition. In her free time, Allison enjoys knitting Scandinavian and Fair Isle colorwork, crocheting granny squares, sewing her own clothes, baking bread (and desserts!), hiking trails in Utah, and hanging out with her husband and three children. AnnMarie Saunders (visiting) loves reading, teaching, and mentoring, and is thrilled that her new position combines her passion for all three into one job! She most recently graduated with an MA in TESOL from BYU, but also has an MA and BA in Asian studies (Korea emphasis) from the University of Utah and Utah State University, respectively. Her research interests include language

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assessment, adult literacy education, and critical reading and thinking. When she's not grading or lesson planning, she likes to read long fantasy novels, try new restaurants, and watch Korean dramas.

Liberal Arts Advisement Center Andrew Roberts (admin) is an academic and professional development manager in the Liberal Arts Advising & Career Center where he helps students make informed decisions about their education to develop the skills and competencies needed for life and work. He has worked in a variety of educational institutions and positions, including a high school English teacher, creative writing instructor, academic advisor, and student success manager. Andrew earned a BA in English teaching with a minor in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) from Brigham Young University and a Master of Education in educational leadership with an emphasis in higher education from Northern Arizona University. Andrew is passionate about helping students approach their education with intention to become career ready. Outside of work, he enjoys reading, playing trading card games, going to

the movies, and watching his three kids under the age of five try new things. Bryan Walker (admin) grew up in Rexburg, Idaho, and currently serves in the Liberal Arts Advising & Career Center working specifically with the Department of Psychology. After completing bachelor's degrees in exercise science and secondary education from BYUIdaho and a master’s degree in athletic administration from Idaho State University, Bryan’s passion for teaching, coaching, and helping others achieve their goals has led him to a variety of teaching, advising, and mentoring experiences. He has enjoyed working with students and athletes in every grade from kindergarten to professional graduate school, and in a variety of settings ranging from the classroom and online learning to the hardwood floors of the basketball court. He has a contagious enthusiasm for learning and life, and in his spare time enjoys fishing, golf, and spending time with his wonderful wife and three children. Sara White (admin) grew up in California and lived there until she moved to Utah to study at BYU. As an undergrad she studied communications, focusing on public relations. It was there she discovered

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her love for words and observing how people interact with them. After graduation, Sara worked for an international health food company as project manager for their Asia Pacific offices. She then went on to get her master's in linguistics at BYU. While considering and then pursuing a master’s degree, Sara taught Indonesian at BYU and English as a foreign language at UVU. Her research areas focused on socio- and corpus linguistics. After her master’s degree, Sara spent a year as a corpus linguistics research fellow at BYU Law School, designing a program to teach legal professionals how to integrate linguistics into legal research. Sara has enjoyed living internationally during her studies, spending time in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Egypt. Sara has spent the last three years at Indiana University as a career coach in the Walter Center for Career Achievement and an Indonesian teacher in the Summer Language Workshop. However, she is excited to return to BYU and continue working with students and helping them navigate their futures.

Linguistics Jeff Green (CFS-track) is joining the department as an assistant professor.

Jeff received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Maryland, and a BA in linguistics with a minor in Russian from the University of Utah. He specializes in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, and is especially interested in the kinds of predictions people make as they process sentences. His work has been mostly in English, with some looking at Mandarin. Here at BYU he is excited to also work on how we process sentences as second- or thirdlanguage learners. For the past three years he worked as a visiting assistant professor in the linguistics department at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, and reading (especially fantasy). Sherri Hadfield (staff) started working at BYU in December 2020 as a parttime secretary in the department. Her most recent work the last several years was with JetBlue Airways responding to disability, legal, medical, and serious customer complaints directed to the CEO. After graduating from BYU in family sciences, she was employed at the Utah County

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Attorney's Office in the Criminal Division, then was re-assigned as the secretary to the White Collar Crime Unit, where she found and then married the great guy she was working with. The plan to further her education in social work changed as they raised their four wonderful children. Her husband, Phil, is an attorney working in corporate law and they enjoy any time they get together with their children or extended family. She was raised in the Pacific Northwest, but Utah has been her home since returning from the Great Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission. She's excited to become a grandmother soon, and she's convinced this role will become her favorite hobby and one of her greatest joys in life! Lisa Morgan Johnson (CFS-track) is joining the department as an assistant professor. Lisa received her PhD in (linguistic) anthropology from the University of Utah, her MA in linguistics from BYU, and her BA in English and Russian from BYU. As a sociolinguist, she studies how individuals and groups use language to construct identity, often below the level of conscious awareness. She is particularly interested in language in diaspora communities, teen language, and the effects of migration on

language variation. Her dissertation research focused on the speech of an ethnically diverse group of teens in Salt Lake County, with a quantitative sociophonetic analysis of the speech of Pacific Islanders. She has done fieldwork in Nauru and Tonga, and she managed a summer program in which Shoshone youth learned their heritage language and participated in language revitalization projects. Outside of academia, Lisa enjoys family activities, travel, and teaching the nursery children in her ward.

Spanish & Portuguese Lauren Truman (CFS-track) is joining the department as an assistant teaching professor and coordinator of Spanish 321 and Spanish 322. She earned her BA from BYU in English with a minor in editing. After working as an editor and writer for a few years, she returned to BYU to complete her MA in Spanish Linguistics and went on to the University of Minnesota for her PhD Her research interests include language use, bilingual education, pronunciation instruction, and multiliteracies. A native of Colorado, she is thrilled to be back in the West, and to explore the mountains and lakes with her new dog, Rubi.

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DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS American Studies In 2020–21, graduating American Studies students benefitted from taking senior seminars from Kristin Matthews (“America as Baseball—Baseball as America”) and Matthew Mason (“Slavery in History and Memory”). Also during 2020–21, American Studies affiliated faculty published a handful of books: Carol Edison, Eric A. Eliason, and Lynne S. McNeill, eds., This Is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions (University of Utah Press), and Brian Russell Roberts, Borderwaters: Amid the Archipelagic States of America (Duke UP).

Asian & Near Eastern Languages The department was busily engaged during the previous academic year with the departmental Self-Study Report, which was completed in January 2021, and the virtual hosting of the external reviewers. In addition, Dana Bourgerie completed his tenure of service as department chair and was replaced by Richard McBride in July 2021. Several faculty members have earned special distinctions or have been entrusted with significant responsibilities: Julie Damron received the Global Engagement Initiative Award from the American Council on the Teaching

of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). This national award reflected her outstanding work with the BYU/ Kyung Hee University Direct Enrollment Program. Clay Parker has been selected as the chair of the Korean to English Certification Committee for the American Translators Association (ATA). His service in the position began in January of this year. Additionally, Clay serves as the Utah liason to the Language Council of the National Language Museum. Daniel Peterson became an executive producer as he launched and supported the creation of the film Witnesses. The film tells the story of the three witnesses of the Book of Mormon. Jack Stoneman was co-curator, with Aaron Skabelund (BYU History), of the “Discovery & Wonder: The Harry F. Bruning Collection of Japanese Rare Books and Manuscripts” exhibit. The exhibit was on display throughout the 2020–21 academic year in the Harold B. Lee Library, L. Tom Perry Special Collections Gallery.

Comparative Arts & Letters Kerry Soper is the new chair of the Department of Comparative Arts & Letters beginning January 2022. His

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appointment was delayed due to a study abroad he will attend Fall 2021, and Carl Sederholm will continue in this position until January. Stan Benfell is the new director of the Kennedy Center.

English English Major Redesign Approved: The new English major begins with core classes, the literary history survey and ways of reading and writing, then introduces tracks to allow students more focus and clearer pathways. Literary Studies guides students to think and write critically, and ethically, about literary texts. Literary Media and Cultures studies how popular literature and traditional stories are transmitted and transformed. Professional Writing prepares students to borrow the rhetorical wisdom of the ancients for today’s versatile communication needs. Creative Writing teaches students how to read texts like a writer, revise like a pro, and trade feedback with peers. English Education MA Emphasis Approved: No other university in the state of Utah offers an MA in English with an English teaching emphasis. Licensed secondary English educators now have a degree path to increase their earning power, leadership opportunities, and qualifications to teach concurrent enrollment courses.

They will develop deeper disciplinary knowledge as well as methods and theories of effective instruction. COVID Events and Adaptations: The English Reading Series went completely virtual, and thus could showcase more prestigious prizewinning authors, including National Book Award finalist Gerald Walker and Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart. The English Symposium also became a one-day virtual conference featuring pre-recorded papers by over fifty students. Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye gave the keynote lecture. The Research and Writing Center continued to serve hundreds of students through online tutorials. We also initiated a new administrative structure by hiring manager Tyler Gardner. University Writing met the challenge of in-person instruction for first-year writing students by offering teaching assistants to graduate instructors and by mentoring graduate instructors through large sections taught by Jon Ostenson and Amy Williams. Awards and Honors: The renamed Brandie R. Siegfried Women in Academia Panel honors the memory of Professor Siegfried. The virtual event featured Juliana Chapman, Tessa Hauglid, Leslee

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Thorne-Murphy, and Jarica Watts. Related posthumous honors include the Brandie R. Siegfried Global Women’s Studies Scholarship and the Faculty Women’s Association Scholarship award. Matt Wickman gave a university devotional, “Thriving Spiritually.” Chris Crowe, Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, gave the forum, “A Novel Idea: How Genre Evolution Sparks Creativity.” Heather Hammond, President’s Appreciation Award.

French & Italian Broadway’s musical The Book of Mormon has nothing on Paris vaudeville. The Mormon History Association (MHA) awarded Chris Flood and Corry Cropper the 2021 prize for Best Book on International Mormon History for their recent critical translation of four French musical comedies produced in the 19th century, Mormons in Paris: Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892 (Bucknell, 2020). We look forward to future performances of these unearthed bijoux.

Jarica Watts, English Department Citizenship Award.

In collaboration with colleagues from Dartmouth College, Stony Brook University, and the University of British Columbia, Marie Orton coorganized a two-week series dedicated to “Diversity, Decolonization and Italian Studies.” The six days of presentations and discussion via zoom were attended by more than 385 scholars from across the world. The presentations are viewable on YouTube, and extended versions of the scholarly papers will be published in a special edition of the journal Italian Studies in Southern Africa.

Jason Kerr, English Department Teaching Award.

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Spencer Hyde, John A. Widstoe Grant for creative work that enhances quality of life. John Bennion, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Mormon Letters. Kylie Turley, English Department Adjunct Faculty Research Award. Darlene Young, English Department Adjunct Faculty Creative Works Award.

Peter Leman, English Department Scholarship Award.

Rob McFarland edited ca. 900page The Red Vienna Sourcebook with two colleagues from Vienna. The sourcebook is a collection of 280 original archival texts from the period

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from 1919–34, when Vienna's social democratic government undertook a massive societal experiment relying upon scientific studies and innovative tax policies to provide the city's residents with housing, medical care, education, and cultural institutions. Each archival text is annotated and introduced with an academic essay that explores its historical and political context. The Red Vienna Sourcebook was published simultaneously in an English version (Camden House) and in a German version (De Gruyter). Professor McFarland wrote the chapters on Americanism, Freudomarxism, religion and secularism, and Jewish life and culture. He also edited all of the English translations. The Austrian newspaper Tagebuch named The Red Vienna Sourcebook “The History Book of the Year.” Laura Catharine Smith’s coedited volume with Patrizia Noel (Bamberg) entitled Preferences, is set to be published this fall by Mouton de Gruyter. The volume is in honour of Theo Vennemann’s contributions to linguistics.

Linguistics The Department of Linguistics thrived through the COVID academic year of 2020–21. Our students, faculty, and staff showed their flexibility and resilience throughout the changing landscape that was life at BYU last

year. A big change came when after two terms as chair, Norm Evans turned the reins over to Dan Dewey in July. Dan has been serving as associate chair and brings an in-depth knowledge of and great future vision for the department. Don Chapman will continue his service as associate chair and is joined by Grant Eckstein as the second associate chair. Both Don and Grant bring tremendous organizational skill and work ethic to their positions. August’s department retreat was centered on preparation for our unit review, conducted every seven years. That review was done in March and initial feedback from internal and external reviewers has been very positive. The unit review document will be instrumental in focusing future efforts in the department and was truly a collaborative effort. Lynn Henrichsen retired in July and a search was held to hire two new faculty members to fill previously vacated faculty spots. The department will welcome Lisa Johnson and Jeff Green this August. In December, Tiina Watts, department part-time secretary moved on to another position at BYU and we were very fortunate to hire Sherri Hadfield. Also new to the department is the Linguistics Experiential Learning

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Scholarship. This award is directed to undergraduate majors in our department to help with any experiential learning opportunity, including study abroad, research, or internships. Faculty and Students in the News: § Suzanne Rice, TESOL MA student, placed third in the University 3MT competition. Rice placed first in the college competition, which qualified her to compete in the university competition. Suzanne’s chair was James Hartshorn. § Earl Brown wrote an article for the Humanities Center entitled, “Humans Speak, Dolphins Don’t,” describing how language is uniquely human. § Michael Peck, linguistics MA student, was featured in an article on the College of Humanities website for the new learning opportunities he is bringing to the Kekchi class he teaches. § Retired faculty member, Bill Eggington, was featured in an article for BYU News headlined as, “BYU Professor Helps Courts Solve 60 Cases as Language Detective.” The article described his work as a forensic linguist expert in numerous court cases.

Philosophy The past academic year was a bittersweet one for the Department of Philosophy, marked as it was by the

passing of a dear colleague, David Paulsen, and the challenges posed by COVID while several of our department members achieved notable milestones and received prestigious awards. Gordy Mower was promoted to associate professor and Nate Rockwood passed his initial review; Ryan Christensen was appointed an Alcuin Fellow and Katie Paxman was given the Mentoring Award from the Faculty Women’s Association. We also completed our periodic Academic Unit Review in Fall 2020, with faculty members from Harvard and Texas joining members of BYU’s internal AUR team to conduct a thorough review of our curriculum and programs. We were very much encouraged by their favorable findings and look forward to implementing their suggestions. The department has rescheduled the ancient philosophy conference that was originally postponed due to COVID-19; it will be held in October 2021 and will feature presenters of international repute, as well as young, local scholars working in the field. Also several department members are actively participating in the creation of an LDS Philosophical Theology Project, with preliminary workshops scheduled to take place in fall 2021.

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Spanish & Portuguese Blair Bateman completed his threeyear term as director of the National Portuguese Exam (an exam for high school students) for the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Mara García received a Diploma de Reconocimiento [Diploma of Recognition] from the Associazione Italiana Calabresi Uniti Di San Isidro. She was also named “Cultural Ambassador” and “Mujer Girasol” [Sunflower Woman] by the Asorbaex organization in Spain. Cherice Montgomery received the Best of Utah Award from the Utah Foreign Language Association (UFLA) Conference for the presentation “Are Your Wildflowers Wilting?: Strategies for Supporting Students with Special Needs.” She will represent Utah at the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching in Reno, Nevada in March 2022.

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MAJOR SCHOLARLY WORKS PUBLISHED IN 2020–21 Asian & Near Eastern Languages Blankinship, Kevin. “Al-Ma'arrī's Anxious Menagerie: The Epistle of the Horse and the Mule.” Journal of Abbasid Studies 8 (2021): 142–71. Damron, Julie. “Student Binge Studying, Recall, and Success in a Blended Korean Class.” Selected chapter in a featured collection of relevant topics for online learning amid COVID-19 challenges, IGI Global's New K-12 Online Learning E-Book Collection, June 2020. Gee, John. “Socio-economic texts.” In Oxford Handbook of Egyptology, ed. Elizabeth Bloxam and Ian Shaw, 1019–32. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Liu, Rachel Yu. “The Role of Vocabulary Knowledge in Second Language Speaking Fluency: A Mix-method Research (in English).” In C. Yang (Ed). The Acquisition of Chinese as a Second Language Pronunciation: Segments and Prosody, 305–28. Secaucus, NJ: Springer, 2021. McBride, Richard D., II. “Of Monasteries and Monks: Mainstream Sinitic Buddhism in the Poetry of Ch’oe Ch’iwon.” Acta Koreana 24, no. 1 (June 2021): 1–30. Moody, Stephen J. and Shinsuke Tsuchiya. “Participation in Multiparty Language Play: Sociability and Learning in Dinnertime Conversations.” Applied Linguistics 42, no. 3 (June 2021): 414–41. Parry, Donald W. Exploring the Isaiah Scrolls and Their Textual Variants. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2020. Peterson, Jeff. “Speaking Ability Progress of Language Learners in Online and Face‐to‐Face Courses.” Foreign Language Annals 54, no. 1 (March 2021): 27–49. Riep, Steven. “Ya Xian,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 387: Modern Chinese Poets, 1950-2000, ed. Thomas Moran and Christopher Lupke, 218–25. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. for Gale Research, 2021. Tsuchiya, Shinsuke. “Finding a Balance Between Diversity and Language Standards: A Case of a Japanese Program in a Private University.” Japanese Language and Literature 54, no. 2 (September, 2020): 327–36.

Center for Language Studies Barrows, J. & Cox, T. (2021). “The Effect of Prompt Accent on Elicited Imitation Assessments in English as a Second Language.” In The Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand. http://www.altaanz.org/ uploads/5/9/0/8/5908292/2021_early_view_barrows_cox.pdf

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Clifford, R. (2021). “Testing and Transformative Language Learning.” Transformative Language Learning and Teaching, 227–37. Cambridge University Press Knell, E. & Kao. S.C. (2020). “Repeated Readings and Chinese Immersion Students’ Reading Fluency, Comprehension, and Character Recognition.” The Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education, 8, 230–56.

Comparative Arts & Letters Peacock, Martha. Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age. Brill Press, August 2020.

English Coombs, Dawan (co-edited with Bob Fecho, Trevor Thomas Stewart, and Todd S. Hawley). Novice Teachers Embracing Wobble in Standardized Schools. Routledge, 2021. Eliason, Eric with Carol Edison and Lynne S. McNeill. This is the Plate. U of Utah P, 2020. Esplin, Emron (co-edited with Margarida Vale de Gato). Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons. Lehigh University Press, 2020. Franklin, Joey. Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays. U of Nebraska P, 2020. Mason, Nicholas (co-edited with Tom Mole). Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century: Eleven Case Studies from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. Edinburgh UP Books, 2020. Roberts, Brian. Borderwaters: Amid the Archipelagic States of America. Duke UP, 2021. Rudy, Jill Terry with Pauline Greenhill. Fairy-Tale TV. Routledge, 2020. Wickman, Matt (co-edited with Caroline McCracken-Flesher). Walter Scott at 250. Edinburgh UP, 2021

French & Italian Cropper, Corry and Christopher M. Flood. Mormons in Paris, Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874–1892. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, Oct. 2020. Flood, Christopher. “Of Pastorals and Partisans: Nationalist Variations on the Myth of Rural Virtue in Sixteenth-Century Anti-Protestant Polemics.” Sixteenth Century Journal 51, no. 2 (2020): 343–66. Haraguchi, Jennifer. “The Heart: Memoria Meets the Love Experience in the Roman de la Rose.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History 15 (2018): 197–221. Hudson, Robert. “C’est mon stile qui change: Clément Marot’s Lyrical Turn in Renée de France’s pays italique.” In Representing the Life and Legacy of Renée de France: From Fille de France to Dowager Duchess, edited by Kelly Digby Peebles and Gabriella Scarlatta. New York: Palgrave, Queenship and Power Series, 2021.

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Phenix, Sara, and Daryl Lee. “Ladies’ Choice: Prehistory and Sexual Selection in Au Bonheur des Dames.” Dix-Neuf 24, no. 4 (2020): 341–65.

German & Russian Clement, Christian. Writings—Critical Edition. vols. IV, 1(CXXVI, 323) and Writings on the History of Philosophy. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2020. ISBN 978-3-7728-2634-4.

Linguistics Bills, Suzy L. The Freelance Editor's Handbook: The Complete Guide to Making Your Business Thrive. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. (2021). Baker, M.J. “Contextual Information in Social How-To Questions That Initiate Documentation.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, (2020). Brown, E. “The Effect of Forms’ Ratio of Conditioning on Word-Final /s/ Voicing in Mexican Spanish.” Languages, (Nov. 2020). Eddington, D., Brown, E. “A Production and Perception Study of /t/-Glottalization and Oral Releases Following Glottals in the United States.” American Speech, Duke University Press, (Feb. 2021). Chapman, D. “Are You a Descriptivist or a Prescriptivist? The Meaning of the Term Descriptivism and the Values of Those Who Use It.” Language Prescription: Values, Ideologies and Identity, 46–70. Bristol: Multilingual Matters (2020). Chapman, D., Rawlins, J. Language Prescription: Values, Ideologies and Identity. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2020. Cox, T., Dewey, D. “Measuring Language Development through Self-assessment.” Routledge Handbook of SLA and Language Testing. London: Routledge, January 2021. Eckstein, G., Sims, M., Rohm, L. “Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback Among Graduate Students: The Effects of Feedback Timing.” TESL Canada Journal 37, no. 2 (2020): 78–102. Eddington, D. “An Experimental Investigation of Variation in Spanish Diminutives.” Dialecologia 24, (2020): 61–90. Andrade, M., Evans, N., Hartshorn, J., Gates, G. “Understanding Diversity: Perspectives from University Departments Hosting Large Percentages of International Students.” Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice 20, (2020). Hartshorn, J., McMurry, B. “The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on ESL Learners and TESOL Practitioners in the United States.” International Journal of TESOL Studies 2, (2020). Blanco, K., Tanner, M., Hartshorn, K., Eggington, W. “Factors Influencing ESL Students’ Selection of Intensive English Programs in the Western United States.” TESOL Journal 11, no. 3 (August 2020).

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Hashimoto, B. “Is Frequency Enough?: The Frequency Model in Vocabulary Size Testing.” Language Assessment Quarterly, Routledge. (2021). Manning, A. “Upping Our Poetry’s Game.” Leading Edge: Science Fiction and Fantasy 77, (December 2020): 73–83. Nuckolls, J. Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse. Lexington Press, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers (with Tod Swanson), 2020. Oaks, D. “A Creative Approach for Linguistic Funny Business: Using Linguistic Paradigms and Taxonomies.” In Script-Based Semantics: Foundations and Applications. Essays in Honor of Victor Raskin. Edited by Salvatore Attardo. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2020. Parker, J. “On the relationship between frequency, features and markedness in inflection: Experimental evidence from Russian nouns.” Languages, (November 2020). Rawlins, J., Veltsos, J., Sharp, M., Patriarca, A., Pope-Ruark, R. “Applied Rhetoric as Disciplinary Umbrella: Community, Connections, and Identity.” In Foundational Knowledge and Innovative Practices in Technical and Professional Communication, (November 2020). Rogers, C. Máku: A Comprehensive Grammar. New York: Routledge, 2020. Stanley, J. “The Absence of a Religiolect among Latter-day Saints in Southwest Washington.” In Speech in the Western States Volume III: Understudied Dialects, 95–122. Edited by Alerie Fridland, Alicia Wassink, Lauren Hall, and Tyler Kendall Lew. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.

Philosophy White, Justin. “Why Did the Butler Do It?” European Journal of Philosophy (Published online: 7 April 2021) https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12653.

Spanish & Portuguese Bateman, Blair E., Child, Mike. W., and Bueno, E. B. “A Focus on Language in the Immersion Language Arts Curriculum.” Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 8, no. 2 (2020): 200–29. https://doi.org/10.1075/jicb.18031.bat Carr, William. “How I Went to War” by Miguel Gila Cuesta, translated by Will Carr. Featured translation in Asymptote Blog’s Translation Tuesday, April 20, 2021. https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2021/04/20/translation-tuesday-how-iwent-to- war-by-miguel-gila-cuesta/ Child, Mike. W., and Bateman, Blair. E. “Nominal and Verbal Agreement in Portuguese: Differential Outcomes of a Focus on Language in a Fourth Grade Immersion Class.” Hispania 103, no. 4 (2020): 501–21. https://doi.org/10.1353/ hpn.2020.0111

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García, Mara. “César Vallejo y los Espacios.” In Cultura Infantil: Primicia Mundial. Lima: La Catedral, 2020. Hegstrom, Valerie. “Teaching the Mujer Varonil as the Wonder Woman of Early Modern Spain.” In Reconsidering Early Modern Spanish Literature through Mass and Pop Culture: Contemporizing the Classics in the Classroom, 193–208. Edited by Mindy Badia and Bonnie Gasior. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2021. Larson, Erik. “Dialectical Shades of Noir: The Case of Ignacio Padilla's Espiral de artillería.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 43, no. 2 (2020): 309–28. Montgomery, Cherice. 2020. “Community by Design: Crafting Space for Living, Learning, and Language Development.” In Language Learning in Foreign Language Houses: Immersion and Integration, 347–80. Edited by Bown, J., Smemoe, W., & Dewey, D.P. International Association for Language Learning Technology. Williams, Lynn. “Dictionaries, Corpora and Variation in the Court of Philip IV of Spain: The Case of Propiedad—Propiedad and Related Words.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 97, no. 7 (2020): 677–98. Wilson, Mac. 2021. “‘Historia no natural’: Human Subjectivity and ‘Nature’ in Alfredo Veiravé’s Historia Natural.” Tekoporá: Revista de Humanidades Ambientales y Estudios Territoriales 31 https://doi.org/10.36225/tekoporá.v3i1.11

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RETIRED DURING 2020–21 Dan Peterson

Asian & Near Eastern Languages

Mark Johnson

Comparative Arts & Letters

John Bennion

English

Greg Clark

English

Dan Muhlestein

English

Dennis Perry

English

Phil Snyder

English

Bruce Young

English

Debbie Van Ausdal

French & Italian

Lynn Henrichsen

Linguistics

DEATHS OF EMERITI SINCE AUGUST 2020 Steven Sondrup

Comparative Arts & Letters

Joyce Baggerly

English

Brandie Siegfried

English

Paul Thomas

English

David Paulsen

Philosophy

Wendell Hall

Spanish & Portuguese (missed in last year’s booklet)

Carl Dixon Anderson

Spanish & Portuguese

Harold (Hal) Rosen

Spanish & Portuguese

College Honors and University Emeriti Updates Awards

UPCOMING EVENTS (ALL EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR CANCELLATION) Fall 2021

Winter 2022

September 16—P.A. Christensen Lecture: Michelle James @11:00, B092 JFSB

February 24—College of Humanities 3MT Competition @4:00, EIZ theater

October 7—Homecoming, Honored Alumni Lecture: Bonnie Oscarson @11:00, B092 JFSB

March 4—HUM grants proposal deadline March 8—College Assessment Day

October 30—HUM grants proposal deadline

March 10—College banquet @6:00pm, 3220-3224 WSC

November 1—H-MEG proposal deadline

March 17—P.A. Christensen Lecture: Kristin Matthews @11:00, B092 JFSB

November 18—James Barker Lecture: Lynn Williams @11:00, B092 JFSB

April 4—HUM grants awards announced

November 23—College Assessment Day

April 14—Language Fairs

December 1—H-MEG awards announced December 6—HUM grants awards announced (Winter 2021)

April 22—College Convocation April 28–29—Assessment Retreat May 2–6—Faculty Development Series-Spring Seminar for first-year faculty May 12–13—2nd year Faculty retreat

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RANK AND STATUS ADVANCEMENT RESULTS 2020–21 Continuing faculty status candidates (passed Initial Review): Kevin Blankinship

Asian & Near Eastern Languages

Sharon Harris English Spencer Hyde

English

Meridith Reed

English

Nathan Rockwood

Philosophy

Granted continuing faculty status as associate professor: Steve Moody Marlene Esplin

Asian & Near Eastern Languages Comparative Arts & Letters

Jason Kerr

English

Michael Lavers

English

Jarica Watts

English

Katya Jordan

German & Russian

Grant Eckstein

Linguistics

Jacob Rawlins

Linguistics

Gordon Mower

Philosophy

Anna-Lisa Halling

Spanish & Portuguese

Associate professors granted continuing faculty status: Ben Crosby

English

Rank & Status Advancement Results

Faculty members advanced to full professor: James Toronto

Asian & Near Eastern Languages

Don Chapman

Linguistics

Dallin Oaks

Linguistics

Greg Thompson

Spanish & Portuguese

Faculty members advanced to full professor, with continuing faculty status: Rick McBride

Asian & Near Eastern Languages

DUE DATES FOR RANK AND STATUS ADVANCEMENT: Deadlines for Final (CFS) Review and Full Professor Review October 1 Candidate files to Dean’s Office 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

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

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INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SCHEDULE FALL 2021 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)

16–19 September (Displaced at Home and Abroad) Les Misérables (Ladj Ly, French/Bambara, 2019)* Adam (Maryam Touzani, Arabic, 2019) Buoyancy (Rodd Rathjen, Khmer/Thai, 2019) Fig Tree (Aalam-Warqe Davidian, Amharic/Hebrew, 2018)

23–26 September (Remembering World War II) Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, English, 2017)* 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)

30 September – 3 October 16 Bars (Sam Bathrick, English, 2018) 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)

14–17 October (Reconciliation) Out Stealing Horses (Hans Petter Moland, Norwegian/Swedish, 2019)

International Cinema Schedule

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

4–7 November (The Rise and Fall of Democracy) 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) No (Pablo Larraín, Spanish, 2012)

11–14 November (Voice and Suffrage) Suffragette (Sarah Gavron, English, 2015)* The Cave (Feras Fayyad, Arabic, 2018) Papicha (Mounia Meddour, French/Arabic, 2019) Zana (Antoneta Kastrati, Albanian, 2019)

18–21 November (International Animation) 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) Collective (Alexander Nanau, Romanian, 2019)*

*Not available on Hummedia.

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

Th ree Minute Thesis

A&NEL, Asian & Near Eastern Languages ASNEL AA

Associate of Arts Degree (not Alcoholics Anonymous)

AAC

Administrative Advisory Council

ABD

All But Dissertation

CAPS

YU Counseling and Psychological B Services

CAS

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

CEA

College English Association

CFS

Continuing Faculty Status

CLIPS

Language Integrated Production C System

ACTFL American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

CLS

Center for Language Studies

CLVS

College Leadership Visiting Services

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

CPMS

YU College of Physical and B Mathematical Sciences

ACMRS Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

A nno Domini

ADA

Americans with Disabilities Act

A nno Hegirae or Arts and Humanities

APA

A merican Psychological Association (style/format)

Cosplay W hat happens on campus when Halloween falls on a weekday. CSR

Computer Support Representative

CSS

Cascading Style Sheet (format)

CTL

Center for Teaching and Learning

Digital Humanities

DigHT

Digital Humanities and Technology, the Digital Humanities and Technology Minor

ASB, Abraham Smoot Building or SOB Smoot Office Building (used on occasion by disgruntled administrators)

DMaC Digital Media & Communications Team

Assessalot Training Retreat for College Faculty

DMBA

eseret Mutual Benefit D Administrators

EIZ

E ducation in Zion

ELC

English Language Center

ASI

Annual Stewardship Interview

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

EMISAJ Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures Journal EOO

Equal Opportunity Office

ESCP

École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris English as a Second Language

CAC

College Administrative Council

CAL

Comparative Arts & Letters

ESL

CALL

Computer-Assisted Language Learning

ESSWE European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism FAC

Faculty Advisory Council

Acronym List

FERPA

e Family Educational Rights and Th Privacy Act

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

FHSS

YU College of Family, Home, and B Social Sciences

KMBL

Spencer W. Kimball Tower (formerly SWKT)

FLAC

Foreign Language Activity Commons

LAAC

Liberal Arts Advisement & Careers

FLATS

Foreign Language Achievement Testing Services

LARC

L anguage Acquisition Research Conference

FLSR

Foreign Language Student Housing

LDS

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

FPS

Faculty Publishing Service or Faculty Profile System

LDSP

LDS Philanthropies

General Education

LEP

Limited Enrollment Program

HBLL

Harold B. Lee Library

LocLand E vent held by The Translation and Localization Club

Humanities Center

Master of Arts Degree

HEC

Shortened, anglicized form of ESCP

Master of Ceremonies

HLC

Humanities Leadership Council

MARS

HLR

Humanities Learning Resources

BYU Medieval & Renaissance Studies

HMEG

Humanities Mentoring Grant

MEd

Master of Education Degree

BYU Human Resources Office

HRCB HTML HUM

MFA

Master of Fine Arts Degree

Herald R. Clark Building

MLA

Modern Language Association

Hypertext Markup Language (format)

MOA

BYU Museum of Art

MTC

Missionary Training Center

Humanities

NCAA

ational Collegiate Athletic N Association

NEA

National Endowment for the Arts

NEH

ational Endowment for the N Humanities

NFL

National Football League

NTSC

National Television System Committee (format)

ODH

Office of Digital Humanities

OIT

YU Office of Information B Technology

OPI

Oral Proficiency Interview

ORCA

Office of Research and Creative Activities

PAL

Phase Alternating Line (format)

PhD

Doctor of Philosophy Degree

HUMGrant, Humanities Grant HumGrant (Formerly ORCA Grant) HUMBUG

A Flaw in DH Code

HUMDINGER A Humanities homerun

International Cinema

ICALL

Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning

ISLA

Instructed Second-Language Acquisition

JFSB

Joseph F. Smith Building

JKB

Jesse Knight Building

JKHB

J esse Knight Humanities Building, to pre-millennial alumni

JSB

Joseph Smith Building

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QPR

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

R&S

Rank and Status

Returned Missionaries

RWC

Research and Writing Center

SAC

Student Advisory Council

SECAM Sequential Color and Memory (format) SEO

Search Engine Optimization

SOAS

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

TBD

To Be Determined

TESL

Teaching English as a Second Language

TESOL

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Translation Studies

University of California

UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles

UCOTE U niversity Council on Teacher Education UI

User Interface

UEP

Universal Enrollment Program

United Nations

UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista UVU

Utah Valley University

User Experience

WSR

Web Support Representative

Y, The Y BYU (not the YMCA) YA

Young Adult

YANCON Young Adult Novel Conference YSA

Young Single Adult

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Notes College Honors and University Emeriti Updates Awards Notes

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Education in Zion Gallery Information

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English Reading Series Schedule 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 2021 Paisley Rekdal

Martine Leavitt

September 10

Edward Carey

September 24

Paxman Student Reading

Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction and six books of poetry, including Nightingale and Appropriate: A Provocation. Her work has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship, and various state arts council awards. She teaches at the University of Utah and is Utah’s Poet Laureate.

Martine Leavitt has published ten novels for young adults, most recently Calvin, which won the Governor General’s Award of Canada. My Book of Life by Angel was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year. Other titles by Leavitt include Keturah and Lord Death, a finalist for the National Book Award, Tom Finder, winner of the Mr. Christie Award, and Heck Superhero, a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Her novels have been published in China, Japan, Korea, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands. Currently she teaches creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, a short-residency MFA program. She lives in High River, Alberta.

Paxman Student Reading

Abraham Smith

October 1

Rita Dove

Eric Freeze

October 8

Derek Otsuji

Abraham Smith is an American poet, musician, and Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University. The author of five collections of poetry, Smith also serves as the poet laureate of Ogden, Utah, and a member of the band, “The Snarlin’ Yams.” In addition to a fellowship from the Alabama Council for the Arts, Smith was also named a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellow.

Eric Freeze is an Associate Professor of English at Wabash College where he teaches writing fiction, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, and writing for video games. He is author of Dominant Traits, Hemingway on a Bike, and Invisible Men. He lives in Crawfordsville, Indiana and Nice, France with academic Rixa Freeze and their four bilingual soccercrazed children.

Kevin Wilson

October 22 Kevin Wilson is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Nothing to See Here and The Family Fang, as well as Perfect Little World, and two collections, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine. He lives in Sewanee, TN, with his wife, the poet Leigh Anne Couch, and two sons, and teaches creative writing at the University of the South.

October 29

Edward Carey is a writer and illustrator, as well as the author of the novels Observatory Mansions and Alva and Irva: the Twins Who Saved a City, and of the YA Iremonger Trilogy, which have all been translated into many different languages and all of which he illustrated. His novel Little, which took him a ridiculous fifteen years to finish, has been published in 20 countries. His most recent novel is The Swallowed Man, which is set inside the belly of an enormous sea beast.

November 5

Three student readers will share their own creative work—one in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. If you’re a graduate student interested in sharing your work, look out for application details from the English department mid-October.

November 12

Rita Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for her third book of poetry, Thomas and Beulah, in 1987 and served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995. She received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the National Medal of Arts from President Obama—the only poet ever to receive both. Her most recent honors include the 2019 Wallace Stevens Award and the 2021 Gold Medal in poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Letters—the third woman and first African American in the 110 years of the Academy’s highest honor. She is the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. Her eleventh collection of poetry, Playlist for the Apocalypse, is forthcoming this summer from W. W. Norton.

November 19 Born on Oahu, Derek N. Otsuji is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours (SIU Press 2021), which won the Crab Orchard Poetry Series Open Competition. He is a 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholar (Sewanee Writers’ Conference) and has received awards from Bread Loaf and the Kenyon Review. His poems are widely published in local and national journals, including Bamboo Ridge, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Pleiades, Rattle, The Southern Review, and The Threepenny Review. A 2000 graduate of BYU’s Masters Program in English, he has studied with poets Leslie Norris, Susan Elizabeth Howe, and Lance Larsen.

Hasanthika Sirisena

December 3

Hasanthika Sirisena’s work has been anthologized in This is the Place (Seal Press, 2017), in Every Day People: The Color of Life (Atria Books, 2018), and twice named a notable story by Best American Short Stories. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo and is a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award recipient. She is currently faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and Susquehanna University. Her books include the short story collection The Other One (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016) and the forthcoming essay collection Dark Tourist (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University 2021).

Fridays at 12:00 pm in the HBLL Auditorium Go to ers.byu.edu to find out more about BYU’s English Reading Series.

University Conference Booklet 2021

Articles inside

English Reading Series Schedule

International Cinema Schedule

Acronym & Initialism List

College Professorships and Fellowships

Major Scholarly Works Published in 2020–21

Department Highlights

New Faculty and Staff

Faculty Advisory Council Report

University Awards

College of Humanities Lectureships

College Centers and Services