FLRT event: Building a Versatile Professional Profile

This event features PhD candidates who have built strong professional profiles in various areas (e.g., teaching, research, and leadership). Nicole King (T&L), Tamara Roose (T&L), and Budimka Uskokovic (Germanic) will share their experiences and resources and will also participate in a Q&A session. For more information and the Zoom link, check out the FLRT versatile profile panel flyer.

AAAL 2021 colloquium

I am presently participating in the 2021 American Association for Applied Linguistics virtual conference. With Jackie Ridley (Kent State), I have a paper, ‘Ideologies at the intersection of language learning, science learning, and play’. Our paper is part of the colloquium Jackie organized on Language Learning and Play in Preschool Settings, along with papers by Amy Kyratzis (UCSB), Katie Bernstein and Ryleigh Hait (ASU). It is amazing to be hanging out with so many applied linguists in one “place”, hearing about the work they are engaged in now.

Brian Seilstad book and webinar

Brian Seilstad, a former advisee, has a book coming out with Multilingual Matters. Educating Adolescent Newcomers in the Superdiverse Midwest: Multilingual Students in English-centric Contexts is based on his 2018 dissertation. Brian will be doing a webinar with Wayne Wright, Nancy Hornberger, Nelson Flores, and Maria Cioe Pena on April 1st, at 7 pm GMT. You can register for the webinar here.

Invited talk for New Literacy Studies Forum

This past weekend I gave an invited talk as part of a panel ‘Multilingual Communities in Ethnographic Perspectives’. This panel was part of a series of Literacy Talks organized by the New Literacy Studies Forum/Kajian Literasi Baru. Also presenting was my former advisee Dr. Artanti Sari, who gave a wonderful presentation grounded in her dissertation research with Indonesian-Muslim families who migrated to the US and used online digital telecommunication technology to socialize their children into languages, literacy, and religion.

Newly elected FLRT leadership

Congratulations to the newly elected FLRT leadership! Emre Basok will serve as President, Yuseva Iswandari as Vice President, Juyeon Yoo as Treasurer, and Susan Atai as Secretary. Many thanks to the current/outgoing leaders, Zhenjie Weng, Xinyue Lu, and Beth Martens.