Please join SLAT in congratulating Dr. Chantelle Warner, Professor of SLAT and German Studies, in being appointed the Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. Dr. Warner's new position will begin on July 1, 2024.

Dr. Warner is currently the College of Humanities Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Since 2014, she has co-directed the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), a Title VI National Language Resource Center supported through the U.S. Department of Education. She has also served as the Language Program Director for German Studies, and the Instructional Dimensions Area Chair for SLAT. 

Dr. Warner's research crosses the fields of applied linguistics, stylistics/poetics, and literary studies. She is particularly interested in how individuals engage in creative, playful, and subversive language use as they negotiate complex social and symbolic worlds. This has informed her research in a variety of areas related to language/intercultural education including aesthetic and affective dimensions of language development, multiliteracies pedagogies, literature and intercultural learning, and technology-enhanced second language teaching and learning. Her recent monograph, Multiliteracy Play: Designs and Desires in the Second Language Classroom (2024, Bloomsbury) proposes an expansion of multiliteracies frameworks in second language education, by recognizing that learning a new language and culture involves not only culturally inculcated designs but also desires, the affects and emotions that shape our responses to ways of making meaning. Prof. Warner is the author of two additional books and many peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and pedagogical materials.

SLAT is pleased to announce that one of our PhD Candidates, Anh Dang, has been awarded a Dissertation Research Grant from the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Research Institute (SBSRI) for her project "Corpus-based Materials Implementation in Writing Classrooms: Teachers' Experiences, Perceptions and Training Initiatives".  Anh's dissertation advisor is Dr. Shelley Staples (SLAT, Department of English). 

Congratulations Anh!

SLAT is pleased to announce that one of our PhD Candidates, Issam Rian, has been awarded a Dissertation Research Grant from the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Research Institute (SBSRI) for his project "Metacognitive Judgments of L2 Writers in Response to AI Genre-feedback".  Issam's dissertation advisor is Dr. Christine Tardy (SLAT, Department of English). 

Congratulations Issam!

SLAT is pleased to announce that one of our PhD Candidates, Mourad Abdennebi, has received a dissertation research grant from the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Association (NFMLTA) and National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL). This grant supports graduate student research in the fields of applied linguistics and language education with grants focused on the teaching and learning of less commonly taught languages (all languages except English, Spanish, French, and German). 

Please join us in congratulating Mourad on his achievement!

SLAT is thrilled to announce that Asya Gorlova, a 3rd-year SLAT doctoral candidate, has been named as the College of Humanities Outstanding Graduate Associate in Teaching for Spring 2024! Asya taught as a GAT in the Russian and Slavic Studies Department for 2 years, and she is now a Graduate Associate in Postdoctoral Affairs. 

Asya is currently working on her dissertation, which focuses on refugee and migrant-serving language programs, and she is a volunteer program coordinator for Tutors4Ukraine. 

Please join us in congratulating Asya on her achievement!

Please join SLAT in congratulating Dr. Peter Ecke on receiving a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct research and revise an undergraduate course on multilingualism. Dr. Ecke is a Professor in SLAT, and in the Department of German Studies. 

Dr. Ecke developed "Becoming Multilingual: Learning and Maintaining Two or More Languages" in 2015 to introduce undergraduate students to research on bilingual and multilingual people.  You can read more about Dr. Ecke's grant and his course development here: https://humanities.arizona.edu/news/prof-ecke-receives-neh-grant-course…;

We're pleased to announce that SLAT doctoral candidate Wei Xu is a recipient of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Scholars for the Dream Travel Award. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). 

CCCC sponsors the Scholars for the Dream Awards to encourage scholarship by historically underrepresented groups. This includes Black, Latinx, Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander scholars—persons whose presence and whose contributions are central to the full realization of our professional goals.

CCCC supports scholars’ participation in the CCCC Annual Convention and sponsors a reception for all award winners. The Awards Selection Committee considers originality of research, significance of pedagogical or theoretical contributions to the field, and potential for larger, subsequent projects.

Wei will be announced as a recipient of the CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award on Friday, April 5, during the 2024 CCCC Annual Convention in Spokane, Washington.

For more information about the CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award, including past winners, see https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/awards/scholarsforthedream

We're pleased to announce that SLAT doctoral candidate Issam Rian is the recipient of a Graduate and Professional Student Council's Research and Project Grant for Winter 2024, in support of his dissertation research project.

We're pleased to announce that SLAT doctoral candidate Mourad Abdennebi is the recipient of a Graduate and Professional Student Council's Research and Project Grant for Winter 2024, in support of his dissertation research project.