Second Language Research & Practice (SLRP), an open refereed journal of the AAUSC addressing postsecondary language education from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. Its first annual volume was published last week – check it out: http://www.slrpjournal.org/
Continue reading “Resource: Second Language Research & Practice Journal”Pitt Project GO (Global Officers) Scholarship for ROTC students
Deadline: January 13, 2020
The University of Pittsburgh invites Army, Navy/Marine, and Air Force ROTC students from any US college or university to apply for a Pitt Project GO (Global Officers) scholarship for intensive study of 1st-4th year Russian in Summer 2021. Project GO is an initiative sponsored by the Defense Language and National Security Education Office (DLNSEO) and administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
Students who have not yet begun their pursuit of Russian are encouraged to apply for an 8-week beginning-level class, which will cover the equivalent of one academic year’s worth of language training. The beginning-level classes, offered by Pitt’s Summer Language Institute (SLI), are held at the University’s main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh from June 7–July 30, 2021. Pitt Project GO scholarships for Beginning Russian cover:
• Full tuition for 8 University of Pittsburgh credits
• Housing and a living stipend
• Travel between the student’s home city and Pittsburgh
• Textbooks
CFP: “Crisis, Contingency, and the Future of REEES: Perspectives on the Present and Future of the Field,” a Critical Discussion Forum proposal for the Slavic Review
Deadline: November 20, 2020
The Working Group for Solidarity in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, an ASEEES affiliate group, and the Slavic Review are soliciting submissions for a Critical Discussion Forum on the state of the field and the specific challenges of contingency. Slavic Review will host the forum tentatively titled Crisis, Contingency, and the Future of REEES: Perspectives on the Present and Future of the Field, to be published approximately in the Fall 2021. Contributions to this forum will focus on challenges our field faces, both in confronting the current COVID-19 crisis and grappling with long-lasting structural problems in our field, such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, classism, homo- and transphobia; discrimination based on nationality, ethnicity, and religious affiliation; as well as the lack of employment, housing, and healthcare security.
Our primary goal is to present the stories and perspectives of colleagues in contingent positions: graduate students, international students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting and adjunct instructors, lecturers, academic hourly employees, independent scholars, as well as tenure track scholars.
Continue reading “CFP: “Crisis, Contingency, and the Future of REEES: Perspectives on the Present and Future of the Field,” a Critical Discussion Forum proposal for the Slavic Review”Alta Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
Deadline: November 30, 2020
The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator. The mentorship duration is approximately nine months. The emerging translator is expected to choose a project that can be completed in that time, and they will only be advised on that particular project.
The following mentorships are available in 2021:
- Non-language-specific, non-genre-specific, with mentor Kareem James Abu-Zeid
- Dutch prose, with mentor David McKay
- Korean poetry, with mentor Jack Jung
- Korean prose, with mentor Janet Hong
- Literature from Singapore, with mentor Jeremy Tiang
- Literature from Singapore (for Singaporean nationals), with mentor Julia Sanches
- Prose from Taiwan, with mentor Mike Fu
- Russian prose, with mentor Marian Schwartz
Grad Program: Contemporary Russian Studies; Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of Virginia)
Deadline: January 15, 2020
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia welcomes applications for three graduate programs, the MA in Contemporary Russian Studies, the MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures. The MA in Contemporary Russian Studies offers courses in Russian literature, language, culture, history, politics, art history, religious studies, and sociology, as well as further study in advanced Russian language. The MA and PhD programs in Slavic Languages and Literatures train graduate students primarily in Russian literature, culture, and help students to advance their language skills toward professional-level proficiency. At the PhD level students take secondary offerings in Polish language and Polish, Czech, and Central European literature and film. Other Slavic languages are offered through summer study. Students may also take courses in related areas in other language departments, English, History, Politics, Sociology, and Religious Studies, among many others.
Continue reading “Grad Program: Contemporary Russian Studies; Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of Virginia)”Resource: Free Subscription to Language Learning & Technology Journal
The new issue of Language Learning & Technology (Volume 24, Number 3) is now available at https://www.lltjournal.org
Please visit the LL&T website and be sure to sign up to receive your free subscription if you have not already done so.
Also, we welcome your contributions for future issues. If you have questions about this process or wish to submit a manuscript, please check our guidelines for submission at https://www.lltjournal.org/submission-guidelines/.
Grad Program: Slavic Languages, Literatures, Culture (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Deadline: January 7, 2021
Graduate students can focus on a single national language and literature (Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Czech, Polish, Russian, or Ukrainian) or, alternatively, on comparative study and research in two East European literatures (one of the above or another East or Central European literature taught within the university, e.g., Yiddish or German). Students can also pursue interdisciplinary work, focusing on East European literature(s) and another discipline (e.g., History of Art or Architecture, Cinema, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Anthropology, History, or Sociology). During their first year of graduate study, students will develop an individual plan of study, in consultation with faculty mentors, integrating the components noted above into a coherent intellectual plan for working with the selected literatures in their cross-cultural contexts.
Continue reading “Grad Program: Slavic Languages, Literatures, Culture (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)”Grad Program: Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (Ohio State)
Deadline: December 31, 2020
The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio welcomes applicants to our MA/Ph.D. program for Autumn semester 2021.
The Department offers graduate students a stimulating intellectual environment and generous financial support. Our graduate course offerings appeal to a broad range of intellectual interests, with three major areas of concentration: Literature, Film, and Cultural Studies; Slavic Linguistics; and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Department faculty have expertise in classical, modernist, Soviet, émigré, and postmodern Russian, Central European, and South Eastern European literatures, film, and interdisciplinary cultural studies; transpositions of literature into other media; gender and feminist studies; digital humanities; print media; national identity; bilingualism; language and memory; pedagogy; the structure and history of the Slavic languages; Balkan linguistics; medieval Slavic texts; and morphology. The first two years of study include literature, linguistics, film, and SLA and help create a cohesive cohort of well-rounded scholars who then head into their research specializations.
Continue reading “Grad Program: Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (Ohio State)”CFP: Russian Language Journal re: Diversity, Equity, Access and Inclusion
Deadline: January 1, 2021
Given recent conversations in the field and ACTR’s statement concerning systemic racism and police brutality in the United States, the Russian Language Journal is dedicating a special issue to the topic of diversity, equity, access and inclusion. We invite submissions that address any aspect of DEAI in language study, instruction, and/or curriculum, including, but not limited to:
• The implementation of critical pedagogies in K-16 language classrooms
• Developing community engagement initiatives in the language classroom that promote equity and social justice
• Redesigning curricula and language learning materials to promote learner identity and self-representation
• Language ideology and public policy at the local and national level
• Analysis of public discourse related to issues of race, gender, LGTBQ+, and marginalized ethnic communities in Russian-speaking countries
• Methods of teaching, training, and mentoring graduate students and language instructors in addressing inequity and promoting inclusivity
• Study abroad programing for students from underrepresented populations
Grad Program: Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (Indiana University)
Deadline: December 1 (international); January 15 (domestic)
The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University invites applications to its MA and PhD programs. With fifteen faculty in the core unit, the Indiana Slavic department is one of the largest in the country. We support PhD level work in Russian, Polish, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), as well as in Slavic linguistics and language pedagogy.
Home to a Russian Flagship Program, we have seen recent growth in Russian enrollments and maintain programs in BCS, Czech, Polish, and Ukrainian. Our core faculty offers mentorship in diverse areas including the theory and practice of translation, memory studies, economic criticism, cultural studies, and critical theory; research strengths in linguistics include pragmatics, phonology, second language acquisition, and pedagogy. Our extensive and engaged network of adjunct faculty adds expertise in fields such as documentary film, computational linguistics, and religious thought. Graduate students also have the opportunity for apprenticeships at our in-house press, Slavica, which puts out academic books in Slavic studies and, under the imprint Three String Books, literary translations.
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