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Annual Foreign Language Teaching Conference, Presented by Department of Language, Literature and Writing

The Department of Language, Literature and Writing held the annual IUP Spring Methodology Conference on Foreign Language Teaching on Friday, April 25, 2025. 

  • Dr. Christina Huhn
  • 09 May 2025
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Appalachian Professional Language Educators’ Society Hosts Annual Festival

On Saturday, March 29, 2025, the Appalachian Professional Language Educators’ Society (APPLES) hosted its annual Foreign Language Festival on the IUP campus. Approximately 160 foreign language students from local area high schools participated.

  • 09 May 2025
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Sigma Delta Pi Induction Ceremony

IUP’s Iota Mu Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Hispanic Honor Society, celebrated its fifty-second initiation ceremony on Friday, May 2, 2025.

  • 06 May 2025
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Vetter Publishes Article on Dystopian Media Coverage of OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Matt Vetter (Language, Literature, and Writing), with co-authors Brent Lucia and Varshil Patel, published “The Dystopian Imaginaries of ChatGPT: A Designed Cycle of Fear” in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. The article offers a critical analysis of dystopian narratives that emerged as a response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

  • 22 April 2025
Faculty Achievements

Sell, Schiera, and Siddique Publish White Paper on Decision Literacy

IUP Professor Mike Sell and doctoral students Rachel Schiera and Zeeshan Siddique argue that reading, writing about, and talking about great works of literature enables us to improve our ability to make good decisions.

  • 21 April 2025
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Doctoral Student Miller Publishes Article on Feminist Ethos and Agency in Peitho Journal

Patti Miller (English Composition and Applied Linguistics doctoral candidate) recently published an article in Peitho (winter 2025) titled “Nevertheless, She Resisted: Feminist Ethos and Agency in ‘The Epic of Gilgamesh’.”

  • 21 April 2025
Student Achievements

IUP’s Swift Studies Group Planning “@Taylor Evermore: A Swift Symposium”

Members of Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Swift Studies, a group of English graduate students, will present “Taylor Evermore: A Swift Symposium” on April 25 and 26 in McVitty Auditorium in Sprowls Hall at IUP.

  • 01 April 2025
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Literature and Criticism Graduate Students Shine at 56th Annual NEMLA Conference

A record-breaking dozen PhD students from IUP’s Literature and Criticism program took center stage at the fifty-sixth annual Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) conference, held in Philadelphia March 6–9.

  • Dr. Dan Weinstein
  • 26 March 2025
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IUP Graduate Student Organization Offering “Landscapes of Literature and Language” Conference March 21, 22

Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s English Graduate Organization will offer its 2025 Conference, “Landscapes of Language and Literature,” on March 21 and 22. The conference will be offered both in person in IUP’s Sprowls Hall and via Zoom. It is free and open to the community.

  • 14 March 2025
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Vetter Publishes Article on Wikipedia’s Role in Training Large Languages Models

Matt Vetter, with co-authors Jialei Jiang and Zachary McDowell, recently published an article titled “An Endangered Species: How LLMs Threaten Wikipedia’s Sustainability” in the journal AI & Society.

  • 12 March 2025
Faculty Achievements

Vetter Publishes Article on Generative AI and the Writing Process

Matt Vetter, with co-authors Jialei Jiang and Brent Lucia, published a new article titled “From Hype to Practice: Reinterpreting the Writing Process Through Technical Writing Students’ Engagement with ChatGPT” in the journal Technical Communication Quarterly.

  • 29 January 2025
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Siegel Finer Selected as Co-editor of “Peitho”

Bryna Siegel Finer, Department of Language, Literature, and Writing, has been selected as the incoming co-editor of the journal “Peitho.”

  • 02 January 2025
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Siegel Finer Publishes New Book on Toxic Rhetoric

Bryna Siegel Finer, Department of Language, Literature, and Writing, published a new book with Peter Lang, “Confronting Toxic Rhetoric: Writing Teachers’ Experiences of Rupture, Resistance, and Resilience.”

  • 02 January 2025
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Sell Interviewed on "Dungeons + Drama Nerds" Podcast

Mike Sell shared his thoughts on the role of intertextual reference, collaborative dramaturgy, and tabletop roleplaying games on the most recent "Dungeons + Drama Nerds" podcast.

  • 06 November 2024
Faculty Achievements

Driscoll and Farag Publish on Writing Center’s Graduate Editing Service

Dana Driscoll (professor of writing, Department of Language, Literatures, and Writing; director of the Center for Scholarly Communication) and Islam Farag (doctoral candidate, Composition and Applied Linguistics PhD program) published about the Jones White Writing Center's Graduate Editing Service in the latest issue of The Peer Review.  

  • 04 November 2024
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2024 Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival

The IUP Chinese program, led by Shijuan Liu, recently organized and held the annual celebration of the 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival.

  • 02 November 2024
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English Lit and Crit Program Represents at Monster Studies Conference

The IUP Literature and Criticism program was well-represented at the recent Festival of Monsters conference hosted by the University of California Santa Cruz’s Center for Monster Studies, October 16–18.

  • 30 October 2024
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Craig Awarded Arts Residency

Chauna Craig (Department of Language, Literature, and Writing) was recently awarded a competitive arts residency this past September at Craigardan, an interdisciplinary residency program located in Elizabethtown, New York.

  • Matt Vetter
  • 15 October 2024
Faculty Achievements

Liu Delivers Keynote at ChinaCAll Conference

Shijuan Liu gave an invited keynote speech at the 2024 ChinaCALL Conference and International Congress on English Language Education and Applied Linguistics, held in Beijing, China, August 23–25.

  • Dan Weinstein
  • 02 October 2024
Faculty Achievements

Mike Sell Publishes Anthology on Video Game Stories

Mike Sell (Department of Language, Literature, and Writing) and co-editor Megan Amber Condis (Communication Studies, Texas Tech University) have published a collection of scholarly essays about the stories we tell with, about, and around video games.

  • 22 August 2024
Faculty Achievements

Vetter Awarded Research Grant from Wikimedia Foundation 

Matthew Vetter (Department of English) has been awarded a research grant from the Wikimedia Foundation (the nonprofit behind Wikipedia) as part of an international team that includes Brett Buttliere (University of Warsaw) and Sage Ross (Wiki Education Foundation).  

  • 15 May 2024
Faculty Achievements

Congratulations to Graduates of Foreign Languages Dept!

The Department of Foreign Languages congratulates our students who are graduating with a certificate, minor, or major in one of the languages we are offering.

  • 09 May 2024
Student Achievements Academic Programs

IUP Students Help Bridge Language Gap at Local Business

In fall 2023, nine IUP students interpreted for 20 new employees at Indiana factory Specialty Tires of America, hired directly from Mexico through the company's participation in an H-2B work visa program.

  • 04 May 2024
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Siddique Publishes Book Chapter on Post-COVID Teaching Practices in Rural India

Zeeshan Siddique and co-authors Mehebub Sahana, lecturer of geography and environmental planning, University of Manchester (UK), and Sanjida Parveen (PhD), postdoctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Manchester, published a book chapter in the scholarly collection "COVID-19 in South Asia: Society, Economy, and Politics."

  • Dan Weinstein
  • 25 April 2024
Student Achievements

Vetter Publishes Article on Student Reactions to Wikipedia's Gender Politics 

Matt Vetter and co-authors Jialei Jiang, Mahmoud Othman, and Mercy Muguimi, all former or current IUP doctoral students in English, have published “Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Wikipedia Writing: A Feminist Affective Analysis of Student Writers’ Engagement with the ‘Be Bold’ Guideline” in the journal Computers and Composition. 

  • Dr. Matt Vetter
  • 25 April 2024
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