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.
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.
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.
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’.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bryna Siegel Finer, Department of Language, Literature, and Writing, has been selected as the incoming co-editor of the journal “Peitho.”
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.”
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.
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.
The IUP Chinese program, led by Shijuan Liu, recently organized and held the annual celebration of the 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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."
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.
The Department of Foreign Languages held the annual IUP Spring Methodology Conference on Foreign Language Teaching on Friday, April 19, 2024.
On March 23, 2024, the Appalachian Professional Language Educators' Society (APPLES) hosted its annual Foreign Language Festival on the IUP campus.