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September

CAL Doctoral Student Ionescu Publishes Case Study on Rhizomatic Learning of Peer Embedded Tutors for Composition Classes

Composition and Applied Linguistics doctoral student Iwona Ionescu published an article in Praxis 22.3 (2025), titled “Mapping it Out: Rhizomatic Learning of Peer Embedded Tutors for Composition Classes—A Case Study,” exploring how embedded tutors for first-year composition classes develop their expertise outside the formal training sessions.

  • 06 September 2025
Staff Achievements

May

Spanish Students Earn Global Seal of Biliteracy

Jada Chvilicek, Mason Cymbor, and Veronica Duran-Paramo (Spanish Education  Certification, ‘25) have been awarded the Global Seal of Biliteracy in English and Spanish.

  • 14 May 2025
Student Achievements

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
Community Events Faculty Achievements

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
Community IUP Now Events

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
Student Achievements IUP Now

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

April

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
Student Achievements Faculty Achievements

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

March

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
Student Achievements Staff Achievements Academic Programs

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

February

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
Faculty Achievements

January

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
Faculty Achievements

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
Faculty Achievements