Event category: Department of English
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VTLx Speaker Series: “Prosody: What may lie between composition and control” (Sarah Phillips, Georgetown)
Abstract – Being bilingual involves the ability to differentiate between one’s languages in one’s input. While the acquisition literature has largely accepted differentiation as a necessary component for bilingual development (Genesee et al., 1995), we do not yet have a model for how we differentiate between languages when we perceive mixed-language input. In this talk, […]
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Women and Gender in International Development Discussion Series featuring Dr. Neeti Aryal Khanal
Registration required: Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Intersections of Vulnerabilities: Multiple Marginalized Experiences of Women with Disabilities in Nepal by Dr. Neeti Aryal Khanal. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.virginiatech.zoom.us Hybrid: Newman Library Goodall Room (formerly called Multipurpose Room) or Via ZoomSponsored by Women and Gender […]
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VTLx Speaker Series: Dr. Eugenia Rho: Words Matter: How language choices predict societal trends and outcomes in media, health and policing
Talk Abstract: Effective communication lies at the heart of social harmony and individual well-being. However, key areas of our society face profound challenges in how we talk about things, or to each other. In this talk, I will show how these challenges manifest: from the manner in which TV reporters discuss current events to online […]
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MY FAIR LADY (1964)
My Fair Lady, the musical comedy based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, is about a linguist-turned-dialect-coach who trains a poor woman to change her speech and (for better and worse) change her life. Watch the classic 1964 film featuring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison for free at the Lyric, presented by the VT Speech Lab, […]
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Lecture: “Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture”
Lecture: “Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture” Wednesday, November 29, 5 PM Dr. Julie Avril Minich (Associate Professor, UT-Austin) will give a talk based on her recently published book, Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture (Duke UP, Oct. 2023). Shanks 380 Free Sponsors: English Department and College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences […]
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Virtual Book Club
Join us for our fall virtual book discussion featuring All of Us Together in the End. Professor of English and director of creative writing programs, Matthew Vollmer, will host a conversation about his recently published family memoir described as “an elegiac affirmation of the awesome, strange, otherworldly ways our loved ones remain alive to us, even […]
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Related to Strangers: Ebony Coletu
The technology for kin-finding has exploded in recent years to reconstruct distant-heritage and repair disconnections from migration, death, adoption, and war. However, the search for stories behind names proves more complicated. Where do stories come from? This talk explores kin-finding as a technique to build interpretive stories about the past. Based on a practice of […]