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Words Matter: Crafting And Critiquing Rhetorically Effective Styles (Engl 002w) Syllabus, Natalie Mera Ford
Words Matter: Crafting And Critiquing Rhetorically Effective Styles (Engl 002w) Syllabus, Natalie Mera Ford
Aydelotte Curricular Grants
What does it mean to write an awkward or a clear sentence? Who determines what counts as appropriate or "good" writing, and how are such notions of standardized English currently being challenged? Can a scholarly voice be an authentic personal voice, too? In this course, we will examine the grammatical building blocks of written style while scrutinizing larger cultural concerns about the effectiveness of distinct styles. While recognizing famous tenets of style in creative writing, we will primarily focus on stylistic features of academic, civic, and professional discourse. We will learn grammatical terminology and apply it in analyzing and evaluating …
Pseudo-Embryology And Personhood: How Embryological Pseudoscience Helps Structure The American Abortion Debate, Scott F. Gilbert
Pseudo-Embryology And Personhood: How Embryological Pseudoscience Helps Structure The American Abortion Debate, Scott F. Gilbert
Biology Faculty Works
There is a pseudo-embryology flourishing today, well nourished by popular science, religious ideologies, and the public media. Just as eugenics was a pseudoscience that influenced (and still influences) American popular culture and which was responsible for racist anti-immigration laws (such as the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924), pseudo-embryology is also influencing popular culture and legislation. This new pseudoscience promotes the belief that science supports current zygotic and fetal personhood movements as well as anti-abortion legislation. However, what often passes for science are actually ideological myths, often grounded in and supporting male superiority. Indeed, the first myth of pseudo-embryology is that …
Borders And Migration (Pols 31) Syllabus, Osman Balkan
Borders And Migration (Pols 31) Syllabus, Osman Balkan
Aydelotte Curricular Grants
This course offers an introduction to the causes and consequences of international migration and examines how various countries have responded to it. We begin by considering the myriad reasons why people move from one place to another and analyze the different strategies through which political authorities have tried to simultaneously facilitate and obstruct migratory flows. The tension between mobility and containment is a central feature of migration politics.
Our first set of readings offer a broad, historical overview of the relationship between states and migrants within the dynamics of global capitalism. Students will learn about patterns of regular and irregular …
Fabulous Style: Learning To Compose Fables In The Progymnasmata, Jeremy B. Lefkowitz
Fabulous Style: Learning To Compose Fables In The Progymnasmata, Jeremy B. Lefkowitz
Classics Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Transnational Japanese Literature: Diversity And Diaspora In Modern Japanese Literature (Jpns 073) Syllabus, William O. Gardner
Transnational Japanese Literature: Diversity And Diaspora In Modern Japanese Literature (Jpns 073) Syllabus, William O. Gardner
Japanese Faculty Works
Transnational Japanese Literature: Diversity And Diaspora In Modern Japanese Literature course description:
This course will challenge the myths of Japanese ethnic homogeneity and cultural isolation and explore how modern “Japanese” literature crosses national and cultural borders. Topics to be examined include Japanese writers writing from abroad, colonial and postcolonial literatures, migration and writing in the Japanese diaspora, and the writings of ethnic minorities in Japan, including writers from Okinawa and Japan’s resident Korean community.
Diasporic Longings, Bakirathi Mani
Diasporic Longings, Bakirathi Mani
English Literature Faculty Works
Using diaspora as a framework for reading Asian American literature expands the geographical and temporal contours of what it means to be Asian American. Although late-twentieth-century US popular culture was marked by multicultural ideologies of American citizenship, “diaspora” captures another way of thinking about Asian Americans: as immigrants who are subject to multiple projects of nationalism, and who embody diverse forms of citizenship. Whereas writers like Bharati Mukherjee reproduce dominant ideologies of US exceptionalism and multicultural citizenship, for writers such as Meena Alexander, the production of diasporic locality ripples across generations, as she ties together South Asia with North America, …
Learn The Sanskrit Alphabet, Varun Khanna
Learn The Sanskrit Alphabet, Varun Khanna
Digital Humanities Curricular Development
This assignment is to navigate through a webapp designed to teach students of Sanskrit everything they need to know about the Sanskrit alphabet. It is structured in such a way such that students will encounter each letter, its pronunciation, script, and special properties in turn. Students will also learn how to write the Devanāgarī script through a writing practice platform integrated into the webapp.
Introduction To Sanskrit (Clst 023) Syllabus, Varun Khanna
Introduction To Sanskrit (Clst 023) Syllabus, Varun Khanna
Digital Humanities Curricular Development
Introduction to Sanskrit (CLST 023) is designed to give students novice-mid to novice-high proficiency in Sanskrit according to the NCSSFL-ACTFL foreign language proficiency standards. It introduces students to the language of Sanskrit, approaching it as a spoken as well as a written language. The course will include a weekly spoken Sanskrit session followed by reading and writing. Throughout this course, students will be covering fundamental grammatical concepts in order to develop a working knowledge of the most common forms and constructions one is likely to encounter in readings of the language. The course will mainly use handouts and external audio/video …
Notes On Translation In The Slavic Field In The Last Twenty Years, Sibelan E.S. Forrester
Notes On Translation In The Slavic Field In The Last Twenty Years, Sibelan E.S. Forrester
Russian Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Multi-Script Morphological Transducers And Transcribers For Seven Turkic Languages, Jonathan North Washington, F. Tyers, O. Kuyrukçu
Multi-Script Morphological Transducers And Transcribers For Seven Turkic Languages, Jonathan North Washington, F. Tyers, O. Kuyrukçu
Linguistics Faculty Works
This paper describes ongoing work to augment morphological transducers for seven Turkic languages with support for multiple scripts each, as well as respective IPA transcription systems. Evaluation demonstrates that our approach yields coverage equivalent to or not much lower than that of the base transducers.
Transitional Portraits: Syrian Immigrants Of The North American Mahjar In 'Abd Al-Masih Haddad's Prose, Benjamin Smith
Transitional Portraits: Syrian Immigrants Of The North American Mahjar In 'Abd Al-Masih Haddad's Prose, Benjamin Smith
Arabic Faculty Works
This article argues that the 1921 collection of diasporic short stories Hikayat al-mahjar, written by ‘Abd al-Masih Haddad, makes a unique and notable contribution to mahjar literature by mobilizing formal literary techniques and innovative thematic content to capture a Syrian immigrant community engaged in a transitional moment in America. This paper situates Haddad (best known as the founder of the biweekly Arabic newspaper al-Saʼih, and a founding member of the literary society al-Rābiṭa al-qalamiyya) among his literary peers and provides an analysis of Hikayat al-mahjar that demonstrates the work’s points of convergence and divergence from the literary norms of the …
Internet Linguistics Final Project, Miranda Weinberg
Internet Linguistics Final Project, Miranda Weinberg
Digital Humanities Curricular Development
The final project was the opportunity for students to explore some question in Internet Linguistics that interested them. They were asked to produce two final products: one academic paper, and one public-facing product. The paper followed the norms of a standard academic paper. The audience for this was the instructor, fellow student, and (potentially) a wider academic community. The public-facing product was an opportunity to be more creative with form. Students were asked to decide: What audience do you want to share this with, and how would that best be achieved? Students might record a video for YouTube; edit/create Wikipedia …
Internet Linguistics (Ling 004b) Syllabus, Miranda Weinberg
Internet Linguistics (Ling 004b) Syllabus, Miranda Weinberg
Digital Humanities Curricular Development
Despite predictions to the contrary, it seems that the internet has not destroyed English. But how has the internet changed language use, and the study of linguistics? This course will be an exploration of the various forms that language takes online and in other digital formats, such as texting. We will explore questions such as: Why do my parents insist on texting in full paragraphs?; Is the internet good or bad for the future of indigenous and minority languages?; Is there a difference in meaning between :), :-), ^_^,?; What are the differences and similarities between face-to-face and online communication? …
Interns, Inclusion, And Iteration: Undergraduates Influencing The Library Profession, Andrea Baruzzi, Pamela Harris, Roberto Vargas
Interns, Inclusion, And Iteration: Undergraduates Influencing The Library Profession, Andrea Baruzzi, Pamela Harris, Roberto Vargas
Library Staff Works
No abstract provided.
Remains Of Socialism: Memory And The Futures Of The Past In Postsocialist Hungary, Maya Nadkarni
Remains Of Socialism: Memory And The Futures Of The Past In Postsocialist Hungary, Maya Nadkarni
Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Qualitative Inquiry, Jeanne Marecek, E. Magnusson
Qualitative Inquiry, Jeanne Marecek, E. Magnusson
Psychology Faculty Works
Qualitative inquiry is a form of psychological research that seeks in-depth understanding of people and their social worlds. Qualitative researchers typically study the experiences of people as meaning-making agents, relying on verbal material. Qualitative inquiry has a long history in psychology, beginning in the 19th century with founders of psychology like William James and Wilhelm Wundt. However, for much of the 20th century, qualitative inquiry has occupied a marginal position in the discipline. This marginalization is best understood in relation to the discipline’s early struggle to be regarded as legitimate. Adopting the methods of the natural sciences—notably quantification and measurement—was …
Manual Movement In Sign Languages: One Hand Versus Two In Communicating Shapes, C. Ferrara, Donna Jo Napoli
Manual Movement In Sign Languages: One Hand Versus Two In Communicating Shapes, C. Ferrara, Donna Jo Napoli
Linguistics Faculty Works
In sign languages, the task of communicating a shape involves drawing in the air with one moving hand (Method One) or two (Method Two). Since the movement path is iconic, method choice might be based on the shape. In the present studies we aimed to determine whether geometric properties motivate method choice. In a study of 17 deaf signers from six countries, the strongest predictors of method choice were whether the shape has any curved edges (Method One), and whether the shape is symmetrical across the Y‐axis (Method Two), where the default was Method One. In a second study of …
Machine Translation For Crimean Tatar To Turkish, M. GöKırmak, F. M. Tyers, Jonathan North Washington
Machine Translation For Crimean Tatar To Turkish, M. GöKırmak, F. M. Tyers, Jonathan North Washington
Linguistics Faculty Works
In this paper a machine translation system for Crimean Tatar to Turkish is presented. To our knowledge this is the first Machine Translation system made available for public use for Crimean Tatar, and the first such system released as free and open source software. The system was built using Apertium, a free and open source machine translation system, and is currently unidirectional from Crimean Tatar to Turkish. We describe our translation system, evaluate it on parallel corpora and compare its performance with a Neural Machine Translation system, trained on the limited amount of corpora available.
The Embodied Language Of Sasha Sokolov's "A School For Fools", José Vergara
The Embodied Language Of Sasha Sokolov's "A School For Fools", José Vergara
Russian Faculty Works
The present article investigates the tension between speech/thought and writing present in Sasha Sokolov's first novel, Shkola dlia durakov (A School for Fools). It maintains that the critical tendency to view the hero's narrative as an unstructured, unnatural speech or thought act tends to exaggerate its deviancy and obscures its peculiar status as a frenzied transcription of his ideas. As the first half of the article demonstrates, Sokolov uses visual markers inherent to a written text alone, along with readerly habits, to craft his tale about thought materializing on the page in concrete form. Furthermore, Sokolov deploys related body imagery …
Magnetic Ob[A] Stars With Tess: Probing Their Evolutionary And Rotational Properties (Mobster) – I. First-Light Observations Of Known Magnetic B And A Stars, A. David-Uraz, C. Neiner, J. Sikora, D. M. Bowman, V. Petit, S. Chowdhury, G. Handler, M. Pergeorelis, M. Cantiello, David H. Cohen, C. Erba, Z. Keszthelyi, V. Khalack, O. Kobzar, O. Kochukhov, J. Labadie-Bartz, C. C. Lovekin, R. Macinnis, S. P. Owocki, H. Pablo, M. E. Shultz, A. Ud-Doula, G. A. Wade, Mobster Collaboration
Magnetic Ob[A] Stars With Tess: Probing Their Evolutionary And Rotational Properties (Mobster) – I. First-Light Observations Of Known Magnetic B And A Stars, A. David-Uraz, C. Neiner, J. Sikora, D. M. Bowman, V. Petit, S. Chowdhury, G. Handler, M. Pergeorelis, M. Cantiello, David H. Cohen, C. Erba, Z. Keszthelyi, V. Khalack, O. Kobzar, O. Kochukhov, J. Labadie-Bartz, C. C. Lovekin, R. Macinnis, S. P. Owocki, H. Pablo, M. E. Shultz, A. Ud-Doula, G. A. Wade, Mobster Collaboration
Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works
In this paper we introduce the MOBSTER collaboration and lay out its scientific goals. We present first results based on the analysis of 19 previously known magnetic O, B, and A stars observed in 2-min cadence in sectors 1 and 2 of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. We derive precise rotational periods from the newly obtained light curves and compare them to previously published values. We also discuss the overall photometric phenomenology of the known magnetic massive and intermediate-mass stars and propose an observational strategy to augment this population by taking advantage of the high-quality observations produced by …
Effort Reduction In Articulation In Sign Languages And Dance, Donna Jo Napoli, Stephanie Liapis
Effort Reduction In Articulation In Sign Languages And Dance, Donna Jo Napoli, Stephanie Liapis
Linguistics Faculty Works
Sign languages exhibit the drive for ease of articulation found in spoken languages, particularly in fast and casual conversation, where the methods that reduce effort are shown here to be limited by the need to maintain recognizability. Participatory dance, which uses the same articulators as sign languages plus additional ones, also demonstrates methods of reducing biomechanical effort, analogous to those seen in sign languages, and, again, limited by the need to maintain recognizability of the dance figures/phrases. However, when we look at performance language (here, sign poetry) and performance dance, we find a contrast: sign language poetry uses reduced and …
Lab Practicum For Bias In Algorithms, Ameet Soni, Krista Karbowski Thomason
Lab Practicum For Bias In Algorithms, Ameet Soni, Krista Karbowski Thomason
Digital Humanities Curricular Development
This is a course assignment to demonstrate potential biases encoded in algorithms (this can be linked more specifically to natural language processing, machine learning, or artificial intelligence) using the Word Embedding Association Test. In lab, students will work with programs that demonstrate the usefulness of word embedding algorithms in finding relationships between words. Then, students will use an implementation of the algorithm in "Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases" by Caliskan et al. to detect gender and racial bias encoded in word embeddings. The assignment has students design and run an experiment using the WEAT algorithm to …
Encyclopedic Definitions: Tracing Ballet From The "Encyclopédie" To The "Gazzetta Urbana Veneta", Olivia Sabee
Encyclopedic Definitions: Tracing Ballet From The "Encyclopédie" To The "Gazzetta Urbana Veneta", Olivia Sabee
Dance Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Needham, Matter, Form, And Us, Buyun Chen
Needham, Matter, Form, And Us, Buyun Chen
History Faculty Works
Joseph Needham offered a vision of history that united his understanding of the physical world with his interpretation of social process, in which the material, social, and ideal realms were reciprocally constituted. This essay explores Needham’s ideas about matter and form to show how he developed a systematic theory of materialism in his early writings on science and social change. Shifting the ground of discourse in Needham’s project from “science” to “materialism,” the essay brings him into conversation with new materialists to reflect on the ongoing challenges in theorizing the relationship between social and material phenomena. Calling into question an …
Support For Parents Of Deaf Children: Common Questions And Informed, Evidence-Based Answers, T. Humphries, P. Kushalnagar, G. Mathur, Donna Jo Napoli, C. Rathmann, S. Smith
Support For Parents Of Deaf Children: Common Questions And Informed, Evidence-Based Answers, T. Humphries, P. Kushalnagar, G. Mathur, Donna Jo Napoli, C. Rathmann, S. Smith
Linguistics Faculty Works
To assist medical and hearing-science professionals in supporting parents of deaf children, we have identified common questions that parents may have and provide evidence-based answers. In doing so, a compassionate and positive narrative about deafness and deaf children is offered, one that relies on recent research evidence regarding the critical nature of early exposure to a fully accessible visual language, which in the United States is American Sign Language (ASL). This evidence includes the role of sign language in language acquisition, cognitive development, and literacy. In order for parents to provide a nurturing and anxiety-free environment for early childhood development, …
¿Y Tú Quién Eres? Interviews As Project-Based Learning At A Multicultural College Community, A. Gras-VeláZquez, Julia Chindemi Vila, A.-Y. Song
¿Y Tú Quién Eres? Interviews As Project-Based Learning At A Multicultural College Community, A. Gras-VeláZquez, Julia Chindemi Vila, A.-Y. Song
Spanish Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies In Public Discourse, Jamie A. Thomas, C. Jackson
Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies In Public Discourse, Jamie A. Thomas, C. Jackson
Linguistics Faculty Works
Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles, dance pedagogy, vampire narratives) and philosophical arenas (morality, genocide, physician-assisted suicide, cryonic preservation, transfeminism) to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, Whiteness and normativity.
The Year Is 2093: Reanimation From Frankenstein To Prometheus As Sci-Fi Metaphor For (Dis)Embodied Female Futures And Colonization Of Space, Jamie A. Thomas
The Year Is 2093: Reanimation From Frankenstein To Prometheus As Sci-Fi Metaphor For (Dis)Embodied Female Futures And Colonization Of Space, Jamie A. Thomas
Linguistics Faculty Works
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Between Zora Neale, Hamlet, And A “Dope Black Woman”: Revisiting Language Ideology Through Alysia Harris’S Performance Poetry, Jamie A. Thomas
Between Zora Neale, Hamlet, And A “Dope Black Woman”: Revisiting Language Ideology Through Alysia Harris’S Performance Poetry, Jamie A. Thomas
Linguistics Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Morphological Theory And Sign Languages, Donna Jo Napoli
Morphological Theory And Sign Languages, Donna Jo Napoli
Linguistics Faculty Works
Sign language morphology adds new considerations to well-studied areas, including category identification, inflection vs. derivation, the notions of ideophones, subject, and root, and properties used in lexical classifications. It makes necessary the new notion of reactive effort in understanding how biomechanical factors help shape the lexicon. The prevalence of simultaneity (verticality) over linearity (horizontal temporality) shows that linguistic analysis must include the study of physical properties (visual vs. auditory) if we are to understand language typology. Phonological parameters can have meaning associated with them, either arbitrarily or because they are iconic. This allows for lexical networks that require the mechanism …