Rhetoric and discourse
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February 2025: Language, Discourse, and Media Literacy: Building Resilience in the Age of Misinformation
This month’s Spotlight was contributed by Alireza Salhi-Nejad. He is a multidisciplinary researcher affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. Prior to this, he was involved in research, teaching, and executive roles at the University of Tehran for over nine years. Mass media is a cornerstone of…
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Ian Ross Singleton
Lecturer Writing and Critical Inquiry State University of New York-Albany Albany, New York [email protected] I am a teacher of rhetoric and composition as well as critical inquiry, an important distinction of the program for which I work at SUNY-Albany. I have taught First-Year Writing for eight years throughout the New York City and State University…
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September 2024: English Is Not Thriving Everywhere
This Spotlight is contributed by Language, Culture and Justice Hub coordinator Leigh Swigart. It has become a commonplace to characterize English as the language of globalization, the contemporary sine qua non of international business, international education (see Rosemary Salomone’s May 2024 Spotlight), international law (see Leigh Swigart’s December 2022 Spotlight), international diplomacy, and more. English…
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Alireza Salehi-Nejad
Affiliation: University of Technology Sydney, Australia Email: [email protected] Bio: I am a multidisciplinary researcher affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. Prior to this, I was involved in research, teaching, and executive roles at the University of Tehran for over nine years. Currently, I am a…
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July 2024: Access, Asset, Agency, and Advocacy: Four Pillars of Linguistic and Cultural Inclusion in Higher Education
Dr. Shawna Shapiro (Middlebury College) Over the past several years, many higher education institutions have begun to devote more attention to issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ)—particularly as it pertains to the experiences of students of color and other groups that been historically marginalized. Although “diversity” has been a focal point for educational…
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Laura Smith-Khan
Senior Lecturer School of Law University of New England Armidale, Australia Affiliated Member, the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR), Ghent University, Belgium [email protected] Read Laura’s December 2021 and May 2020 Spotlights on Language, Culture and Justice. I am a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of New England, Australia. From 2019 to…
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Shawna Shapiro
Associate Professor Middlebury College Middlebury, Vermont, USA [email protected] Read Shawna’s March 2022 Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice. I am an associate professor of writing and linguistics at Middlebury College. My research focuses on the transition to higher education for immigrant and refugee students, and on innovative approaches to teaching linguistically diverse groups of writers. Much of my work…
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Paulina Meza
Associate Professor and Researcher Department of Arts and Languages Universidad de la Serena Chile [email protected] Read Paulina’s February 2022 Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice. I am an associate professor and researcher at the Universidad de La Serena, Chile. With the support of the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development, I have studied the production…
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Reinmar Fries-Beattie
Sociologist University of New Hampshire Durham, New Hampshire [email protected] I graduated with a PhD in sociology from the University of New Hampshire, where my dissertation work examined how those perceived as foreign, Middle Eastern and/or Muslims are disproportionately labeled as terrorists in U.S. news media and the effect that this has on the public’s perceptions…
