2025

• January 30, 2025
  Keith Scales
  Reading: “Passages from Overlook City”

2024

• February 15, 2024
  Nina Furstenau
  Reading and Q&A
• March 6, 2024
  Julie L. Moore
  Reading and Q&A
• April 11, 2024
  Kelly Wright
  Lecture: “Linguistic High Crimes”
• September 12, 2024
  Dr. Doug Reside
  Lecture: “Forbidden Knowledge: The History and Uses of Theatrical Bootlegs”
• October 17, 2024
  Dr. Janet Sylvester
  Reading: Prize-Winning Work Both Old and New
• November 15, 2024
  Christine Knapp
  Lecture: “Linguistics and Jobs in Tech”

2023

• October 19, 2023
  Taylor Jones
  Lecture: The Linguistic Skills of Leaders
• October 7, 2023
  Alexandra Rowland
  Seminar and Reading: “The Squamish Language Policy and Language Commission”
• March 2, 2023
  Kyle Eveleth
  Ofstad Scholar Lecture: “The Semiotics of Play, or ‘Teaching History through Cannibalism’”
• January 26, 2023
  Anand Prahlad
  A Reading with Ofstad Visiting Writer

2022

• Oct. 20, 2022
  Nzingha Kendall
  Lecture from Visiting Ofstad Scholar Dr. Nzingha Kendall
• Sept. 16, 2022
  Dr. Caitlin Coons
  “Toward Inclusive Linguistic Typology: What Understudied Sign Languages Contribute”
• April 1, 2022
  Mark Wisniewski
  A Fiction Reading with Author Mark Wish and Truman Students
• March 15, 2022
  Dr. Rachel Weissler
  “Approaching Linguistic Discrimination and Social Justice through Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches”
• Feb. 4, 2022
  Dr. Tabitha Lowery
  “Thank God for Little Children’: Frances Harper’s Children’s Poetry, Social Justice, and the Archives in the Twenty First Century”

2021

• Oct. 5, 2021
  Angela Shaw-Thornburg
  Lecture, “‘What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black?’ Stories We Tell About Black Childhood”
• Sept. 16, 2021
  Maria Miranda Maloney
  Reading from Cracked Spaces
• Sept. 8, 2021
  Megan Figueroa
  “Decolonizing (Psycho) Linguistics Means Dropping the Language ‘Gap’ Rhetoric”

2020

• October 29, 2020:
  Tricia Levenseller
  “Turning Rejection into Success”
• October 14, 2020:
  Darcy Browning
  “Hesitation in Asynchronous Media: Twitter Hashtags and Spoken Discourse Markers in Survivor Stories”
• September 17, 2020:
  Anne Morey
  “‘That’s Marriage’: Gone Girl and the Genealogy of the Paranoid Woman’s Film”
• April 2, 2020:
  Amanda Nadelberg
  “Life Forms: Poems from Daily Habits”
• February 19, 2020:
  Nicole Ziegler
  “Technology-Mediated Task-Based Language Teaching and Research”
• February 11, 2020:
  Amy Levin
  “Dutch Museums as Models for Gender Diversity and Community Engagement”
• February 4, 2020:
  Neil Hilborn
  A Poetry Reading

2019

• November 6, 2019:
  Zoe Estelle Hitzel
  A Poetry Reading
• November 4, 2019:
  Miyabi “Abbie” Yamamoto
  “Reimagining the Ivory Tower”
• September 18, 2019:
  Sheena Shah
  “SiPhûthî, an Endangered Language of Southern Africa”
• February 27, 2019:
  Elizabeth  Kissling
  “Accent in the Foreign Language Classroom: Misconceptions, Methodologies, and The Making of a Good Speaker”
• February 9, 2019:
  Angela Carter
  “Classrooms in Crisis: Disability Pedagogy, Feminism, and The Trigger Warning Debate”
• February 7, 2019:
  Meg Elison
  A Speculative Fiction Reading

2018

• October 8, 2018:
  Alexandria Lockett
  “Overflow: The Leaky Politics of Living in The Data Deluge”
• October 4, 2018:
  Prajwal Parajuly
  Selections from The Gurkha’s Daughter and Land Where I Flee
• September 19, 2018:
  Marissa Fond
  “Sociolinguistics in the Field(s)”
• April 4, 2018:
  Dawn Sardella-Ayres
  “Girls’ Literature as Genre and The Importance of Girlhood”
• March 1, 2018:
  David Elliott
  Reading from Bull, Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, and other works
• February 22, 2018:
  Doug Reside
  “Editing Musical Theatre in the Digital Age”
• February 12, 2018:
  Scott Johnson
  “Egos and Epigraphy: Decoding Maya Hieroglyphs”
• February 8, 2018:
  Laura McHugh
  Reading from Arrowood and “Endgame”

2017

• November 9, 2017:
  Arisa White
  A Poetry Reading
• September 7, 2017:
  Katherine Riestenberg
  “Task-Based Teaching of Endangered Languages: Challenges and Successes of Zapotec Revitalization in Oaxaca, Mexico”
• February 15, 2017:
  Faith Adiele
  Selections from her Nonfiction Writing

2016

• September 21, 2016:
  Maggie Messitt
  Reading from The Rainy Season and work-in-progress
• February 10, 2016:
  Allison Joseph
  A Poetry Reading

2015

• October 6, 2015:
  Prajwal Parajuly
  Reading from Land Where I Flee
• March 18, 2015:
  Bennett Sims
  Multimedia Reading of White Dialogues

2014

• November 19, 2014:
  David Chan
  Reading from City of Ghosts
• September 30, 2014:
  Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
  A Prose Reading
• March 18. 2014:
  Cornelius Eady
  A Poetry Performance and Reading
• April 17, 2014:
  David Chan
  Reading from Utopian Fairytales

2013

• October 24, 2013:
  Paul Legault
  Reading from The Emily Dickinson Reader and selected poems