Past Ofstad Reading Series

OFSTAD VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM

2022

Friday, 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”
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Dr. Rachel Weissler
“Approaching Linguistic Discrimination and Social Justice through Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches”
Friday, April 1, 2022
Mark Wisniewski
A Fiction Reading with Author Mark Wish and Truman Students
Thursday, Sept. 16, 2022
Dr. Caitlin Coons
“Toward Inclusive Linguistic Typology: What Understudied Sign Languages Contribute”
Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022
Nzingha Kendall
Lecture from Visiting Ofstad Scholar Dr. Nzingha Kendall

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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