November Missive
Hi all.
I hope that everyone is doing well as we move into Fall 2024’s final exam period. Thanks to all of you who were able to attend the holiday party yesterday afternoon. From what I could see, faculty, staff, and students had a very good time.
FYI
–CHESS undergraduate commencement will take place December 13th at 10am in Halton arena. The Graduate School ceremony will take place on December 14th at 3pm in Halton arena. Directions for faculty were sent out via email this past Monday.
–Final grades for Fall 2024 are due on December 16th by noon.
Congratulations!Katie Hogan‘s article “Pockets of tenderness: Lesbian earth in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home” was published online in the Journal of Lesbian Studies on20 Oct 2024.
MA student Emanuela Likskendaj-Izquierdo (who is currently completing her thesis with Pilar) was named one of the 10 finalists in the 3MT competition. The final round took place on November 22.Kirk Melnikoff‘s chapter “Women, Wills, and the Early English Book Trade (1557-1666)” was published as part of the new essay collection Gender and the Book Trades, eds. Elise Watson and Jessica Farrell-Jobst(Brill, 2025). The chapter is open access and can be found here: https://brill.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9789004701656/BP000031.xml.
Becky Roeder
presented the paper “The changing South: The /ay/ vowel in flux in Charlotte, NC” on November 7 at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52 in Miami Beach, FL. She was also featured in the Alumni Spotlight section of the Michigan State University Linguistics Student Organization 2024 Annual Newsletter, which came out in October. It included a 15-minute video of her answering graduate student questions about how to prepare for the academic job market.Ralf Thiede published the chapter “Language nutrition in acquisition, learning, and attrition” in Language, Aging and Society: What can Linguistics Do for the Aging World?, ed. by Lihe Huang and Boyd Davis (Palgrave Macmillan), 227-46.
Mark West was invited to serve as University Marshal for commencement in December. His edited collection of essays Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult was reviewed in Choices and in The Journal of American Culture. Here’s a link to the second review: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jacc.13600?af=R. Mark also gave an Oz-related talk at the Barclay Retirement Community as part of the CHESS Faculty Speaker Series on November 21st.