...Colleen M. Tremonte; Linda Racioppi This article investigates the challenges of interdisciplinary teaching that crosses the fields of postcolonial literary studies and international relations. Interdisciplinary courses demand that teachers be able to comprehend, translate, and represent different...

...Catherine Gabor Abstract This study addresses the paucity of literature on the impact of ungrading — contract grading, specifically — on international students at American colleges. Over the course of four semesters, 307 international and domestic students were surveyed (anonymously) about...

...Hassan Belhiah Abstract This article seeks to contribute to our understanding of the challenges and opportunities afforded by undergraduate research in the context of changing English departments in international contexts. English has been witnessing unprecedented growth in the Middle East...

...Justin Voigt This essay discusses the personal experiences of a US Army soldier transitioning from military life to academia, focusing on lessons of isolation learned from the author's experiences teaching foreign soldiers and then international students. These lessons can inform our approach...

...Jacqueline Labbe Teaching Letitia Landon in the context of British Romanticism allows us to present her as a central figure within studies of form and content, particularly in how she negotiates national and international cultural and poetic contexts. This essay explores how her work enlarges our...

...Anne-Marie Womack Strong writers often implicitly know how to create strong titles by managing audience expectations to draw interest and describe information. This article makes these internalized strategies explicit for all writers. The list of eighteen forms and examples provides students...

... to an international “empathy deficit” and how an attitude of receptivity and co‐intentionality—paired with reading fictional stories about health and illness—can buoy the empathy reserves of both students and teachers. Works Cited Armstrong Nancy . 2014 . “ The Affective Turn in Contemporary Fiction...

...Donald E. Hall This article examines the challenges of addressing pedagogically the international dialogue on queer sexual identities. It focuses on the essayist's experiences preparing an anthology proposal for a queer studies volume that embraces the field in its transnational complexity...

...Margaret K. Willard-Traub This article theorizes the potential contours and impacts of faculty “resilience” within increasingly corporatized contexts by examining the strategies for resilience and persistence among international, multilingual, and nontraditional students who maneuver among various...

...Deborah Vlock This essay explores strategies for teaching texts that are critical of an untempered pursuit of wealth to business students, although many of these students have chosen their course of study based on their internalization and privileging of capitalist discourse. Karl Marx's “Estranged...

... is illustrated and elucidated by examining the antepenultimate cantos together. Offering such a reading will help students see how their own concerns, desires, and experiences are mirrored in the external and internal journey that Dante takes in the Divine Comedy. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches...

... Composition .” College Composition and Communication 53 , no. 4 : 594 – 630 . Institute of International Education . 2017 . “ International Student Enrollment Trends, 1948/49–2016/17 .” 5 September . www.iie.org/Research-and-Insights/Open-Doors/Data/International-Students/Enrollment . ...

... of international policy and Middle Eastern cultures and religions, as well as analyses of propaganda over- seas and in the United States. On our campus at Grand Valley State Univer- sity, the Student Life Office, the Teaching and Learning Center, and the Mid- dle East Studies Program together offered regular...

... disciplinary and cultural frontiers. We champion diversity, hybridity, and collaboration. Effective interdisciplinary collaboration would seem to be a model for the collaboration and innovation we need in international situations, inasmuch as it is part of what the students and teachers involved...

...: A student writes a paper for another student who submits the work as their own. A freelance writer pens a celebrity autobiography. A speechwriter crafts a speech for a politician. A company vice president prepares a slide deck for the president to present to the board. An intern sends email...

... . Teaching L2 Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice , 3rd ed. New York : Routledge . Ferris Dana Jensen Linda Wald Maggie . 2015 . “ Writing Instructors’ Perceptions of International Student Writers: What Teachers Want and Need to Know .” CATESOL Journal 27 . 2 : 55 – 72...

... provides an effective introduction to such theo- retical and historical issues as the shifting definitions of race and the history of Japanese American internment in the United States. Finally, the story quite effectively raises but does not seek to resolve ethical questions that lend themselves to further...

... Aeron , 36 – 55 . Sterling, VA : Stylus . Chick Nancy L. 2014 . “ ‘Methodologically Sound’ under the ‘Big Tent’: An Ongoing Conversation .” International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 8 . 2 : 1 – 15 . Chick Nancy L. Hassel Holly Haynie Aeron...

... University of Portland students have been involved since 2004 — as presenters, chairs, respondents, and interns. NUCL’s theme each year is “Contemporary Contexts, Critical Responses,” by which we mean to solicit submissions both analytical (research and literary-­interpretation papers) and creative...

..., and Florida have in recent years attended, as word of the conference spreads. Nearly 200 University of Portland students have been involved since 2004 — as presenters, chairs, respondents, and interns. NUCL’s theme each year is “Contemporary Contexts, Critical Responses,” by which we mean to solicit...