Past BLC Fellows Forums

Each semester, BLC Fellows present their instructional development research projects to the campus community. This page houses recordings of the Fellows Forums from the past three years. The full list of fellows can be found here. 

AY 2023-2024

Spring 2024

Untranslatability and Transposition: Enhancing Italian Language Learning through the Challenges of Translation

Cristina Farronato, Lecturer, Italian Studies

De-centering the Native Speaker in the L2 Creative Writing Classroom

Caroline Godard, Graduate Student, French

Raising Awareness of Contemporary Occitan among Learners of French

Oliver Whitmore, Graduate Student, French

Fall 2023

Building Classes in Languages for Professional Purposes: Opportunities, Challenges, and Best Practices

Claire Tourmen, Lecturer, Department of French

Learning the Language of the Contemporary Ukrainian Society Through Films

Nataliia Goshylyk, PhD, Lecturer in Ukrainian, Slavic Languages & Literatures

Cultivating Critical Language Awareness in the Heritage Language Classroom: A Module on Language Ideologies

Yesenia Blanco, Graduate Student, Spanish & Portuguese

Spring Fellows Forum, April 26, 2024

Fall Fellows Forum - December 1, 2023

AY 2022-2023

Spring 2023

Learning Mandarin and Cantonese in Health Communication Contexts

Chi Leung Chan, Lecturer, East Asian Languages & Cultures

Designing an Instructor’s Guide to Introducing Gender Neutral Grammar in Italian Language Class

Simo Cocco, Graduate Student, Italian Studies

Channeling Fluency: YouTube Interviews in the Advanced Russian Classroom

Semyon Leonenko, Graduate Student, Slavic Languages & Literatures

Tongue-Tied and Heart-Bound: Re-Placing Persian in Afghanistan

Ahmad Rashid Salim, Graduate Student, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Fall 2022

North African Arabic Language Course

Amel Belguith, Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Imagined Nordic Communities: Critical Conversations about Race in Nordic Language Studies

Natalya Nielsen, Graduate Student, Scandinavian

Spring Fellows Forum, April 28, 2023

Fall 2022 BLC Fellows Forum

AY 2021-2022

Spring 2022

The Soviet 1960s: A Multiliteracies-Based Approach to Second-Year Russian

Sabrina Jaszi, Graduate Student, Slavic Languages & Literatures

Designing a Language-Specific Course in Raciolinguistics

Gabriella Licata, Graduate Student, Spanish & Portuguese

Breaking Boundaries: Global Perspectives, Digital Humanities-Inflected Pedagogy and the Teaching of Italian History and Literature

Zhonghua Wang, Graduate Student, Italian Studies

Fall 2021

Course Innovation of Hindi 101A (Readings in Modern Hindi Literature)

Nora Melnikova, Lecturer, South & Southeast Asian Studies

Developing a Toolkit for Language Revitalization: An Interactive Meeramuni Website

Raksit Lau-Preechathammarach, Graduate Student, Linguistics

Proverbs & the Role of Image-Making and Word-Play in the Filipino Language Classroom

Karen Llagas, Lecturer, South & Southeast Asian Studies

Beyond Bilingual: Translanguaging Experiments in a Reading & Composition Course at an Aspiring Hispanic Serving Institution

Karina Palau, Lecturer, Comparative Literature

BLC Fellows spring 2022

Fall BLC Fellows Forum - Dec 3, 2021