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Alumni News | Christine Liu Says Coming to OHIO ‘Forever Changed my Life’

Christine Liu

Ohio University alumnus Christine Liu ’93 recently made a donation to the Linguistics Department, recalling the momentous impact of her time in Athens. “To be honest with you, I feel my meager donation is way past due. What OU and the Linguistics Department did for me is priceless, and I […]

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March 30, 2021 at 5:38 pmAlumni

Linguistics Adds 1-Year Master of TESOL, Retools 2-Year Applied Master’s

The Linguistics Department graduate cohort 2020

The Linguistics Department is adding a one-year Master of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, complementing its two-year M.A. in Applied Linguistics. For Those Who Want to Teach English as a Foreign Language — MTESOL   “If you already know that your professional goal is in language instruction, then you […]

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March 30, 2021 at 12:48 pmIn Class News

Fall 2021 | Linguistics Launches New Course in Language Sustainability

Dr. Michelle O’Malley teaches the new course.

A new course offered this fall—LING 2850 Sustaining the Mother Tongue: An introduction to Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization—provides an introduction to the causes of language endangerment and death and how languages can be revitalized and sustained. An endangered language is one that is likely to become extinct in the […]

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March 10, 2021 at 9:28 amNews

Alumni News | Jesus Toapanta ‘Learned to be Home Away from Home’ in Athens

Jesus Toapanta on his way from Gordy to Alden Library in the winter of 2006-07.

For Ohio University alumnus Jesus Tuarez Toapanata, there are so many things that bring back “breathtaking” memories of his time at Ohio University. “My first winter with snow, the river path, the farmer’s market, the amazing colorful trees in autumn, the movie rentals on E. State Street, Gordy Hall, my […]

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February 4, 2021 at 5:13 pmAlumni

Linguistics Colloquium Series Announces Spring 2021 Schedule

Linguistics Colloquium Series Announces Spring 2021 Schedule

Ohio University’s Linguistics Colloquium Series announces its Spring 2021 schedule, which includes several recent graduates of the M.A. in Linguistics program as well as professional development mentoring for current students. Colloquia are Fridays from 12:55-1:50 p.m. via Microsoft TEAMS. Join the meetings on your computer or mobile app. Or call […]

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January 14, 2021 at 8:57 amNews

Bell and Moran Publish on Italian POW Foodways in Britain in World War II, Present on Italian Culinary Identity in World War I

Drs. David Bell and Theresa Moran

The collaborative Food Studies research agenda of Dr. David Bell, Chair and Associate Professor of Linguistics and Dr. Theresa Moran, Adjunct Associate Professor of Instruction in Plant Biology, has more recently focused on the effect of war on culinary identity. Their latest publication, “Captive Cuisine – The Cultural Transfer of […]

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December 2, 2020 at 11:43 amResearch

No Conference? No Problem! Says Tytko about Presenting Online during COVID-19

Tanya Tytko presents her research.

By Tanya Tytko ’20MA Linguistics  Spring 2020 semester was supposed to be the highlight of my master’s program. I was planning to present several research projects on which I was collaboratively working in the Linguistics Department at Ohio University and my individual research. In late February, when we all started […]

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November 16, 2020 at 11:31 amNews Research