This Week in LANG 3/24/2025
Dear colleagues,
Join us tonight for the Poetry Slam in 100 Fretwell and enjoy an evening filled with creativity.
Dates and Events this Week
March is Women’s History Month
Monday, March 24
- Poetry Slam, 7-9pm, 100 Fretwell
Looking Ahead Dates and Events Spring 2025
March 31
- Registration for Summer and Fall begins
April 4-5
- Refresh Weekend, No classes
April 4
- Faculty-Led Program Development Workshop on April 4, from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. RSVP
April 8
- 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Project Based Learning Summit, Applications through this link.
April 11
- Department Meeting, 2:30-4:00, virtual
April 15
- Witness in Residence: Ali Shaw presentation, 4 pm
May 1
- Reading Day, Department Meeting
May 10
- Commencement, 10 am, CHESS
Congratulations
LANG Faculty at CHESS Does Big Things Celebration
Congratulations to all of our faculty who were honored and celebrated at the CHESS celebration on Friday, March 21, 2025
One significant recognition came to our entire department. We increased our grant activity by more than 50% from last year. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this success.
Congratulations to Fang-yi Chao, who was honored as a finalist for the CHESS Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching by a full-time Non-Tenure Track faculty member.
Congratulations to David Boyd, who was honored for having an award-winning translation published in 2024. He was honored for the translation of Takaoka’s Travels, by Tasuhiko Shibusawa, which was the winner of the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature and the recipient of the 2022-23 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation.
Congratulations also to Javier García León who was honored as a recipient of one of the CHESS Humanities Awards, the 2024 Frances Lumsden Gwynn Award.
Thank you to Chris Mellinger who serves on the Research Advisory Committee, whose members were honored at the event.
Thank you to Daniela Dal Pra and Yukiko Yokono who represented our department on Saturday at the Open House. They spoke to quite a few students and we are very grateful for their service, especially on a weekend.
Information for Faculty and Staff
Niner Gives in April
If you plan to give to UNC Charlotte in April during the Niner Gives Campaign, please consider designating your contribution to our department.
2025 General Education Faculty Reviewers
The Charlotte Core is recruiting Faculty Reviewers to participate in rating student work aligned with the Quantitative/Data and Engagement Across Perspectives Competencies. This work will occur on May 19-20 for one competency and May 21-22 for the other competency. Faculty will be paid a stipend of $500 for their work over the two days (9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.). If you would like to be considered to participate in either of these processes, please complete the 2025 General Education Faculty Reviewer Application.
Upcoming Events
Poetry Slam
Yukko Yokono, Susana Cisneros, Don Cross, Maria Mahaffey and Xiaohong Hu Mueller invite you to the 8th Multi-Language Poetry Slam. Please join us on March 24 at 7 pm in Fretwell 100.
Save the Date for Witness in Residence: Aly Shaw on April 15 at 4 p.m.
Faculty: Please remember to invite your theme course students to block time for this spring’s Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau Witness in Residence Initiative (and let them know we try to do it for them once per semester). This spring, the Initiative is collaborating with the Department of Global Studies, as well as the Dean’s Office. Shaw plans to share her experience of leading campaigns to address community environmental concerns and to help students understand the tools and databases available to them for their research.
Thank you for all you do.
All the best,
Anabel