Translingual Dispositions: A Teaching Workshop

Time: Oct. 25, 2017, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Location: 141 Newhouse 3

Jerry Won Lee (University of California, Irvine)

In this mini-seminar setting, Lee challenges narrow views of Englishes by sharing current theories of translingualism through cutting-edge scholarship from sociolinguistics, critical theory, and composition studies. Please RSVP to Kristen Krouse by October 18 and include any requests for accessibility accomodations.

Presented by:
Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
Syracuse University Humanities Center

Co-Sponsors:
Democratizing Knowledge
School of Education
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Graduate Program

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BIOGRAPHY: Jerry Won Lee is an Assistant Professor in the departments of English, Anthropology, East Asian Languages & Literatures, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. As an interdisciplinary scholar, the overarching goal of his research has been the examination of the cultural politics of globalization, with a particular focus on questions of “language” and “nation,” oftentimes seeking to understand their interrelationships.  In terms of “language,” Dr. Lee focuses on the politics of multilingualism and “global” Englishes from both theoretical-sociolinguistic and pedagogical angles. In terms of “nation,” he has focused on the official and vernacular functions and forms of ethnic identity in the context of and in spaces beyond the rubric of the nation-state. Dr. Lee has published on these topics in a range of journals, including Verge: Studies in Global Asias, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, College Composition and Communication, College English, National Identities, and Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.

Aja Martinez, Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition