FOS: Language Diversity Speaker Milu on Feb 20th

[Wagner, Suzanne]

From: "Smith, Trixie" <smit1254 at MSU.EDU<mailto:smit1254 at MSU.EDU>>
Subject: Language Diversity Speaker Milu on Feb 20th
Date: February 7, 2020 at 4:46:37 PM EST
To: DEANDIRCHAIR at LIST.MSU.EDU<mailto:DEANDIRCHAIR at LIST.MSU.EDU>
Reply-To: "Smith, Trixie" <smit1254 at MSU.EDU<mailto:smit1254 at MSU.EDU>>

Please mark your calendars and share widely.

The next guest in The Writing Center’s Language Diversity Speaker Series will be here Feb 20th.

Dr. Esther Milu, Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida, will be talking on “Transnational and Immigrant African Students’ Language Identities: Complicating the Image of Black Students in U.S. Composition.”

Talk: 6:30 pm
Opening Reception: 6:00 pm
Location: Snyder C20, RCAH Theater

In this talk, Milu will bring attention to transnational and immigrant
African students’ language repertoires and identities. Using stories of
three transnational African students from Angola and Rwanda and the
stories of two second generation immigrant students, she will
demonstrate the diversity and complexity embedded in the category
“African students,” challenging the category “black students” and
arguing for the need to pay attention to transnational and immigrant
African students’ particular and peculiar literacy needs and
their complex colonial histories with racialization and marginalization.


Dr. Trixie G. Smith
Director, The Writing Center
Director, Red Cedar Writing Project
Assistant Director, Graduate Studies, MA in CSLP
Associate Professor, Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures
Faculty, Center for Gender in Global Contexts
Pronouns: she/her/hers

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