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Craig Saper, LLC, Publishes New Book

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Craig Saper, associate professor of Language, Literacy and Culture, has published a new book under his alter-ego of dj readies. Intimate Bureaucracies is a history from the future looking backward at our present moment as a turning point. Our systems of organization and control appear unsustainable and brutal, and we are feeling around in the dark for alternatives. Using experiments in social organization in downtown New York City, and other models of potential alternative social organizations, this manifesto makes a call to action to study and build sociopoetic systems. It is published by Punctum Books. The book is also a part… Continue Reading Craig Saper, LLC, Publishes New Book

Craig Saper, LLC, to Discuss “Digital Legacies”

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Craig Saper, associate professor of language, literacy and culture, will participate in “Digital Legacies of the Avant-Garde,” a two-day international conference that examines the continuing influence of avant-garde concepts and practices on contemporary digital culture. The conference will be held in the New School in New York on April 20. Saper will participate in a panel entitled “The Legacy of the AvantGarde between Generative Art and Networked Art.”

Kaye Whitehead ’09, LLC, in the Baltimore Sun

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Kaye Whitehead ’09 Ph.D., language, literacy and culture, recently published an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun. In her piece, entitled “Black History is American History,” she argues that “we should no longer celebrate or recognize Black History Month; instead, we should teach black history alongside white history, Asian-American history, Latino history, women’s history and others” in order to create one narrative of American history. A former middle school social studies teacher, and the 2006-07 Gilder Lehrman Maryland History Teacher of the Year, Whitehead did not recognize Black History Month in her classroom. She is now an assistant professor of communication… Continue Reading Kaye Whitehead ’09, LLC, in the Baltimore Sun

Sonya Caesar, Language, Literacy and Culture on PBS Nightly Business Report

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Sonya Caesar, cohort 13, Language, Literacy and Culture, appeared on a PBS Nightly Business Report segment on student debt. Caesar is on staff at the Community College of Baltimore County, where she is spearheading a campus-wide financial literacy campaign. She discusses what students know and don’t know when it comes to taking on student debt – the challenges of managing their money and paying back student loans which are never erased from their records. The espisode aired on Tuesday, October 25, and can be watched here. The segment on financial literacty begins at about 17:00. Caesar previously wrote and co-produced… Continue Reading Sonya Caesar, Language, Literacy and Culture on PBS Nightly Business Report

Discovery – Fall 2011

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LEARNING (FROM) THE LINGO “Baldamoreans do not speak the king’s English.” That’s how one Lexington Market patron jokingly described the city’s linguistic style to Inte’a DeShields ’13 in a podcast that was produced as a class assignment by the language, literacy and culture Ph.D. student. But that’s exactly how Christine Mallinson, an assistant professor in the program, likes it. “Not that much linguistic research has been done on the unique accents of Baltimore, but the city is a good laboratory for studying language variation,” Mallinson explains. Charm City is a living laboratory for Mallinson’s research and pedagogy. The podcast, for… Continue Reading Discovery – Fall 2011

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