Dr. Harrison has been invited to be one of three speakers at a special panel on language and sexuality at the 2012 TESOL Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The session is sponsored by the ILGBTF Caucus and is titled "Culture, … Continue reading
In November, 2011 Marlen will present his doctoral research on language and sexuality in modern Japan at the 37th annual Japan Association of Language Teaching (JALT) Conference in Tokyo, Japan. He has also been invited to join a panel of … Continue reading
Marlen’s manuscript “The Power of ‘No’: Considering Buddhist Mindfulness when Providing Feedback in the Teaching of Composition” has been accepted for publication at Writing on the Edge, a UC Davis peer-reviewed journal. The Power of No presents the narrative of a … Continue reading
Marlen Elliot Harrison has been teaching composition, communication, language, literature & gender/sexuality studies at international universities in Asia, Europe and North America since 1997. With 50+ international academic presentations – including TESOL, EuroCALL, JALT, AAAL, ASA, AAA and CCCC – and 25+ international academic publications including Writing on the Edge (USA), Reflections on English Language Teaching (Singapore), CALL-EJ (Australia), and The Language Teacher (Japan) – he is passionate about researching the crossroads of language, learning and identity, and teaching in multilingual writing classrooms. READ MORE...