Jenni Kankaanpää, a student in the Department of Psychology at JYU and a course assistant and former student of Marlen’s, was recently awarded the first-ever Oustanding Scholar Award from the JYU Kielikampus (Language Campus). Jenni has recently presented her autoethnographic … Continue reading
Dear Dr. Harrison, I happened upon your English 101 syllabus, blog, dissertation website, etc. via a Google search. After spending a few hours devouring the virtual feast you have offered, I am truly inspired to teach college writing through a … Continue reading
Dr. Marlen Elliot Harrison has been teaching composition & communication; language (TESOL) & literature; gender & sexuality; and social science research writing/methods at international universities in Asia, Europe and North America since 1997. As such he is a transdisciplinarian who is as much at home in the worlds of pedagogy and language teaching as in social linguistic and qualitative research methods. With 70+ international academic presentations – including TESOL, EuroCALL, JALT, AAAL, ASA, AAA and CCCC – and 30+ international academic publications including Qualitative Research in Psychology (USA), Language Learning in Higher Education (UK), 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 technology, language, learning and identity. The recipient of numerous research and educational grants/fellowships including a Best of JALT (2006) award and international teaching grants from Japan, Denmark and Belgium (Erasmus), Dr. Harrison is also a well-known beauty journalist whose work has appeared in Forbes.com, MensJournal.com and NYTimes.com among others. In addition to his self-created Website, ThePerfumeCritic.com, he has also contributed to Fragrantica.com, NowSmellThis, Basenotes, and Anna magazine (Finland). READ MORE...