On October 2nd, 2012 Marlen will lead a workshop as part of Susan Taylor Lennon’s applied dance course, DAN 312: Teaching Methods for Adults and Diverse Populations. This 60-80 minute workshop will introduce students to the Campbellian monomyth and universal … Continue reading
Marlen will give a workshop based on his co-authored research on agency and investment in the multilingual writing classroom at University of Lapland on Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Photos and discussion of workshop HERE. Slides linked below.
Marlen has received an Erasmus Staff Mobility Grant for Teaching from the European Commission. He will spend one week at Belgium’s University of Liege, a public university in the French-speaking Wallonia region. Marlen will deliver workshops and presentations and participate … Continue reading
Dr. Marlen Elliot Harrison has been teaching composition & communication; language & 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 the peer-reviewed journals 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...