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 process of self exploration and definition.
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Dr. Harrison and JYU students Diana Raitala and Tanja Räsänen will participate in the 19th Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference at American University, Washington, DC on February 10th, 2012.
This third year of a session chaired by Dr. Harrison – Identity and Voice: Locating the Lavender in Composition and Rhetoric Studies – will include presenters from Asia, Europe and North America. See below for descriptions of the session and abstracts for presenters.
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On Saturday November 19th, Dr. Harrison will present his PhD research on language and sexuality in 21st century Japan in the sociolinguistics session at the annual JALT (Japan Association of Language Teaching) conference in Tokyo, Japan (SLIDES: Language and Sexuality in Japan). He has also been invited to speak on Saturday evening, the 26th in Osaka (Namba, Lifelong Learning Centre, 6-8:30) and on Sunday afternoon, the 27th in Nara (dates and times TBA) for the two cities’ local chapters.
The following are his programs for Osaka and Nara JALT. Find a description of Marlen’s Tokyo presentation on the 2011 JALT Conference pages.
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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...