Marlen Elliot Harrison, Ph.D.
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Marlen Elliot Harrison, Ph.D.
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    Technicolor Third Space: Developing the AutoEthnographer Literary & Arts Magazine

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    How Autoethnography Is Being Utilized to Support Learner Development

    Disrupting the MA English Thesis: Autoethnography in Advanced Literary Studies

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    Keynote Speaker: Professional Development Opportunities for Online Students, Tiffin University

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    “He Was the One Teacher That Pushed Me the Most During My Stay Here at SNHU”

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    Esxence 2016 – Roundtable – Judging & Criticism in Artistic Perfumery

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    Columnist & Editor

    MensJournal.com: 10 Best New Colognes for Men

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Internal vs. External Characteristics: Anna from The Book of Longings

When building characters, a great strategy I like to use (among others) is to consider both internal and external characteristics.
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Fragrance Judge at TasteTV

ARTISAN PERFUME AWARDS Judge 2014-2015 An annual Juried Awards competition rewards the Top Artisan, Niche, and Custom Fragrances of the...
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Flash Fiction: Zashiki Warashi

So, who are you? Well? Do you hear me talking to you? Won’t you say something? Why are you in my house?
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Project Coordinator & Writer, The Smithsonian

"In an on-going effort to challenge stereotyping, and correct the current nature of education concerning American Indians, the NMAI will devote the required scholarship to inform and assess these permanent visual statements."
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How I Met Tapputi

"Could I really write about a 3200 year old woman, of which we know so very little?"
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Book Chapter: Taking the teacher out of the test – Exploring student automomy in EFL classroom testing

Harrison, M. (2006). Taking the teacher out of the test: Exploring student automomy in EFL classroom testing. In M. Koyama & E....
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Columnist & Editor

Marlen has been working in the fragrance industry since 1990. Having started in sales and line representation, he later began...
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“China, why not?”: serious leisure and transmigrant runners’ stories from Beijing

"Through interviews with five female and two male expatriates, we studied the ways in which Western runners brought meaning to the transition experience and negotiated meanings and bodily practices associated with running. Through narrative analysis, we identified three core narratives of migration (possibility, necessity and growing up) and two emergent narratives (community and running to feel like oneself) about shifting meaning in running."
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Book Review: The Assyrian (Guild, 1987)

The Assyrian follows two real-life half-brothers from different mothers, Tiglath and Esarhaddon, both sons of the infamous King Sennacherib, one of the mightiest rulers of the Neo-Assy
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The Caribbean Immigrant Student: Immigration, Education, and Representation

Poster presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association  (SMLA) conference in Jacksonville, FL, 2016 See the full-sized poster here: poster-for-conference-2-1...
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Disrupting the MA English Thesis: Autoethnography in Advanced Literary Studies

"We will explore why and how an MA thesis director introduces autoethnography as an alternative research discourse to MA English thesis students, and examine student responses. Pedagogical implications, teaching resources, and thesis examples will be presented in order to highlight the myriad creative possibilities for using autoethnography to both celebrate and interrogate literature, literacy, and language."
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Mensfitness.com: Every man needs a signature scent

COLOGNE BUYING GUIDE Every man needs a signature scent. This guide to navigating the fragrance counter like a pro—from test...
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