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Dr. David I. Hanauer
Dr. David I. Hanauer
David I. Hanauer is a Full Professor of Applied Linguistics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught research methodology, literacy, second language learning and pedagogy in the Composition and Applied Linguistics doctoral program. With 25 years of experience in undergraduate and graduate teaching, his expertise lies in the processes of reading and writing poetry, literacy, second language reading and writing, and science education design and assessment. He also serves as the Lead Assessment Coordinator and Educational Researcher of the SEA-PHAGES program, funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Hanauer is a prolific researcher with national and international recognition, rated as within the top 2% of education researchers in 2023. Professor Hanauer has garnered over 3.5 million dollars in grant funding over the past 10 years. His extensive work includes authoring several books, including "A Life with Poetry: The Development of Poetic Literacy" and "Applied Linguistics and Literacies for STEM: Founding Concepts, Methodologies and Research Projects", along with numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He has received the John Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research and frequently presents at conferences such as the Empirical Studies of Literature Conference and the AAU STEM Network Conference.
Title: Interdisciplinarity and the Psychology of the Linguistic Landscape
Abstract: The applied linguistic field of linguistic landscape studies has a history dating back to Landry & Bourhis’s seminal 1997 study. Initially the field focused on explicitly linguistic signs within the physical environment. However, over the last 25 years, the field has widened beyond the linguistic to include the full spectrum of semiotic signs within a given setting. On an academic level, the aim of this lecture is to discuss and explicate the often unrecognized psychological and political ramifications of living within the rich, semiotic environments that we inhabit. On a more personal level, the aim of the lecture is to change the way the audience sees and interacts with the world around them. The lecture will cover the key research underpinning the linguistic landscape and provide an interactive experience so as to exemplify the processes involved.
Dr. Anne Agnes Colwell
Dr. Anne Agnes Colwell
Anne Colwell writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She is a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Delaware. Her collection of short stories, Broken-Heart Syndrome, is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press in 2025. She has published two books of poems, Believing Their Shadows, (Word Poetry 2010) and Mother’s Maiden Name (Word Poetry 2013). She received both Emerging and Established Artist Awards in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from the Delaware Division of the Arts. Her poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in several journals, including Bellevue Literary Review, California Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, Brooklyn Review, and The Madison Review. She has been a member of the staff at Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a visiting professor at the University of Granada in Spain.
Title: Landscapes, Language, and Loss: Maps, Mapping, and the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
Abstract: The poetics of maps and mapping remain fascinating, even (and perhaps especially) in the world of GPS. According to Gilbert H. Grosvenor, the Founding Editor of National Geographic, “A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.” But, as many social scientists in diverse disciplines remind us, maps are not neutral, not necessarily benign. If they are poems, they are often poems about control, or an illusion of control, their lines mapping human belonging and otherness, human passions. “The Map,” the first poem in Elizabeth Bishop’s first book of poems, North & South, delights in the intersection/overlap/overlay of cartography and reality, appreciating the map while simultaneously interrogating the notion of mapping. In this poem, maps are lies, delicate lies, that embody human dreams and desires. In her last book of poems, Geography III, Bishop revisits an incident from the same year she published North & South (1946); here she maps her journey through the Nova Scotia landscape and her encounter with “The Moose” and recharts the landscapes, language, and loss that are at the heart of human mapping. In this talk, I will explore mapping language, mapping landscapes, and I will consider Bishop’s poems as attempts to encompass the always elusive connection between human experiences and the landscapes in which they take place.
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