Karoline Shaufler (MFA, 2018) presented her essay “The Photographic Imagination: Contextualizing Ella Higginson’s Portrayal of the Pacific Northwest” at the 2020 Modern Language Association Convention in Seattle.
Geri Forsberg
Geri Forsberg is fast at work teaching, researching, and writing. This year Geri developed a new approach to teaching technical writing. Students research historical documents that have transformed culture—such documents as the Magna Carta, the Nuremberg Code, the Declaration of Human Rights, the Equal Pay Act, and many others. Students study what life was like before the document was written, how the document came about, and how life changed after the document was written. They also consider how the document is relevant to their lives today. Students then write magazine articles, an academic research poster, and visual presentations based on their research. Their research posters are presented at the Humanities Research Day at Western. Students have said that their appreciation of history has grown, and their critical thinking skills have developed. Geri is also presenting her research on “Marshall McLuhan and Jacques Ellul in Dialog” at the Media Ecology Association annual conference in Toronto this June.