Pictured above: lecturers enjoying lunch outside at the 2024 September Sessions
The new year has kept us quite busy in the classroom and our tutoring sessions, but many of our colleagues continue to pursue additional projects as well. Read on to learn about what some of them have been up to in these first few months of 2025.
Christine Alfano is serving as interim program director for the new Stanford Summer Bridge Program (in addition to her usual PWR role), an expansion of her role working in the background with LSP and SOAR for the last 5-10 years. She should return to PWR-only responsibilities by the end of spring quarter.
Nissa Cannon published an entry on “Identification Papers" in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law & Literature (Elgar Publishing, 2025).
A former PWR 2 student, Max Jardetzky, in Jennifer Johnson's course, Language, Identity and Power, published their computational linguistics PWR 2 paper, "Trop clean pour toi" Investigating the Diverse Dynamics of English Language Borrowing in French Rap Music" in Stanford's Undergraduate Research Journal. Another former PWR 2 student (in the same course), Jane Lord Krause, is the recipient of the Stanford Humanities Center Hume Honors fellowship for her senior thesis archival work on dime novels, inspired by her PWR 2 research. Jane discusses how her thesis, Linguistic Stereotypes of Native Americans in Early Dime Novels," is the "natural continuation" of her PWR 2 project. Read about it here. Jennifer serves as her senior thesis advisor.
This spring quarter, Sarah Pittock is “transferring” within VPUE to become an associate director with Stanford Introductory Studies. She will primarily be supporting the new lecturers in COLLEGE as they embark on their teaching careers. You will be able to find her in Sweet Hall room 226 three days a week. So please stop by!
Jill Schepmann published “Flights,” a creative nonfiction piece in the December issue of New Ohio Review. The essay is part of a larger collection of essays they’re working on connected to questions of embodiment, love, community, and play, mostly through the lens of tennis. You can read the essay or listen to Jill reading it here.
