At the 2026 DELTA Teaching Forum, Wilbanks and Sunita Thyagarajan (chemistry department), along with guest appearances from two former students, described their teaching and writing experiences in “Making Science Meaningful: Creative Communication in Place‑Based Learning.” Additionally, Brodsky & Watters collaborated with Emily Braley (math department & KSAS deans’ office) to present “Designing Courses in an AI Era:...

Codi Renee Blackmon presented “Sustaining Communities through a Critical Race, Trauma-Informed Ethic” at the 2026 Computers & Writing Conference at UNC Charlotte. Drawing on her dissertation research, Blackmon introduced the Critical Race Trauma-Informed Ethic (CRTIE), a framework for designing more equitable and sustainable digital communities. Using online recovery communities as a case study, the presentation examined...

As she steps into her new role as Executive Editor of Journal of Peer Tutoring in Secondary Schools (JPTSS) this June, Goransson coauthored this piece with outgoing Exec Editor Amber Jensen (Brigham Young University). The title is “Reflections, Celebrations, and Collaborative Visions for the Future: A Framework for Navigating Transitions in SSWCs.” Jensen and Goransson discuss the ways...

Neşe Devenot delivered four invited talks during the Spring 2026 semester, each of which reflected a distinct aspect of their recent work in Critical Psychedelic Studies: On March 5, Devenot delivered an invited “dose” (extended presentation) at the “Trip Out! Symposium on Media and Altered States” at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Institute of Communication,...

During the Spring 2026 semester, Neşe Devenot contributed expertise to journalistic investigations and informed popular media about the emerging psychedelic industry: On February 26, Devenot was quoted in “Psychedelika: Wohin treibt die Renaissance von LSD & Co.?” by Jonas Staehelin in WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, an independent national newspaper in German-speaking Switzerland. In an article examining how...

In collaboration with an international group of translators, Laura Hartmann-Villalta recently translated an anthology of stories, testimonies, and poetry written by students from Gaza’s universities into Spanish, which has just been published in Chile by LOM Ediciones as, Nos rehusamos a ser borrados: Una antología de resiliencia, duelo, e inquebrantable esperanza de estudiantes universitarios de Gaza,...

After serving on the Editorial Board for the journal since 2021, Goransson will step into the role of Executive Editor for The Journal of Peer Tutoring in Secondary Schools (JPTSS) in June 2026. JPTSS is an open-source, peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarly, practitioner, and reflective articles exploring topics related to secondary school peer tutoring and writing centers. The mission...

Carly Schnitzler’s article, “Amplifying “Language in Action”: A Process-Oriented Approach to Teaching Writing with LLMs in Personal Narrative,” was just published in Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture.  This study was supported by CTEI’s Teaching as Research Fellowship. This article examines the integration of large language models (LLMs) into first‐year writing instruction through a...

Jenny Goransson has collaborated with researchers at George Mason University to examine the impact of a new clinical experience model used in Secondary Education teaching methods classes. This model pairs pre-service teachers (PSTs) with a school-based teacher educator (SBTE)—sometimes called “mentor teachers”— to go beyond the traditional model of passive observations of teaching. The “Problems...

Codi Renee Blackmon presented “The Power of Connection in Mentoring Networks” on the panel “Microstories, Mentoring, and Teaching Technical Communication” at the hybrid 2026 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing conference (ATTW), held April 17–18. Blackmon’s talk centered on how collective, cross-institutional mentoring can offer a more relational and sustaining alternative to traditional mentorship. Drawing...