“Unravelling the Ball of Yarn” with Christina Socci
Christina Socci, an English major at Dickinson College, discusses her experiences as a literature student and second language writer in Toulouse, France. Christina describes how she adapted French...
View Article“Speaking Your Mind, Writing Your Opinion” with Vadim Ivanishchev
Vadim Ivanishchev, a World Economics major from Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, attended Dickinson College in 2012. As an Overseas Assistant, Vadim assisted Russian language...
View Article“Rethinking the Writing Process in International Contexts” with Taylor Kobran
Taylor Kobran, an English major specializing in Creative Writing at Dickinson College, discusses her second language writing experience in Bologna, Italy. Taylor explains how her writing process...
View Article“Crossing Sentence Borders” with Enrica Nicoli-Aldini
Enrica Nicoli-Aldini, a graduate student pursuing a Master of Translation Studies at the University of Bologna, speaks with four tutors about her transition from Italian to U.S. academic writing...
View Article“From Innocence to Critique” with Monica Vincentini
Fulbright scholar Monica Vincentini is pursuing a Master’s in Applied Linguistics at a state university in Brazil. She details the cultural differences between her academic experiences in the U.S. and...
View Article“Things Natural to French People” with Ellen Aldin
Ellen Aldin studied abroad at the Insitut d’etudes politiques (IEP) de Toulouse, where she took courses in history and political science. Detailing numerous cultural differences between French and...
View Article“No Longer Going It Alone” with Mikael Toulza
Mikael Toulza, an undergraduate English major at the University of Toulouse, Le Mirail, discusses his move from an individualistic writing culture at the University of Toulouse to the more...
View Article“Other People Already Said That: The Paradox of Close Reading” with Christine...
Christine Muller is a graduate student pursuing a Master’s in Transnational Literatures at the Univiersity of Bremen in Germany. She examines how she learned to write a close reading, a new genre...
View Article“A Giant Mix of Expectations, Languages, and Backgrounds” with A.J. Wildey
A.J. Wildey studied abroad in Cuzco, Peru where she conducted original field research on traditional farming beliefs and practices. In her interview, she describes the importance of being an agent of...
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