The University of Macau\u2019s (UM) Faculty of Arts and\nHumanities (FAH) has signed an agreement on teaching mobility with George\nWashington University (GWU) in the United States. One of the outcomes of this\nagreement is the teaching staff exchanges in Portuguese and English, with\nincoming staff initially specialising in English literature.<\/p>
In September 2016, the Department of English\nwelcomed Prof David McAleavey to teach Creative Writing and American Poetry for\nthe semester; he will be followed from January 2017 to May 2017 by Prof Patty\nChu, one of the key figures in Asian-American literary scholarship.<\/p>
To mark the beginning of this series of exchanges,\nthe Department of English hosted a round-table symposium on \u2018Synergies in\nEnglish Literature Teaching and Research\u2019. Prof McAleavey and Prof Chu were\njoined by two more junior members of the GWU faculty, Assistant Professor\nJennifer Chang, a rising Asian-American poet; and Daniel DeWispelare, a\nspecialist in the interaction between literary texts and varieties of national\nand world English. The purpose of this symposium was to add value to the\nteaching exchanges by exploring shared teaching and research interests. During\nthe symposium, UM and GWU faculty discussed their educational and research\ninterests, and identified potential areas of collaboration, such as\nAsian-American literary research, Creative Writing pedagogy, Language and\nPoetics, and World English. The aim was to begin a series of conversations which\nwill develop over time and which may result in the sharing of best practices in\nteaching and, potentially, joint research projects.<\/p>
The GWU faculty also took the opportunity to meet\nwith postgraduate students in the Department of English. Jennifer Chang was\ninterviewed by MA students for an online video database project run by Prof\nGlenn Timmermans, which aims to develop a resource that will be launched later\nthis year. The visiting scholars also took the opportunity to look around the\nsights of Macao and to sample a wide range of cuisine found in the city.<\/p>
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The symposium and the advent of the teaching\nmobility exchange together mark a key moment in the development of literary\nteaching and scholarship in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Scholars from UM\nand GWU look forward to deepening their relationships in the future.<\/p>
Source: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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