GT Global Media and Culture

Special thanks to the student volunteers who helped out at the School of Modern Languages annual Holiday Fest! We also want to thank the for their support and for allowing us to use their gorgeous Scholars Event Network room! We couldn’t do this without you! 🫶

📷: These beautiful images were taken by our school chair and Professor of German, Dr. John Lyon!

Check out more photos of the School of Modern Languages’ annual Holiday Fest celebration! At the event, students were given a mini “passport”and asked to visit different language tables to collect stamps. Students who visited all seven tables received a raffle ticket for prizes. ❄️✨

Special thanks to Professor Hongchen Wu for her beautiful photos!!

☃️❄️We welcomed over 250 people to Holiday Fest this year! Thank you for celebrating winter holidays from around the world with the School of Modern Languages. We hope to see you in our classes in French, German, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Linguistics, Spanish, Korean (and more)!!🎉❄️

Welcoming new students in the MS in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies program with a campus tour!

Launch a global career! 🌎🎓

The Master of Science in Global Media and Cultures is a joint program between the School of Literature, Media, and Communications and the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech. This unique humanities program merges curricular offerings from both Schools and gives students the opportunity to engage in advanced research and training that combines cross-cultural competence, language acquisition, and media and communications expertise with global and cultural research.

Want to learn more? Register to join one of three online information sessions this fall! https://tinyurl.com/4uhweu2r

Did you know you can get a Master’s in French, German, Japanese, or Spanish at Georgia Tech? Join us for one of three online info sessions this Fall to learn more about our one-year MS in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies! Info sessions will be held online in the early evening on September 6, October 15, and November 14. Register here to receive a link: https://tinyurl.com/4P2HUV94

Lelani Smith, a graduate of our MS in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies (Spanish) was recently featured on TV for her work as a teacher! Check out her interview around the four-minute mark here: bit.ly/3Wuxkl0

So proud of you, Lelani! ✨

🎉 MS-ALIS Graduation Spotlight: Elayne McGrail🎓

MS-ALIS, French - Summer 2024
Elayne McGrail has worked effortlessly in the MS-ALIS program since day one! Graduating with her B.S. ALIS in Fall 2022, Elayne joined the MS-ALIS and hit the ground running. She’s presented in several conferences this past year, attended countless GT French related events, and also worked as Dr. Lyon’s GRA, all while maintaining a 4.0 gpa. It was such an honor to have Elayne awarded the 2024 Excellence in MS-ALIS Graduate Student award. 🏆

Elayne writes that her favorite part of the MS-ALIS was “getting to work and collaborate with people from a variety of language concentrations, and just being a part of such a tight-knit, creative, and forward-thinking department in general.” 📚

This summer Elayne will be working closely with Dr. Stephanie Boulard, Dr. Andrea Johnson, and Dr. Narin Hassan on her thesis focused on the discussions and representations of abortion in French films. 🎞️

✨Elayne has a bright future ahead of her, as she will be taking a gap year to work and travel before starting her Ph.D. in 2025!

🎉 MS-ALIS Graduation Spotlight: Mary Peabody 🎓

MS-ALIS, Spanish - Spring 2024
Mary Peabody joined ML in Fall 2022 and has worked tirelessly not only as a MS-ALIS graduate student but also as a full-time employee as a Learning Experience (LX) Designer at Georgia State University. 💻

Mary’s favorite part of the MS-ALIS has been working with people from different backgrounds and disciplines. She writes, “it’s been fun to see how similar ideas are about learning and design and can span seemingly unrelated fields.” She also gave Osvaldo Cleger’s Photography class a huge shoutout! 📸

After graduation she hopes to keep applying what she learned in the program to her career and to collaborate more across higher ed. 📚

✨Mary has been advised by Dr. David Shook and will be presenting her final project on “Exploring the Intersection of Higher Education Program Review and Service Design,” on Tuesday, May 7th, 10:00am - 11:00am, in Swann 123.

Eboni Goar graduated with an M.S in Global Media and Cultures in 2022. Her final GMC project was a thesis titled Heroes and Villains in Japanese Manga: A Dissection of Role Language, where she worked closely with her advisors Dr. Kyoko Masuda (ML) and Dr. Ida Yoshinaga (LMC). Now Eboni is working her dream job as a Study Abroad Program Planning & Administration Rep at Yume-Kana Ryugake in Japan. 🇯🇵

✨You can read more about Eboni’s new career and time in the MS-GMC program here: https://modlangs.gatech.edu/alumni/profiles/eboni-goar

Interested in studying Japanese? You can now apply to our M.S. in Applied Languages & Intercultural Studies with a concentration in Japanese until May 31st for Fall 2024! Link to apply is in the bio! 🗾

Interested in our MS-GMC program? Applications for Fall 2025 will open this upcoming August! 🎥📚📻🎓

Congratulations to our Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. Amanda Weiss, on receiving one of Ivan Allen College’s 2023-2024 Distinguished Tenured/Tenure-Track Academic Faculty Teaching Award! 🎉

We are so honored to have amazing professors like Dr. Weiss support our graduate program. She’s shows great dedication to our students and is a great example of a passionate and superb leader.

Congrats again, Dr. Weiss! 💐
Well deserved 🏆