John Chandlee Turnbull

M.A. TESOL | Ph.D. student, Culture, Literacy & Language, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Headliner: My ten

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020John Turnbull Leave a comment

Stealing from the New York Times Sunday feature, an embarrassingly specific guide to pandemic-era pursuits and rabbit holes.

Review: ‘Fruit of the Drunken Tree’

April 23, 2019April 24, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

The author, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, stamps my book copy with a design prepared for such occasions, that of the flowers of the borrachero tree (see photo above) and a fragment from her novel: "We were rich in our stories."

‘Waking up white’: Am I really awake?

April 1, 2017January 19, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

I think that I’ve missed out on something - white, male, Protestant, and straight, there’s an expanse of human experience to which I do not have access.

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Blog posts

  • Rhetorical occasions: Arguing for new trolleys June 27, 2021
  • Journalistic decay, epistemological certainty March 7, 2021
  • Personal literacy testimonio February 16, 2021
  • 15 sites of spiritual communion January 3, 2021
  • Headliner: My ten December 21, 2020

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Language & migration

  • 'The Nation' on immigration policy
  • Aikuma Project Strengthening the world’s treasure languages
  • Code Switch (NPR) A pastiche of race, ethnicity, culture, and language
  • Democracy Now! on immigrant rights
  • First Languages Australia Interactive map of Australia’s indigeneous languages
  • Global Voices (Language) Translations of international stories on language rights and advocacy
  • Language on the Move A peer-reviewed sociolinguistics research site devoted to multilingualism, language learning, and intercultural communication in the contexts of globalization and migration.
  • Mother Tongue Film Festival The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives.
  • Pro Publica on immigration Investigating how immigration policy impacts people’s lives
  • Untranslatable Exotic words from the world’s treasure languages
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