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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear IGALA friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On October 31, the Department of Applied Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University will hold a Zoom session about how to apply to our PhD program. Please
forward this email to any students, who might be interested in our program. Our research expertise is broad and includes, but is not limited to, critical discourse analysis, language, gender, and sexuality, southern and decolonial approaches, translanguaging,
and socio-cultural theory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">When? Friday, October 31, 2025, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. EST
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Advice about preparing your application from the Director of Graduate Studies
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> A message from the Chief Diversity Officer for Graduate Education
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> A faculty panel discussion on research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> An informal Q&A session with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> current doctoral student<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please register here:
<a href="https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3sbM69mO1uchRoG">https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3sbM69mO1uchRoG</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Tommaso<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F;mso-ligatures:none">Tommaso M. Milani, PhD (he/him/his)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F;mso-ligatures:none">Head, Department of Applied Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F;mso-ligatures:none">Interim Director, Jewish Studies Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of the Erie, Haudenosaunee (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora), Lenape (Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe, Stockbridge-Munsee), </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F;mso-ligatures:none">Monongahela, <span style="background:white">Shawnee
(Absentee, Eastern, and Oklahoma), Susquehannock, and Wahzhazhe (Osage) Nations. As a land grant institution, we acknowledge and honor the traditional caretakers of these lands and strive to understand and model their responsible stewardship. We also acknowledge
the longer history of these lands and our place in that history.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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