Beginning in 2019, The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere — with the support of the Director Barbara Mennel’s Waldo W. Neikirk Professorship — supports Ph.D. students in UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for intensive one-week themed residencies and institutes at the National Humanities Center that focus on practical teaching, research, and professionalization skills.
Summer 2023
National Humanities Center Ph.D. Student Summer Residency: Creating an Accessible Classroom and Inclusive Curriculum
Nazita Fazlkhah (Ph.D. Student, Spanish and Portuguese Studies)
Nazita Fazlkhah is a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Florida. She is currently exploring the relationship between attitudes and motivation in second language acquisition. Her goal for the Summer Residency is to develop an open-access and classroom-ready bank of pedagogical materials that are available to all and ready for use in the classroom. The second goal is to learn how to design and teach a course effectively. These goals align with her research on the relationship between attitudes and motivation in second language acquisition and her belief in the importance of making resources and knowledge accessible to support language and culture preservation.