Helping Revitalize Endangered Native Languages

August 20, 2016.Reading time 8 minutes.

Pictured above: Brian Moran, right, with Martha Birdbear, one of the Hidatsa speakers in North Dakota. UPDATE, Aug. 20, 2016: From KVPR’s “Valley Edition”: Linguistics professors and students at Fresno State are hard at work on a mammoth task – saving the language of the Chukchansi tribe of Mono Indians. One thing makes their task especially […]

ALUMNI NEWS: Rachel Starnes on ‘The War at Home’

July 19, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

MFA Creative Nonfiction graduate Rachel Starnes was interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air by Terri Gross for her recently released memoir, “The War at Home: A Wife’s Search For Peace And Other Missions Impossible.” Her book grew out of Rachel’s MFA thesis. Here is the Fresh Air intro to the interview: As the wife of a Navy fighter […]