C Julie Whitlow

Julie Whitlow  Ph.D. is Vice Provost for Faculty and Global Engagement at Salem State University.  She has served as a faculty member in the English department and the coordinator of master of arts and graduate certificate programs in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.  She earned her doctorate in Applied Linguistics and M.Ed. in TESOL from Boston University.  Dr. Whitlow has been a Fulbright Scholar in Nicaragua, an Erasmus+ Visiting Lecturer in Poland, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco, and a Whiting Fellow in China.  She is currently directing an IDEAS grant from the U.S. State Department and a UISFL grant from the U.S Department of Education.  Both provide opportunities for Salem State students to experience the world.  She has also initiated a program in Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) at Salem State. She strongly believes that international education and exchange is the most powerful way to create meaningful cross-cultural understanding. Julie’s international experience includes study abroad in France, serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco and Fulbright Scholar in Nicaragua, teaching EFL in Portugal, visiting TESOL programs in China as a Whiting Fellow; participating in the Erasmus+ program in Poland, She has an M.Ed. in teaching ESOL and a Ph.D. in applied linguistics from Boston University and she holds a B.A. from Louisiana State University. Her research interests include cultural adjustment and internationalization, sociolinguistics, gender and language, and second language writing.

Interrnationalization of the curriculum and campus, accessibility for study abroad and global exchange for all faculty and students; writing instruction, teaching and learning; Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL).

Oversees the Center for International Education, Center for Civic Engagement, Center for Teaching Innovation.  Oversees Faculty Fellows program and aspects of provost's initiatives related to faculty engagement in areas such as assessment, emerging HSI status, strategic planning, and faculty engagement in teaching and learning.   Directly supervise study abroad, international partnerships, comprehensive internationalization, and China 1+2+1 dual degree programs, and COIL.  

 The Intersectional Lives and Work of International Educators During a Pandemic, IIE Networker, Fall 2021, https://www.iienetworker-igital.com/iieb/0221_fall_2021/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1724914#articleId1724914

Book:

Whitlow, Julie and Ould, Patricia.   Same-Sex Marriage, Context, and Lesbian Identity:  Wedded but Not Always a Wife, Lexington Books, 2015.

Research/Scholarly Articles:

Same Sex-Marriage and Context-Specific Kinship Terms, Journal of Homosexuality, 58:8, 1085–1109, 2011 (with Patricia Ould).

Can Written Second Language Grammar Improve without Explicit Instruction, Scientific Journals International, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, http://www.scientificjournals.org, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2006.

Stranded on the Roof:  Confronting Issues of Race and Class in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Essential Teacher, TESOL Publications, Vol. 3, Issue 3, September 2006.

Comments on Shinichi Izumi and Martha Bigelow’s “Does Output Promote Noticing in Second Language Acquisition?” TESOL Quarterly 35:1, 2001

Counter Winds and Cross-Eyed Casters, bioStories, Vol. 6, 2016. http://www.biostories.com/media/Counter_Winds_and_Cross-eyed_Casters.pdf

 Beyond RETELL:  Taking the Lead in Ongoing Professional Development (with Melanie Gonzalez), MATSOL Currents, Vol. 36, No. 2, Fall/Winter, 2013.

The House of Taittinger:  Where Family Endures and Impresses, Quarterly Review of Wines, Featured Article, Fall 2013, http://www.qrw.com/articles/Taittinger.html

“Developing and Sustaining a Campus COIL Program,” AASCU Academic

Affairs Summer Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2023                                                 

“Study Abroad Opportunities in China,” CCIEE President’s Forum,

Beijing, China, 2023                                                                                                                                

“Developing and Sustaining a Campus COIL Program,” NAFSA XI

Regional Conference, 2022                                                                                                                  

Panelist, AASCU Academic Affairs Summer Conference, “Student-Centered

Campuses: Why International Voices Matter”  2022                                                             

Panelist, CIEE International Education and Exchange Summit,

“Innovations in Inclusion and Access for Latinx Students in Study Abroad”  2021

Panelist, China-U.S. Provincial State University Presidents’ Forum   2021                   

Panelist, IIE Engagement Series, Networker Conversations “We Are International Education: What Does that Mean in 2021?”                         Participant, Roundtable on International Education and Global Initiatives, AASCU Summer Meeting 2021                                                                                 

“Current Trends in Teaching Writing,” Renmin University of China                  2016

“Wedded but Not Always a Wife:  Negotiating Identity by Married Lesbians,” IGALA,Hong Kong   2016                                                                                                

“Directed Self Placement for Multilingual Writers: Empowering Choices,” with Melanie Gonzalez, MATSOL, Framingham, MA.  2016

“Don't Call Me That! How Words Shape Identity in Lesbian Wives,Chosen Names, and Gender-neutral Pronouns at a Time of Cultural Shift,”Panel Presentation, SSU, 2016

 “Reflecting and Planning:  Family and Community Engagement,”(with Omar Longus) Salem Public School Professional Development Series    2015                                                  

“Using FLCs to Extend ESL Content beyond the SEI Classroom,”(with Melanie Gonzalez), MACTE Conference, Worcester, MA2015

Exploring the world through travel, food, hiking, museums, and personal connections.