Area(s) of Expertise: Instructional design, instructional technology, language, literature, humanities
Dr. Beyza Lorenz is Instructional Designer and Quality Matters Coordinator at UNG Dahlonega. She has over a decade of experience teaching and researching in higher education and holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and a M.S. in Instructional Design and Technology. Before joining UNG, she worked as a faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she taught undergraduate and graduate language and literature courses. During her time at UCLA, she also served as Instructional Training Coordinator and led interactive workshops to train graduate students from humanities and social sciences in best practices in course design and delivery. In addition to her role as faculty member and training coordinator, she contributed to designing online scenario-based cultural literacy modules for foreign language learners at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Flagship Culture Initiative.
She became interested in online learning during her doctoral studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she taught courses in person, hybrid, and online and received several certificates in online teaching methodology and practices. At UCLA, she earned an award from the Mellon Foundation to conduct U.S.-wide needs assessment research on the requirements of students learning foreign languages and presented her research in international conferences. In addition to her role at UNG, Dr. Lorenz is actively serving as an executive board member for associations on foreign language instruction and peer reviewer for academic journals on instructional design, language, and literature.
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
“Novel Anxieties: An Ottoman Counter-discourse on Time and Space.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East vol. 40. Issue 2 (August 2020): 387–400.
“Provinciality and the City in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul.” Orhan Pamuk: Critical Essays on a Novelist Between Worlds. Ed. Taner Can et al. Hannover: Ibidem Press, 2017. 159–83.
Book Review:
Uncoupling language and religion: an exploration into the margins of Turkish literature by Laurent Mignon. Turkish Studies (2021).
Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses. Edited by Rita Felski and Susan Stanford Friedman. Comparative Literature Studies volume 51 issue 3 (2014) 509-512.
Other:
“Beyond the Breakout Room: Four Online Tools for Interactive Teaching” American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages Newsletter.
“Current Needs of Students and Teachers of Turkish.” American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages Newsletter. January 2017, 11.
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