Contributors
- Contributors
Michael P. Alfano Ph.D., is the Dean of the School of Education and Professional Studies at Central Connecticut State University. His research interests include teacher education, assessment, special education and reading.
Annamary Consalvo is an assistant professor of English education at Fitchburg State University. She is interested in the interplay between the relational and instructional elements in classroom settings, how adolescents construct their in- and out-of-school literacies, and ways in which preservice teachers can build an appreciate view of adolescents’ in- and out-of-school literacies.
Layne Craig teaches composition, literature, and women’s studies at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Her book, When Sex Changed: Birth Control and Literature between the World Wars, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2013.
Jennifer Fielding is an assistant librarian at the Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library at Fitchburg State University. Her research and teaching interests include all aspects of information literacy, particularly in how engaging with information and citation provides rhetorical context, and the information behaviors of digital natives.
Julia Hans received her doctorate in American literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011. Recent publications include an essay on Dorothy Parker’s polyphonic monologues and recovery work on comic vaudevillian May Isabel Fisk. [End Page v]
Mikyong Minsun Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the George Washington University. Her teaching and research interests are relatively broad, including equity and opportunity issues, special colleges for special student populations (e.g., historically black institutions, women-only colleges), marginalized groups in educational settings, talent development, state and interstate tuition policies, bridging K-12, higher education, and work, organizational analysis, and research design.
Frank Mabee is an assistant professor of English studies at Fitchburg State University, where he teaches course in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, transatlantic literature, critical theory, and first-year writing. His primary research is in maritime radicalism of the British Romantic era.
Dr. Abdou Ndoye is an assistant professor/assessment coordinator at the College of Arts and Sciences at Qatar University in Doha. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut Neag School of Education where he received his PhD. He specializes in learning outcomes assessment with research interests including building a culture of assessment, exploring faculty perspectives in learning outcomes assessment, and program assessment practices. He has experience teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in learning outcomes assessment, instructional design, and research methods.
Kisha Tracy is an assistant professor of English studies at Fitchburg State University, specializing in early British and world literature, and is the director of the FSU Center for Teaching and Learning. Her research interests range from the relationship between memory and confession in Middle English literature to the use of pedagogical wikis in the college classroom.
Mary E. Yakimowski (PhD University of Connecticut) is the director of assessment for the Neag School of Education and in the departments of Educational Psychology and Educational Leadership. Her expertise areas include assessment, evaluation, strategic planning, and over two decades in urban education. She has delivered 200+ presentations at international, national, state, and local conferences/meetings; is the recipient of fellow and diplomat statuses in the American College of Forensic Examiners; and has received many accolades including 18 AERA Division H Outstanding [End Page vi] Publications and Connecticut Associations of Education Communications awards. While she serves as a leader for AERA, DRE, NATD, and CTN, she was also a visiting scholar for Johns Hopkins University and has had fellowships including those from NCES and UConn.
Eunkyong Lee Yook (PhD, University of Minnesota) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at George Mason University. Her research interests focus on the intersections of communication, education, and culture. She has published articles and book chapters on the topics of intercultural communication and communication education, and a book on ESL students in communication classes. Her most recent book is titled Culture Shock for Asians in U.S. Academia: Breaking the Model Minority Myth, published in 2013. [End Page vii]
