Reports To The Dean
Presentations
Cynthia Miecznikowski (English, Theatre, and Wrold Languages) “What’s Missing from Common Core ELA Standards.” Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL) 2024 Summer Symposium: Empathy, Spirituality, Mindfulness, and the Legacy of James Moffett. June 2024.
Robin Snead (English, Theatre, and World Languages) "Allyship and Abundance: Teaching Writing with Responsibility to and Respect of Local Native Knowledges." Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention. Spokane, WA. April 2024.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) & Saralyn Crowley-McKinnon "Against the Machine: A Punk Rock Ethnodrama about Qualitative Inquiry." International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Annual Conference, Champaign-Urbana, IL May 2024
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) "Performance Perspectives in Thematic Analysis." American Education Research Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. April 2024
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages), Jason Griffith, and Anthony Celaya. "Storying Hip Hop Processes: Considering Popular Podcasts as Tools of Cultural Brokerage in Teacher Education." American Education Research Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. April 2024
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages), “‘What Just Happened Here?’: Storying Techniques of Podcasts as Humanizing Research Methodologies.” Literacy Research Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. December 2023.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages), “Becoming More Humanizing: Critical Reciprocal Mentoring through Caring Collaboration.” The National Council for Teachers of English Annual Convention. Columbus, OH. November 2023.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages), “Cultivating Critical Consciousness: Connecting Preservice Teachers, Pop Culture, and Critical Media Literacy.” The National Council for Teachers of English Annual Convention. Columbus, OH. November 2023.
Charles Tita (English, Theater, and World Languages), “Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) and Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) in London: Voices of Dissent.” South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (SCSECS) Conference. Portland, OR. February 2024
Richard Vela (English, Theatre, and World Languages), "The Political Assassination Film as Genre." Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM. February 2024.
Melissa Schaub (English, Theatre, and World Languages) "Canary in the Coal Mine: Great Expectations and the Relevance of Victorian Literature." Victorians Institute. Raleigh, NC. October 2023.
Richard Vela (English, Theatre, and World Languages) "Film and the Problem of Gender Disguise in Shakespeare's Plays." The Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVI. University of Virginia College at Wise. Wise, VA. September 2023.
Richard Vela (English, Theatre, and World Languages) "The Assassination of JFK, 60 Years of Fiction and Films" Popular Culture Association in the South & American Culture Association in the South. PCAS/ACAS. New Orleans, LA. September 2023.
Scott Hicks (Teaching & Learning Center, English, Theatre & World Languages) Miko Nino (Online Learning) "Connecting Career Learning and Career Readiness through ePortfolios,” Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA. February 2022.
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre & World Languages) “Tracing the Influence of Indigenous Protest on Vonnegut’s Philosophies of Care,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD. March 2022.
Ana Cecilia Lara “Las fronteras y las transgresiones del cuerpo en la novela ‘El verbo J’ de Claudia Hernández,” presented at the XXIX Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 2022.
Robin Snead (English, Theatre & World Languages), Panelist for the roundtable “Using Our Power: The MLA, Advocacy, and Academic Labor,” MLA Convention 2022, Washington DC. January 2022.*
Robin Snead (English, Theatre & World Languages), “When ‘You’re Accepted’ Doesn’t Seem Like a Welcome: Constellations of Writing, Race, and Belonging in a Bridge Program Composition Course at a NASNTI Institution,” presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention, March 2022.
Richard Vela (English, Theatre & World Languages) “Shakespeare's Assassins” presented at the Popular Culture Association /American Culture Association Conference. April 2022.*
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti: Where Do We Go From Here?,” Presented at the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society cosponsored by the Community of Church of Boston, August 2021.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre & World Languages), "The (In)Visibility of Sacco and Vanzetti in the Federal Writers’ Project," National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: The New Deal Era’s Federal Writers’ Project: History, Politics, and Legacy.” August 2021.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre & World Languages), “The Sacco & Vanzetti Trial 100 Years Later: A Historic Perspective and Parallels to Today,” Dedham Historical Society, June 2021.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre & World Languages), "Teaching Woody Guthrie and the Precarity of the Present." Annual Conference of the Working-Class Studies Association. Youngstown State University, June 2021.
Laura Hakala (English, Theatre & World Languages), "Dismantling Confederate Literary Monuments with Ellen Hunter: A Story of the War." Presented at the Children's Literature Association Conference, June 2021.*
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Forgetting Red Power: Slaughterhouse-Five, Indigenous Protest, and Vonnegut’s Critique of Settler Colonialism,” presented for a Roundtable of the Kurt Vonnegut Society at the 32nd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, July 2021.*
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Fiction’s about what it means to be a f-cking human being’: Sincerity, Sexuality, and David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System,” presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, July 2021.*
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre & World Languages) & Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre and World Languages), "Delinquent Inquiry under Repressive Apparatus." Presented at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 2021.*
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre & World Languages) and Susan Cannon, "Unmastering Pedagogies." Panel Presentation at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 2021.*
Mayo, Russell, Elise Dixon (English, Theatre & World Languages), and Eric Camarillo presented “Pandemic Exigencies: Technology, Togetherness, and Tutoring.” International Writing Centers Association Conference. Online. 21 October 2021.
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre & World Languages) presented “Distance and (Dys)uptopia: Slaughterhouse-Five, Settler Colonialism, and the Politics of Fate.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 2021.*
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre & World Languages) presented “Revolt and Revulsion: Repatriation and the Limits of Settler Sensation in Anna Lee Walters’s Ghost Singer.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, October 2021.*
Melissa Schaub (English, Theatre & World Languages) presented “The Spectacle of Englishness: Lord Fauntleroy Gazes Back," the Victorians Institute meeting, Charlotte, NC, October 2021.
Laura Hakala (English, Theatre & World Languages), “The Architecture of Girlhood: Building American Spaces in Louisa Tuthill's Children's Novels,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Baltimore, MD. November 2021.
Jason Griffith, Anthony Celaya, Joseph D. Sweet (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Talking Process: A Discourse Analysis of Podcast Process Texts Reveals Community Cultural Wealth.” Literacy Research Association Annual Conference. December 2021.
Joseph D. Sweet (English, Theatre & World Languages) and Anthony Celaya, “Multimodal Exploration of Identity in The Music of What Happens.” National Council for Teachers of English Annual Convention. November 2021.*
Professional Service
Youngsuk Chae (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a reviewer for the journals MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. January 2024.
Cynthia Miecznikowski (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as manuscript reviewer for theJournal of Excellence in College Teaching in July 2024
Cynthia Miecznikowski (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as proposal reviewer for the 2025 special issue of the journal Composition Forum in August 2024.
Catherine Parisian (English, Theatre, and World Languages) has been appointed member-at-large on the board for the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. December 2023.
Catherine Parisian (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as vice president for the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. April 2024.
Robin Snead (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a reviewer for WPA: Writing Program Administration. March 2024.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) Review of the book manuscript: Creating Ethnodrama: A Practical Approach. Guilford Press. January 2024.
Elise Dixon (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a reviewer for a manuscript for the Curriculum Inquiry. October 2023.
Scott Hicks (Teaching and Learning Center and English, Theatre and World Languages) serves as adviser to the Youth Climate Summit Team and a member of the School Improvement Team of Scotland Early College High School, Laurinburg. January 2022.
Scott Hicks (Teaching and Learning Center and English, Theatre, and World Languages) serves as a member of the Literary Changemakers Steering Committee, facilitated by NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and poet Tonya Elk Locklear. November 2021-February 2022.
Scott Hicks (Teaching and Learning Center and English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as an evaluator of Community Engagement Professional of the Year and Community Partner Award for NC Campus Compact. January 2022.
Scott Hicks (Teaching & Learning Center and English, Theatre, and World Languages) serves as adviser to the Youth Climate Summit Team and a member of the School Improvement Team of Scotland Early College High School, Laurinburg. March 2022.
Ana Cecilia Lara and Joseph D. Sweet served as a mentors for UNCP's REACH program. March 2022.
Ana Cecilia Lara served as a moderator in the session “Simbolismos, transgresiones y écfrasis en la narrativa hispanoamericana reciente” at the XXIX Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 2022.
Cynthia Miecznikowski (English) served as a reviewer for a manuscript for Composition Forum. May 2022.
Robin Snead (English, Theatre, and World Languages) was selected to serve as a member of the Nominating Committee for the Council of Writing Program Administrators. December 2021.
Richard Vela (English, Theatre, and World Languages) serves as Area Chair for Shakespeare on Film and Television for the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference. April 2022.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre, and World Languages) attended the Center for First-Generation Student Success, National Student Personnel Administrators in Higher Education Conference. June 2021.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre, and World Languages), "Representing the Working Class: A Roundtable." Chair and Organizer at the Annual Conference of the Working-Class Studies Association. Youngstown State University, June 2021.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre, and World Languages), "From the Classroom to the Streets: Working-Class Activism." Chair and organizer at the Annual Conference of the Working-Class Studies Association. Youngstown State University, June 2021.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre, and World Languages), "Resisting Nostalgia: Revelations of the Family Archive." Andrew W. Mellon Foundation REACH Summer Exploration Program, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, July 2021.
Roger A. Ladd (English, Theatre, and World Languages), served as a peer reviewer for Speculum, July 2021.
Roger Ladd (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as treasurer for the John Gower Society and presided over one of the society’s panels at the 56thInternational Congress on Medieval Studies: “French Gower, Gower's French.” May 2021.*
Catherine Parisian (English, Theatre, and World Languages) was appointed chair of the Liaisons Subcommittee for the Bibliographical Society of America, May 2021.
Robin Snead (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a proposal reviewer for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, June 2021.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a peer reviewer for International Journal of Qualitative Methods, July 2021.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a peer reviewer for the Journal, Qualitative Studies in Education, June 2021.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a peer reviewer for the Journal, Current Issues in Education, May 2021.
Elise Dixon (English, Theatre, and World Languages) was elected to serve as an At-Large Member of the International Writing Centers Association Executive Committee through 2023, September 2021.
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as session chair for the panel, “Formations and Contestations to Ideological and Systemic Whiteness,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, October 2021.*
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as session chair for the panel, “Interdisciplinary Critical Refugee Studies.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, October 2021.*
Richard Vela (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as chair for "Chaucer and Middle English Literature" session at the Medieval-Renaissance Conference, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, September 2021.