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Dr. Ludmila Smirnova
Ludmila Smirnova is Associate Professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y. Prior to coming to the U.S., she was professor of education at Volgograd State Pedagogical University, Russia, where she also served as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages. During her 25-year Russian career, Dr. Smirnova was known for her work in innovative approaches to teaching. She played a key role in creating a model Ecological Gymnasium and other experimental “charter schools” in Southern part of Russia. A number of her Ph.D. students and scores of Masters students worked with her to produce comparative studies of successful innovative efforts in education. Dr. Smirnova has been a Montessori trainer, and has run seminars and training programs for Montessori teachers in Russia, Holland and the U.S.
Moving to the U.S. in 2000, she brought this focus on innovation into the realm of emerging Web technology, where she quickly became recognized for her leadership in Web applications to education. She has used her own teaching to drive her learning, regularly offering such courses as Curricular Planning, Methods of Teaching, Nature of Schools and Society and Teaching with Technology.
Thomas HP Gould
Managing Editor, Online Journal of Rural Research & Policy (ojrrp.org), Editor-in-chief, Eye on Kansas (eyeonkansas.org), Latest research:, A Baker’s Dozen of Issues Facing Online Academic Journal Start-ups (in review), Creating a Cross-Disciplinary Journal: A Case Study of Fits and Starts (in review), Update of online mass communication research (nearing submission), Copyright, Technology, and the Commons: a Study of Cambridge v. GSU, nearing completion, Creation of a research commons, Editor of online academic journal, Editor of rural service journal
Thomas Gould is an Associate Professor of Mass Communications at Kansas State University.
Brian A Bremen
American Literature Association, American Studies Association, Kenneth Burke Society, Modern Language Association, Modernist Studies Association, William Carlos Williams Society
I am currently working on a book that examines the ways in which popular music and populist politics intersect in the songs of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, as well as on one tentatively entitled, What Was Modernism (And Does It Still Matter)?
20th-Century British and American Literature, Modernism, Pedagogy, American Literature, Computers and English Studies, Literature and Medicine, Pragmatism and Literature, Postmodernism, American Ethnogenesis, Literary Theory, Survey of Major Authors.
Brian A Bremen teaches English at The University of Texas at Austin.
Lisa Bickmore
genre studies, multi-modal literacy, digital and new media writing, poetry, writing in the public sphere
I teach writing at Salt Lake Community College.
Jo B. Paoletti
American Studies Association, Popular Culture Association, Costume Society of America, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Jo Paoletti is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Maryland.
Paul K. Dezendorf
Associate Professor of Social Work at Winthrop University
Victoria L Bacon
