Professional Organization: Council of Teachers of English

Winona Wynn

English and Humanities Chair; Coordinator Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

Doctorate in American Studies: Indigenous Identity and Education

Developing an Indigenous Studies Major (global north and south focus) that is community integrated, Ethnographic Study of young at-risk minority women (gang affiliated), Community Engagement Development (moving beyond the service model), Native American Retention at the high school and college level (strategies for curriculum development and family intervention), Women in prison--local and global human rights issues, literacy and education

American Studies (equity in representation for historically marginalized populations), Anthropology (Ethnographic interviewing and researcher positioning), Indigenous Studies (Mexican immigrant and Native American identity constructs; the concept of historical and contemporary allies in the context of advocacy), Criminal Justice (women in prison--local and global human rights issues and education)

Winona Wynn earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from Washington State University. She currently serves as Chair of English and Humanities. Her research interests include indigenous identity constructs, Native American education and retention, ethnographic work with at-risk girls and women in prison. From her house, she can hear both train whistles and church bells.

Zivah Perel, Queensborough Community College, CUNY

Zivah Perel

Associate Professor

faculty

PhD, University of Delaware

A book on Iraq war narratives (film, novel, and memoir)

Film, Twentieth Century American Literature

ryan m moeller, utah state university

ryan m moeller

asst. professor

http://rylish.usu.edu

faculty

phd; university of arizona; rhetoric, composition, and the teaching of english

learning games initiative

rhetoric, technique and technology, computer games, cultural studies

ryan moeller is an assistant professor of rhetoric and technology in the english department at utah state university. his research interests include the role of agency within systems dominated by technique and technology.

John V. Knapp, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb

John V. Knapp

Professor of English

http://www3.niu.edu/english/jvk/home.htm

faculty

Ph.D., English Literature, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D. Educational Psychology, UW- Madison

Family Systems Therapy and Literary Criticism: article on the American hard-boiled crime fiction writer, Ross Macdonald., College Teaching of Literature -- book-length project on English professor expertise.

Using family systems therapy as a tool for literary criticism, Expertise in the teaching of literature at the college level, Training secondary teachers of English in the college classroom, Modern British Fiction

John V. Knapp is Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

Lutfi M Hussein, Mesa Community College

Lutfi M Hussein

Professor of English