Professional Organization: mla
John Ottenhoff
Shakespeare, Shakespeare on Film, Early Modern Women Writers, Early Modern Devotional Writing, The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Hypertext Theory
John Ottenhoff is Vice President of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, a consortium of 14 independent liberal arts colleges located in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Colorado.
Loretta McGrann
Leading the implementation of a new core curriculum implementation, Leading the writing of an Assessment Plan for the new core curriculum
Dr. Loretta McGrann is the Provost at St. Joseph's College, New York. Her discipline is American Literature, but she has been in administration for the last sixteen years.
Ryan Cordell
19th Century American Literature, Fiction, Digital Humanities, Writing Across the Curriculum, Composition
Ryan Cordell is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum at St. Norbert College. He is currently working on a digital edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "The Celestial Railroad," which can be found at http://celestialrailroad.org.
Nancy Chick
literary studies, signature pedagogies, scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), disciplinary learning, feminist pedagogy
Nancy Chick is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin--Barron County and a member of the ISSOTL Board of Directors.
Rachel Payne
“Re-evaluating Our Roots: Contemporary Latin American Women’s Writing and the Bildungsroman”, “Effectively Using YouTube in a Differentiated Foreign Language Classroom”
Contemporary Latin American women’s literature, Trans-Atlantic studies, Multi-media in the L2 classroom, Pedagogical Approaches to Immigration, Service-Learning and Spanish acquisition, Contemporary Hispanic Film
Rachel Payne is a Doctor of Modern Languages candidate at Middlebury College
John Wolff
John Wolff is a 25-year career college educator specializing in writing and literature courses, several of which are taught online using the Moodle Course Management System. John is a certified Moodle 1.9x Course Creator. Over the past few years, John has become especially interested in the possibilities that Web 3.0 (Semantic web) technologies present for teaching and learning. Presently he is seeking ways to experiment with semantic web applications in the teaching of the humanities and has recently founded the Web3 Learning Network at http://web3ln.ning.com. John is currently employed as Professor of Humanities at West Shore Community College in Scottville, Michigan.
Christy Desmet
Christy Desmet is Professor of English and Director of First-year Composition at the University of Georgia.
sylvia tomasch
surveillance studies, historical cartography, medieval antisemitism, history of the discipline of medieval studies
Sylvia Tomasch is Associate University Dean of Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York and Professor of English at Hunter College (CUNY).
Dana L. Davenport
*(Re)Designing the 21st Century School in Economically-disadvantaged School Districts and Communities, *Out-of-school Literacy Learning in the Rural South, *Schoolhouse South: Narratives of Teaching and Learning
Media ecology, school/curriculum design, technology and writing in the humanities classroom, narratives of teaching and learning
D.L. Davenport teaches English/humanities in southeast Georgia.
Taimi Olsen
Faculty development on teaching and learning and assessment, Greek Religion (participating in ACA-Mellon three-year grant for faculty development), research on E. E. Cummings and on George Herriman (20th century cartoonist), use of Sakai project pages for course review, assessment, and departmental business.
Dr. Taimi Olsen is a Professor of English at Tusculum College. She obtained her doctorate from UNC-CH and is the author of Transcending Space: Architectural Places in the Works of Henry David Thoreau, E. E. Cummings, and John Barth. She is also author of several articles on E. E. Cummings, has done presentations on African American cartoonist George Herriman, and regularly conducts faculty development workshops on teaching and learning at the annual Appalachian College Association Summit.
Glenda Carl
Jason B. Jones
Editing Charles Kingsley's _Alton Locke_ for Broadview, Editing Bulwer Lytton's _Paul Clifford_ for Valancourt, Various digital projects
Victorian literature, novel, Dickens, Kingsley, Ainsworth, Eliot, Bronte, Carlyle, Freud, Lacan, psychoanalysis, humanities computing
Jason B. Jones is assistant professor of English at Central Connecticut State University.
Alex Chapin
Harmoni: PHP application framework, Concerto: digital asset management system, Segue: collaborative knowledge system
Alex Chapin is a Curricular Technologist at Middlebury College
Dan Sargent
Bryan Alexander
MANE IT leaders network, CET media studies initiative, CET Advanced Student Technology Program, Training workshops on multimedia narrative, project management, wireless pedagogy, Multiple blogs
Bryan Alexander is Director for Emerging Technologies at NITLE, where he researches and develops programs on the advanced uses of information technology in liberal arts colleges. His specialties include digital writing, weblogs, copyright and intellectual property, information literacy, wireless culture and teaching, project management, information design, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He maintains and contributes to a series of weblogs, including NITLE Tech News and Smartmobs, when not creating digital learning objects. A PhD graduate of the University of Michigan, he has also taught English and information technology studies at Centenary College.
Susan Sipple
Classroom-based research on student attitudes toward audio and handwritten instructor commentary in composition and developmental writing, research on revision outcome differences between student writers who use audio vs. handwritten instructor commentary, research on instructors' attitudes towards handwritten vs. audio response to student writing.
Susan Sipple is an assistant professor of English at University of Cincinnati Raymond Walters College in Blue Ash, Ohio. Her current research involves several projects investigating the differences between handwritten and audio instructor commentary on student writing in college composition and developmental writing classes.
Andrew C. Parker
Eduardo Lage-Otero
