Professional Service


Reported to the Dean in 2024


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.

 


Reported to the Dean in 2023


Elise Dixon (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a reviewer for a manuscript for the Curriculum Inquiry. October 2023.

 


Reported to the Dean in 2022

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.

 


Reported to the Dean in 2021


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.