Author: Michael Ferrari Archive

Dr. Alan Brown is Associate Professor of English Education at Wake Forest University. He is a former high school English teacher who now serves as the secondary education program director for the Department of Education. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on topics including action research, adolescent literacy, educational leadership, English methods, and young adult literature.

Silvia Tiboni-Craft is an Associate Teaching Professor of Italian at Wake Forest University. She obtained both a B.A. and M.A. in Italian Literature from the Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo with a special focus on the 19th and 20th centuries.

Lieutenant Colonel Melissa Ringhisen graduated from the United States Military Academy in May 1999 with a Bachelors of Science in International Relations and commissioned into the Military Intelligence Corps. She has served in Army units including: 501st Military Intelligence Brigade in the Republic of Korea; 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, GA; and 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) at Fort Drum, NY.

Mary M. Dalton is Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University where she teaches courses in critical media studies focusing on film and television. Her scholarly publications include articles, book chapters, and the books The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies, Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, and the co-edited volume The Sitcom Reader: America Re-viewed, Still Skewed.

Janice Lancaster is a Teacher-Scholar Postgraduate Fellow in the WFU Department of Theatre and Dance, and also teaches Composition & Improvisation at the University of the NC School of the Arts. She has performed internationally with Shen Wei Dance Arts since 2005, and in projects with the San Francisco Symphony, Omaha Opera, Danielle Russo Performance