Editors
Sarah Robbins
Sarah R. Robbins is Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU, where she teaches courses on 19th– and 20th-century American literature, transatlantic studies, gender studies, popular literature, writing and authorship, and cross-cultural studies. Her most recent monograph is Learning Legacies: Archive to Action through Women’s Cross-cultural Teaching. She is also the author of The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe and of Managing Literacy, Mothering America, winner of a Choice Book Award. With historian Ann Pullen, she prepared the award-winning critical edition of Nellie Arnott’s Writings on Angola, 1905-1913: Missionary Narratives Linking Africa and America. Additionally, she co-edited Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. Before coming to TCU, she served for over a decade as founding director of the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, a National Writing Project site in northwest Georgia, where she earned the Governor’s Award in the humanities for leading numerous public humanities programs. Drawing on those initiatives, she co-edited essay collections on civic engagement, including Writing Our Communities and Writing America: Classroom Literacy and Public Engagement. As co-director of the multi-year NEH project on “Making American Literatures,” she collaborated with secondary and university educators from around the US to create new frameworks for teaching based on a more inclusive version of the field. Prior to helping envision Teaching Transatlanticism’s online presence, her earlier collaborative work on humanities-oriented websites included “Keeping and Creating American Communities” and “Women’s Work in the Long Nineteenth Century.
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Saffyre Falkenberg
Saffyre Falkenberg is the 2021-2022 Lorraine Sherley Research Associate to Dr. Sarah Robbins. She is a Ph.D. candidate in English with a graduate certificate in Women and Gender Studies and is also working towards a certificate in Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies. Broadly, her research is focused on the ways in which girls and women engage with and are represented in popular culture, especially in terms of gender, sexuality, and disability. She has published her scholarship in an edited collection on adaptation in young adult literature and has a forthcoming essay in Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
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Contributors
Stephanie Cuellar
Stephanie Cuellar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Higher Educational Leadership program at Texas Christian University. She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Master of Arts in Clinical and Counseling Psychology from Midwestern State University. Her research interests include psychological resilience among minoritized populations; ethnic-racial identity development; the intersectionality of race and religion in the development of anti-racist educational practices; and increasing access to postsecondary education for low-income, first-generation college students. Cuellar aspires to be a professor of Higher Education and Ethnic Studies upon graduation.
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Kaytriauna "kay" Farr
Kaytriauna "Kay" Farr is a second-year graduate student in the Higher Education Leadership program here at Texas Christian University. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kay received her Bachelor's degree in Social Welfare and Justice and Women and Gender Studies from Marquette University in 2020. She is working on her WGST Certification at TCU and is currently enrolled in the Feminist/Queer Inquiry course with Dr. Ruffing Robbins. She is excited to be at TCU and continuing her journey of learning and advocacy in the field of Student Affairs and in the community.
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Mariana Gonzalez-Berrocal
Mariana Gonzalez, M.Edl in Higher Education Candidate
Graduate Assistant, Student Affairs Gender Resource Office. Mariana is a second-year Master of Educational Leadership in Higher Education student and in the WGST graduate certification program. She has served in the position as graduate assistant for GRO since Fall of 2020. Her background is in education and dance, being a previous high school teacher and continuing her education here at TCU. Before coming to TCU, Mariana attended and received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance with a minor in Spanish and Education at Texas Women’s University (2017). After graduation, she became a dance educator teaching secondary students in the DFW area. She is passionate about being an advocate for marginalized student populations and creating a safe and welcoming atmosphere for all students She will graduate this May, hoping to pursue a career in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within higher education institutions. |
Michala M. Manfredo
Michala M. Manfredo, M.Ed in Higher Education Candidate
Michala is a second year Masters of Educational Leadership in Higher Education student and in the WGST graduate certification program. She has served in the position as a graduate assistant for Housing & Residence Life since Fall of 2020, specifically serving as a Hall Director. Before coming to TCU, Michala attended Central Michigan University and received a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Early Childhood. |
Makayla "mak" M. Rosales
Makayla "Mak" M. Rosales, M.Edl in Higher Education Candidate
Graduate Assistant, Student Affairs Office of Student Life Analytics. Makayla is a second year Masters of Educational Leadership in Higher Education student and in the WGST graduate certification program. Her background is in education and assessment, being a previous high school teacher and continuing her education here at TCU. Before coming to TCU, Makayla attended and received her Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education English at Northern Arizona University (2019). She has also served in TCU’s CARE Office as an intern for the Summer of 2021.] |