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Alyce Baker

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Alyce Baker
Title(s)
Professor of English
Department
Education

Ph.D., Literature and Criticism, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 

M.Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, The Pennsylvania State University 

B.S.Ed., Communication Arts, Shippensburg University 

Certification, 7-12 PA Teaching License in English

Curriculum Vitae
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Courses Most Commonly Taught

  • First-Year Seminar
  • Composition
  • Honors Literature Seminar
  • Introduction to Literature 

Areas of Expertise

  • American Literature Generalist
  • Literacy
  • English Pedagogy

Programs Developed

  • Reconfigured Secondary English (twice) and Secondary English/Special Education

Research Areas

  • Children’s Literature (particularly young adult literature)
  • English Pedagogy
  • Literacy (particularly multi-literacies and content-area literacy)

Professional Publications

Toni Morrison’s Novels: The Grotesque as Social, Cultural, and Political Aesthetic.  Koln, Germany: LAP Lambert, 2009.

“Pennsylvania, Young Adult Author, Beth Fantaskey, Visits Schools in Keystone Central School District.”  The PCTELA Newsletter.  Winter 2012 Edition: 3.

“Aliens Are Invading Pennsylvania: Persuasive and Argumentative Writing” co-authored with Bill Ferguson and Dayna Dawsey. Standards Aligned System.  Pennsylvania Department of Education.  <http://www.pdesas.org/module/content/resources/21140/view.ashx>. Spring 2011.

“Using the Literacy Narrative in Freshman Composition: How to Get Students to Recognize Literacy Performance Achievement.”  Literacy and Performance: Proceedings of the 2007 EAPSU Annual Conference, Pennsylvania, 26-27 October.  Eds.  Marlen Elliot Harrison and Melissa Jane Lingle-Martin.  English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities.  <www.eapsu.org>.

“Highlighting Artistic, Cultural, and Political Hair in Literature During the Black Arts and Black Power Movements.”  Florida English 5 (2007): 26-36.

 “Redefining the Female Self Through Female Communities: Margaret Cavendish’s The Female Academy, The Convent of Pleasure, and Bell in Campo.”  Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia Selected Papers 29 (2006): 37-46.

“Wanda Coleman.”  Contemporary American Ethnic Poets: Lives, Works, Sources.  Ed.  Linda Cullum.  Westport: Greenwood, 2004.

“Quincy Troupe.”  Contemporary American Ethnic Poets: Lives, Works, Sources.  Ed.  Linda Cullum.  Westport: Greenwood, 2004.

“Highlighting Cultural and Political Hair During the Black Arts and Black Power Movements.” 2004 IUP Inter-Disciplinary Graduate Conference Proceedings: All TogetherNow: Culture and Society On An (Inter)National Stage.  Ed.  Claire Norris.  17-26.

“Review of Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children’s Entertainment Media” by eds. Carrielynn Reinhard and Christopher Olson, Children’s Literature Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Winter 2018, pp 482-485 

Professional Presentations

  • National Council of Teachers of English Conference
  • Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference
  • Bloomsburg University’s Reading, Literacy, and Learning Conference
  • ew Jersey College English Association Conference
  • English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities Conference
  • Pennsylvania College English Association Conference
  • The Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia Conference
  • Mid Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference
  • Lock Haven University’s Celebration of Scholarship,  Book talk Series, and Let Her Voice Be Heard
  • Northeast Modern Language Association 
  • Children's Literature Association

  • Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts 

  • Conference on College Composition and Communication