Tuesday, March 8, 12:10 - 1:00pm
Location: Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett (library, 2nd floor)
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This session, for early career and other interested faculty, will showcase various approaches to making lectures more effective and engaging. Light refreshments will be served. Please register ahead.
Presenters:
Elizabeth Bleicher
Engaging Students as Partners in the Classroom
Elizabeth Bleicher, Professor of English and Interim Director, Student Success.
Elizabeth has served as the coordinator of English Education, the director of the Exploratory Program, and interim chair of the Education Department. With Dr. Andrew Utterson, she coordinates the Ithaca Advantage summer program for incoming students. Her scholarship and research focus on the transition to college academics, student success, and effective pedagogies for empowering and engaging students in the classroom.
Kathleen Mulligan
Putting Your Best Voice Forward
Kathleen Mulligan is a professor of voice and speech in the Department of Theatre Arts. She has taught her workshops Finding Your Voice and Putting Your Best Voice Forward across the U.S. and internationally. In 2010, she was a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar to India with her project “Finding Women’s Voices”, focused on the empowerment of women through voice. This led to a Fulbright Specialist grant to Pakistan, where she continued her work with women and voice while completing two original theatre projects in collaboration with Islamabad's Theatre Wallay. Kathleen is a proud member of Actors Equity, the union of professional actors.
Andrew Utterson
Learning to Love, Loving to Learn: A Film Professor’s Guide to the Lessons of Cinephilia
Dr. Andrew Utterson is Associate Professor of Screen Studies in the Roy H. Park School of Communications and the Coordinator of IC’s ‘Ithaca Seminar’ interdisciplinary first-year seminars. He is the author and editor of several books and other publications, most recently Persistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
Hosted by the Faculty Development Committee in collaboration with the Center for Faculty Excellence