In this pedagogically focused roundtable participants reflect on key moments in their teaching experiences that have had a large impact on everyday classroom practice. Topics of discussion include the flipped classroom and behavior management, reflections on over-preparation, positivity and mindfulness as a foundation for a constructive learning environment, and revising course outcomes with a focus on new media production. Following the participant discussion we invite further audience conversation.
About the presentersMary Beth Ray
Mary Beth Ray, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH. Her research interests include emerging technology, creative industries, co-production, and popular music culture. Her book Digital Connectivity and Music Culture – Artists & Accomplices (2017) from Palgrave MacMillan explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing relationship between artists and audiences. Her current research examines popular music, identity, and digital culture through The Adolescentia Project – a digital archive and accompanying book that documents reflections on albums people loved during adolescence (https://adolescentiaproject.com/).
Email: meray@plymouth.edu Web: https://drmarybethray.com/
Jordan M. McClain
Jordan McClain, PhD, has enjoyed serving MAPACA since 2011 in various roles: President, Board member, founding VP of Communications, founder and chair of the Journalism and News Media area, co-chair of the Music area, co-founder and co-chair of the Professional Development area, peer reviewer for the journal Response, peer reviewer for the journal Mid-Atlantic Almanack, and founder of the Popular Culture Crash Course.
Anna Brecke
Anna Brecke is a Lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design. She holds M.A. degrees in both English and Gender/ Cultural Studies from Simmons College in Boston, and a PhD in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Rhode Island. Her primary research areas are Victorian popular fiction, gender and women’s studies, television and new media.
Jason Davids Scott
Jason Davids Scott graduated from NYU with a BFA in Cinema Studies, worked for over a decade in feature film publicity and development, and eventually earned and MA and Ph.D. in Theatre from UC Santa Barbara. Dr. Scott’s first textbook, Everything But the Script: Professional Writing in the Entertainment Industry, was published in 2019 by Cognella. Dr. Scott is a past president of MAPACA and helped launch the online journal Response.
Candice D. Roberts
Candice is Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the LGBTQ+ Center at St. John’s University.
They hold a PhD in Communication, Culture & Media from Drexel University and designed a transnational network ethnography of the CouchSurfing community and its function as a hybrid collective. More broadly their work examines cultural narrative and identity in popular media, and they are particularly interested in archetypes, consumer behavior, and sociality around themes of class, sexuality and space/place.