This roundtable provides a Q & A for undergraduate and graduate students with experienced members of the community to discuss the profession and career options.
About the presentersAnna 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.
Beth Anne Cooke-Cornell
Beth Anne Cooke-Cornell is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Wentworth Institute of Technology where she teaches Gender and Sexuality History, among other subjects. Her most recent research focuses on women’s sewing circles in Salem, Massachusetts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Kacey Doran
Kacey Doran holds PhD in Childhood Studies from Rutgers-Camden and is the Esports Lecturer at Rowan University. She helped create and develops Rowan’s esports curriculum. She holds an M.A. in Children’s Literature from Hollins University and a B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation focused on alternative perspectives of The Legend of Zelda franchise through feminist humanist and qualitative research methods analyzing videogames, visual and material culture.
David C. Lane
David C. Lane is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences at Illinois State University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. His research focuses primarily in two areas: deviance and crime, and the culture of tattoo work. Currently, he serves as the Chair of the Body Art and Images section of MAPACA.
Donald Snyder
Donald Snyder is a principal lecturer in Media & Communication Studies at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) where he teaches courses on media history, theory, and practice. His research focuses on beta testing, discourses of production and consumption in computer mediated environments, educational technology, and amateur digital archivists.