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Lindsay Vreeland, Ph.D.

Inclusive Teaching Coordinator
ACUE Distinguished Teaching Scholar


Responsibilities

Lindsay works closely with faculty and graduate teaching assistants to promote the use of teaching strategies that support inclusive learning environments in all modalities, including traditional classrooms and digital learning environments.

Education

  • Ph.D., English Literature, Northern Illinois University, 2020
  • M.A., English Literature, University of Toledo, 2013
  • B.A., English-Writing, Adrian College, 2011
  • Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism Committee Member, 麻豆精品 Department of English (2020-2023)
  • English Department Chair Search Committee Member, 麻豆精品 (2021-2022)
  • Anti-Racism Collective, 麻豆精品 (2021-2022)
  • Essay Reader & Judge - When They Call You a Terrorist Essay Contest, 麻豆精品 Department of English (2021)
  • BIPOC Student Support Statement Writer & Committee Member, 麻豆精品 Department of English (2020)
  • Guest Camp Counselor - 麻豆精品 Middle School Creative Writing Camp (2019)
  • Proposal Writer & Committee Member - 麻豆精品 First-Year Composition Committee Student Laptop Computer Lab Program (2019)
  • Graduate Student Representative - 麻豆精品 CSWGS Scholarship Committee (2017)
  • Graduate Student Representative - 麻豆精品 CSWGS Sexuality Governance Council (2017)
  • Panel Chair - Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, & Media (2017)
  • Committee Member - 麻豆精品 Violence Against Women Act University Task Force (2015)
  • Officer - 麻豆精品 English Graduate Student Association (2015)
  • Student Volunteer - International Conference on Virginia Woolf (2014)
  • Chief Editor - The Mill Literary Magazine (2013)
  • Assistant Chief Editor - The Mill Literary Magazine (2011)
  • Committee for Safety and Sexuality - Adrian College (2010)
  • Co-founder, Collaborator, and Tutor - Adrian Middle School Writer’s Club (2010)
  • Popular Culture Association
  • Society for the Study of American Women Writers
  • Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

Instructor of Record

Northern Illinois University ENGL 103: Rhetoric and Composition I (Asynchronous Online) 2020-2023
ENGL 103P: Foundational Composition II (Asynchronous Online & F2F)
ENGL 203: Rhetoric and Composition II (Synchronous Online)
WGSS 202: Women and Cultural Expression (Asynchronous Online & F2F)
WGSS 240: Special Topics: Storytelling by Women of Color
Post University ENG 110: College Writing (Asynchronous Online) 2022-2023
ENG 107: Power of Words (Asynchronous Online)
Rock Valley College ENG 101: Composition I Fall 2021
Elgin Community College Upward Bound CBS 199: English II & IV / Senior English (Asynchronous Online) Summer 2021

Teaching Instructor of Record

Northern Illinois University ENGL 103: Rhetoric and Composition I 2013-2018
ENGL 104: Rhetoric and Composition II
ENGL 110: Social Justice in Contemporary Literature & Pop Culture
ENGL 203: Rhetoric and Composition II: Writing Across the Domains
WGST 202: Women and Cultural Expression (Asynchronous Online & F2F)
WGST 240/430: Special Topics: Storytelling by Women of Color
University of Toledo ENGL 1110: Composition I 2011-2013
ENGL 1150: Composition II: Language and Identity 2011-2013

Teaching Assistant

Northern Illinois University LGBT 350: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies 2013-2018
WGST 101: Women, Sex, & Gender Today
WGST 202: Women and Cultural Expression
Adrian College WGS 129: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies 2006
  • “Lord, I hate a nasty woman’: Gendered Violence and Black Communities in Toni Morrison’s Home and Paradise". In Women Writing Trauma in Literature, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2022)
  • “Filling the empty spaces with silhouettes’: Trans Women’s Friendship and Healing in jia qing wilson-yang’s Small Beauty”. postScriptum Journal (2022)
  • “Nobody told me’: Chicana Women’s Madness and Mourning in Sandra Cisneros’s Have You Seen Marie?”. [Inter]Sections Journal (2021)
  • “To change her at last into a calculable woman’: Eros, Agape, and Philia in ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café’ and Their Eyes Were Watching God”. In Women: Exclusion and Inclusion, Yking Books (2017)

Conference Presentations

  • Linh Nguyen and Lindsay Vreeland, "Belonging in Higher Education: Using Positionality Statements to Counter Imposter Syndrome". The Real Talk Conference: Bridging Race, Identify, and Community. Northern Illinois University. DeKalb, IL. (October 27, 2023).
  • “Teaching Through Trauma: Methods for Student Success and Creating a Healing Space in the Virtual Classroom”. 2021 Online Teaching Symposium. Northern Illinois University. Virtual. (2021)
  • “Community Vs. Convenience: Teaching in the Asynchronous FYCOMP Virtual Classroom”. Allerton English Articulation Conference. Virtual. (2021)
  • “‘Filling the empty spaces with silhouettes’: Trans Women’s Friendship and Healing in jia qing wilson-yang’s Small Beauty”. Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference. Virtual. (2021)
  • “‘Nobody told me’: Chicana Women’s Madness and Mourning in Sandra Cisneros’s Have You Seen Marie?”. Midwest Conference on Literature, Language, & Media. Northern Illinois University. DeKalb, IL (2019)
  • “Homing and Healing in Louise Erdrich’s Four Souls: Towards a Native-feminist Homing Narrative”. Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference. Denver, CO. (2018)
  • “‘To change her at last into a calculable woman’: Eros, Agape, and Philia in ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café’ and Their Eyes Were Watching God” · South Atlantic. Modern Language Association Conference. Durham, NC. (2015)
  • “When you asked me to speak”: Identifying Women’s Oral Tradition in Woolf and Morrison”. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. New Orleans, LA. (2015).
  • “Reclaiming Oral Traditions: Orality in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves”. 24th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Loyola University. Chicago, IL (2014)
  • “‘Forget the haters ’cause somebody loves ya’: Passing Moral Judgment on Popular Culture in the Teaching of Argumentation” · Allerton English Articulation Conference. Monticello, IL (Co-presenter) (2014)
  • “Heterosexism in Material Culture” · Ribbons of Excellence. Adrian College. Adrian, MI. (Co-presenter) (2011)
  • “Project Safety”. Women’s Diversity Conference Adrian College. Adrian, MI (Copresenter) (2011)

Guest Lectures and Presentations - Northern Illinois University

  • “Queer- and Trans-Inclusive Curriculum and Pedagogy in WGSS 240: Storytelling by Women of Color”. CSWGS Queer- and Trans-Inclusive Pedagogy Workshop Symposium. (2022)
  • “Mistake Recovery in the Classroom”. English Department Brownbag Roundtable. (Co-presenter). (2022)
  • “Forming Intersectional Identities in Creative Writing”. Middle School Writers Camp. (2019)
  • “Literary Analysis in Cross-Disciplinary Feminist Research Projects”. WGSS 610 (2018)
  • “Women’s Work: How Writing, Research, and Pedagogy is Influenced by Women”. English Department Brownbag Roundtable. (Co-presenter) (2018)
  • “Intersectional Feminist Approaches to Literary Analysis”. WGSS 610 (2017)
  • “Insecurities and Assets: How We Internalize Gender Policing”. WGST 101 (2017)
  • “Toward a New Resource for the WGS Student”. CSWGS Student Symposium (2017)
  • “Revisions of Southern Womanhood in Beyoncé’s Visual Album Lemonade”. WGST 202 (2017)
  • “Women’s Literature as Feminist Activism and Theory". WGST Brownbag Series (2017)
  • “The WGS Student: Insights and Reflections from GenEd Instructors”. CSWGS Student Symposium (2016)
  • “Gendered Approaches to Literary Analysis”. WGSS 610 (2016)
  • “Dominant Beauty Culture and Intersectionality”. WGST 202 (2015)
  • “An Unlikely Story: Orality in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves” · Virginia Woolf Symposium (2013)
  • Queer- and Trans-Inclusive Pedagogy Workshop. Center for the Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality. 麻豆精品. Fall 2022. (2022)
  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award. Graduate School. 麻豆精品. (2019)
  • Travel Grant. Graduate School. 麻豆精品. 2018-2019 (2018)
  • Mothers Memorial Scholarship. Center for the Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality. 麻豆精品. (2017)
  • Junior Schriber Scholar Award. Department of English. 麻豆精品. (2017)
  • Travel Grant. Graduate School. 麻豆精品. (2015)
  • Travel Grant. Graduate School. 麻豆精品. (2014)
  • Travel Grant. Graduate School. 麻豆精品. (2013)
  • Sigma Tau Delta. International English Honor Society (2011)
  • , 2024
  • Adobe Creative Educator, Level 1, 2024
  • Adobe Creative Educator, Level 2, 2024
  • Adobe Education Institute Fellow, 2024
  • Certified facilitator, , 2024
  • Applying the Quality Matters Rubric workshop, 2023
  • Undocumented Ally Training, 2017 

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Lindsay Vreeland
lvreeland1@niu.edu
815-753-2455

ACUE Credentialed Educator

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