Dr. Christina L. Fisanick

Biography

Christina Fisanick, Ph.D. is an associate professor of English. She specializes in writing and rhetoric, creative non-fiction, digital storytelling, and Appalachian literature. Dr. Fisanick spends half her teaching time in the University Honors Program. She is working on a book for Routledge Press about her ongoing collaboration with the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh.   

Honors and Awards

• 2016 West Liberty University Alumni Hall of Fame
• 2016 West Liberty University Commencement Speaker
• 2016 West Liberty University Honor Doctorate
• 2010 Faculty Professional Development Council Merit Award for Technology, PennWest California

Certifications

• Online Teaching Certification, 2014
• Teaching Digital Storytelling Certificate, University of Colorado, Denver, May 2011
• Quality Circle Grant Reviewer Certification, PASSHE Level, September 2009

Select Publications
Books

• with Robert Stakeley. Digital Storytelling and Public History: A Guidebook for Educators. Routledge Press, December 2020.
• The Optimistic Addict: Recovering from Binge Eating Disorder. MSI Press, 2016.

Articles/Chapters

• "Rejecting Weight Loss as an Imperative for Recovery from Binge Disorder," Embodied
  Resistance, Vol. 2, Vanderbilt UP, 2018. (In Process)
• "Telling 'My Story': Revisiting the Autobiographical Essay in the Composition Classroom,"
  The CEA Forum 36.2 (Summer/Fall 2007).
• "'They are weighted with authority': Fat Professor's Bodies in Academic and Popular
  Cultures," Feminist Teacher 17.3 (2007): 237-55.
• "'The uncanny stranger on display': Female Professor's Bodies at Tenure and Promotion,"
  Professional Studies Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Special Issue: Women and
  Minorities in the Profession, 3.1 (2006): 44-54.
• "Evaluating the Absent Presence: The Professor's Body at Tenure and Promotion" The
  Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Special Issue: The Pedagogy of
  the Teacher's Body, 28.3-4 (2006): 325-38.

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