Personal profile
About
Concentration: English Education, Composition and Rhetoric, Rhetorical Theory
Nancy Mack is a full professor of English at Wright State University where she teaches undergraduate courses for pre-service teachers and graduate courses in composition theory, memoir, and multigenre writing. Her career began as a middle and high school teacher. She then taught in three prison programs for ten years. She has participated in several large grants, including arts organizations and PBS multimedia programs for teachers. Her scholarship explores issues related to sociolinguistics, identity formation, emotional labor, and working class. Her publications include books about teaching multigenre writing and teaching grammar with poetry. She has two forthcoming chapters in scholarly anthologies about working class pedagogy and the imposter phenomenon. She is a frequent speaker at national and state conferences and has won several teaching awards.
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Education/Academic qualification
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
… → 1986
Research Interests
- Emotional Labor
- Working Class Pedagogy
- Imposter Phenomenon
Disciplines
- Arts and Humanities
- English Language and Literature
- Education
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Linguistics
- Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
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Developing Dispositions for Transfer First-Generation Writers as Problem-Solvers
Mack, N., Apr 2024, In: Pedagogy. 24, 2, p. 169-194 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Feeling Like an Imposter at College
Mack, N., 2021, Critical Media Literacies Series. Brill Academic Publishers, p. 55-64 10 p. (Critical Media Literacies Series; vol. 9).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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An Academic Imposter from the Working-Class: Emotional Labor and First-Generation College Students
Mack, N., Aug 16 2018, Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Emotional labor as imposters: Working-class literacy narratives and academic identities
Mack, N., Jan 1 2017, Class in the Composition Classroom: Pedagogy and the Working Class. Utah State University Press, An imprint of University Press of Colorado, p. 140-160 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Selective Shakespeare: Justice to the Bard (and Adolescents) through Close Reading & Active Response
Mack, N. G., Johnson, A. B., Arnett, R. & Ostendorf, J., Oct 22 2016.Research output: Contribution to conference › Presentation
Prizes
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Dr. Cindy Bowman PresentationOhio Council of Teachers of2016 Endowment
Mack, N. G. (Recipient), 2016
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Graduate Faculty Teaching Award English Graduate Student Organization 2002
Mack, N. G. (Recipient), 2002
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Outstanding English Language Arts College Educator of the Year Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts 2004
Mack, N. G. (Recipient), 2004
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Outstanding TeachingCollege of Liberal Arts, WSU2013
Mack, N. G. (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)