Lucy R. Littler, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Littler is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department and the Faculty Director of the Foundations General Education Program.
In these roles, she teaches innovative composition and American literature courses at multiple levels of the curriculum and administers organizational and pedagogical support for faculty across divisions.
Dr. Littler's research interests include the dynamics of race in American culture, composition studies, and the science of teaching and learning. Her work has been published in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education and The Southern Literary Journal. She has given presentations at a number of professional meetings, including the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, the Northeast Modern Language Association, and the College English Association.
Education
BA, North Carolina State University
MA, Appalachian State University
PhD, Florida State University
Courses Taught
Dr. Littler teaches classes that purposefully blur the imagined boundaries between "academic" and "real world" problems, asking students to critically re-examine the world they know through analysis of literary and cultural texts, and through their own writing. Her proudest professional moments include students realizing their power in a world that needs their creativity and innovation.
Classes I have taught at Rollins include:
- ENG 140 (First-Year Composition)
- Writing about Rollins
- Writing about Love
- Writing about the American Dream
- Racial Fictions: Interdisciplinary Foundations Program Capstone
- American Dreams; American Nightmares
- Love Stories in American Literature
- Literary Selfies: American Stories of Self-Making
- Crossing Borders in Contemporary American Literature
- American Adolescence: Coming of Age in the Civil Rights Era
- Reimaging the Past in Contemporary American Fiction
Research & Publications
My research and teaching are inextricably linked. In addition to exploring the dynamics of race in American literature and culture, I'm interested in how teachers teach and how students learn. Specifically, I want to find ways to help students transfer what they learn from one situation to the next, from the classroom to the world beyond it.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Chick, Nancy, Lucy Littler and Emily Russell, “Surfacing Disciplinarity: Citation as a Site for Integrative Learning,” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. Forthcoming.
Littler, Lucy. “The Implications of ‘Chosenness’: Unsettling the Exodus Narrative as a Model for Black Liberation in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits,” The Southern Literary Journal, Fall 2011.
Open Access Resource Publications
“Teaching with Popplet,” Open Access Resources, Associated Colleges of the South, Summer 2017.
“Teaching with Instagram,” Open Access Resources, Associated Colleges of the South, Fall 2015.
Selected Conference Presentations:
“Creating an Integrative Gen Ed Program through Intentional Faculty Development,” American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), Network Meeting on General Education and Assessment, February 2020.
"A Pedagogy of Brave Space: Diversity and Inclusion Beyond the High Impact Classroom," American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), Network Meeting on Diversity, Learning and Student Success, March 2018.
“Blending to Help Students LEAP: Achieving Curricular Goals and Preserving Student Autonomy,” Conference on Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts, Bryn Mawr, May 2017. Watch this presentation here.
“Beyond the Flip: Blended Learning in the Literature Classroom,” Conference on Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts, Bryn Mawr, May 2015. Watch this presentation here.
“Defining Blackness in the Promised Land: Exodus and Racial Belonging in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), Denver, CO, October 2012.
“Ethnicity as Commodity: Multiculturalism and American Exceptionalism in Mona in the Promised Land,” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Rochester, NY, March 2012.
“(De)Naturalizing Whiteness as Commodity: Race as Realist Narrative in E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime,” College English Association (CEA), St. Petersburg, FL, April 2011
“The Double Consciousness of Barnum Kinsey: How Whiteness Traumatizes White People in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World,” NeMLA, Montreal, Canada, April 2010.