| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Dept: | Africana Studies |
| Office: | RT 1850 |
| Phone: | 216-687-3962 |
| Email: | A.GOSSELIN@csuohio.edu |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. RT 1850, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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| Education: | ||||||||
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Ph.D., English LIterature, University of CIncinnati, 1993
M.A., English Literature, University of CIncinnati, 1988 M.A., Communication, International College, 1983 B.A., Fine Arts, California State University, Los Angeles, 1981 | ||||||||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Adrienne Gosselin is Associate Professor in the Department of English, where she teaches primarily classes in African American Literature and Culture and Black Women's Studies. Dr. Gosselin's approach to teaching, scholarship and service is grounded in the importance of African American culture in American history and the potential of African American Literature to engender and facilitate racial dialogue.
In 2002, Dr. Gosselin took a hiatus from literary scholarship to work with at-risk youth, which resulted in a co-authored manual for designing culturally relevant language arts curriculum to be used in assessing risk and prevention behaviors. Dr. Gosselin is also a creative writer, whose achievements include the Raymond Carver Award for Short Fiction and scripts for radio, film and stage. Her creative works combine her dedication to culturally relevant content and include 1941, a radio play on voter suppression, and Bringing Henrietta to Life, a collaborative film project based on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2011), by Rebecca Skloot, designed to initiate dialogue on disparities in medical and social service education. | ||
| Honors and Awards: | ||
| President¿s Diversity Council Award: CLASS Dean¿s Diversity Council, 2014
Provost Special Recognition for Faculty Collaboration, CLASS Dean¿s Diversity Council, 2014 eLearning Award for Distance Learning, 2010 Learning Communities Research, 2010 Engaged Learning Undergraduate Research Award, 2010 Engaged Learning Undergraduate Research Award, 2009 CLASS Research Opportunity for Undergraduates, 2008 | ||
| Creative and Activities: | ||
| Bringing Henrietta to Life: The Arts in Medical Humanities. Website designed to supplement cultural awareness in medical humanities and human service education. http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/henriettalacks/
Nineteen Forty-One. Original radio play on voter intimidation broadcast on WERE-AM and WSCB Internet Radio, November 2012 and 2016 Bringing Henrietta to Life: The Art and Dance of Adaptation, Common Reading Experience. Performance piece done in collaboration with Holly Holsinger and Lynn Deering; CSU Factory Theater, November 2011 http://mediasite.ulib.csuohio.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=af348584cf5945a48b547f792203b4061d Adventures of Robelio, Original script by Adrienne Gosselin; musical arrangements by Roberto McCasland-Dieppa, Fund raising event for Ronald McDonald House. Hillcrest Hospital. June 2007 | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| Curriculum and pedagogy
Racial dialogue and African American Literature Mixed Race Literature | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| African American Literature and Cultural Studies
Black Women¿s Studies Culturally relevant Curriculum for At-Risk Youth | ||
| Professional Affiliations: | ||
| Modern Languages Association
National Council of Teachers of English | ||
| University Service: | ||
| Diversity Council for Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Chair, 2013-2015 | ||