{"id":47,"date":"2015-11-30T19:40:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T19:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:36:56","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my portfolio! I am the Director for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/ails\/eportfolio\">ePortfolio and Digital Initiatives<\/a> for the Academic Success Center at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/\">Old Dominion University (ODU<\/a>) in Norfolk, VA. In this position, I create, facilitate, and assess faculty professional engagement opportunities, program design, and grant support\/research for incorporating digital tools. Additionally, I design and coordinate student support for ePortfolio use. This support includes supervising ePortfolio Assistants (undergraduate peer mentors), creating\/maintaining tutorials, and designing student workshops.\u00a0 Finally, I coordinate with multiple High Impact Practice partners throughout ODU, developing a variety of initiatives aimed at improving the learning experience for students at all levels.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I successfully completed my doctorate in English Studies at Old Dominion University, pursuing the Literary\/Cultural Studies and Rhetoric concentrations. My dissertation,\u00a0<em>Constructing an Early Modern Queen: Gender, Authority, and the Rhetoric of Identity<\/em>, explores the intersection of gender and\u00a0pedagogical histories which lead to the use of\u00a0mimicry as a rhetorical strategy for marginalized figures during the sixteenth century. Finally, I am contingent faculty in the English Department, teaching Composition\/Rhetoric, Introduction to Literature, Shakespeare, and Introduction to Early British Literature. My research and experience in English Studies and as instructor directly inform my ePortfolio Program design and related faculty development.<\/p>\n<p>Please listen to my description of the intersection of my research and work in more detail below:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2019\/02\/Homepage-Intro-AudioTrimmer.com_.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my portfolio! I am the Director for ePortfolio and Digital Initiatives for the Academic Success Center at Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, VA. In this position, I create, facilitate, and assess faculty professional engagement opportunities, program design, and grant support\/research for incorporating digital tools. Additionally, I design and coordinate student support for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}