Date: Thursday, November 21st, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:30pm (AT) / 2:00-3:30pm (ET) / 11:00-12:30pm (PT)
SoTL Speaker Session Description:
Join Xicana multi-genre writer and entrepreneur Dr. Elvira Carrizal-Dukes—award-winning scholar, playwright, filmmaker, and CEO of DUKEScomics LLC—on a journey through her groundbreaking work. From Emmy award-winning journalism to national accolades in playwriting and filmmaking, to international recognition in comics, Dr. Dukes’ career exemplifies storytelling across genres and the power of creative entrepreneurship. Her academic research, rooted in CRT counterstory, reflects her life on the U.S.-Mexico border in an unincorporated town where the only public library resides within a private prison. Through screenings of selected works and insights from her own community, Dr. Carrizal-Dukes challenges dominant narratives about BIPOC lives and envisions a new, just future for Brown and Black communities. Anchored in Xicana Rhetoric and Futurism, her work stands as an act of social justice and collective liberation, advancing both theory and practice. This interactive lecture, geared for all skill levels, will include hands-on writing and drawing activities and offer valuable perspectives for faculty, instructors, and students in and across business, education, psychology, and the arts and design alike.
(And be sure to check out Elvira Carrizal-Dukes’s online portfolio as well as DUKEScomics!)
Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 9+ years’ experience. He immediately joins our CTEI from York University where he was an Educational Developer with the Teaching Commons; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) for this work.
