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Twenty years of international education experience including teaching comparative and world literature with an emphasis on African, African American, and Latin American literature. Study abroad experiences on five continents with fluency in Spanish and Portuguese. Committed to student engagement and academic excellence. Most recent publication focuses on Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

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Employment (4)

Tuskegee University : Tuskegee, Alabama, US

2010-08-01 to present | Professor of English/Dir. Global Office (Modern Language, Comm and Philosophy)
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Abilene Christian University: Abilene, Texas, US

2008-01 to 2010-05 | Assistant Professor of English (English)
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Abilene Christian University: Montevideo, Uruguay, UY

2005 to 2007 | Director Latin America Study Abroad Program (International Education)
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Lipscomb University: Nashville, Tennessee, US

2003 to 2005 | Assistant Professor of English (English)
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Education and qualifications (4)

Vanderbilt University: Nashville, TN, US

1998-08-15 to 2002-12-08 | Ph.D. Comparative Literature
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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: Chattanooga, Tennessee, US

1995 to 1997 | M.A. English Writing (English)
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Georgia Institute of Technology: Atlanta, GA, US

1992 to 1993 | M.S. Health Systems (Industrial & Systems Engineering)
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University of Tennessee Knoxville: Knoxville, TN, US

1987 to 1991 | B.S. Industrial Engineering (Engineering)
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Professional activities (6)

Modern Language Association: New York, New York, US

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Links Incorporated: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US

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Latin American Studies Association: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

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Delta Sigma Theta : Washington, D.C., US

1990 to present
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College Language Association: Atlanta, Ga, US

2018 to 2020 | World Language Representative
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Universidad Catolica Uruguay: Montevideo, Montevideo, UY

2017-08 to 2017-11 | Visiting Professor (Letras)
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Funding (5)

Cornerstone Learning for Living Humanities Grant

2022 to 2024 | Grant
Teagle Foundation (New York, New York, UM)
URL: https://www.teaglefoundation.org/Newsroom/News/Articles/Press-Release/The-Teagle-Foundation-Announces-Nearly-$4-Millio
Part of GRANT_NUMBER: AH-274009-20
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Literary Legacies of Macon County and Tuskegee Institute: Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Albert Murray

2018 to 2021 | Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities (DC, DC, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: AB-264042-19
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U.S.-Taiwan International Education Administrators Seminar

2017-03-01 to present | Grant
Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Washington D.C., US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7691179
GRANT_NUMBER: ecc87439d5963e7fc2127a8e697bd9f2
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USAID-funded Saint Lucia ConnectEd Activity

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USAID (castritries, st. lucia, JM)
URL: https://edtech.worlded.org/project/project-name-st-lucia-connected/
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Water, Access, Sanitation, Hygiene in the Global South

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100 K Strong in the Americas (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, MR)
URL: http://international.ua.edu/educationabroad/ac-wash/
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Works (11)

The Literary Legacies of Macon County and Tuskegee Institute

2024-05-31 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003248125-7
Contributors: Zanice Bond; Rhonda Collier; Caroline Gebhard; Adaku Ankumah
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FACULDADES E UNIVERSIDADES HISTORICAMENTE NEGRAS: UM TERRENO FÉRTIL PARA A HISTÓRIA DA EDUCAÇÃO

CAMINHOS DA EDUCAÇÃO diálogos culturas e diversidades
2024-05-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.26694/caedu.v6i3.6009
Contributors: Alexandra Lima da Silva; Rhonda Collier
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Home Sweet Home: The Blood Ties That Bind

Modern Southern Folklore: Nobody’s Home
2021-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Rhonda Collier
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A cidadania da mulher negra no Brasil: um exame da literatura infantil afro-brasileira no BrasilE

Escritas do Corpo Feminino, perspectivas, debates, testemunhos
2018 | Book chapter
Contributors: Rhonda Collier
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Yearning for a Distance: Prophetic Narrative in Zora Neale Hurston’s 1934 Jonah’s Gourd Vine

2017 | Book
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8081772
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Rhonda Collier via MLA International Bibliography

Xavier Naidoo and Double Consciousness: Introducing Afro-German Hip Hop to the American Literature Classroom

2016 | Journal article
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7310523
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Rhonda Collier via MLA International Bibliography

Mothering Cuba: The Poetics of Afro-Cuban Women

Another Black Like Me: The Construction of Identities and Solidarity in the African Diaspora
2015-02-01 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-1443871785
Contributors: Rhonda Collier
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There’s No Place Like Home: Cultural Memory in Toni Morrison‘s Tar Baby and Edwidge Danticat‘s Breath, Eyes and Memory

2014 | Book
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4298004
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Rhonda Collier via MLA International Bibliography

Obsidian Journal: Special Issue- Afro-Brazilian Literature

2012 | Journal issue or edition
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Over the Rainbow: Finding Home in West End Atlanta

2012 | Book
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4151956
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Women and Words: Rewriting the Nation with Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban and African American Women's Voices

2003 | Journal article
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6030831
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