Introduction

  • This election is for Council on Undergraduate Research College of Arts and Humanities Representative(s). The rules for this election are listed below.
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The nominees for Council on Undergraduate Research College of Arts and Humanities Representative(s) are:

Leonard Kelly
Eirini Panagiotidou
Carolyn Sorisio

Nominations close Mar 31, 2021.
Regular Faculty in the College of Arts and Humanities may be nominated.

Rules for the Election

    • Each college can have at most two representatives on the Council on Undergraduate Research.
    • The election is decided by a plurality of those casting votes unless the number of candidates does not exceed the number of positions to fill. In the later case, each candidate will be voted on by an approve/disapprove ballot.
    • Vacant seats will be filled one at a time with the current vacant seat filled by the candidate with the highest vote count.
    • Each candidate selected counts as a cast vote.
    • Seats with longer terms will be filled first. In the case of an approve/disapprove ballot, candidates will be ranked according to number of approve votes.

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Leonard Kelly


Department: Theatre and Dance

As an associate professor in the department of Theatre and Dance, It would be my privilege to serve as a College of Arts and Humanities representative on the Council on Undergraduate Research. I have been active in supporting our students in their research endeavors as part of the production process in the department, developing works ranging from Shakespeare to contemporary musicals to the development of new plays commissioned by the department. Most recently I have served as the dramaturgy mentor for our recent production of Anna Deveare Smith’s House Arrest. I believe it would be very exciting to bring a performing arts perspective to the Council. Thanks for your consideration.


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Eirini Panagiotidou


Department: English

I am an associate professor of Linguistics at the English department, and I look forward to representing the College of Arts and Humanities at the Council on Undergraduate Research.

I have been actively involved in developing and promoting student research in various ways since my first year at WCU. In Spring 2014, a colleague and I were awarded a CAS Student Engagement grant to travel to Athens, Greece, with 6 WCU students in order to conduct field research on the linguistic landscapes of the city. This trip provided our students with hands-on experience in conducting sociolinguistic research and engaged them in active, real-world learning. Moreover, in Summer 2018, I served as faculty mentor as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Institute (SURI) program, while the following year, I mentored another student who was awarded the 2019 Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities (SRCA) award. In my role as Linguistics Program director, I established the Linguistics Student Research conference, a yearly conference aimed at showcasing research conducted primarily by undergraduates students. In addition to being a success with WCU students, the conference has attracted students from local universities as well. Finally, I believe the interdisciplinary nature of my work that combines the fields of linguistics, poetry, and painting will allow me to represent the College’s multifaceted approaches to research well.


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Carolyn Sorisio


Department: English

I look forward, if elected, to contributing to the active learning environment and professional opportunities that undergraduate research provides. Currently, I am editor of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, a quarterly peer-reviewed journal published jointly by West Chester University and Johns Hopkins University Press. I enjoy working with graduate assistants and undergraduate interns, who I help to understand the peer-review process and who assist me in locating appropriate peer reviewers. My research includes my earlier monograph, Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879 (Univ. of Georgia P, 2002) and essays in peer-reviewed journals such the African American Review, Studies in American Indian Literature, and J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. I worked with WCU graduate and undergraduate students on The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights (coedited with Cari M. Carpenter [Univ. of Nebraska P, 2015]). Most recently, I helped develop a new core course for our revised English Major, Research Methods for English Studies.


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