STACEY E. MITCHELL, Ph.D.

CORE COMPETENCIES
 Instructional delivery, including college teaching, course design, and program implementation.
 Collaboration with colleagues and partners as team leader and team member.
 Multicultural competency via expertise in world language/culture pedagogy and demonstrated
commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant Professor of Spanish; Academic Advisor Jul 2020-Jun 2023
Loyola University of Maryland – Baltimore, MD

 Planned, created, and presented innovative content for Spanish- and English-language courses
with experiential learning elements such as local gallery tours and virtual language exchange.
 As Academic Advisor, mentored first-year students in areas of personal growth, academic
success, and transition to college.
 Collaborated with colleagues to develop objectives, procedures, and evaluative criteria for the
Spanish Core Program in line with departmental diversity, equity, and inclusion standards.
 Worked individually to create a new humanities course with diversity designation focused on
special topics in intercultural communication.
 Wrote scholarly pieces, including an article for peer-review, a chapter for an edited collection,
and papers for presentation at 5 academic conferences.
 Held leadership roles:
o Organizer, Modern Languages & Literatures Poetry and Essay Contests; Tasks included
budget management, delegation, prize distribution, publicity, venue/catering coordination.
o Director, Language Enhancement & Advancement Program; Tasks included scheduling,
budget management, outreach and publicity, coordination of participants and volunteers.
o Panel Chair, South Atlantic MLA Conference (2021) and Seminar Co-Chair, Northeastern
MLA Conference (2023); Tasks included creation/dissemination of call for papers, review
of submissions, panel organization, communication with presenters, moderation of Q&A.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Jul 2019-Jun 2020

University of Lynchburg – Lynchburg, VA
 Developed presentations, assessments, and policies appropriate for a diverse student body
including “non-traditional” learners like veterans and parents of young children.
 Transitioned seamlessly to online teaching following the onset of COVID-19 pandemic using
tools like Google Suite and Camtasia to simulate classroom experiences.
 Organized cultural events including film showings, digital museum tour, virtual roundtable
viewing to enhance and contextualize course themes.

Graduate Teaching Assistant; Program Co-Director Ronda Abroad Aug 2014-May 2019
Pennsylvania State University – State College, PA
 Designed plans to gather and analyze a corpus of literary and artistic works for doctoral
dissertation; systematically organized, wrote, revised, defended dissertation over 3+ years.
 Taught elementary-/intermediate-level Spanish courses in a coordinated instructional format.
 Held leadership roles:
o Co-Founder, Race in the Americas Graduate Student Conference (n/k/a Liberal Arts
Collective); Tasks included collaboration on vision (cross-disciplinary conference on
the cultural production of the Americas), delegation, creation/dissemination of call for
papers, host researchers/keynote speaker, volunteer coordination, budget management.
 o President, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese Grad Student Organization (multiple terms);
Tasks included project management – i.e. collaborative creation of more linguistically
inclusive audio tour of campus – facilitation of dialogue between graduate students and
Deans, maintenance of governing documents.
 Hired as Co-Director, Penn State Summer Study Abroad Program, Ronda, Spain (2017, 2019):
o Worked collaboratively with other directors to design a high-impact and culturally
immersive study abroad program including homestay and cultural experiences.
o Taught and co-taught upper-level courses with experiential learning components: on-
site student-led discussions, cultural excursions, historical tours, and immersion in
local community, all related to course content.
 As Graduate Research Assistant, facilitated a lecture series of invited speakers and wrote
pertinent book reviews for the Spanish & Italian Modernist Studies Forum

Long-Term Substitute Spanish Teacher

West Mifflin Middle School (grades 7-8) – Pittsburgh, PA Sept 2013-Dec 2013
Burgettstown High School (grades 9-12) – Pittsburgh, PA Sept 2012-Jun 2013
Riverview High School (grades 9-12) – Pittsburgh, PA Sept 2011-Jun 2012
 Taught Spanish for grades 6-12 including Advanced Placement.
 Additional experience clubs, coaching, and supervising day-to-day activities.

ADDITIONAL DIVERSITY, EQUITY, and INCLUSION EXPERIENCE

Diversity Reading Group, Loyola University of Maryland 2020-2022
 Engaged w/ faculty, staff, and students in discussions on tech bias (Automating Inequality, V.
Eubanks), race in America (Caste, I. Wilkerson), disability studies (Neurotribes, S. Silberman).
First-Generation Student Success Committee, Loyola University of Maryland 2022-2023
 Worked collaboratively to write mission statement and run programming on study abroad,
financial literacy, career exploration, professional development for first-generation students.
Green Bandana Brigade, Loyola University of Maryland 2022-2023
 Completed voluntary training to become a mental health advocate for the campus community.
Safe Space Ally, University of Lynchburg 2019-2020
 Attended workshop on advocating for and standing in solidarity with LGBTIQ+ individuals.
Graduation Champion, Neighborhood Learning Alliance – Pittsburgh, PA 2014
 Provided guidance and support to graduating seniors at University Preparatory School – 85%
free or reduced lunch, 90%+ racial/ethnic minority – Pittsburgh Public School District.
Camp Counselor, Awesome Days Summer Camp/Kelberman Center – Utica, NY 2008, 2009
 Planned/implemented social skills lessons and recreational activities for children with Autism.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Spanish, Summa Cum Laude, Pennsylvania State University Aug 2019
M.A. Spanish, Summa Cum Laude, Pennsylvania State University May 2016
M.A. Spanish, Magna Cum Laude, Middlebury College Jul 2013
B.A. Spanish; Adolescent Education, Summa Cum Laude, Saint John Fisher College May 2010

LANGUAGES
English: Native Proficiency (speaking, writing, reading)
Spanish: Near-Native Proficiency (speaking, writing, reading)
Italian: Intermediate Proficiency (reading)
HONORS AND AWARDS

Shirley E. Rosser Award for Excellent in Teaching - Nominee, University of Lynchburg 2020
Denise Haunani Solomon Outstanding Teaching Award, Penn State 2019
Spanish, Italian & Portuguese Grad Student Organization Award, Penn State 2015-18
Certificate of Excellence in Teaching for Spanish Graduate TAs, Penn State 2017-18
The Jesús Díaz Award for Departmental Service and Scholarly Excellence, Penn State 2017
Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish Honor Society, Middlebury College 2013
First Generation Scholarship, St. John Fisher College 2006-10
Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education, St. John Fisher College 2010
Alpha Mu Gamma, Spanish Honor Society, St. John Fisher College 2010

SELECT RESEARCH

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Reviews:

“Literary Reflections of Life: Carmen Laforet’s Artist-Protagonists,” Claiming their Voices,
ed. Israel Rolon-Barada, Louisiana State UP. Under Review, 2023.
“‘¿Cómo no meter la pata en literatura?’: Untangling Translation and Authorship in Darío de
Regoyos’s España Negra (1899).” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies vol. 99, no. 8, 2022, pp.
739-56.
“Moss, Grant D. Political Poetry in the Wake of the Second Spanish Republic: Rafael Alberti,
Pablo Neruda, and Nicolás Guillén.” Hispanic Journal, vol. 41, no. 1, 2020, pp. 231-34.
“The Landscape of Pío Baroja’s Madrid: The Search for Meaning in La busca (1904).”
Cincinnati Romance Review vol. 43, 2017, pp. 35-51.
“Herrero Senés, Juan. Mensajeros de un tiempo nuevo: Modernidad y nihilismo en la literatura
de vanguardia (1918-1936).” Poéticas, vol. 5, 2017, pp. 89-93.

Conference Presentations (recent):

“The Prologue as Existential and Intellectual Space for José Gutiérrez Solana.” ACLA.
Chicago, IL. March 2023.
“Carmen Laforet’s Artist-Protagonists: The Case of Martín Soto.” SAMLA 94. Jacksonville,
FL. November 2022.
“Where Flamenco, Trap, and Hip-Hop Come to Play: Identity and Invention in Rosalía’s ‘El
Mal Querer.’”NeMLA 53. Baltimore, MD. Mar 2022.
“Storybooks, Satire, and Luis Quintanilla’s Drawings of the Spanish Civil War.” SAMLA 93.
Virtual. Nov 2021.
“Critique in Motion: The Romería de San Isidro as Modern Literary and Artistic Subject.”
SAMLA 91. Atlanta, GA. Nov 2019.