Michelle Reale
Professor, Library
Biography
- Areas Of Focus
I am a proud alumna of both Beaver College and Arcadia University. My official title is Professor, Access Services and Outreach librarian. A doctorate in Educational Leadership as well as three Master’s degrees in English (MA), Library Science (MSLS)and Creative Writing (poetry) (MFA) respectively. I am the author of six books in my field of Librarianship and working on my seventh. I am an authoethnographer and ethnographer who is interested in reflective practice, communities of practice, narrative inheritance, information literacy, Italian-American culture and many other topics that I do scholarly work in , around and on. I am the editor of two literary magazines OVUNQUE SIAMO: New Italian-American Writing and Red Fern Review. As well, I am the author of several collections of poetry and collaborative collections. I am fully to committed to student learning and collaboration with my colleagues both in the library and campus at large.
***
“I know how to write forever. I don’t think I could have happily stayed here in the world if I did not have a way of thinking about it, which is what writing is for me. It’s control. Nobody tells me what to do. It’s mine, it’s free, and it’s a way of thinking. It’s pure knowledge.” Toni Morrison
“You have to practice your art, as does any artist, which in my view, means you dedicate at least part of each day of your entire life to nothing else.”—Bud Goodall, The New Ethnography
- Education
Arcadia University 2016
Master of Arts , Creative Writing (poetry), Major in MFAClarion University 2008
Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS), Major in Library ScienceArcadia University 1999
Master of Arts, English (MA), Major in EnglishArcadia University 2020
Doctorate in Educational Leadership
- Research Interests
- Reflective Practice, Critical Pedagogy, Embedded Librarianship, Ethnography , Poetic Inquiry, Autoethnography, Information Literacy, Mentoring
- Hometown
- Ambler, PA
- Home Country
- USA
- Languages
- English, Italian