Core Faculty

Ramon Goings, smiling, wearing a blue collared shirt, dark blue tie, and red coat, sitting in front of a while bookshelf

RAMON GOINGS, Ed.D., Professor and Director of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program rgoings@umbc.edu

Black male student success in K-12 and Higher Education, diversifying the teacher and school leader workforce, adult learners in higher education, gifted education, minority serving institutions

 

Christine Mallinson, smiling and wearing a green and black, dotted-pattern shirt, with a blurred scene of the UMBC campus behind her

CHRISTINE MALLINSON, Ph.D., Professor and Assistant Vice President for Research and Scholarly Impact, Division of Research and Creative Achievement  mallinson@umbc.edu

English language variation, language and educational inequality, the interface of sociolinguistics and sociology, research methodology

 

 

Nicole Morse, wearing a cream-colored jacket and black, collared shirt with splotches of color NICOLE MORSE, Ph.D., Associate Professor nemorse6@umbc.edu

LGBTQ cultural production, prison abolition and media, representation and identity, gender and sexuality studies, feminist research methods, cinema and media studies, digital media platforms

 

 

 

Christa Porter, smiling and wearing an orange and white outfit, along with a necklace

CHRISTA PORTER, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School cporter1@umbc.edu

Black feminist and intersectional onto-epistemologies; examining trajectories of development, socialization, and praxis in higher education and student affairs; Black women’s experiences into and through higher education

 

 

 

Craig Saper, smiling and wearing a blue, collared shirt and black jacket CRAIG SAPER, Ph.D., Professor csaper@umbc.edu

E-literacy, e-publishing and online scholarship, history of reading and reading devices, networked writing, cultural and media theory and interventions

 

 

Tanya Saunders, pictured from the side, smiling and wearing a dark grey shirt TANYA SAUNDERS, Ph.D., Professor tanyasau@umbc.edu

African Diaspora Studies, Black Feminisms, Black Queer Studies (race, gender, sexuality), Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, Coloniality/ Postcolonial Studies, Hemispheric Studies