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Mar 29, 2021 • Caitlin Burns
By Katherine Haines '21 This spring, Marlene Sokolow ’21 will be among the hundreds of students earning degrees at Arcadia University’s Commencement in May. One difference is that Sokolow, who will receive a Bachelor of Arts in English, began her journey in 1990, at age 43, at Beaver College....
Jun 22, 2020 • Andrea Walls
Each year, Arcadia alumni are celebrated for outstanding achievement and contributions in their profession, their community, their classes, and their alma mater. The Alumni Association Honors Committee reviews nomination forms submitted by fellow Arcadia graduates and makes their selections before...
Feb 6, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
Michelle Reale ’99, 16MFA, associate professor of Landman Library, has published a new book, “Meeting the Challenge of Teaching Information Literacy,” which examines the variety of challenges which arise in her field. Reale draws upon her own experiences to analyze the specific...
Mar 26, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
Michelle Reale, associate professor of Landman Library, published her tenth book of poetry, Season of Subtraction, with Bodighera Press. “In Season of Subtraction, Michelle Reale entangles you in the language of ache and need, and the search for a lost relative who becomes a found love,” wrote...
Jan 23, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
Michelle Reale, associate professor of Landman Library, has published her fifth academic monograph, Inquiry and Research: A Relational Approach in the Classroom, with the American Library Association. In her book, Reale discusses how to foster the curiosity of students, and the importance of...
May 15, 2018 • Caitlin Burns
Michelle Reale, associate professor and faculty librarian, read from her Birds of Sicily (2017) collection during the VIA/Italian Americana Night of Poetry at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College in New York City on April 20. Birds of Sicily, which explores the...
Apr 24, 2018 • Caitlin Burns
Michelle Reale, associate professor and faculty librarian, published “The Indispensable Academic Librarian: Teaching and Collaborating for Change,” a new book that challenges the way academic librarians are perceived within their institutions and discusses becoming a proactive educator and...
Nov 8, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Michelle Reale, associate professor of the Library and Access Services, discussed poetic inquiry as a research method as a guest lecturer to Dr. Sandra Faulkner’s graduate qualitative methods class at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Through a Skype video call, students...
Sep 6, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Michelle Reale, associate professor of the Library and access services and outreach librarian, has two upcoming books scheduled for publication in 2018. On Aug. 17, Italian-American newspaper La Voce di New York published a piece discussing her upcoming book of poetry, Confini (which translates...
Jul 21, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Michelle Reale, associate professor and faculty librarian for English and Music, recently published a collection of poems, All These Things Were Real: Poems of Delirium Tremens, through West Philly Press. This compilation of autoethnographic poems focus on her experience of watching her son...
I am a proud alumna of both Beaver College and Arcadia University. My official title is Professor, Access Services and Outreach librarian. I hold three Master's degrees in English, Library Science and Creative Writing (poetry) respectively. I am the author of five books in my field of Library Science and working on my sixth. 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.
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"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 m view, means you dedicate at least part of each day of your entire life to nothing else."---Bud Goodall, The New Ethnography
Reflective Practice, Critical Pedagogy, Embedded Librarianship, Ethnography , Poetic Inquiry, Autoethnography, Information Literacy, Mentoring
Hometown
Ambler, PA
Home Country
USA
Languages
English, Italian
Arcadia University 2016
Master of Arts , Creative Writing (poetry), Major in MFA
Clarion University 2008
Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS), Major in Library Science
Arcadia University 1999
Master of Arts, English (MA), Major in English
Author • 2013
Book, ALA (American Library Association)
Author
Book, ALA Editions