OEGlobal26 roles: Steering Committee
Dr. Kisha G. Tracy is a Professor and Chair of English Studies and Chair of the General Education Program at Fitchburg State University. She received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut. In addition to several articles, her first book was published by Palgrave in 2017 and is entitled Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature, and her second book was published in 2022 with Arc Humanities Press and is entitled Why Study the Middle Ages?
Her research interests include medieval disability, especially mental health, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has created two OER textbooks entitled Why Do I Have to Take This Course? A Guide to General Education and Heritages of Change: Curatorial Activism and First-Year Writing (grant-funded by Remixing Open Textbooks Through an Equity Lens), and both were short-listed for the OE Global Education Awards for Excellence. She serves as co-chair of the Massachusetts Open & Low Cost Educational Resources Advisory Council (OLERAC) and on the Fitchburg State Open and Affordable Education Committee. She was awarded the Massachusetts Dept of Higher Education OER 2024 Gold Faculty Award.
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