Editor in Chief
Anna S. CohenMiller, PhD, Nord University, Norway
Anna S. CohenMiller, PhD, is an award-winning educational leader, TEDx and keynote speaker who addresses systemic issues of equity and inclusion in higher education. She specializes in arts-based decolonial research and innovative pedagogy, including addressing critical media literacy (in)formal learning through popular culture. With over two years of experience, she was recruited to Kazakhstan (Central Asia) leading education and research at an emerging flagship university. During that time, she co-founded the Consortium of Gender Scholars. She led the development and continues to guide The Motherscholar Project – an online platform promoting and advocating for inclusion of mothers in higher education across the academic pipeline. Currently, Dr. CohenMiller is a Full Professor at Nord University (Norway), where she draws on her international experience to advance justice-centered research and education. Her contributions can be seen in popular outlets such as InsideHigherEd, Medium.com, as well as in over 100 research and educational journals and award-winning books. Select books include Justice-Centered Mixed Methods (Guilford Press), Transformative Moments in Qualitative Research: Method, Theory, and Reflection (Routledge), Questions in Qualitative Social Justice Research in Multicultural Contexts (Routledge), Leading Change in Gender and Diversity in Higher Education from Margins to Mainstream (Routledge), and the forthcoming, Global Narratives of Transformation in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Insights, Theory, and Research for Professional Development (Edward Elgar Press). Since 2011, Professor CohenMiller has been involved with SWPACA in developing Dialogue, chairing a section on Motherhood and Mothering in Popular Culture, and as an Executive Team member.
Associate Editor
Karina Vado, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Karina A. Vado (she/her/ella) is an Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies in the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, and affiliate faculty in the university’s Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Florida (UF) as well as an MA in Women’s Studies from UF’s Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research, and a Graduate Certificate from UF’s Center for Latin American Studies. Karina’s research interests span the fields of Hemispheric American Studies (especially Afro-Latinx, Chicanx, Latin/x American, and African-American literary and cultural studies), Science and Technology Studies (especially Critical Race & Feminist Science Studies), and Science Fiction and Utopian Studies. Her scholarship has been supported by several competitively awarded fellowships including the Florida Education Fund’s McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, the University of Texas at Austin’s Gloria E. Anzaldúa Summer Research Fellowship, and Penn State University’s Diversity Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. You can find samples of Karina’s scholarly writing in edited collections such as Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society and in Human Contradictions in Octavia Butler’s Work. For more information on current research projects and opportunities for collaboration, visit vadokarina.com.
Managing Editor
Barbara Perez, MA, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Barbara Perez (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the Culture, Society, and Politics track of the Comparative Studies Program at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Her research areas of focus are Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as well as Latinx Studies. She is also generally interested in popular culture, media, and cultural studies, environmental justice, ecofeminism, and intersectional environmentalisms, critical animal studies, feminist epistemology and science studies, and feminist pedagogy. Prior to coming to FAU, Barbara completed an MA program in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and an advanced certificate in LGBTQ+ Studies at San Diego State University. Her MA thesis was a feminist epistemological critique of comparative cognition research.
Managing Editor and Co-Editor for Poetry
Tyler Robert Sheldon, PhD, MFA, USA
Tyler Robert Sheldon is the author of nine books including The Bear: New and Selected Poems (Meadowlark Press, 2027) and Words for Coffee (Spartan Press, 2025). He is Editor-in-Chief of MockingHeart Review and Managing Editor of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, and his work has appeared in Dialogue, The Midwest Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Slant, and other places. His research interests include poetry and poetics, comics studies, pedagogy, and World War II. A recipient of several awards for his writing and teaching, Sheldon earned his PhD at Louisiana State University and his MFA at McNeese State University, and when he’s not teaching, he’s woodworking, cooking, and catering to the whims of his impish cat, Chai.
Assistant Managing Editor
Titilope Ajeboriogbon, PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Titilope Ajeboriogbon is a PhD student in Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago and is concurrently pursuing a second master’s degree in International Relations, Security, and Strategy. His interdisciplinary research brings together artificial intelligence, postcolonial studies, migration, intercultural studies, international relations, global governance, and foreign policy. At the intersection of the humanities and social sciences, his work examines how cultural narratives and political ideas shape understandings of identity, mobility, power, and governance, with a focus on the U.S.-Germany relationship and its implications for Africa and the wider Global South.
Musings Editor
Elizabeth Gonzalez, MFA, Our Lady of the Lake University, USA
Elizabeth Gonzalez was born and raised in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, often referred to as the 956, El Rio Grande, El Valle. She is a multimedia artist who graduated from Edinburg High School and earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts and a Bachelor’s in Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She also holds a Master’s in Fine Arts and a Master’s Certificate in Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her work serves as a personal narrative/visual testimonio, exploring family stories, cultural identity, history, language, border culture, and the community that surrounds the Rio Grande Valley. Currently, she is in her second year as a doctoral student in Leadership Studies at Our Lady of the Lake University. She has been recognized as a 2024 HSF Scholar, 2024 Schoenecke Institute Fellow, 2022 Chautauqua School of Art Resident, and 2021 Warren and Spector Fellow. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at Texas Southmost College.
Book Review Editor and Copy Editor
Miriam Sciala, MA
Miriam Sciala has been teaching Academic English internationally for over 25 years. She holds an MA in Geography from York University in Toronto and an MPhil in Second Language Studies from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Born in Switzerland and raised in Zambia, she now carries a Canadian passport. She considers writing and editing her second career, having written and published numerous articles and short stories and has a first novel in progress.
Children’s Critical Media Literacy Editor
Roxanne Henkin, PhD, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (Emerita)
Dr. Roxanne Henkin is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning & Teaching at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Henkin’s research interests include multiliteracies and multimodal digital literacies, children’s literature, confronting bullying through literacy, critical literacy for social justice, writing process and instruction, and global in-service staff development in literacy. She has published many articles and two books, Who’s Invited to Share: Using Literacy to Teach for Equity and Social Justice and Confronting Bullying: Literacy as a Tool for Character Education, both published by Heinemann. Dr. Henkin is a Past-President of Literacies and Languages for All. She was also the lead co-editor of the journal Voices from the Middle (2006–2011). She has received many awards including the 2020 Literacies and Languages for All Lifetime Membership Award, the 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award from Niles North High School in Skokie, Illinois, the 2020 NCTE LGBTQ+ Advocacy and Leadership Award, and the 2022 Literacies and Languages for All Service Award. Dr. Henkin created and is Director Emeritus of the San Antonio Writing Project. She has helped to create and teach writing projects in the United States, South Africa, India, the Philippines, and Kazakhstan.
Production Editor and Creative Director
Douglas CohenMiller, Umbrella Works, Spain
Douglas CohenMiller is a graphic designer and founder of Umbrella Works design studio (www.umbrella-works.com), where he is the principal graphic designer and creative director. His practice focuses on long-term branding and identity for clients in the United States and internationally. Since 2011, Doug has been involved with the SWPACA; first spearheading a rebranding effort and helping to launch Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. Alongside this work, he has been developing unique conference identities and material each year and producing and creative-directing each issue of Dialogue. His other clients range from fields of academic institutions, non-profit organizations, as well as small businesses. Beyond graphic design, Douglas is an active photographer. His photography and essays can be found at http://fotografica.umbrella-works.com. Currently, Douglas is living in the Balearic Islands in Spain with his family.
Copy Editors
Robert Gordyn, MPhil, MA
Robert Gordyn has been an English Language Instructor since 1995, mostly teaching internationally in a variety of countries and regions of the world. Based in Canada, he is a freelance editor and part-time English instructor. His academic background includes graduate degrees in Geography and Second Language Studies. Along with being an avid reader of philosophy and history, Robert has ongoing interests in communication, both in terms of the written word and in public speaking.
Arlyce Menzies, MFA
Arlyce Menzies was raised in the Rust Belt, educated in the Bluegrass and New England, and now tutors writers in the windy steppe of Kazakhstan. She got her MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry at Boston University, where she enjoyed studying and practicing translation from Russian to English, copyediting for Agni, and honing her writing craft. Her writing has been syndicated by PeaceVoice and appeared in Vessel, The Baffler, and New Ohio Review.
Janan Chan, Co-Editor for Poetry, McGill University, Canada
Janan Chan is a PhD student in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) at McGill University, Montréal, Canada. His research project engages multilingual language learners in writing translingual poetry for aesthetic and expressive purposes. Completing his MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Concordia University, he moved to Shanghai, China, where he taught English as a Foreign Language (EFL) from 2021 to 2024. His poems, appearing in Warm Milk, The Mitre, Fauxmoir, and Soliloquies Anthology, explore themes such as identity, belonging and nostalgia. Through his regular blog posts for BILD (Belonging, Identity, Language, Diversity), a blog and journal based out of McGill University, he has reflected upon and documented his teaching practices, the subversive uses of internet culture in China, and neighborly trust during China’s pandemic lockdown. He was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Toronto, Ontario and a small town in Québec. He now lives in Montréal.
Ani Fung
Ani Fung is a Master's student in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) at McGill University in Montréal, Canada, expected to graduate in 2025. Her current research explores poetic inquiry to understand student-athletes' perspectives from diverse cultural contexts in pursuing athletic careers. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she earned her Bachelor's in Sociology at Durham University, United Kingdom. Her unsettling and evolving life experiences fueled her research interest in human behavior, identity development, gender studies, and arts-based research. During her time at Durham, she interned as a research assistant and journalist at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, where she published her first article, "A new way of empowerment: The digital society and its impacts on women," on Diva International. No longer wanting to hold a student visa, she plans to settle in Canada in the coming years.
Reference Editors
April Manabat, MLIS, Lopez Museum and Library, Philippines
April Manabat is currently the Head Librarian of the Lopez Museum and Library, Manila, Philippines. She is also a part-time Lecturer at the Department of Library and Information Science, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, and at the College of Information and Communications Technology (CICT), West Visayas State University. She was a Senior Expert Librarian at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan and the Information Literacy Coordinator of the NU Library. Currently, she is earning her PhD in Development Education at Central Luzon State University - Distance, Open and Transnational University. She is also an Associate Member of the National Research Council of the Philippines. Her research interests include academic librarianship, media and information literacy, reference services in libraries, and evidence-based practice in librarianship. Her works can be found here: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1720-5910
Joseph Yap, PhD, University of the Philippines Diliman
Joseph Marmol Yap earned his PhD from the Doctoral School of Literary Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, with a distinction of Summa Cum Laude. He is an Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he teaches Library and Information Science courses. He is a professional librarian and holds the 2023 Excellence Award in the field of Librarianship under the Global Filipino Practice and Service category given by the Philippine Federation of Professional Associations. He is a recipient of the 2023 Bonnie Hilditch International Librarian Award bestowed by the Special Libraries Association, Sci-Tech and Engineering Communities. He continues to be a professorial lecturer at West Visayas State University. As part of his extension services, he acts as the President of the Philippine Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (PATLS) and also the former President of the Special Libraries Association–Asian Community. He received the Best Research Award–Graduate/Professional Category given by the National Library of the Philippines in 2022. He is involved in local and national community civic engagements supported by Stipendium Hungaricum by being a mentor for new international students in Budapest under the Hook Program. He was the first Philippine student ambassador representing PhD students in Hungary under the DOSZ Ambassador Program. He has published works in highly cited journals such as Education for Information, Journal of Library Administration, Internet Reference Services Quarterly, Reference Librarian, Journal of Information Literacy, and Library Management. His research and academic works can be found here: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7852-1047.
Yelizaveta Kamilova, MLIS, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Yelizaveta Kamilova is a Master of Library and Information Science and an Expert manager at Nazarbayev University Library in Kazakhstan. She is currently the Subject Librarian for Graduate School of Education and the coordinator for the Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery Service, also responsible for the Department Documentations as well. She has more than a decade of experience in academic librarianship. Her research interests include academic librarianship, library virtual services, and information literacy.
Film Review Editor
Erika Tiburcio, PhD, Complutense University, Spain.
Erika Tiburcio is an Assistant Professor of History and Social Sciences at Complutense University (Spain). Her research interests include horror cinema as a historical and didactic resource, historical education, and the construction of otherness in history education. She earned a Bachelor's degree in history and a Master's Degree in Contemporary History from Complutense University. She later earned a Master's Degree in teacher training in compulsory and upper secondary education, vocational training, and languages, specializing in teaching social sciences. She obtained her PhD in Media Studies at Carlos III University (Spain). Her works can be consulted at https://produccioncientifica.ucm.es/investigadores/143441/detalle?lang=es_ES
Advisory Board
Lynnea Chapman King, Adams State University, USA
Ken Dvorak, Northern New Mexico College, USA
Marc Ouellette, Old Dominion University, USA
Alison Macor, Texas State University, USA
Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Turkey
Editorial Board
Aaron Adair, Massachusettes Institue of Technology, USA
Maria Alberto, University of Utah, USA
Donna Alden, New Mexico State University, USA
Mark Allen, South Texas College, USA
Jenn Avery, Southern New Hampshire University, USA
Lexey Bartlett, Fort Hays State University, USA
Michelle Bedeker, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Chris Bell, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA
Justin Bendell, University of New Mexico, Valencia, USA
Kelli Bippert, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA
Jerry Bradley, Lamar University, USA
Stephanie Brownell, Bentley University, USA
Tamy Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Melissa Vossen Callens, North Dakota State University, USA
Geoffrey Carter, Saginaw Valley State University, USA
Natasha Chuk, Independent Scholar, USA
Elizabeth Morrow Clark, West Texas A&M University, USAA. S. CohenMiller, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Tobi Collins, New Mexico State University, USA
Brian Cowlishaw, Northeastern State University, USA
Becca Cragin, Bowling Green State University, USA
Byron Crape, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Janet Brennan Croft, Rutgers University, USA
Adam Crowley, Husson University, USA
Julie DeLong, Independent Scholar, USA
Kurt Depner, New Mexico State University, USA
Diana Dominguez, University of Texas at Brownsville, USA
Laura Dumin, University of Central Oklahoma, USA
Brad Duren, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, USA
Lance Eaton, Brandeis University/North Shore, Community College, USA
David Emerson, Independent Scholar, USA
Justin Everett, Independent Scholar, USA
Susan Fanetti, California State University, Sacramento, USA
Carly Finseth, Boise State University, USA
Draga Gajić, University of Novi Sad, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Robert Galin, University of New Mexico, Gallup, USA
Clayton Garthwait, West Chester University, USA
Bridget Goodman, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Robert Gordyn, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Kelly Grace, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Jimmy Guignard, Mansfield University, USA
Valerie Guyant, Montana State University-Northern, USA
Chuck Hamilton, North Texas Community College, USA
Darrell Hamlin, Fort Hays State University, USA
Roxanne Henkin, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Brent House, PennWest California, USA
Michael Howarth, Missouri Southern State, USA
Jenna Hunnef, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Lutfi Hussein, Mesa Community College, USA
Roxie James, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, USA
Jennifer Jenkins, University of Arizona, USA
Jamie M. Jones, Grays Harbor College, USA
Nancy Kay, Merrimack College, USA
Warren Kay, Merrimack College, USA
Hyein Amber Kim, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Brad Klypchak, Texas A&M Commerce, USA
Jane Kubiesa, Univerity of Worchester, UK
Kim Lacey, Saginaw Valley State University, USA
Carmela Lanza, University of New Mexico, Gallup, USA
Samantha Lay, University of West Alabama, USA
John Lepley, Independent Scholar, USA
Dalyn Luedtke, Norwich University, USA
Jessica Maerz, University of Arizona, USA
Julienne McGeough, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Liz Medendorp, Pueblo Community College, USA
Richard Mehrenberg, Millersville University, USA
Michael Miller, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Iulian Mitran, University of Bucharest, Romania
Mona Monfared, Univerisity of California, Davis, USA
Erika Tiburcio Moreno, Complutense University, Spain
Rikk Mulligan, Longwood University, USA
Angelique Margarita Nairn, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Barbara Perez, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Deirdre A. Pettipiece, Lehman College, USA
Timothy Ray, Independent Scholar, USA
Shelley Rees, University of Science and Arts, Oklahoma, USA
Pamela Rollins, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, USA
Tim Rupert, Slippery Rock University, USA
Tiffany Scarola, Bowling Green State University, USA
Miriam Sciala, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Kelli Shapiro, Texas State University, USA
Gregory Stephens, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, USA
Joy Sterrantino, Southern Utah University, USA
Karen Tatum, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Robert Tinajero, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Deanna Tomasetti, Independent Scholar, USA
Shane Trayers, Macon State College, USA
Pat Tyrer, West Texas A&M University, USA
Karina Vado, University of Florida, USA
Margaret Vaughn, Metropolitan State University, USA
Erik Walker, Plymouth (Massachusetts) South High School, USA
Rob Weiner, Texas Tech Univeristy Library, USA
Ryan Windeknecht, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA