Damiana Gibbons

Appalachian State University514 School of EducationBoone, NC 28608(828) 262-2277gibbonsdd@appstate.eduCURRENT POSITION

Assistant Professor, Media Studies, Curriculum & Instruction, School of Education,Appalachian State University

EDUCATION

Ph.d., Curriculum and Instruction, May 2011University of Wisconsin, Madison, WIMajor Area of Focus: Literacy StudiesMinor Area of Focus: Composition and RhetoricCurrent Title: A Question of Ethics: Media Literacy in Youth Media OrganizationsAdvisor: Erica HalversonCommittee: Catherine Compton Lilly, Constance Steinkuehler, Michael BernardDonals, Andrew BurnMaster of Arts, English, Literary Studies, May 2001University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming Thesis: “Oprah Said to Read It. Oprah Said to Buy It”: The African-AmericanWomen’s Traditions and the Making of Oprah Winfrey’s Literary EmpireBachelor of Arts with Honors, Secondary Education, English, Dec 1998University of Wyoming, Laramie, WyomingBachelor of Arts with Honors, English, May 1997University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming

FORMER ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD

School of Human Ecology, Center for Financial Security, University of Wisconsin-MadisonProject Assistant, Social Security Administration study, 2010-presentSchool of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistant, Videogames and Learning course, Spring 2010 Teaching Assistant, Practicum Supervision and English Education Methodscourse, 2005-2008Research Assistant, Social justice study, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005School of Education, Department of Learning Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Research Assistant, MacArthur study, 2006-2009Letters and Sciences, Department of English, University of WyomingLecturer, 2002-2005

PUBLICATIONS

Gibbons, Damiana. Tracing the Paths of Moving Artifacts in Youth Media Production.

English Teaching: Practice and Critique

. 9. 1. (2010). 8-21. Web. 2010.Curwood, Jen Scott & Gibbons, Damiana. “’Just like I have felt’: MultimodalCounternarratives in Youth-Produced Digital Media.

International Journal of Learningand Media

2. 1. (2010). 59-77.Gibbons, Damiana, Drift, Téa, & Drift, Deanna. “Whose Story is it? Being Native andAmerican: Crossing Borders, Hyphenated Selves.”

International Perspectives on YouthMedia: Cultures of Production & Education

. Ed. Fisherkeller, JoEllen. New York: PeterLang Publishers, Inc. Forthcoming 2010. Print.Halverson, Erica R., & Gibbons, Damiana. "’Key Moments’ as Pedagogical Windows intothe Digital Video Production Process."

Journal of Computing in Teacher Education

. 26. 2.(2009-2010). 69-74. Print.Halverson, Erica., Gibbons, Damiana, Lowenhaupt, Rebecca, & Bass, Michelle."Conceptualizing Identity in Youth Media Arts Organizations: A Comparative CaseStudy."

eLearning

. 6. 1. (2009). 23-42. Web. 2009.Gibbons, Damiana. "

O: The Oprah Magazine’s

Contradictory Self-Help Messages."

TheOprah Phenomenon.

Watson, Elwood. & Harris, Jennifer. (Eds.) Lexington, KY: UniversityPress of Kentucky. 2007. 277-292. Print.

BOOK REVIEWS

Gibbons, Damiana. Rev of

The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the NewMedia Age

, by William Kist.

The Wisconsin English Journal.

52. 2. (2010). 37-40. Web.2010.Gibbons, Damiana. & Magnifico, Alecia. Rev of

Multimodal Pedagogies in DiverseClassrooms: Representation, Rights, and Resources

, by Pippa Stein.

eLearning

. 5. 4.(2008). 497-500. Web. 2008.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Gibbons, Damiana.

‘Ok, What Part of Me Do I Want to Show?’: An Analysis of how YouthDiscuss their Media Production

. Presented at American Educational ResearchersAssociation, Denver, CO. April 2010.Gibbons, Damiana.

Multimodal Mapping of Media Literacy: The Pitch in Youth VideoProduction

. American Educational Researchers Association, Denver, CO. April 2010.

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Gibbons, Damiana and Curwood, Jen Scott.

Static Noise and Dynamic Modes: UsingCritical Theory and Multimodality to Analyze Youth Digital Media Production.

UnitedKingdom Literacy Association International Conference, Greenwich University, London,England. July 2009.Gibbons, Damiana.

Identity and the Multimodal in Youth Video Production

. NationalCouncil of Teachers of English-Assembly of Research, Los Angeles, CA. February 2009.Gibbons, Damiana.

Ethics Meets Multimodality: Searching for Youth Voice in Youth VideoProduction.

National Council of Teachers of English-Assembly of Research, Los Angeles,CA. February 2009.Curwood, Jen Scott., Gibbons, Damiana, and Blakesley, Chris.

Literacy in a Digital Age:Integrating Media Production, Language Learning, and Critical Thinking

. Wisconsin StateReading Association conference, Milwaukee WI. 2009.Curwood, Jen Scott., Gibbons, D., and Blakesley, C.

Visual Literacy in the 21st Century Classroom

. Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English conference, Madison, WI. October2008.Halverson, Erica R., Gibbons, Damiana, and Lowenhaupt, Rebecca.

Youth Filmmaking asProductive Digital Literacy

. American Educational Researchers Association, New York,NY. March 2008.Gibbons, Damiana.

Hope, Contradictions, and Youth Identities: Ethics and youth voice invideo media production

. National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research,Mid-Winter Conference, Bloomington, IN. February 2008.Wolfe, Paula & Gibbons, Damiana,

Unpacking the Discourse of Critical Pedagogy

.American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. April 2007.Halverson, Erica R., Gibbons, Damiana, and Lowenhaupt, Rebecca.

OverarchingTensions: Students as Consumers vs. Students as Producers

. National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research, Mid-Winter Conference, Nashville, TN.February 2007.

INVITED WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS

Gibbons, Damiana.

Youth Media Done Multiculturally: Minority Youth and Media inEducation

. Paradigms of Bilingual/Bicultural Education Course. Madison, WI. July 2010.Gibbons, Damiana.

Literacies and New Media Production: An Overview

. LIS: Gaming andLiteracies. June 2010. VoiceThread: http://voicethread.com/? -u973155.b1192309.i6557239.Gibbons, Damiana.

Multimodal Microanalysis: An Analytical Tool for New Media Texts

.New Media Consortium, Anaheim CA. June 2010.Gibbons, Damiana.