Helane Adams Androne

Education

• Ph.D. English, University of Washington (2002)
• MAT English, University of Washington (1998)
• B.A. Literature/Writing, University of California San Diego (1996)

Teaching/ Research Interests

• African American writing
• Latine/Latinx/Latinegra literatures
• Speculative fictions
• Ritual & Performance Studies
• The Sacred in Literature & Society
• SoTL/Pedagogy

Selected Publications

Books

• “Foreword” in Toni Morrison’s Secret Drive: A Reader-Response Study of the Fiction and Its Rhetoric. Goldstein, David S. and Shawnrece Campbell. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. 2021.
• Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 
• Multiethnic American Literatures: Essays for Teaching Context and Culture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. 

Articles/Chapters

• "Butler's ‘legacy’: Lauren Olamina as Emancipatory Archetype" in CLA Journal special issue on Afrofuturism. (forthcoming 2021).
• Androne, Helane, and Leland G. Spencer. “The Sacredness of Black Life: Ritual Structure, Intersectionality, and the Image of God.” Journal of Communication & Religion, vol. 43, no. 3, Sept. 2020, pp. 18–28.
• Spencer, Leland G., and Helane Androne. “Intersectionality in the Classroom: Black Lives Matter as a Consummate Example.” Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 12, no. 9, Mar. 2019, pp. 77–94. 
• "Birth, Death, and Transformation: Ritual as Inquiry in the Classroom." Pedagogy, vol. 14 no. 2, 2014, p. 317-341 (2013).
• “The ‘Invisible Layers of Labor’: Ritualizing a Black-woman Experience of Service” Integrated But Unequal: Black Faculty in Predominately White Space. Mark Christian, Ed. New Jersey: Africa World Press (2012): 39-66.
• “Revised Memories and Colliding Identities: Absence and Presence in Morrison’s ‘Recitatif’ and Viramontes’s ‘Tears on My Pillow.’” MELUS, vol. 32, no. 2, [Oxford University Press, Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)], 2007, pp. 133–50.
• “Critical Reading Outcomes and Literary Study in a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Literature Course.” Jeff Sommers, Helane Adams Androne, Ellenmarie Wahlrab, and Angela Sneider. MountainRise 3.1 (2006).
• “Untamed Tongues: Reading Intersections Between Fiction by African American and Chicana Women.” Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17.1 (2005): 35–57.

Awards

• 2015 SOCHE (Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education) Faculty Excellence Award
• 2015 Scholars and Artists Recognition Award, Miami University Regionals
• 2012 East Book Company 2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Social and Behavioral Sciences for Integrated But Unequal: Black Faculty in Predominately White Space (Editor: Mark Christian)
• 2007 Miami University Middletown Excellence in Teaching Award Nominee
• 2007 Miami University Outstanding Professor Award from Oxford student government
• Presidential Recognition of Service, Preparing Future Faculty Program, 2004
• Presidential Recognition of Service, Faculty Learning Community on Assessment, 2003

Grants

• $15,000 National Writing Project (US Dept of Education) Title II SEED Grant, "Invitational Leadership Institute to Invest in Developing New Teacher-Leaders", 2016-17 (Co-PIs, Beth Rimer, Angela Faulhaber); Teacher Leadership Training through the OWP
• $20,000 National Writing Project (US Dept of Education) Title II SEED Grant, "Teacher Leadership", 2014-16 (Co-PI, Beth Rimer); Teacher Leadership Training through the OWP
• $40,000 National Writing Project (US Dept of Education) Title II SEED Grant, "Professional Development in the High-need Schools Delayed Partnership School", 2013-14 (Co-PI, Beth Rimer); Hamilton City Schools (two "control" group schools)
• $20,000 National Writing Project (US Dept of Education) Title II SEED Grant, "Professional development in a high-need school", 2012-13 (Co-PI, Beth Rimer); Mad River Local Schools
• $40,000 National Writing Project (US Dept of Education) Title II SEED Grant, "Evaluating the Impact of Professional Development to Meet Challenging Writing Standards" 2012-13 (Co-PI); Hamilton City Schools
• $20,000 National Writing Project (US Dept of Education) Title II SEED Grant, "Supporting Effective Educator Development", 2012-13 (Co-PI, Beth Rimer); Teacher Leadership Training through the OWP
• CELT Grant for Alumni Teaching Scholars Project Grant
• CELT mini-grant for Assessment Project Grant
• Communicating Across the Curriculum Grant
• Faculty Development Program Learning Enrichment Fund Grant
• New Faculty Research Grant

Work in Progress

Dr. Androne continues her work on the emergence, revision, and validation of the sacred and the activist technologies these inspire for enhancing community and belonging in forthcoming essays and a book project focused on womanist science fiction and fantasy.