2005-2006 MIL Fellows: About Ms. Shelley Rodrigo

2005-2006 MIL Fellows: About Ms. Shelley Rodrigo
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Shelley Rodrigo started her career in higher education while "stationed" for a year and a half at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY. After deciding she had ideological differences with the military (and problems acclimating to New York winters), she finished her BA in English at the University of California, Riverside.

Since then she has completed a MA in Humanities, with an emphasis in film, and a MA in English from Arizona State University; she continues to work on her doctorate in Rhetoric and Composition. Currently she is writing her dissertation about how faculty who teach with technology keep up with new, emerging, and revising technologies.

Shelley has been teaching writing and film classes at Mesa Community College since 2002. Her scholarly interests include gender and the body in science fiction film, teaching with technology, and professional development through technology. In general, Shelley is interested in the interface between technology and humanistic ways of being.

In her "spare" time Shelley reads and watches Science Fiction and Fantasy narratives (novels, films, video games, comicsÉ) while cuddling or playing with her three four legged, fur covered, children. In the attempt to have her classes resemble science fiction worlds, Shelley constantly emerges her students in new and emerging technologies she thinks will help them learn writing and critical thinking.

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