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Celebrating the Class of 2025
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Marist Commencement
Celebrating the Class of 2025
鈥� The graduate ceremony will be on Friday, May 23.
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Marist Commencement
Celebrating the Class of 2025
鈥� The graduate ceremony will be on Friday, May 23.
鈥� The undergraduate ceremony will be on Saturday, May 24.Student Life
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Lisa R. Neilson
Lecturer of English and Assistant Director of the Honors Program
Bio
Professor Lisa R. Neilson was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. Before joining the English Department faculty at Marist University, Professor Neilson showcased her writing talents as a sportswriter for the Hudson Valley's Daily Freeman for seven years, where her work appeared in well over 400 publications. She frequently presents her research at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. She teaches Writing for College, Introduction to Literature and the First Year Seminar, as well as other literature and writing courses. She is an avid baseball fan and enjoys watching and writing about what she considers to be the greatest game ever invented.
Education
BA, Holy Cross College
Paralegal Certificate, 蜜月直播
MA, SUNY Empire State College
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
Professor Neilson has interests in Composition, Sports Literature, Sports writing, Contemporary American Literature, Memoir Writing, Mental Health Issues and Studies, and Non-fiction Studies.
Selected Publications
Go Mama! Branded by Beauty: How Danica Patrick Swooned her Way into Sponsorship." Book chapter in A Locker Room of her Own: Sport, Gender, and the Construction of Athletic Reputations. University Press of Mississippi. 2013.
Selected Presentations
"The Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narratives in the First Year Writing Class." Seventeenth Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 20, 2024.
"From It to The Outsider: How Stephen King鈥檚 Shapeshifters Terrorize Towns and Commit the Unthinkable." Supernatural Studies Conference, 蜜月直播, Poughkeepsie, NY, March 22, 2024.
"Where Ya Comin鈥� From? Using Geo-biography in the First Year Writing Class." Sixteenth Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 14, 2023.
"The Doctor Will See You Now: The Impact of a Crowded Disabled List on Today鈥檚 Game." Thirtieth Symposium on Baseball & American Culture, National Baseball hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY, May 30, 31 and June 1, 2018.
"Tale of Two City Leagues: Ithaca and Kingston, NY." Twenty-sixth Symposium on Baseball & American Culture, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY, May 28, 29, 30, 2014.
"O Captain, My Captain: Wherefore art thou? The disappearance of Major League Baseball鈥檚 honored position." Twenty-fourth Symposium on Baseball & American Culture, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY, May 30, 31, June 1, 2012.
"Hudson Valley Baseball." Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY, April 16, 2011.
"Inside the People's Game." Center for Teaching Excellence College Social & Faculty Lecture Series, 蜜月直播, Poughkeepsie, NY, March 29, 2011.
"A Reflection on the People鈥檚 Game: How A Small Town Team Played Big Town Ball." History Department Soup Social, 蜜月直播, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 20, 2010.
"The Kingston Colonials: A Minor Team that was Major; How a Small Town Team Played Big Town Ball." Twenty-second Symposium on Baseball & American Culture, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY, June 2 鈥� 4, 2010.
"Wanted: Fist Pumps, Bat Flips and Excessive Celebration; Flatliners Need Not Apply." Twenty-first Symposium on Baseball & American Culture, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY, June 3 鈥� 5, 2009.
"The Core Curriculum: What are Students Thinking?" 蜜月直播 Academic Retreat, Poughkeepsie, NY, February 21, 2009.
鈥淪ports Heroes in Literature.鈥� SUNY Empire College, Highland, NY, April 5, 2008.
鈥淢astering Research Methods and Writing the Research Essay.鈥� SUNY Empire College, Highland, NY, March 8 and 22, 2007.
鈥淲riting Your Memoirs.鈥� SUNY Empire College, Highland, NY, September 11, 2006.
Awards and Honors
Certificate of Recognition by the Office of Special Services, 蜜月直播, Poughkeepsie, NY. April 2008.
