TEACHER, SCHOLAR, FEMINIST
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My name is Dr. Shane A. McCoy (they/them/theirs), and I am an Instructor of English at Nashville State Community College, where I teach first-year writing courses. I earned my bachelor’s degree in English and a Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies at MTSU and graduated Honors with Distinction after completing my thesis “Beyond the Triangle: Breaking the Silence of Lesbian Desire in Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness and Vita Sackville-West’s All Passion Spent.” I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle, where I wrote my dissertation, entitled Texts that Teach: Curriculum, Affect, and Critical Pedagogy in the Neoliberal University. My dissertation examined curriculum, affect, and critical and feminist pedagogies within the context of instructional scaffolding. My dissertation led to many of my current research interests, including instructional scaffolding and curriculum design, feminist affect studies, Africana women’s literature, cognitive literary studies, the sociology of education, and social and emotional learning. My work has appeared in Radical Teacher, The CEA Critic, The Journal of the African Literature Association, Writing from Below, as well as the edited collections Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers (2021) and Teaching in Perilous Times (2021).
Before arriving at Nashville State Community College, I taught at the University of Washington, Volunteer State Community College, Tennessee Technological University, and MTSU. I have taught undergraduate courses that focused on first-year composition, African American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Literature, and Queer Theory, women of color and Black feminisms, racial and ethnic studies, and comedy as social and cultural critique. I also developed the first of its kind LGBTQIA+ Literature and Culture course in Tennessee! And, in 2018-2019, I received the designation of Faculty Fellow after completing the Faculty Fellows Program offered by the Lucinda Taylor Lea Learning, Teaching, and Innovative Technologies Center at MTSU. I have also been certified in MTSU’s SafeZone Training, a program designed to support LGBTQ+ students, and Mental Health First Aid. I previously served as an advisory board member for the 2020, 2021, and 2022 LGBT+ College Conference at MTSU.
In addition to my teaching and scholarship, I am currently pursuing a Master of Social Work (MSSW) at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville with a concentration in Clinical Practice. I hope to specialize in working specifically with LGBTQIA+ clients and groups to ensure effective delivery of gender-affirming care.