Dr. Emily Dane
Title: Assistant Professor
Education: BS – Psychology, Sport, Health, Leisure and Physical Studies – The University of Iowa
MS – Exercise and Sport Science – University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
PhD – Kinesiology – University of MinnesotaResearch Interests: Gender and Sport; Media Depictions of Athletes; Effects of Title IX on non-revenue sports; Curriculum Design and the Impact on Student Outcomes
Courses taught by Dr. Emily Dane include:
- SPST 201P – Sport and Society
- SPST 212 – Psychology of Sport
- SPST 240 – Sport Law
- SPST 280 – Theory & Behavior of Sport Organizations
- SPST 305 – Women in Sport & Leisure
Dr. Dane acquired much of her education in the Midwest region of this country (The University of Iowa, BS; University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, MS; The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities). Outside of the classroom, she has worked for a variety of agencies in the sporting industry such as the Grand Canyon State Games and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. She was a high school cheerleading and pom pon coach for three years and also worked for a youth sporting organization called Young Olympians.
Her research on the utilization of curriculum standards in Master’s degree sport management programs was shared with a private committee in the development process of the new accreditation standards for North American Society of Sport Management. Her future focus of this area will be to examine student successes post-graduation from approved and non-approved sport management programs. Dr. Dane’s gendered research products have been presented at several national conferences, and her current project entitled Male and Female Images in Sport Film is entering its second phase of data collection.
Professor Alan Pogroszewski
Title: Assistant Professor
Office: Elaine Wilson Pavilion Lower Level
Education: BA – Communication – State University of New York at Fredonia
MS – Taxation – St. John Fisher College
MBA – Marketing and International Business – Rochester Institute of TechnologyResearch Interests: State and Federal tax implications on professional athletes
Courses taught by Mr. Pogroszewski include:
- SPST 100 – Intro to Sport Management
- SPST 205 – History of Sport
- SPST 320 – Sport Marketing and Promotions
- SPST 350 – Player Negotiation and Athlete Representation
- SPST 401 – Sport Business and Finance
Prior to joining the faculty at St. John Fisher College, Mr. Pogroszewski was the Vice President with Sports Consulting Group, a firm that specializes in the representation of professional hockey players. In his 10 years with Sports Consulting Group, his duties included preparing federal and state taxes for the firm’s clients and dealing with both international and multiple states tax issues.
In addition to his services with the college, Mr. Pogroszewski is also the President of AFP Consulting LLC a firm that specializes in the tax consequences of professional athletes. With a balance of both professional and educational experiences, Mr. Pogroszewski has kept himself up-to-date of the advances in the field of professional athletes and their tax issues. His background has given him the insight to successfully assist those involved in the professional sports world in the complexities of finance and tax.
Mr. Pogroszewski’s article concerning the Alberta province tax, which outlined the tax levied on professional hockey players in order to help finance the provinces sports teams, was published in the spring 2004 issue of Marquette Sports Law Journal.
Dr. Todd M. Sodano
Title: Assistant Professor
Office: Fay 205Broadcasting: History and Development
Introduction to Media Production
Advanced Media Production
Digital Video Production
Cable and Cutting-Edge TVPh.D. Syracuse University (Maxwell School)/Social Science
M.S. Syracuse University (Newhouse School)/Television-Radio-Film
B.S. Cornell University/CommunicationResearch Interests: My research interests include post-network primetime television (cable and broadcast) in today’s era of niche market programming. Furthermore, I am interested in how fragmentation of the TV-viewing audience has influenced programming industrially, artistically, and culturally.
His work has examined HBO’s The Wire and the influences of TV critics on the discourses of television.
Dr. Lisa Jadwin
Professor of English
Director, Health Humanities Program
St. John Fisher College
3690 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618
585/385-8192 (voice) 585/385-7311 (fax)
ljadwin@sjfc.eduEducation
Ph.D., English, Princeton University, 1989.
Fields: the novel in English, narrative theory, Victorian studies, gender studies.
Dissertation: Alphabets of Obliquity: Female Double-Discourse and the Rhetoric of the Mid-Victorian Novel. Directors: U. C. Knoepflmacher and Sandra M. Gilbert.
M.A., English, Princeton University, 1986.
B.A, cum laude, English, University of California at Davis, 1981.Books
Charlotte Brontë Revisited. Co-authored with Diane Long Hoeveler. Twayne English Authors Series. New York: Twayne Press, 1997. Both Sides, Now: An Approach to College Writing. Completed manuscript, including accompanying exercise book, under review.Over Her Dead Body. In progress. An analysis of the ritual work of detective fiction, interrogating the structure of classic detective fiction and readers’ response to that structure.
Service to the Profession
Director of Women and Gender Studies Program, St. John Fisher College, 1998-present..
Board member and Web Coordinator, New York College English Association, 1996-present.
Associate Editor, Concerns: The Journal of the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, 1992-1998..
Guest co-editor with Wendy Hesford of special issue of Concerns on freedom of speech, Fall 1999.
Advisory Editor, College Literature, 1999-present.
Manuscript Reviewer, College Literature, 1991-1999.
Manuscript Reviewer, Modern Language Association Press, 1990-1991.
Editorial and Research Assistant, Oxford University Press, Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy, ed. Samuel Hynes (3 vols.), 1984-1986.
Editorial Assistant, Quarterly Review of Literature, ed. Theodore Weiss, 1984-1985.
Teaching
Professor of English,
St. John Fisher College, 1991-present
Introduction to Gender and Women Studies (WGST 101)
College Writing (101)
Writing and Literature (102)
Literary Analysis (200)
Literature and Healing (210)
Men and Women in Contemporary Literature (223)
Detective and Mystery Fiction (231)
Postmodern Narratives of Exile (233)
The College Romance (234)
Fundamentals of Film (268)
Victorian Literature (295)
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel (358)
Language and Gender (365)
Colloquium: Reception Theory (396)
Senior Seminar: The Poetics of Detective Fiction (415; 425)
Senior Seminar: The Woman Question and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (415).
Senior Seminar: Advanced Writing (425).
Visiting Assistant Professor of English,
Davidson College, 1989-1991
College Writing (101)
Advanced College Writing (102)
Introduction to Literature (110)
Survey of British Literature 1660-1900 (160)
Women Writers (295)
Eighteenth-Century Novel (363; as seminar, 463)
Modern British Poetry (372)
Pew Foundation Interdisciplinary Seminar: Music and Literature
Preceptor and Lecturer,
Princeton University, 1984-1987
Literature and Composition (instructor)
Introduction to Shakespeare (preceptor)
Survey of British Literature, 1798-1944 (lecturer)
Victorian Children’s Literature (preceptor)
The Mid-Victorian Novel (preceptor)
Grants, Fellowships, & Honors
St. John Fisher College Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997.
St. John Fisher College Award for Advising, 1997.
St. John Fisher Summer Research Grant (1995).
St. John Fisher Summer Research Grant (1993).
NEH Summer Seminar, “The Woman Question in Western Thought, 1750-1950,” Karen M. Offen, Stanford University (1992).
St. John Fisher Summer Research Grant (1992) (declined).
Pew Foundation Interdisciplinary Studies Grant (1990-1991).
Davidson College Travel and Research Grant (1990).
Pew Foundation Research Grant (1990).
Princeton University Fellowship (full tuition and stipend, 1982-1986).
Departmental Citation, English, U. C. Davis (1981).
Associations
The Dickens Society.
Modern Language Association (MLA).
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
New York College English Association (NYCEA).
New York Council for the Humanities.
Northeastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA).
Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NEVSA).
VICTORIA electronic conference (Victorian Studies).
The Victorians Institute.
WMST-L electronic conference (Women’s Studies).
Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages.
