PRESELFANNIE E. WHITFIELD McDANIELS, Ph.D.
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
“Adjusting the Mark: Enhancing the Capstone Course in English by Utilizing a Portfolio
Assessment Tool.” The Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal 22.4 (Fall 2009): 1-19.
“African American Students Learn by Serving the African American Community: A Jackson
State University Example of ‘Challenging Minds and Changing Lives.’” Reflections: A
Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy 10.2 (Spring 2011): 108135. (Lead Author, with Kashelia J. Harrion, Rochelle Smith Glenn, and Gisele Gentry.)
“Completing the Journey of Reflection, Healing, and Interpretation: A Survivor’s Examination
of Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones.” POMPA: Publications of the Mississippi
Philological Association 31 (2014): 188-202.
“Creating a Legacy of Disconnection: Colorism and Classism in Oprah Winfrey Presents: The
Wedding.” (Book Chapter.) In Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films and African
American Literature. Tara T. Green, ed. New York: Palgrave-MacMillian Publishers,
2013. 79-104.
“Cross-Cultural Encounters: Teaching and Living in the Real World.” The Journal of the
Mississippi Council of Teachers of English 25.1 (Fall/Winter 2009): 3-4.
“Early Literary Lessons in Heritage, History, and Heroism.” The Journal of the Mississippi
Council of Teachers of English 25.1 (Fall/Winter 2009): 17-19.
“The Effectiveness of the Service-Learning Component in the English Capstone Course: Jackson
State University Students Reflect on and Respond to Service Requirements.” The
Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal 26.2 (Summer 2013): 87-106. (Lead Author,
with Students Sabrina Weston, Gabrielle Barrow, Brittany Long, Tesia Nagorka, Nubia
Johnson, and David Young.)
“His Politics, His Mississippi, and His God: Exploring Thematic Schemata in the Poetry of C.
Liegh McInnis.” Journal of Ethnic American Literature 1.1 (2011): 166-178.
"Improving Writing with a PAL: Harnessing the Power of Peer Assisted Learning with the
Reader's Assessment Rubrics." International Journal of Teaching and Learning in
Higher Education 20.3 (2009): 488-502. (3rd Author, with Stephen McLeod, Gavin
Brown, and Lawrence Sledge.)
“Margaree King Mitchell (1953 - ).” Mississippi Encyclopedia. Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi. Forthcoming publication, 2015-2016.
Meeting Points in Black/Africana Women’s Literature. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. (June)
2015. (With Helen O. Chukwuma, editors.)
“Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes towards Students’ Use of African American English.” The
Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal 26.2 (Summer 2013): 41-58. (4th Author, with
Brandi Newkirk-Turner, Melody Cooper Williams, and Tracy Harris.)
“Producing Successful Communicators at the Collegiate Level: Writing and Reading across the
Curriculum.” The Academician 1.1 (2004): 5-9.
“Service Learning in the Classroom: Undergraduates Research Successfully Integrating Service
Learning into the College English Classroom.” POMPA: Publications of the Mississippi
Philological Association 30 (2013): 164-185. Lead Author, with Students Nubia Johnson,
Tesia Nagorka, Deanna Word, Danny Jackson, and Mekael Carpenter)
“Spiritual and Material Journeys to Self and Truth: Making Song of Solomon and Brown Girl,
Brownstones Relevant in the Modern Classroom.” Black Magnolias Literary Journal 6.4
(Winter 2012- 2013): 33-39.
“Undergraduate and Graduate Level Perspectives: A Pedagogical Examination of the Meeting of
Service-learning and Instructional Engagement in Communication Disciplines.”
International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 4.8 (June 2014): 11-21. (3rd
Author, with Monica G. Flippin Wynn and Kashelia J. Harrion.)
“When Ethnicity, History, and Parenting Collide: Mothering Understood in Amy Tan’s The
Kitchen God’s Wife and Christina García’s Dreaming in Cuban.” Race and Gender in
20th Century Literature. Patsy Daniels, ed. New Castle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge
Scholars, 2013. 213-239.