Michelle Holschuh Simmons, Ph.D.
Michelle Holschuh Simmons teaches the 611 Humanities Information Sources course for UNCG SLIS. She also teaches Information Literacy and Reference for the San Jose State University. She has taught at the high school, college, and graduate levels, and she was the Consulting Librarian for the Arts and Humanities at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, for four years. Her article "Librarians as Disciplinary Discourse Mediators: Using Genre Theory to Move toward Critical Information Literacy," published in Portal in 2005, was awarded the Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award and was named a ALA LIRT Top 20 Library Instruction Articles of 2005. She earned her MA in Library and Information Science in 2000 and the Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture in 2007, both from the University of Iowa. Her dissertation was a qualitative study of the ways that undergraduate students learn disciplinary language, with special attention paid to the role of academic librarians in this context. She lives in Greensboro with her husband Bob, who teaches in the UNCG Classical Studies Department, and their two sons Ben and David.
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