Dr. Cortney Robbins

College of Arts and Sciences
Phone: 260.422.5561, ext. 2241
Email: crrobbins@indianatech.edu
Office: Snyder Academic Center, Room 265
Office Hours
- M: 1-3
- T: 12:30-3
- W: 1-3
- R: 12:30-2
- F: by appointment
*Note: All office hours are virtual during the fall 2020 semester.
Class Information
- HUM 2990 Special Topics: Crime and Literature
- HUM 2990 Special Topics: The Individual and Society in Literature
- ENG 2322 Research Writing
Academic Advisor Roles
General Studies and Communication
Academic Degrees
- Ed.D., Adult, Higher, and Community Education, Ball State University (2019)
- M.A., History, Indiana State University (in progress)
- M.A., English, Ball State University (2007)
- B.A., English Literature, Ball State University (2004)
Professional Experience
Indiana Institute of Technology August 2012—present
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Associate Professor of English
Indiana Institute of Technology August 2007—2012
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Assistant Professor of English
Selected Publications/Presentations
Publications
Robbins, C.R., & Latz, A.O. (2015). Humanities’ place in the community college (Editor’s Choice). Academic Exchange Quarterly, 19(3), 160-165. Retrieved from http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/5592j5.pdf
Papers Presented
- “The Tech LEADS Initiative: Learning Communities for Students at Risk”, Fort Wayne Area Dean’s Conference, Fort Wayne, IN, Feb. 2010
- “Following the ‘Yellow Brick Road’ of Learning with Fantasy Literature”, Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, FL, Apr. 2010
- “The Tech LEADS Initiative: Learning Communities for Students at Risk”, Indiana TRiO Spring Conference, Fort Wayne, IN May 2010-Invited Presentation
- “Digital Storytelling in Developmental English”, Fort Wayne Area Dean’s Conference, Fort Wayne, IN, Feb. 2011
- “Digital Storytelling, “This I Believe,” and Developmental English”, Hawaii Int’l. Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, Jan. 2012
- “‘The [Resistance] is Female’: Empathy, Gender, Education, and the Age of Trump”, Int’l. Society for Educational Biography Conf., Toronto, ON, Apr. 2017
- “Teaching Pop Culture Is Just like Riding a Broomstick: Balancing Critical and Appreciative Modes of Literary Study through the Harry Potter Series”, Popular Culture Association Conf., Indianapolis, IN, Mar. 2018