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Angelo Letizia

Chair of Initial Licensure Programs and Associate Professor

Faculty School of Education School of Education
aletizia@ndm.edu 410-532-3180 Caroline Hall 516D
Angelo Letizia
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Research

Publications

  1. Peer Reviewed Books:Letizia, A.J. (2024). Poetic Inquiry and arts-based research for the maintenance of the Republic and what comes after: A Vision for Metamodernity. Routledge. (https://www.routledge.com/Poetic-Inquiry-and-Arts-Based-Research-for-the-Maintenance-of-the-Republic/Letizia/p/book/9781032562827.Letizi)a, A.J. (2020) Graphic novels as pedagogy in social studies: How to draw citizenship. Palgrave-Macmillan Press. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-44252-1.Letizi)a, A.J. (2018). Using servant leadership: How to reframe the core functions of higher education. Rutgers University Press. (This book was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education: (https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/using-servant-leadership/9780813587349/)Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Other Essays:Letizia, A.J. (2025). Exploring the Everyday through Poetry: Autoethnography, Poetic Inquiry and Arts-Based Research as Astrolabe and Telescope. Journal of Autoethnography, 6(3). (Exploring the Everyday Through Poetry | Journal of Autoethnography | University of California Press
  2. Letizia, A.J. (2024). Poetry, leadership and the informal moments of organizational life. The Department Chair, (Spring Issue) (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dch.30566)
  3. Letizia, A.J. (2023). Pivoting a PDS program to working with employed interns: A case study in continuing organizational change. PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice. (https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/PDSP-09-2023-0032/full/html)Letizia, A.J. (2022). New alchemy: Using poetry to reimagine disciplinary Knowledge. Whale Road Review, 27(2). (http://www.whaleroadreview.com/letizia/)Letizia, A.J. (2021). Empirical drawings: Utilizing comic essays in the social studies classroom to teach citizenship. Sequential Art Narrative in Education, 2(6), Article 2. (https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/vol2/iss6/2/)Book Chapters:Letizia, A.J. (2024). “Poetry at the end of democracy: Envisioning democracy through poetry.” In Leaning into Politics: Higher Education’s Role in Building the Democracy We Need. A. Goldberg and C.O. Whaley (Eds). Information Age Press.Martin, J., Killian, M. & Letizia, A.J. (2023). “Comics and Community: the Potential of Comics for Exploring the Relationship Between Society, Education, and Citizenship.” In Comics and Research. J. DeHart (Ed). IGI Publications.Savick, S., Silver, P., Durham, R., Letizia, A.J. & Watson, L. (2022). “PDS in community schools.” In Professional Development School (PDS) and Community Schools: The Nexus of Practice. D. Ferrara, K. Nath, and D. Beebe (Eds.). Information Age Publishing.Letizia, A. J. (2020). “Servant leadership encyclopedia entry,” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education. M. Amey and M. David (Eds).SAGE Publications.

Presentations

  • Peer Reviewed Books:
  • Letizia, A.J. (2024). Poetic Inquiry and arts-based research for the maintenance of the Republic and what comes after: A Vision for Metamodernity. Routledge. (
  • https://www.routledge.com/Poetic-Inquiry-and-Arts-Based-Research-for-the-Maintenance-of-the-Republic/Letizia/p/book/9781032562827
  • ).
  • Letizia, A.J. (2020) Graphic novels as pedagogy in social studies: How to draw citizenship. Palgrave-Macmillan Press. (
  • https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-44252-1
  • ).
  • Letizia, A.J. (2018). Using servant leadership: How to reframe the core functions of higher education. Rutgers University Press. (This book was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education: (
  • https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/using-servant-leadership/9780813587349/
  • )
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Other Essays:
  • Letizia, A.J. (2025). Exploring the Everyday through Poetry: Autoethnography, Poetic Inquiry and Arts-Based Research as Astrolabe and Telescope. Journal of Autoethnography, 6(3). (
  • Exploring the Everyday Through Poetry | Journal of Autoethnography | University of California Press
  • Letizia, A.J. (2024). Poetry, leadership and the informal moments of organizational life. The Department Chair, (Spring Issue) (
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dch.30566
  • )
  • Letizia, A.J. (2023). Pivoting a PDS program to working with employed interns: A case study in continuing organizational change. PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice. (
  • https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/PDSP-09-2023-0032/full/html
  • )
  • Letizia, A.J. (2022). New alchemy: Using poetry to reimagine disciplinary Knowledge. Whale Road Review, 27(2). (
  • http://www.whaleroadreview.com/letizia/
  • )
  • Letizia, A.J. (2021). Empirical drawings: Utilizing comic essays in the social studies classroom to teach citizenship. Sequential Art Narrative in Education, 2(6), Article 2. (
  • https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/vol2/iss6/2/
  • )
  • Book Chapters:
  • Letizia, A.J. (2024). “Poetry at the end of democracy: Envisioning democracy through poetry.” In Leaning into Politics: Higher Education’s Role in Building the Democracy We Need. A. Goldberg and C.O. Whaley (Eds). Information Age Press.
  • Martin, J., Killian, M. & Letizia, A.J. (2023). “Comics and Community: the Potential of Comics for Exploring the Relationship Between Society, Education, and Citizenship.” In Comics and Research. J. DeHart (Ed). IGI Publications.
  • Savick, S., Silver, P., Durham, R., Letizia, A.J. & Watson, L. (2022). “PDS in community schools.” In Professional Development School (PDS) and Community Schools: The Nexus of Practice. D. Ferrara, K. Nath, and D. Beebe (Eds.). Information Age Publishing.
  • Letizia, A. J. (2020). “Servant leadership encyclopedia entry,” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education. M. Amey and M. David (Eds).SAGE Publications.

Awards