School of Education
Education
- PhD. in Educational Policy Planning and Leadership, College of William and Mary
- MA. in European History, Old Dominion University
- BA. in Secondary Social Studies, State University of New York at Cortland
Bio
Dr. Angelo J. Letizia joined the School of Education faculty at Notre Dame in August of 2018. Since then, Letizia has taught courses in the doctoral, masters and undergraduate programs, including: History of Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Leadership, Curriculum Development, Education Law, Social Studies Methods and the Historical Research Courses. Letizia also chairs a number of dissertation committees. Letizia has served as the Department Chair of Initial Programs Committee in the SOE since 2022. During his tenure in this role, he has helped to create the employed intern mentoring process, co-created a program for post-internship support and works closely with adjunct faculty.
Letizia is most passionate about civic education and the arts. Citizenship and democracy are not static things. They evolve and it is up to students and citizens more generally to imagine new and better and ways of living with each other. One way to accomplish this monumental task is by melding the arts and traditional pedagogy. This sentiment is infused into his teaching and scholarship.
Recent Publications and 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/)
Journal Articles:
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/)
Letizia, A. J. (2020). Truth, Politics and disability: Graphic narratives as illustrated hope. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 1–14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.184
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.
Poetry Books:
Letizia, A.J. (2024). There is still beauty here. British Columbia: Silver Bow Press. (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/there-is-still-beauty-here-angelo-letizia/1144723542)
Letizia, A.J. (2022). Toward the real: Poems for a new reality. Victoria, Australia: In Case of Emergency Press. (https://checkout.square.site/buy/UDYF2W4ONUBJNBGMYF7TZYHZ)
Letizia, A.J. (2022). We are the winding down. British Columbia: Silver Bow Press. (http://www.silverbowpublishing.com/angelo-letizia.html)
Letizia, A.J. (2022). Pilgrims of infinity. British Columbia: Silver Bow Press. (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pilgrims-of-infinity-angelo-letizia/1140917676)