Nancy C. DeJoy

dejoy@msu.edu

257 Bessey Hall
434 Farm Ln
East Lansing, MI 48824

FacultyWriting, Rhetoric, and CulturesRhetoric and WritingFirst Year WritingProfessional and Public Writing

Associate Professor

Biography

Education

Ph.D., Purdue University 

Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, Michigan State University

M.A., Purdue University

B.A., Nazareth College of Rochester 

Projects


Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Art as a Tool for Equity and Social Justice

Andrew Mellon Foundation. $3,074,000.00. “Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Art as a Tool for Equity and Social Justice. (2021-2023). Co-PIs: Julian Chambliss (English MSU) and Natalie Phillips (English MSU).

Image-ning the Emotive Power of the Poetic Word: Multi-faceted Images as Pathways for Understanding Our Singular and Collective Lives

2020. DeJoy, N and Earley S. “Image-ning the Emotive Power of the Poetic Word: Multi-faceted Images as Pathways for Understanding Our Singular and Collective Lives”  The International Journal of the Image. 11 (3): 77-93.

Memoir as Process: Something Other Than Remembering

2020. “Memoir as Process: Something Other Than Remembering.” Fourth Genre.  22 (1): 226-228. 

Collaborations and Innovations: Supporting Multilingual Writers Across Campus Units

2017. Collaborations and Innovations: Supporting Multilingual Writers Across Campus Units. Co-edited with Beatrice Quarshie Smith. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Reading and Writing Literacies

2011. Reading and Writing Literacies. Second Edition (with graduate students Collin Craig, Steven Lessner and Bonnie Williams). New York: Pearson/Longman custom publishing.

Reading and Writing Literacies

2009. Reading and Writing Literacies. (with graduate students Collin Craig, Steven Lessner and Bonnie Williams). New York: Pearson/Longman custom publishing.

Media Mentions

Poetry as Public Art is Part of Placemaking

Lansing State Journal

February 25, 2018

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On the Wrong Track

WKAR

September 29, 2016

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Videos

Illuminating Survivor Voices: Nancy DeJoy TEDxMSU

Courses

First-Year Writing

Composition Theory

Feminist Theory

Nature and Environmental Writing

Undergraduate Research Seminar

Introduction to Feminism

Exhibitions


2020. Soulfire. Michigan State University, LOOKOut Gallery.

2020. “Now” by Nancy DeJoy and Samantha Earley Juried: Fantastical Flora and Fauna Online Exhibition (Sept. 25-Nov. 7, 2020) South Haven Center for the Arts, South Haven, MI. (Honorable Mention)

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2019. Soulfire.” MSU Federal Credit Union, Main Branch. A fundraiser for Firecracker Foundation, Lansing, MI.

2019. Soulfire Art Catalogue. MSU Libraries Publishing Services. A community partner service project with The Firecracker Foundation. (September.)

2019. “Art for Artists’ Sakes.” Exhibit of my poems on prints by Samantha Earley. June. East Lansing Art Gallery.

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2019. “What If I ….” Ways to Make a Better Community Together, collaborative art and poetry show. Katalyst Gallery. Old Town, Lansing, MI. October 25.

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2018. “Illuminating Survivor Voices.” Poetry Sculpture Installation; featured work. MSU Social Justice Art Festival. Lookout! Gallery, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities. January 25.

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2018. “Illuminating Survivor Voices.” Poetry Sculpture Installation. Wharton Performing Art Center main lobby. February and March.

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2018. “Illuminating Survivor Voices.” Poetry Sculpture, organic lighting and multimedia projection project. December, 2018. Broad Art Lab, East Lansing, MI.

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2018. With Jordan Taylor Warren (student). “Petroleum Addiction.” Summer Trio: Three Diverse Exhibits to Open Eyes and Hearts. Grove Gallery and Studios, East Lansing, MI. July 12–August 10.

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2018. “Landscape” With lithographer Samantha Earley. Paper Connections: Works by Faculty and Students of Indiana University Southeast​ and the National University of Samoa. Indiana University Southeast and the National University of Samoa. July.

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2017: Permanent Poetry Installation (metal plate etching): “Walking In.” Michigan Women’s Historical Center and Hall of Fame, Lansing, MI. To celebrate the Lansing Women’s March.

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2017 (December 10). “I’m Fine.” (We Are More Fierce Than Fine). Beneath the Clouds. Robin Theatre, Lansing, MI.

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2017. A Little Militant. Grove Gallery and Studios, East Lansing, MI. “Message Interrupted”; “1 in 4.” (Poems).

2016. Counting Backwards. Poetry Installation. East Lansing Art Gallery. February. 2016. Featured Artist/Poet: Arts Night Out. Greater Lansing Arts Council event. Curious Bookshop, East Lansing. May 5, 2016.

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University News

Professor Honored for Community-Engaged Creative Activity
Published March 26, 2024 in College of Arts & Letters
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For her outstanding work producing an equity-based art exhibition featuring more than 200 pieces of work from around the world, Nancy DeJoy, Associate Professor in the Department of Writing,…Read now »
Creativity in the Time of COVID-19 Exhibit Displays Work from All Seven Continents
Published April 6, 2023 in College of Arts & Letters
An equity-based art exhibition featuring more than 200 pieces of work from all around the world, exploring the use of creativity to cope with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, is opening this…Read now »
Classes with CAL Spring 2021
Published March 23, 2021 in College of Arts & Letters
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Take time during COVID to check out the innovative thinking in these talks presented by College of Arts & Letters faculty on the topics of wellbeing, learning a foreign language, and social…Read now »
$3 Million Grant Funds Exhibits of Art Created Globally During COVID-19
Published January 13, 2021 in College of Arts & Letters
three images of people put together; a man wearing a dark zip up and glasses (left), a women with short brown hair wearing a blue collar shirt and glasses (middle), and a women with long blonde hair wearing hoop earrings and a green scarf (right).
Michigan State University has begun collecting art from around the world in an exploration of how people are using creativity in coping with the challenges and stresses of the COVID-19…Read now »
Studio Art Major Wins ‘Most Inspiring’ at Social Justice Art Festival
Published March 6, 2019 in College of Arts & Letters
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Frankie Potochick, a senior Studio Art major, received the “Most Inspiring” award at the Second Annual Social Justice Art Festival for her painting, Innocence Lost, which focuses on the…Read now »
‘Illuminating Survivor Voices’ Makes Strides Across MSU
Published February 20, 2019 in College of Arts & Letters
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After making its initial debut at the Broad Art Lab in December, Associate Professor Nancy DeJoy’s poem, Illuminating Survivor Voices, which addresses the issue of silence in cases of…Read now »
‘Illuminating Survivor Voices’ Through the Arts
Published November 20, 2018 in College of Arts & Letters
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A poem by Associate Professor Nancy DeJoy, addressing the issue of silence in cases of sexual abuse and how the isolation and silencing of survivor voices is detrimental to the lives of…Read now »