Michelle Klosterman
Faculty Director 2012
Michelle Klosterman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at Wake Forest University. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Florida with a focus in science education. She also earned a B.E. in biomedical engineering and a M.Ed. in science education from Vanderbilt University. Before joining the talented faculty at Wake Forest University, Michelle taught middle school and high school biology, physics, world cultures, and geography. As the Science Education program coordinator and Director of Outreach for the Center of Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, Michelle teaches and researches the intersections between science, media literacy education, and education for sustainability. Her personal hobbies include spending time with her husband and three children, reading, and doing just about anything outdoors.
Ryan Shirey
Writing Faculty 2012
Ryan D. Shirey, Lecturer in the Writing Program and Interim Director of the Wake Forest University Writing Center, earned his A.M. and Ph.D. in English and American Literature (with a Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of College Writing) at Washington University in St. Louis and his B.A. at Albion College. Shirey specializes in modern British and Scottish literatures, writing studies, writing across the curriculum, writing center pedagogy, and digital humanities. His forthcoming publications include scholarly articles on the Scottish novelists John Buchan and Neil Gunn, and his recent conference presentations have included such topics as Alfred Hitchcock’s 1930s spy thrillers and using “LOLcats” to address ideas of error and writing conventions in the college composition classroom. Since January 2010 Ryan has served as Interim Director of the Writing Center, where he has been engaged in, among other things, training student tutors to be good, critically-responsive audiences for the writing of their peers.
Leigh Hatchett Stanfield
Program Director
Leigh Stanfield is Director for Global Auxiliary Programs in the Provost’s Office for Global Affairs at Wake Forest University. Planning and coordinating the LENS @ Wake Forest summer enrichment program is one of her primary responsibilities. In addition, Leigh works with a variety of projects and programs which are international in scope such as coordination & development of programming for the Nicaragua Nexus (including the University’s conference center in Managua), management of the English Language Skills Enhancement program, coordination of the Leadership Laureates program for undergraduates, hosting Global Affairs events & visitors, and promoting Fulbright programs for staff. She enjoys working with diverse constituents from high school students to faculty & staff colleagues to international scholars & visitors. Leigh earned a B.A. in sociology from Wake Forest. She has worked at Wake Forest since 1999 and was previously assistant director for study abroad programs.
Hu Womack
Embedded Librarian
Hu David Womack is an Outreach and Instruction Librarian in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 1990 with a BA in English and Studio Art. Hu received his MBA from the Babcock School at Wake Forest in 2000 and completed his LIS degree from UNC-Greensboro in 2008. He currently serves as a member of Research, Instruction and Technology Services team, offering both bibliographic instruction and technology workshops to faculty and students. He is also the liaison for the Sociology department and serves on the Freshman Orientation and Advising Committee and the Professional Development Advisory Council. Hu has been an instructor with LENS @ Wake Forest since the program’s inception Summer 2010. His publications include co-authoring a chapter on gaming in academic libraries in “Gaming in Academic Libraries: Collections, Marketing, and Information Literacy” published by the Association of College and Research Libraries in 2008, co-authoring an article in North Carolina Libraries titled ‘Debating’ the Merits of Clickers in an Academic Library (v. 66 no. 1/2 Spring/Summer 2008 p. 20-4), and co-authoring a chapter on the research needs of international graduate student entitled “Connecting@ZSR: Meeting the Research Needs of International Graduate Students” in the book “International Students and Academic Libraries: Initiatives for Success” published by the Association of College and Research Libraries in 2011.
