Selected Works
Recent Presentations
"One that Deserves a Copy Made: Prince and ‘NewBlack’ Masculinty in 1989.” Batdance 30 Symposium. 30, March 2019. Spelman College, Atlanta, GA.
"A Woman Named Cat." Eye No: Prince Lovesexy Symposium. 2, June 2018. New York University, Brooklyn, NY.
"Robert Williams: Patriarch of House Music and EDM." Black Portraiture[s] IV: The Color of Silence. 23, March 2018. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
"Prince: Introduction of a New Breed Leader." Purple Reign: An interdisciplinary conference on the life and legacy of Prince. 26, May 2017. University of Salford, Manchester, UK.
Triller Fry, Steffanie, Kamilah Cummings and Nicholas Hayes. "Designing a Writing Program that Meets the Needs of the Adult Student." International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Conference. 28, July 2017. University of West Scotland, Paisley, Scotland.
Hayes, Nicholas, Kamilah Cummings and Steffanie Triller Fry. "Authentic Learning Through Reflective Writing." DePaul University Teaching and Learning Conference. 5, May 2017. DePaul University, Chicago, IL.
“Listening to be Heard.” Teaching in Situ: Sustaining Post-Traditional Student Voices In and Out of the Chicago Writing Classroom, Conference of Community Writing. 17 October 2015. University of Boulder, Boulder, CO.
“Doing Language.” SNL Quick Colloquia. February 2014. DePaul University, Chicago, IL.
“Connecting the Dots with Screencasts.” SNL Quick Colloquia. October 2013. DePaul University, Chicago, IL.
Accepted
Cummings, Kamilah, Akilah Martin and Kenya Grooms. "Teaching Invisible Men: Supporting Nontraditional Mature-Age Adult Male African-American Learners." The Teaching Professor Conference. St. Louis, MO, 2017.
Triller Fry, Steffanie, Nicholas Hayes and Kamilah Cummings . "Designing a Writing Program that Meets the Needs of the Adult Student." Student Success in Writing Conference. Savannah, GA, 2017.
Recent Publications
Forthcoming
"Prince: Introduction of a New Breed Leader." Prince in Popular Music: Critical Perspectives. London. Bloomsbury Academic. (2020).
Navarre Cleary, Michelle, et al. “Not for the Kids: Writing Support that Works for Adult Learners.” The City University of New York Basic Writing e-Journal (n.d.).
Published
"Sisters in the Shadows: An Examination of Prince’s “Strange Relationship” with Black Women." Howard University Journal of Communications Special Issue: Prince in/as Blackness: Explorations of a Music Icon and Racial Politics (2018). Journal. DOI: 10.1080/10646175.2018.1541768
Hayes, Nicholas Alexander, Steffanie Triller Fry and Kamilah Cummings, (2018) "Designing a Writing Program for non-traditional adult students: a case study (HETL Scotland 2017)", Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, Vol. 10 Issue: 2, pp.130-139, https://doi.org/10.1108/JARHE-04-2017-0046
DePaul School for New Learning SNL Writing News Blog 2013-2017.
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Thinking Critically about Jonestown. 15 October 2014. Article. <http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=61488>.
Presenting at Purple Reign: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Life and Legacy of Prince at The University of Salford in Manchester, England.
It was a personal and professional highlight to present among so many esteemed scholars from around the world at the first academic conference on Prince.
Presenting with my wonderful SNL Writing team colleagues at the Conference on Community Writing at the picturesque University of Boulder in Colorado.
Presenting with my SNL Writing team colleagues at the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Conference hosted by the University of West Scotland in Paisley, Scotland.