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RIT Edwina Award for Gender Diversity and Inclusiveness, and the RIT Isaac L. Jordan Sr. Faculty Pluralism Award. Dr. Bailey is the co-author on an engineering textbook published through Wiley, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, which is used worldwide in over 250 institutions. She also co-edited Women in Mechanical Engineering - Energy and the Environment published by Springer Nature in 2022. Dr. Bailey is an author on over 85 peer-reviewed publications and a registered professional engineer in the state of NJ.
Associate Professor Laura Shackelford, Ph.D. is the Founding Director of the Center for Engaged Storycraft, recent Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Professor in the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY, USA. Dr. Shackelford teaches courses and conducts research in contemporary fiction and narrative theory, digital literature, speculative and science fiction, women's and gender studies, and feminist philosophy of science, and leads an interdisciplinary, project based, travel-enhanced Transnational Digital Creation Workshop with faculty at the University of Paris-8. She is the author of Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction, published by the University of Michigan Press in 2014; co-editor of Surreal Entanglements: Essays on Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction, published by Routledge Press in 2021; and co-editor of Women in Mechanical Engineering - Energy and Environment, published by Springer Nature in 2022. In addition, she has numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in prominent edited collections exploring the scientific, technological, philosophical, and cultural transformations that have grown out of post-World War II cybernetics, information, and bioinformatic sciences and cultures, and their impact on narrative practices, gender roles, and spatial relations, in particular. She is also a longstanding member of the interdisciplinary Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). Her sponsored research activity has enabled her to co-design and facilitate story-driven engineering workshops with her KEEN Engineering Unleashed collaborators in recent years and to lead a summer workshop, Gathering Stories: A Digital Storytelling Workshop for Young Women for local 11th and 12th graders in the Rochester area since July 2021. In November 2021, she will join the University of Paris-8 as an Invited Professor, where she will continue to research divergent American and French histories of interactive narrative and their potential significance to interactive models for health communication and narrative medicine today.