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Parkville Campus, Copley 216
bhandley@park.edu
(816) 584-6374
Brandi's impressive career has included published scholarship on a wide variety of topics. Browse selected highlights from her teaching and publications, and view her CV below.
“String” is a coming-of-age magical realism story in which the main character feels she has no control over the disintegrating family structure she is a part of. These feelings manifest in her becoming physically untethered—she begins to float.
“Adult Education” is a creative nonfiction piece made up of vignettes and portraits of students Brandi taught at an adult education center. Through the variety of experiences and backgrounds of these students, the piece explores the American education system and what happens when the system fails.
Brandi Handley is an assistant teaching professor of English at Park University. She is located at the Parkville, Missouri campus.
Brandi earned both her bachelor’s degree in English and master’s of fine arts degree in creative writing and media arts at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her emphasis area for her master’s degree was fiction writing.
Brandi has taught at Park University for five years as a full-time faculty member and three years prior as an adjunct. Her scholarship interests include writing short stories and creative nonfiction essays, and she is currently working on a novel. While most of her writing is creative, she has collaborated with colleagues at Park across the disciplines on research projects exploring teaching and learning.
Outside of writing and teaching, Brandi enjoys watching movies and taking care of her 106-year-old house and her two cats Yorba and Sylvie.
As universities increasingly expand online education offerings, WAC directors are compelled to rethink how to make WAC training more available and accessible to a wider range of teaching personnel. In this article, we describe our unique institutional context as a liberal arts university heavily reliant on online education, and the features that can make implementing WAC at unusual institutions such as ours difficult--in particular, the training/support of geographically dispersed faculty teaching WAC courses in a variety of instructional modalities. We share the design of our four-week online asynchronous WAC faculty training course and present outcomes data from five cohorts that completed the course.
“A Favor” is a creative nonfiction piece about a brief and unexpected interaction with a stranger who is dying of Alzheimer’s Disease and his wife who is caring for him.
"Holes” is a magical realism story about a young woman who has perfectly round holes appearing in her clothing. She tries to determine if the holes are a sign from God or a sign that her life is falling apart.
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