I Am UCF: A Digital Storytelling Initiative
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“I Am UCF” is a cross-disciplinary effort to create digital stories representing the diverse narratives of the University of Central Florida campus body, spearheaded by faculty in the Theatre, Digital Media, English, and Writing and Rhetoric degree programs. Through I Am UCF, students share their unique stories using digital storytelling, a medium that fuses together writing, audio, visual, digital, and performative elements."I Am UCF" provides a comprehensive curriculum for the creation of digital stories emphasizing community, diversity, advocacy, and creative expression. This website serves as a platform for these projects in the form of a sortable campus map to celebrate the diverse and rich stories of our campus body.
Think about it ... How have Place and Identity been a part of your UCF experience? What do you want to share with the campus body about where you come from, and what makes your perspective unique? What brought you to UCF? How has your time at UCF changed you? And where you hope to go from here? Have an answer? Submit a video. I Am UCF is generously funded through the UCF Quality Enhancement Plan. |
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How have Place and Identity been a part of your UCF experience? What do you want to share with the campus body about where you come from, and what makes your perspective unique? What brought you to UCF? How has your time at UCF changed you? And where you hope to go from here?
Meet the Team:
FACULTY
Elizabeth Brendel Horn (Project Director) works as a freelance director, teaching artist, playwright, consultant, dramaturge, and applied theatre artist. Credits include the First Stage Academy (Milwaukee, WI), Alliance Theatre Education (Atlanta, GA), Adventure Theatre and ATMTC Academy (Glen Echo, MD), The Coterie (Kansas City, MO), Orlando Repertory Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Dr Phillips Center for the Arts, and Orange County Public Schools. Recent projects include director of a mixed-ability original play featuring the stories of survivors of strokes with the Adaptive Learning Community; director of a youth-devised adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar fused with Bob Dylan music in the Alliance Theatre's Collision Project; director of the new musical The Reckless Days of Robin Hood (The Coterie); director of "Once In My LIFE," a multimedia intergenerational devised piece in collaboration with Interdisciplinary Studies and UCF's Learning Institute for Elders; and The Justice Project, a collaboration of UCF and Orlando Repertory Theatre that trains young people as theatre artists and facilitators to confront social justice issues in their communities. As a playwright, Elizabeth has written three one-act scripts suitable for high school competition adapted or inspired from Greek classics: Medea, Elektra, and Antigone and Ismene. Elizabeth serves on the boards of TYA/USA (Publications committee chair) and Florida Theatre Conference (Theatre for Youth division chair) and is published with Theatre Topics; TYA Today; Youth Theatre Journal; Storytelling, Self, Society; and Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. She holds an MFA in Theatre for Young Audiences from UCF and a BFA in Musical Theatre from Brenau University with the Gainesville Theatre Alliance.
Elizabeth Brendel Horn (Project Director) works as a freelance director, teaching artist, playwright, consultant, dramaturge, and applied theatre artist. Credits include the First Stage Academy (Milwaukee, WI), Alliance Theatre Education (Atlanta, GA), Adventure Theatre and ATMTC Academy (Glen Echo, MD), The Coterie (Kansas City, MO), Orlando Repertory Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Dr Phillips Center for the Arts, and Orange County Public Schools. Recent projects include director of a mixed-ability original play featuring the stories of survivors of strokes with the Adaptive Learning Community; director of a youth-devised adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar fused with Bob Dylan music in the Alliance Theatre's Collision Project; director of the new musical The Reckless Days of Robin Hood (The Coterie); director of "Once In My LIFE," a multimedia intergenerational devised piece in collaboration with Interdisciplinary Studies and UCF's Learning Institute for Elders; and The Justice Project, a collaboration of UCF and Orlando Repertory Theatre that trains young people as theatre artists and facilitators to confront social justice issues in their communities. As a playwright, Elizabeth has written three one-act scripts suitable for high school competition adapted or inspired from Greek classics: Medea, Elektra, and Antigone and Ismene. Elizabeth serves on the boards of TYA/USA (Publications committee chair) and Florida Theatre Conference (Theatre for Youth division chair) and is published with Theatre Topics; TYA Today; Youth Theatre Journal; Storytelling, Self, Society; and Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. She holds an MFA in Theatre for Young Audiences from UCF and a BFA in Musical Theatre from Brenau University with the Gainesville Theatre Alliance.
Brenda Peynado’s stories have won an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, theChicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, a Dana Award, a Fulbright Grant to the Dominican Republic, a Vermont Studio Center Residency, and other prizes. Her work appears in The Georgia Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review Online, Pleiades, The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, and other journals. She received her MFA at Florida State University and her PhD at the University of Cincinnati. She teaches fiction and screenwriting at UCF.
Natalie Underberg-Goode is Associate Professor of Digital Media and Folklore in the UCF School of Visual Arts and Design (this will change to the Nicholson School of Communication and Media as of July 1, 2018), where she is currently serving as Graduate Program Coordinator for the Digital Media M.A. degree. Underberg-Goode is also director of the UCF Digital Ethnography Lab, as well as core faculty in the Texts & Technology Ph.D. program. Her research examines the use of digital media to preserve and disseminate folklore and cultural heritage, with a focus on digital storytelling and participatory new media design and practice. She is author (with Elayne Zorn) of the book Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media (University of Texas Press, 2013), editor of a special issue of the international journal Visual Ethnography on Exploring Digital Ethnography through Embodied Perspective, Role-Playing and Community Participation and Design , as well as more than 25 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. She has been PI or co-PI on research and teaching grants and fellowships totaling over $200,000. These include two Florida Humanities Council, two Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs grants, The Strong Research Fellowship, and flow-through funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her research has been presented at 25 national and international conferences, including the Bilan du Film Ethnographique seminar in Paris, France and the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). In addition to research, Dr. Underberg-Goode has developed core courses for the Digital Media and Latin American Studies programs and electives for the Film and Texts and Technology programs at UCF. She has taught or teaches courses in a variety of areas including digital and interactive storytelling, research methods, video game history, and Latin American popular culture. She has served her profession through such activities as co-organizing four international and three regional conferences, serving on the Department of State Bureau of Historic Preservation Florida Folklife Council, being digital stories and electronic literature curator for Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, and book reviews co-editor (for U.S. and Canada) for Visual Anthropology Review.
Stephanie Wheeler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric with a specialization in Cultural Rhetorics and Disability Studies. She is interested in tracing the historical and cultural legacies of eugenics in the places you’d least expect, including local legislation, Harry Potter, and Lady Gaga videos. In doing so, she uses that information to create inclusive and accessible locations, opportunities, and social practices.
STUDENTS
Matt Patsis (Map Manager) is a History MA student at the University of Central Florida, as well as a Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant for the UCF History Department. Matt's research interests include Imperialism and Colonialism, World War I, and 19th - 20th century European and African History. Matt is also in the process of completing his Geographic Information Systems (GIS) certificate at UCF.
Matt Patsis (Map Manager) is a History MA student at the University of Central Florida, as well as a Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant for the UCF History Department. Matt's research interests include Imperialism and Colonialism, World War I, and 19th - 20th century European and African History. Matt is also in the process of completing his Geographic Information Systems (GIS) certificate at UCF.
Daria Sinyagovskaya (Technical Coordinator) is a Texts and Technology PhD student and t University of Central Florida and a Graduate Research Associate at the UCF Center of Humanities and Digital Research. Daria is a Technical Coordinator for the digital storytelling initiative I am UCF, assisting students and faculty with their creative projects. Her research interests include digital humanities, electronic publishing, digital book design, and social media management