Cathy Leogrande, Ph.D.
- Professor Education
Cathy Leogrande is a Professor in the Teacher Education Department of the Purcell School of Professional Studies. Her research focus is on using popular culture in K-12 classrooms. Specific areas of study and teaching include students with disabilities, adolescent development, transmedia storytelling, young adult literature, new literacies (including digital texts and other media, comics and graphic novels, gamification and game-based learning, sports literacy and media literacy to provide K-12 teachers the creative skills to teach content to all students in inclusive classrooms. Her teaching and research address issues of race, class, gender, and disability in texts and media.
Education
Ph.D. (1995). Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Teaching and Leadership Division: Curriculum & Instruction
M.S. Ed. (1982). College of St. Rose. Albany, NY. Learning Disabilities.
B.S. (1975). State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Exceptional Education: Learning & Behavioral Disorders
Awards and Honors
Purcell Faculty Career Mentor Award. (2024). Le Moyne College Career Advising & Development.
Graduate Mentor of the Year Award (2024).
Publications
Leogrande, C. (2024, in press). [Review of the book Long way home by D. Brenna]. NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture.
Leogrande, C. (2024, in press). Signs of love: Viewing Supernatural’s Sam and Eileen through a disability lens. In C. Coker (Ed.). Sex and Supernatural. McFarland.
Leogrande, C. (2024, in press). What does it mean to be a (working) woman? Television’s female teachers in 1950s and 1960s situation comedies. In A. Grunzke & R. Grunzke (Eds.), The female teacher on television. Lexington Press.
Leogrande, C. (2024). “But I saw it on TV”: Providing realistic understanding of disabilities using diverse forms of popular culture. Presentation at Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March 27-30, 2024.
Leogrande, C. (2024). Beyond the Saturday Evening Post: Norman Rockwell’s illustrations of baseball in varied media outlets. Presentation at Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), New York Chapter conference, February 2024.
Leogrande, C. (2023). Capturing the game on canvas: Norman Rockwell’s baseball illustrations. Paper presented at 9 Online: A Virtual Baseball Conference, October 12-13.2023.
Leogrande, C. (2023). Panels for good: Graphic anthologies in support of social problems (2017-2022). Poster & paper presented at the Comic Arts Conference, San Diego, CA July 20-23, 2023.
Leogrande, C., & Sourdot, L. (2023). Be a goldfish: What teacher candidates can learn from Ted Lasso. Paper presented at Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 5-8, 2023.
Leogrande, C. (2022). What does it mean to ban a book in 2022? Maus, challenges and access. Poster & paper presented at the Comic Arts Conference, San Diego, CA July 21-24, 2022.
Leogrande, C. (2022). Archetypes in baseball: Heroes & villains on the field and in the dugout. Paper presented at 33rd Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, June 1-3, Cooperstown NY.
Leogrande, C., & Sheehy, B. (2022). Play ball: Representations of women on vintage baseball photo postcards. NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, 30(1-2), 163-178.
