Curriculum Vitae

Na’Imah H. Ford, Ph.D.

Professional Summary

Associate Professor and Instructional Designer with 26 years of instructive experience in higher education
Knowledgeable educator, curriculum designer, and results-oriented faculty leader
Expertise in Online Instructional Development
Expertise in Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies
Digital Humanities specialist
English Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Theory & Gender Studies
Subject Matter Expert – Writing/Cultural Theory/Women & Gender Studies/African Diaspora Studies

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy 2007
University of Missouri – Columbia
English – Postcolonial Literature and Theory

Master of Science 2018
The Florida State University
Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies
Online Instructional Development
Educational Psychology & Instructional Systems

Master of Arts 2004
The Florida State University
African American Literature & Folklore

Bachelor of Arts 1999
The Florida State University
Double Major: English Literature &International
Affairs (Latin American & Caribbean History)

Specialized Trainings/Certifications

2018                Course Conversions (Blackboard to Canvas)
2015                Distance Learning Course Design/Blackboard Cert.
2015                Bedford St. Martin “Launchpad” Readers and Writers
2010                PeopleSoft
2010                “Designing, Implementing and Facilitating Faculty and
Professional Learning Communities” Lilly Conference on College
Teaching at Miami University-Oxford Ohio

Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies Proficiencies

Communication
Analysis
Design
Technology and Media
Evaluation
Digital Humanities
Management
Personal and Interpersonal Skills
Research

Professional Experience

2011 – Present
Associate Professor
Department of English & Modern Languages
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL

2008 – 2011
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of English
Florida A&M University

2002 – 2007
Graduate Instructor
Department of English/Women & Gender Studies/Black Studies
University of Missouri-Columbia

2006
Curriculum Designer
University of Missouri-Columbia
Kansas City, Missouri Public Schools Urban Scholars

2005 – 2006
Writing Instructor
City of Columbia, MO Public Schools
MAC Scholars Program

2003 – 2004
Educational Specialist
City of Columbia Parks and Recreation
Career Awareness Related Experience
Youth Employment and Education Program

1999 – 2002
Graduate Instructor / Teaching Assistant / Tutor
Department of English
The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Recent Publications

“Southern Bodegas: Black Women, Community, and Good Food” Get It While It’s Hot. Forthcoming 2025

“Utopian Promises, Dystopic Realities: Teaching bell hooks’ “No Love in The Wild.” Feminist Pedagogy. Vol.3:1 2023

“Revolutionary Movements: The Works and Work of Ntozake Shange” in African American Literature and Culture in Transition. Invited Publication. Forthcoming August 2023

“Utopian Promises, Dystopic Realities: Teaching bell hooks’ “No Love in The Wild.” Feminist Pedagogy. Forthcoming December 2022

“Pedagogy of Empowerment: Approaches to Teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie” College Language Association Journal Special Issue, vol. 60 no.4, 2018

“Black Americans and American Blacks:” Transatlantic Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah.” The Postcolonial Subject in Transit: Migration, Borders, and Subjectivity in African Diaspora Literature. Lexington Books P. 2018

“A Voodoo Queen and A Blood Fiend: An Exploration of Memory and Rememory in Jewell Parker Rhodes’ Yellow Moon.” Race and The Vampire Narrative Sense P. 2014