Lane Glisson
Professor, Interdisciplinary Librarian and Library Instruction Coordinator, BMCC Library, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.
I am a Professor, Interdisciplinary Librarian, and Instruction Coordinator at BMCC Library, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. Research Interests include: literary studies, migration and identity; women’s studies; human rights; narratology; disinformation; the relationship between research and student writing.
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Academic Interests
Lane Glisson’s current scholarly research focuses on candor and dissent in women’s writing, migration and marginality, and the relationship between narrative and memory. She has also written about disinformation and pedagogy. Her book Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing was published by Bloomsbury in 2026. Her chapter “Tearing Away and Rebuilding from the Fragments: The Work of Meena Alexander,” in the anthology Women Representing Women: A Transnational Perspective, edited by Simona Wright and Lidia Radi, is forthcoming from Vernon Press. Her article “Breaking the Spin Cycle: Teaching Complexity in the Age of Fake News,” (portal: Libraries and the Academy, Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 19, no. 3, July 2019, pp. 461 – 484) was selected as one of the Top 20 Best Instruction Articles of 2019 by the ALA Library Instruction Round Table Top 20 Committee and was also chosen as an ACRL Instruction Section Teaching Methods Committee Selected Resource, in the Teaching Methods and Instructional Design list (2020).
Education
MA Liberal Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY, focusing on Comparative Literature and Autobiography, Biography and Life-writing.
MLIS, Queens College, CUNY.
BFA Film and Television, New York University.
Publications
Glisson, Lane. Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing, Bloomsbury, 2026, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/disappearance-and-candor-in-contemporary-womens-writing-9781666950519/.
Glisson, Lane. “Tearing Away and Rebuilding from Fragments: The Poetry of Meena Alexander.” Women Representing Women: A Transnational Perspective, edited by Lidia Radi and Simona Wright, forthcoming from Vernon Press.
Glisson, Lane. “Drawing from Life: Research Support for Musical Theatre at a Community College.” Creators in the Academic Library: Instruction & Outreach, edited byAlexander C. Watkins and Rebecca Zuege Kuglitsch. Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 2023, https://alastore.ala.org/content/creators-academic-library-instruction-and-outreach.
Glisson, Lane. “Breaking the Spin Cycle: Teaching Complexity in the Age of Fake News.” portal: Libraries and the Academy, Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 19, no. 3, July 2019, pp. 461 – 484, https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2019.0027.
Secovnie, Kelly. O. and Lane Glisson. “Scaffolding a Librarian into Your Course: An Assessment of a Research-based Model for Online Instruction,” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, National Council of Teachers of English, vol. 47, no. 2, Dec. 2019, pp.119-148. https://publicationsncte.org/content/journals/10.58680/tetyc201930433.
Glisson, Lane and Kelly O. Secovnie. “Making Library Research Real in the Digital Classroom: A Professor – Librarian Partnership.” Distributed Learning: Pedagogy and Technology in Online Information Literacy Instruction, Tasha Maddison and Maha Kumaran, editors, Chandos/Elsevier, 2016, pp. 177-203, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-100598-9.00010-6.
Glisson, Lane et al. “Looking into the Mirror of Inquiry: Knowledge in Our Students and in Ourselves.” Teaching and Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 2014, pp 7-20, https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/TLI/article/view/57399.
