Transforming Students into Leaders through the Literary Arts and the Social Sciences

Dr Don Pardlow was an Associate Professor of English at Claflin University, USA. He is the author of Flight from Flatland: A Descriptive Study of Using Creative-Writing Pedagogy to Improve the Teaching of First-Year Composition (2009) and the fiction and poetry collection Field Notes of a Gypsy Scholar (2014). He is also co-editor of Cultivating Visionary Leadership by Learning for Global Success (Beyond the Language and Literature Classroom) (2015).

Dr Maeghan Peggy Stevenson Ratliff is a current Tenured Professor of English and project manager for a grant from the Mellon Foundation, entitled “Internationalizing the Humanities,” at Claflin University, USA. She has also served as editor for three textbooks and as assistant editor of The International Short Story.