Name:
Alex McAllister
Email address:
Phone number:
(828) 262-8472
Fax number:
(828) 262-2773
Office address:
Belk Library and Information Commons, Room 226
Job title:
Humanities Librarian
Rank:
Associate Professor
Team:
Collection Management Services
Learning and Research Services
Liaison Areas
- Art
- English
- History
- Philosophy and Religion
Education
- Ed.D., Educational Leadership, Appalachian State University (in progress)
- MLIS, Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina at Columbia
- MM, Music History, University of South Carolina at Columbia
- BA, Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Library Responsibilities
- Evaluate and select humanities resources in all formats to support undergraduate and graduate programs in the following areas: Art, English, History, Philosophy and Religion.
- Communicate with department faculty in my subject areas about curricular and research needs and to provide them with information on library services and collection development
- Perform research consultations and reference service for faculty and students
- Perform library instruction for selected classes
Service
- Member of the ASU Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)
- Member of the ASU Humanities Council
- Chair of the Belk Library Diversity Committee (2017-2018)
- Inclusive Excellence Liaison
- ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee (2018-2020)
- NC Live Collection Development Working Group (appointed member, 2015-2016)
Scholarly Interests
- Humanities research methods and methodologies
- Collection development and other library science issues in the humanities
- Poststructural theories of Derrida, Foucault, etc.
- Critical theory and border pedagogy
- Iconology of the lute in Seventeenth-Century Dutch genre paintings