Christa Albrecht-Crane

Faculty Member

Professor Christa Albrecht-Crane

Biography

Professor Albrecht-Crane has been teaching at UVU since 2001. Her areas of speciality are critical and cultural theory, cultural studies, and writing studies. She is currently serving as chair of the English department's Writing Program Committee. She has published many articles and has co-edited a collection of essays on film adaptation theory with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 2014. She holds a baccalaureate degree from the University of Munich in Germany; she earned an MA in American Studies from Washington State University and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University. She lives in Orem with her spouse and two lovely dogs. Her two sons graduated from UVU with degrees in mathematics and now live and work in Oregon and Arkansas.

Education

PhD, Michigan Technological University, 2001

Major: Rhetoric and Technical Communication

MA, Washington State University, 1997

Major: American Studies

BA, Ludwig Maximilians University, 1994

Major: American Studies

Teaching

ENGL 2010

Intermediate Academic Writing CC, Fall 2024

ENGL 4790

Literary Studies Capstone, Fall 2024

ENGL 481R

Internship, Spring 2024

ENGL 4790

Literary Studies Capstone, Spring 2024

ENGL 401R

Topics in Rhetoric, Spring 2024

Presentations

Albrecht-Crane, Christa (Presenter & Author), AI Ideas for CHSS, "Critical AI Literacy", CHSS Teaching Committee, Utah Valley University. (April 10, 2024)
Albrecht-Crane, Christa (Panelist), Pre-Conference: Artificial Intelligence Generative Tools, " The Role of Human Professors in an AI-Powered Society.", UVU, UVU campus. (March 2, 2023)
Albrecht-Crane, Christa (Presenter & Author), Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, "The Critical Utopia in Ursula LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness", El Paso, TX. (October, 2019)
Albrecht-Crane, Christa (Presenter & Author), Conference on College Composition and Communication, "Talk It up_ Transforming Writing Conference Pedagogy by Applying Writing Conference Research ", Kansas City, MO. (March, 2018)
Albrecht-Crane, Christa (Presenter & Author), International Conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries, "Negotiating the Archive_ Redefining the Event of the Book through Collaborative Engagement ", Vancouver, BC, Canada. (October, 2015)
Albrecht-Crane, Christa (Presenter & Author), American Culture/Popular Culture Association Conference, "The Medium and Its Message_ Adaptation Studies as a Social Ecology of the Book and of Cinema", Boston, MA. (April, 2012)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Albrecht-Crane, Christa , Comi, Dana , Weech, Shelton , Flanagan, Suzan , "Situated AI Usage_ A Methodological Approach to Generative AI User Research" . United States of America.: 2024 Special Interest Group for Design of Communication. Association for Computing Machinery..
Albrecht-Crane, Christa , Stivale, Charles , (2011) "Style/Stutter“" . Gilles Deleuze_ Key Concepts.
Albrecht-Crane, Christa , Cutchins, Dennis , (2010) "Adaptation Studies_ New Approaches" . Farleigh Dickinson University Press. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780838642627/Adaptation-Studies-New-Approaches
Albrecht-Crane, Christa , (2003) "An Affirmative Theory of Desire" (Issue: 3, vol. 23). Journal of Advanced Composition.
Albrecht-Crane, Christa , (2003) "“Becoming Minoritarian_ Post-Identity in Toni Morrison’s Jazz” " (Issue: 1, vol. 36). The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.

Awards

Dean’s Award of Excellence in Service

College of Humanities & Social Sciences - April, 2024

Flexible Teaching Award -- Best Online Delivery

OTL, UVU - March 7, 2023

Won second place; award recognizes faculty's efforts to provide outstanding teaching efforts in online classes, specifically in the area of course delivery.

Faculty Excellence Award

Faculty Senate at Utah Valley University - April, 2020

The purpose of the Faculty Senate Faculty Excellence Award is to recognize faculty who have made significant contributions to UVU's mission through demonstrated excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.

Dean's Recognition Award - Scholarly Research

School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UVU - May, 2011

Faculty Excellence Award

Faculty Senate, Utah Valley University - April, 2005

The purpose of the Faculty Senate Faculty Excellence Award is to recognize faculty who have made significant contributions to UVU's mission through demonstrated excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.