Angelo

Letizia

School of Education

Education 

• PhD. in Educational Policy Planning and Leadership, College of William and Mary 
• MA. in European History, Old Dominion University 
• BA. in Secondary Social Studies, State University of New York at Cortland 

Bio 

Dr. Angelo J. Letizia joined the School of Education faculty at Notre Dame in August of 2018. Since then, Letizia has taught courses in the doctoral, masters and undergraduate programs, including: History of Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Leadership, Curriculum Development, Education Law, Social Studies Methods and the Historical Research Courses. Letizia also chairs a number of dissertation committees. Letizia has served as the Department Chair of Initial Licensure Programs in the SOE since 2022. During his tenure in this role, he has helped to create the employed intern mentoring process, co-created a program for post-internship support and works closely with adjunct faculty. 
 
Letizia is most passionate about civic education and the arts. Citizenship and democracy are not static things. They evolve and it is up to students and citizens more generally to imagine new and better and ways of living with each other. One way to accomplish this monumental task is by melding the arts and traditional pedagogy. This sentiment is infused into his teaching and scholarship. 
 

Recent Publications and Presentations 

Peer Reviewed Books: 
 
Letizia, A.J. (2024). Poetic Inquiry and arts-based research for the maintenance of the Republic and what comes after: A Vision for Metamodernity. Routledge. (https://www.routledge.com/Poetic-Inquiry-and-Arts-Based-Research-for-the-Maintenance-of-the-Republic/Letizia/p/book/9781032562827). 
 
Letizia, A.J. (2020) Graphic novels as pedagogy in social studies: How to draw citizenship. Palgrave-Macmillan Press. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-44252-1). 
 
Letizia, A.J. (2018). Using servant leadership: How to reframe the core functions of higher education. Rutgers University Press. (This book was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education: (https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/using-servant-leadership/9780813587349/) 
 
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Other Essays: 

Letizia, A.J. (2025). Exploring the Everyday through Poetry: Autoethnography, Poetic Inquiry and Arts-Based Research as Astrolabe and Telescope. Journal of Autoethnography, 6(3). (Exploring the Everyday Through Poetry | Journal of Autoethnography | University of California Press 

Letizia, A.J. (2024). Poetry, leadership and the informal moments of organizational life. The Department Chair, (Spring Issue) (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dch.30566)  

Letizia, A.J. (2023). Pivoting a PDS program to working with employed interns: A case study in continuing organizational change. PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice. (https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/PDSP-09-2023-0032/full/html) 
 
Letizia, A.J. (2022). New alchemy: Using poetry to reimagine disciplinary Knowledge. Whale Road Review, 27(2). (http://www.whaleroadreview.com/letizia/) 
 
Letizia, A.J. (2021). Empirical drawings: Utilizing comic essays in the social studies classroom to teach citizenship. Sequential Art Narrative in Education, 2(6), Article 2. (https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/vol2/iss6/2/) 
 
Book Chapters: 
 
Letizia, A.J. (2024). “Poetry at the end of democracy: Envisioning democracy through poetry.” In Leaning into Politics: Higher Education’s Role in Building the Democracy We Need. A. Goldberg and C.O. Whaley (Eds). Information Age Press. 
 
Martin, J., Killian, M. & Letizia, A.J. (2023). “Comics and Community: the Potential of Comics for Exploring the Relationship Between Society, Education, and Citizenship.” In Comics and Research. J. DeHart (Ed). IGI Publications. 
 
Savick, S., Silver, P., Durham, R., Letizia, A.J. & Watson, L. (2022). “PDS in community schools.” In Professional Development School (PDS) and Community Schools: The Nexus of Practice. D. Ferrara, K. Nath, and D. Beebe (Eds.). Information Age Publishing. 
 
Letizia, A. J. (2020). “Servant leadership encyclopedia entry,” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education. M. Amey and M. David (Eds).SAGE Publications. 
  

Creative Works:

Letizia, A.J. (2025). The Last Number and Other Stories. Silver Bow Press. (novellas and short stories) (The Last Number and Other Stories - Kindle edition by Letizia, Angelo. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.) 

Letizia, A.J. (2025). Temporary Gods and Arbitrary Arrangements. Silver Bow Press. (novel). (Temporary Gods and Arbitrary Arrangements - Kindle edition by Letizia, Angelo. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.) 

Letizia, A.J. (2024). Learning to love in Winter. In Case of  Emergency Press. (Amazon.com: Learning to Love in Winter eBook : Letizia, Angelo: Kindle Store) 

 
Letizia, A.J. (2022). Toward the real: Poems for a new reality. Victoria, Australia: In Case of Emergency Press. (https://checkout.square.site/buy/UDYF2W4ONUBJNBGMYF7TZYHZ) 
 
Letizia, A.J. (2022). We are the winding down. British Columbia: Silver Bow Press. (http://www.silverbowpublishing.com/angelo-letizia.html) 
 
Letizia, A.J. (2022). Pilgrims of infinity. British Columbia: Silver Bow Press. (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pilgrims-of-infinity-angelo-letizia/1140917676) 

Other Scholarship Opportunities: 

Facilitated a two-day workshop on the use of poetic inquiry and arts-based pedagogy at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) University School, Fort Lauderdale, FL. (2025). 

Awards and Distinctions: 

Recognized as an alumni leader by The College of William and Mary: Angelo Letizia Ph.D. '14 | W&M School of Education (wm.edu) 

Poetry featured in Poets and Writers: (https://www.pw.org/small_presses/silver_bow_publishing)  

Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education:   

https://www.chronicle.com/article/when-power-plays-fail-you-can-lead-by-example/