Dr. Lyons is a dedicated global educator and passionate advocate for all students’ self-actualization and has over 15 years of experience developing the global competencies of foreign language and culture learners at the secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. She educates with the goal of empowering all students to become engaged global citizens while also helping them develop 21st -century skillsets so that they learn to more fully self-motivate, self-direct, and self-manage both their studies and their budding careers. Dr. Lyons has held teaching positions at Montgomery College, Yale University, The Catholic University of America as well as with Prince George’s County Schools.
Dr. Lyons is currently working on a book project and several journal articles in which she uses interdisciplinary methods and decolonial approaches to study cultural remediations of visualizing technologies in Italy to expand frameworks shaping the study of these technologies’ presence in culture beyond issues of modernity to include as well those of its dark side, coloniality.
Dissertation: “The Art of Writing with Light: The Photographic Presence in Italian Film, 1948-1978”