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Dawn Wing

She/Her

  • Associate Professor

Credentials

  • Master of Arts, Library and Information Studies
    University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Master of Arts in Teaching, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign
    Hunter College, New York
  • Bachelor of Arts, Art Studio
    Wellesley College

Recent and upcoming courses

Spring 2025

Fall 2025

Biography

Dawn (she/her) has more than fifteen years of combined teaching experience in areas of library research and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). She joined the Library department at Metro State as reference and instruction librarian in 2018 where she has taught INFS 315: Searching for Information—Focus on Immigrant Communities, WRIT232: Writing in the Digital Age (co-taught with Professor Danielle Hinrichs), and currently teaches INFS115—Information Access.

At Metro State, Dawn enjoys providing academic support to a diverse student body at an urban university with comprehensive yet affordable four-year bachelor's degree programs, graduate and doctoral programs. In additional to serving students and the community with research help, she also finds the collaborations in teaching, service, and faculty development with colleagues across disciplines and departments to be deeply fulfilling. Dawn's library liaison duties include providing information literacy support to incarcerated students enrolled in Metro State's Transformation and Reentry Through Education and Community (TREC) Program. At the ARLD Day Conference on April 30, 2021, the Minnesota Library Association’s Academic and Research Libraries Division (ARLD) presented Dawn the 2021 Academic Innovators Award in recognition “for her work amplifying marginalized and diverse voices in the library and in the local community.”

Dawn has a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from CUNY-Hunter College, and completed her MA in Library and Information Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her graduate studies at UW-Madison, Dawn was recognized for her academic achievements and service to librarianship earning her the Larry Jacobsen Innovations in Library Science Scholarship Award and Dianne McAffee Hopkins Diversity Award.

She was an American Library Association Spectrum Scholar (2011–12), and currently a member of Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), and CCBA - Assocation for Book Art Education.


Dawn's interests include graphic narratives, zines, decolonial herstories, bookmaking, public art, and multi-modal, interdisciplinary approaches to research and pedagogy. For more information about Dawn's ongoing professional growth, visit her online portfolio at https://sites.google.com/view/dawn-wing-librarian/home.

Awards and Honors (select)

  • Mary Elvira Stevens Traveling Fellowship (Wellesley College), 2023-24
  • Minnesota State Arts Board- Creative Individuals grant, 2022 & 2024
  • Metro State University- Office of Equity and Inclusion grant (focus on Academic Equity & Student Success of incarcerated students), 2023
  • Minnesota Library Association’s Academic and Research Libraries Division (ARLD)- 2021 Academic Innovators Award
  • UW-Madison's School of Information and Library Studies - Larry Jacobsen Innovations in Library Science Scholarship Award, 2013
  • UW-Madison's School of Information and Library Studies - Dianne McAffee Hopkins Diversity Award, 2012
  • American Library Association Spectrum Scholar (2011-12)

Publications (select)

  • Wing, Dawn K. Tien Fu Wu : Freedom Warrior. Water Pig Press, 2022.
  • Wing, Dawn K. Tye Leung Schulze : Translator for Justice : A Comics Biography. Water Pig Press, 2021

  • Wing, Dawn K. “Graphic History: Using Comics in the ELL Classroom.” School Library Journal (New York, N.Y.), Library Journals, LLC, 2015, pp. 25-.

    See more publications at this link- https://dawnwing.weebly.com/publications.html

    Presentations (select)

  • "Illustrating Voices of Power and Resistance in Tien Fu Wu: Freedom Warrior," University of Rhode Island - Graduate School of Information Science, February 23rd, 2023. [Online presentation]
  • Toronto Comic Arts Festival: Academic Symposium, "Comics and Community." Toronto, Canada. Exhibitor/Poster. June 17, 2022.
  • Women and Gender Studies 325: "Asian Feminisms," Wellesley College, MA - Guest Lecturer [virtual]. March 29, 2022

  • "Literary CelebrAsians: Library Events Promoting Asian American Voices during COVID19"- 43rd Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 23-26, 2022.

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