Additional Guest Speakers

Trinity Turner is in the Musical Theatre Program at UNC Charlotte.

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune for his “vivid musical imagination” and “deep understanding of far-flung performance practices,” Ethan Uslan is a ragtime/jazz concert pianist. He is a 3-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest (yes – that really exists!) and has performed all over the USA and Europe. Ethan was featured prominently […]

Jeff Walker (he/him), Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Montevallo, is a fan of all things Oz. His teaching and research interests include rhetoric, public memory, storytelling, and social change. Walker is the author of four books and numerous journal articles in the field of communication, […]

Mark West, a professor in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has taught courses in children’s and young adult literature since 1984. He has also had administrative positions at UNC Charlotte, including the Chair of the English Department and the Director of the American Studies Program. He has written or […]

Lynne Wiesecke has taught Multilingual Learners at Albemarle Road Elementary School in East Charlotte for more than two decades. She is now a Curriculum Coordinating Teacher with English Learner Services. In this curriculum, Lynne uses a self-created picture adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s story, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,  to lead young students with an […]