Dr. Natasha Casey (Ph.D., McGill University) is a communication professor at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, Illinois, and affiliated faculty with the Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island. Shaped by researching and teaching media and communication in the U.K., U.S., and Canada, her teaching expertise includes public speaking, interpersonal communication, media and information literacy, media history, and critical communication theory. Her scholarship also engages cultural studies, white supremacism, and American Irish popular culture. Publications include ?Beyond the Pale: Irishness and White Supremacy in 1990s America? (Canadian Journal of Irish Studies); ?Not Tolerating Intolerance: Unpacking Critical Pedagogy in Classrooms and Conferences? (with Spencer Brayton), in Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization (ACRL Press); and ?Teaching Media and Information Literacy? (in Teaching Communication, Volume III: Journalism and Media, Cognella, forthcoming). She has presented at regional, national, and international conferences, including the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, the National Communication Association, and the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians. An invited speaker on media and information literacy, she has presented for organizations including the American Library Association, the U.S. State Department, the American Association of University Women, and Penn State University. Dr. Casey serves as Higher Education Chair for the Illinois Communication and Theatre Association and sits on the McLuhan Foundation advisory board.