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Ms. Nagle has been an Adjunct Instructor at Penn State Altoona since 2002. She has taught the courses of Introduction to Psychology, Positive Psychology & Well-being, Introduction to Developmental, Gender Psychology, and Abnormal Psychology, as well as Educational Psychology. Ms. Nagle has also served as an internship supervisor for student interns in the Psychology department since 2009. Ms. Nagle has a Pennsylvania Instructional II Teaching Certificate, with 7 years teaching experience at the elementary and middle school levels prior to her higher education experience. She has been teaching at the college level since 1995. She is the Advisor of the Psychology Club here at Penn State Altoona and she is the Associate Advisor and member of the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education. Ms. Nagle was awarded the Penn State Altoona Outstanding Part-time Lecturer Award for the 2006-2007 academic year, and more recently, was selected by Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society for the Penn State Altoona Unsung Hero Award 2009-2010.

Dr. Nemanic designed the multimedia Communications Bachelor of Arts program at Penn State Altoona. She teaches visual communication theory courses, media studies, multimedia production and web design journalism, photojournalism, motion graphics and special effects. In 2003 she founded "LiveWire," Altoona’s online multimedia magazine, and currently serves as co-adviser. Dr. Nemanic received a master’s degree in Mass Communication and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. She also has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Summa cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Minnesota. She has worked in media and documentary for more than 30 years and her work has been published in books, newspapers and magazines and aired on television. Her research interests include Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Cultural History. Her first book is titled "One Day for Democracy: Independence Day and the Americanization of Iron Range Immigrants" was published by the Ohio University Press in 2007. Dr. Nemanic co-edited her second book, "Cultural Production in Virtual and Imagined Worlds," with Dr. Tracey Bowen of the University of Toronto (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). Dr. Nemanic and her husband Doug, an award-winning documentary producer, have worked independently in documentary for more than 25 years. . Their first feature-length documentary on cowboy/cowgirl culture, "Cattlemen's Days: the Granddaddy of Colorado Rodeos," won Best Feature-length Documentary at the 2009 Iris Film Festival. Their second feature-length film, “The Iron Range Family Album” was screened in 2011 at the International Northern Lights Music Festival, at the Iris Film Festival, and in Philadelphia at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association conference.