Mary T Christel

MARY T. CHRISTEL taught drama, literature, media, and film courses at Adlai E. Stevenson High School for thirty years. She co-authored several books on media literacy for NCTE as well as a recent publication on Shakespeare. Mary writes extensively on incorporating superhero narratives into ELA curricula and has contributed chapters to Comic Connections: Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture (2017), Comic Connections: Building Character and Theme (2019), and The Human in Superhuman (2022). She...See more

MARY T. CHRISTEL taught drama, literature, media, and film courses at Adlai E. Stevenson High School for thirty years. She co-authored several books on media literacy for NCTE as well as a recent publication on Shakespeare. Mary writes extensively on incorporating superhero narratives into ELA curricula and has contributed chapters to Comic Connections: Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture (2017), Comic Connections: Building Character and Theme (2019), and The Human in Superhuman (2022). She received special recognition from the Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for her work developing media literacy curricula for the high school classroom and related teaching training See less