2023-2024 Provost’s Faculty Internship – Faculty Bios

Dom Ashby
Department of English
College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences 

Dom Ashby (he/him) is Coordinator for First-Year Writing and Associate Professor of Composition in the Department of English. Dom’s teaching and research interests focus on writing pedagogy, ungrading, and fan studies. He is a mentor for the EngaGE program and serves on multiple committees, including CLASS Curriculum. Dom is the 2023 recipient of the EKU Libraries Partnership Award. 

José Juan Gómez-Becerra
Department of Language and Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology
College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

José Juan Gómez-Becerra is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Latinx Studies in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology at Eastern Kentucky University. 

Mike Lane
Department of Parks, Recreation, Exercise and Sports Science
College of Health Sciences

Mike Lane is a professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation, Exercise and Sports Science. Mike teaches on the graduate and undergraduate level and has had a number of his students go on to successfully receive their Ph.D. He runs the exercise physiology lab and all of its spaces and collaborates with a number of groups both in and outside of the university. Finally, he works as the strength coach for some of the athletic teams and recently helped coach the NCAA all American Ahmed Jaziri and the ASUN conference champions men’s cross country program.

Jade Robinson
Communication Sciences & Disorders
College of Education and Applied Human Sciences

Jade Robinson is an Associate Professor in Communication Sciences & Disorders (CSD). Jade serves as the CSD Program Coordinator and the CSD Faculty Representative for the Interdisciplinary Autism Certificate Program. Her clinical research interests include language and emergent literacy development, early intervention, and caregiver-implemented strategies that facilitate language development. She teaches a variety of courses, including language development, language assessment, diagnostics in communication disorders, school-based services, and augmentative & alternative communication.

Curtis Streetman
School of Music
College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

Curtis Streetman is an internationally recognized  operatic bass singer that leads EKU’s opera program, teaches applied voice, language arts for singers, and leads the newly founded EKU Early Music Ensemble. Streetman balances his teaching opportunities at EKU with a robust performing schedule. Recent performances include appearances in Austria, Spain, and The San Francisco Bay area. Streetman has recorded for Doria, Musical  Heritage Society, Deutsche Harmony Mundi and Sony Classics.