Mark Canada, Ph.D., is Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Indiana University Kokomo, where he oversees all Strategic Doing efforts on the institution’s strategic priorities.  He also leads the KEY, an experiential-learning initiative that provides all IU Kokomo students with opportunities to learn through internships, retreats, research, community projects, and educational trips to businesses, museums, and natural and historic settings in Chicago, New York, Yellowstone National Park, Disney World, Silicon Valley, and other destinations.  A professor of American literature, he spent many years in the classroom at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where he was a recipient of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching.  His seven books include the Audible Original What Would Franklin Do? (forthcoming), Edgar Allan Poe: Master of Horror (Audible, 2020), Introduction to Information Literacy for Students (Wiley, 2017), and Literature and Journalism in Antebellum America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).  His articles on student success, truth in the media, Henry David Thoreau, Rebecca Harding Davis, and other subjects have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Academic Minute, The Conversation, Southern Cultures, Edgar Allan Poe in Context, and other outlets.  More information is available at markcanada.info.