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Associate Director, Center for Teaching Innovation at Cornell University
Melina is co-author, with Amy Cardace and Sneha Mishra, of “Analyzing Demographic Differences during the Evaluation of an Online Course about Inclusive Teaching,” which appeared in Assessment Update, ( 2023).
She is also co-author, with Eva Infante Mora and Davydd Greenwood, of “Active Pedagogy and Ethnographic Research: CASA-Sevilla’s Perspective,” in Undergraduate Research Abroad: Approaches, Pedagogies, and Challenges (NAFSA) (2020) , and “Action research for university reform: The CASA-Sevilla study abroad programme in Spain,” in the journal Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences , (Dec 2019).
Melina is an award-winning poet with books Later the House Stood Empty , 2014 (Boreal Books, Red Hen Press); and Place of Origin , authored with Elena Lafert, 2008 (Oyster River Press), which won the Best Bilingual Book of Poetry award in the International Latino Book Awards (2009).
Melina Ivanchikova is an associate director in the Center for Teaching Innovation at Cornell University. She develops and oversees programming for faculty and graduate student development focused on diversity, inclusion, and equity.
In addition to developing workshops and learning communities, she co-led, with Rob Vanderlan, a public history project, Any Person, Many Stories: Histories of Exclusion and Inclusion at Cornell, with support from the Belonging at Cornell Initiative. She coordinated a community-engaged Professional Learning Community in the Geneva City School District focused on intercultural learning in 2018-2019, with support from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement at Cornell.
During her nearly 20-year career, she has fostered inclusion in higher education across several universities, focusing on Latinidad, mentoring, and curriculum development at Northern Essex Community College, a Hispanic Serving Institution; place-based and culturally responsive Earth science curriculum and teacher training (Alaska and Hawaii) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks; and global and intercultural learning and faculty development at Cornell.
She was formerly a faculty member (in English, at Northern Essex), and a curriculum developer, outreach coordinator, and facilitator focused on K-12, Education, and community college partnerships (UAF Geophysical Institute and Cornell Southeast Asia Program).
She has a passion for teaching digital storytelling as a pathway to creativity and authentic voice. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry, an M.A. in English, and a B.A. in Russian/International Relations and Comparative Literature.
Melina is Argentine-American and fluent in Spanish.