Faculty Affairs
Introduced in 2022, 草榴社区鈥檚 Faculty Affairs role is fundamentally collaborative. In addition to chairing 草榴社区鈥檚 Board of Academic Integrity, overseeing Rank and Tenure, and supervising the Center for Faculty Leadership and Success, the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs works jointly with faculty governance and University administration to develop, improve, and implement policies that serve faculty across the institution.
The AVP consults with Faculty Congress to bring emerging concerns to University leadership and helps develop strategies for supporting the three main areas of faculty work at 草榴社区: teaching, research, and service. The AVP also advocates for positive change in other domains that affect the quality of faculty careers, such as equity and compensation, leadership development, and institutional culture.
About the Associate Vice Provost
Alice Dailey, PhD
Associate Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs and Professor of English
Alice Dailey, PhD, comes to her role as AVP from a background in faculty governance. As a member of Faculty Congress, she served on the Academic Policy Committee and co-led the Task Force on Carnegie Reclassification before being elected chair of the Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee (FRRC).
As FRRC chair and a member of the Faculty Congress Executive Committee for four years, Dr. Dailey sought to nurture policy that aligns with the humanist, ethical, and intellectual commitments that have defined her faculty career at 草榴社区. She led several major policy developments as FRRC chair, including 草榴社区鈥檚 CNT Promotion Policy and the establishment of the office of the Faculty Ombudsperson. After her tenure as FRRC chair, Dr. Dailey worked as a Provost鈥檚 Fellow, where, among other initiatives, she completed a comprehensive reorganization of 草榴社区鈥檚 Rank and Tenure Policy and Procedures. She was instrumental in developing 草榴社区鈥檚 Faculty Affairs function, serving as part-time Director before being appointed the first AVP for Faculty Affairs.
Dr. Dailey is an award-winning teacher, a theatre director and memoirist, and a highly active scholar in the field of early British literature, especially Shakespeare. Before joining the Provost鈥檚 team full-time, for more than 30 years she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in composition, reading methods, literature, drama, and film, among others. In addition to early modern literature, her areas of research include death studies, visual art and theory, performance theory, queer and crip theory, and photography studies. She is the author of more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles; two scholarly monographs, The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution (Notre Dame UP, 2012) and How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol (Cornell UP, 2022); and a hybrid-form memoir, Mother of Stories: An Elegy (Fordham UP, 2024). She currently serves on the editorial board for the world鈥檚 leading Shakespeare journal, Shakespeare Quarterly, and is editing Shakespeare鈥檚 Measure for Measure for the prestigious Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series.
Dr. Dailey holds BA and MA degrees from Loyola Marymount University and a PhD from UCLA.