The Faculty (click image to see teacher profile)
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Susan Bookbinder |
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Carole
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Anne
Erde
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Sandy Howland |
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Victoria Kingsley |
Linda Lawrence |
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Laurie
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Martinez-Early |
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Dorothy Nelson |
Duncan Nelson |
Karen Raymond |
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Peggy
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Vivian
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Elsa Auerbach
Professor and Director of the Composition Program |
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Ph.D. Northwestern University
Selected Publications:
[Books]
Making Meaning, Making Change: Participatory Curriculum Development for Adult ESL Literacy (Center for Applied Linguistics & Delta, 1992)
From the Community, To the Community: A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training (Lawrence Erlbaum Publishing, 1996)
Problem-posing in the Workplace (with N. Wallerstein, Grassroots Press 2005)
Articles and Chapters:
"The Hidden Curriculum of Survival ESL." (with D. Burgess). TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 19, No.3, 1985(475-495).
"Toward a Social-Contextual Approach to Family Literacy." Harvard Educational Review. Vol. 59, No.2, 1989 (165-181).
"Re-examining English Only in the ESL Classroom," TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1993 (9-32).
"'It's Not the English Thing': Bringing Reading Research into the ESL Classroom," (with D. Paxton) TESOL Quarterly, Vol.31, No.2, 1997 (237-261).
"'Yes, but...': Problematizing Participatory ESL Pedagogy," in Participatory Practices in Adult Education, P. Campbell & B. Burnaby (Eds.). Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001 (267-305).
"Connecting the Local and the Global: A Pedagogy of Not Literacy." In Portraits of Literacy Across Families, Communities, and Schools: Intersections and Tensions. Anderson, J., Kendrick, M., Rogers, T., and Smythe, S. (Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005 (363-379).
Contact:
Elsa.Auerbach@umb.edu |
Teaching Areas: Literacy, Adult ESL, Bilingual/ESL Reading, Tutoring Composition
Research and Writing Interests: Adult ESL, Literacy, Participatory Curriculum Development; ESL for Workers |
| Margherita Cappelli |
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M.A. English and American Lit., Rhode Island College M.A. Int’l Development and Latin American Studies, American U.
Contact:Margherita.Cappelli@umb.edu |
Besides the usual work of English 102, we have a forum (students roleplay authors with oposing viewpoints) on each of 3 main themes. It's fun and students are amazed at how much they know and how articulate they are. The forum prepares them for in-class writing on the theme. Most importantly I hope the students will begin to develop the habit of reflection that will give them an anchor and an edge in this fast-paced, multi-tasking world.
Teaching Areas: 25+ years experience teaching English to US and non-US students
Research and Writing Interests: Interests in cross-cultural programming, online teaching, travel |
| Carole Center |
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M.A. English, UMass Boston
M.A. Writing, Northeastern ABD English – Rhethoric and Composition, U. of Rhode Island
Selected Publications: “’Explaining my Opinion by my Own Words’: Considerations for Teaching Linguistically Different Basic Writers.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, March 2004.
Contact:
Carole.Center@umb.edu
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| Carol Chandler |
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M.A. English Literature, UMass Boston M.Ed Bilingual/ESL Studies, UMass Boston
Selected Publications:
Presentation: September 28, 2003 – Keynote Speaker, “Community-Building 24/7” Building Strong Communities Conference, Center for Immigrant and Refugee Leadership and Empowerment (CIRCLE) UMass/Boston
Contact: carolchandler@msn.com
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| Teddy Chocos |
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M.A. Education, Boston State College
B.A. English, UMASS Boston
Contact: teddy.chocos@umb.edu |
I promote a collaborative learning environment where the learners are passionately involved in the process and energy of gaining knowledge and appreciation from one another in and out of the classroom.
Teaching Areas: Freshman composition courses for ESL and Native Speakers. Developing innovative and engaging curriculum. |
| Helene Davis |
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| Todd Drogy |
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M.A. English, UMass Boston
B.A. English, University of New Hampshire |
Selected Publications:
Jamaica Plain Spoken
(in-progress film)
A Way In and A Way Out
Contact:
tdrogy@gmail.com |
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I am currently working on a documentary film titled Jamaica Plain Spoken I am recording a record of original songs.
Teaching Areas: My current 102 courses are designed around the theme of religion, ecology, and science in contempory American society.
Research and Writing Interests: Contemporary American Literature, Queer Studies |
| Paul Dyson |
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B.A., UMass Boston
M.A., SUNY Stony Brook
(Ph.D. in progress)
Contact: paul.dyson@umb.edu |
For who would lose,
Though full of pain this intellectual being
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night?
-Milton
Teaching Areas:I teach English 102, English 200, and English 201.
Research and Writing Interests: Epic; Early Modern Poetery and Drama; Science Fiction/Speculative Fiction; Classical Studies. |
| Anne Erde |
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M.A. App Ling, UMass Boston
B.A. English, Ithaca College
Contact:
aerde@msn.com |
My focus is on teaching immigrant/refugee students here at UMass and at community based adult ESL programs.
My course is a participatory class which is student-centered. It includes daily writing practice with a strong classroom-as-community focus.
Teaching Areas: Teaching of ESL
ESL pre-comp reading and academic writing |
| Judith Goleman |
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Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Selected Publications:
Working Theory: Critical Composition Studies for Students and Teachers (Bergin & Garvey, 1995)
Articles and reviews in journals like JAC and College Composition and Communication
Contact:
Judith.Goleman@umb.edu |
At UMass Boston, I am able to combine my two main academic interests: teaching writing and preparing teachers of writing. Each year, I design and teach English 101 along with a group of graduate students who have their own sections. We meet every week to plan our classes and to discuss our students' writing. We take both activities very seriously. I think most students would be surprised by the time we spend designing these courses and the attention we pay each student's work. When students start to change how they think about writing in our courses; when they get engaged by the projects we have shaped for them and go places we never imagined, it is thrilling both for the new teachers and for a veteran like me. |
| John Hess |
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M.A. English, UMass Boston
B.A. Philosophy,
St. John's University, Jamaica, NY
Member of English Department Part-Timers Committee
Member of FSU Bargaining Unit for CCDE Contract
Contact:
john.hess@umb.edu |
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My pedagogical style is aleatory. Each and every class is the same but different, and I come prepared and ready to improvise.
Teaching Areas: American Literature, American History, especially U.S. foreign affairs. |
| Esther Iwanaga |
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B.A French Lang. and Lit. , University of Connectitcut
M.A. Applied Linguistics,
UMass Boston
M.A. French Language and Lit., Middlebury College
Selected Publications:
Creditor (with Rajini Srikanth) of Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing. Rutgers UP,2001 .
Contact:
Esther.Iwanaga@umb.edu.
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I was born and grew up in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, but have spent most of my adult life in Connecticut and Massachusetts. I majored in French language and literature at UConn, have a master’s degree in the same from Middlebury College, and taught college-level French for a year at the University of Hartford. My checkered past also includes a ten-year career in advertising in Manhattan and a few years of commercial fishing (lobster, Long Island Sound). I earned a master’s in ESL/Linguistics at UMB and have taught ESL comp courses here since 1989. I also teach an introductory course in Asian American literature and co-edited Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing with Rajini Srikanth.
When I’m not teaching or thinking about teaching, I enjoy reading, listening to music, traveling to Paris, and planning my next trip to Paris.
Research and Writing Interests: I have an interest in ethnic, minority literature, asian american lit., and lit. of the Vietnam War. |
Victoria Kingsley
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| Linda Lawrence |
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Disco, R& B, Hip-Hop, Industrial, Alternative, Techno were just a few of the clubs and genres of music where I made my living as a disc jockey in the late 1970's and 1980's. Well before the current crop of celebrity spinners and well, well before a woman DJ became a common sight in the booth. A career in clubs is a short, albeit exciting one. I followed my dream to learn more and eventually made my way to this university in my late thirties (the first in my immediate family to attend). I entered via DSP, earned my bachelors and master degrees in English, and am now your teacher. Teaching has become my passion. I feel a strong connection to the students at UMass. I'm most intrigued about learning what students already know when they enter my class. And, I am extremely humbled and often enlightened when I read the work of my students who, more often than not, teach me about the world through the telling of their experiences. I continue to journal my experiences, write poems occasionally, and have from time to time, dabbled in short fiction. |
Laurie Marks |
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M.A. English with Honors (writing), Northeastern University
Selected Publications:
Fantasy novels , including Fire Logic, (2002 Tor), Earth Logic, Water Logic, and Air Logic.
Contact: lauriejmarks@aol.com
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I was twelve when I started to write my first fantasy novel, and there has never been a time since that I wasn’t working on at least one novel. In 1989 my first published novel came into print, and my seventh was published in 2004. I am currently writing a four-book series titled Elemental Logic, with the third book, Water Logic, nearly finished. I have an MA in English with an emphasis on writing and composition, and when I was invited to teach freshman composition at UMass Boston I soon realized that by sheer luck I had wound up in the place I belong. I am a native Californian who chose to live in Massachusetts because it has old houses, lots of trees, and interesting weather. I am always learning new things by reading my students' papers, but I am particularly interested in feminist science fiction, traditional rug-hooking, the brain (human and otherwise), pacifism, dogs, and the woods. |
| Kevin Morrissette |
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 M.A. English (Creative Writing), UMass Boston
B.A. Sociology, University of Southern Maine
Selected Publications:
Poetry:
"Icarus," 2005 Coe Review
"Mimeograph," 1999 Harvard Summer Review
Contact:
Kevin.Morrissette@umb.edu
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After many years in the private and public sector, working in a variety of administrative positions, I returned to school to explore my love of language. As I focused on creative writing, and poetry in particular, I also discovered that I loved to teach writing to students. I tend to organize my composition courses around a variety of themes that are timely, and I enjoy "rediscovering" the familiar by engaging my classes in writing exercises and discussions that require us to examine an issue, whether it be race, gender, ethics, or nature, in a manner that allows us to challenge our own assumptions about life and our points-of-view. My goals are to help students develop critical writing, thinking, and reading skills; learn how to engage in meaningful discussions about controversial topics in a manner that respects the various points-of-view of the students in the classroom; and to help each student come to a better understanding of his or her position on an issue by engaging the student in written and spoken dialogue
Research and Writing Interests: Developmental Writing Pedagogy, Androgogy, Queer Discourse, Regional/Ethnic Discourses |
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| Dorothy Nelson |
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M.A. English (Composition Theory), UMass Boston
B.A., Brandeis University
Selected Publications: Presentation: Paper at the (March) 2003 CCCC Annual Convention in NYC: “Writing the Unknown –Critical Research Writing for Undergraduates”
Contact:
Dorothy.Nelson@umb.edu
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I like the classroom to be lively, a place where students are eager to talk, to wonder, to reflect, to identify problems and make connections. I have been teaching college writing and literature since 1987. For the past few years I’ve been bringing the environment more to the center of our studies. My English composition course is titled “The Environment and Writing.” I also teach an honors composition course that centers on “The Land Ethic” and a General Education course called “Technology and the Soul.” As a former journalist I learned that writing and reading are as necessary to our lives as breathing. My experience as an advocate for health and safety for coal miners and other unionists taught me that the struggles for justice and truth fall on all of us. I write poetry often. Some favorite outside places include the Saguaro Wilderness in Arizona, Chaco Canyon, Bandelier National Monument and Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, Montana’s Rocky Mountains, New England forests, Brace Cove and Niles Beach in Gloucester.
I’ve presented papers on teaching at various conferences for English Teachers.
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Duncan Nelson |
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Ph.D. Harvard University
Selected Publications:
Odes on UMass
Contact
Duncan.Nelson@umb.edu |
Transplanted from North Carolina, my scene
Is now Gloucester. In my time I have been
A New England “Champ”
In tennis, now “Gramp”
To grandchildren numbering sixteen!Teethed on this school with the First Professoriate,
Wreathed with the boughs of Poet Laureate,
After MIT,
And Harvard -- Praise Be! –
I came here, a decision I glory at!For what an honor it is to teach
Students who are pursuing things which
To any sane
Mind would remain
Hopelessly out of reach!But balancing families and work, missing meals,
Their books propped up against steering wheels --
Books still open all night
‘neath an unturned-off light
As they doze – they’re possessed by zeals
That year after year after year make me keen
To teach and to learn! This evergreen
And ever blooming capacity
For superhuman tenacity
Is what marks, to my mind, the true UMBean! |
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Karen Raymond
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| Wayne Rhodes |
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M.F.A. Writing, University of Pittsburgh
Selected Publications: Short fiction in:
- Puerto del SolAcorn WhistleDancing Shadow Review
- Nashwaak Review.
Contact:
wayne.rhodes@umb.edu |
I am from Cape Cod. If you’ve ever read the Stanley Kunitz poem, “The Wellfleet Whale,” well, where that whale ended up was my front yard, and one of the yelping dogs Kunitz mentions was mine. Also, the poet Mary Oliver lived nearby and her poems about the things I knew so well would appear in the local papers. Even after I moved away, the writers who wrote about my town followed me. One of my American Literature professors assigned William Bradford’s writings about exploring what he called “Grampus Bay” which is where I lived and “The Wellfleet Oysterman” from Thoreau’s Cape Cod. Somehow during this time I decided I didn’t want to fish or fix cars or build houses or shuck oysters for tourists. I wanted to write.
At the University of Pittsburgh, I studied fiction with novelists Angus Wilson, Chuck Kinder, and Lewis Nordan and composition with David Bartholomae. In composition, my main influence is Ann Berthoff’s The Making of Meaning. I am especially drawn to her concept of learning to “tolerate ambiguity” and the role of metaphor in this process. Difficulty with writing may have more to do with what you think you are doing when you write than with anything else. I want to re-imagine what we are doing. That’s why if you walked into one of my classes, you would hear people talking about wheelbarrows and chickens and no ideas but in things and about being of three minds like a tree in which there are three blackbirds, about cows kicking pails and jumping fences or people seeing the moonlight amid the mountains. |
| Rebecca Romanow |
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Ph.D. English Literature, University of Rhode Island
M.A. English, UMass Boston
M.B.A, Boston University
A.B. English, Boston University
Selected Publications:
The Postcolonial Body in Queer Space and Time
[Cambridge Scholar's Press, 2006]
But Can the Subaltern Sing [Journal of Comp. Lit. and Culture, 2005]
The Erasure of Language in The Globalisation of Rock Music [Politics and Culture, 2003]
Contact:
Rebecca.romanow@umb.edu
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I teach film studies full time at the University of Rhode Island and I am a member of the Film Review Board for the European Journal of American Studies. I have chaired several panels and delivered numerous papers on topics covering Postcolonial Literature, Cultural Studies, and film.
I want our classes to be conversations about ideas, and our writing to be connected to the critical thinking and reading that we do.
Research and Writing Interests: Postcolonial Literature, 20th Century British Lit., Late Victorian Lit., Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Literature of Exile and the Diaspora, Literature of the Body, Critical Theory, Creative Writing, etc.
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| Candice Rowe |
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M.A. Creative Writing, Boston University
M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Arizona
Selected Publications:
I have published essays (including one that appeared in the same section of a college text as Joan Didion and E.M. Forster) and poems as well as a chapbook of poems. My short fiction has appeared in literary publications such as Natural Bridge, Greensboro Review, CutBank and Permafrost, and in many anthologies. My favorite form is the short-short. I have one a number of prizes for my fiction and was the recipient of a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. I have also had a one-act play produced Off-Off Broadway. I teach composition. You need to read like a writer before you can write like one.
Contact:
dicerowe@aol.com
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| Rebecca Saunders |
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Ph.D. English Literature,
Tufts University
M.A. English Literature,
Tufts University
Selected Publications:
All on Account of a Dog
[a short play]
Contact:
rebecca.saunders@umb.edu |
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I have an active style of teaching. I do alot of group work. I would like students to know that I am much more interested in what they think than information collected from resources. I urge them to keep their voices clear and present.
Research and Writing Interests: Theatre Arts, Professional Writing |
| Peggy Walsh |
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English, Boston College
English, Simmons College
Irish Literature
Writing and Theater
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| Vivian Zamel |
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Ph.D. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Columbia University
Selected Publications:
The Discovery of Competence, with Kutz, Groden (Heinemann 1993); Negotiating Academic Literacies, with Spack (Erlbaum, 1998); Enriching ESOL Pedagogy, with Spack (Erlbaum, 2002); Crossing the Curriculum, with Spack (Erlbaum, 2004).
Contact: Vivian.Zamel@umb.edu |
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