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We would like to welcome the following adjunct faculty to our department for the Fall 2009 quarter. Mitali Biswas,of course, has been with us for many years. Mitali’s PhD in literature is from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, and her M.A. and B.A. are from Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Penelope Duckworth received her BA from The University of California, Berkeley, her Master of Divinity from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is also a returning Santa Clarian as she served for four years as a Campus Minister. Penelope is the current Artist-in-Residence at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in San Jose. Robin Everest received her B.S. from UC Berkeley and her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. She has worked as a systems analyst, a management consultant, and a communications specialist in industries such as education, health care, high tech, graphic arts, and human resources. Most recently she taught in the School of Business at Dominican University in San Rafael. Matthew Farley, S.J. is a visiting Jesuit for the year. He received his BA from Stanford, an MTS in Church History, and a MA in Philosophic Resources from Fordham University. Gina Firenzi is a returning former SCU student. She received her Juris Doctorate from Santa Clara University School of Law and her BS in Economics from Santa Clara University. Gina is Most recently coming to us from San Jose State University where she taught in the departments of Communication and Legal Studies Deirdre Frontczak More information TBA John Hessler comes to us most recently from the corporate world and San Jose State University where he is a Lecturer in business communications. John received his BA from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD in English from Stanford University. Kelina Jones received her BA from Binghamton University, and her MFA from Syracuse University in Creative Writing and Poetry. Kelina has recently focused on teaching and tutoring ESL, last summer she worked in Indonesia teaching ESL to high school students preparing for college. Michael King is coming to us from Boston, where he taught at Suffolk University and Emmanuel College. He has taught courses in Composition, American Literature, Drama, and Short Fiction. He received his B.A. in English from Evangel College and his M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, where he was also a Ph.D. candidate. Michael worked as the Writing Center Coordinator at Queens University in Charlotte, NC and as the director of the International Program at The Athenian School in Danville, CA. Lita Kurth Amy Lehman received her BA from Kent State University and her MA TESOL from the University of Leeds in the UK. Amy’s focus has been in Adult Teaching, most recently with teaching Composition and reading for ESL. Avantika Rohatgi received her M.A. in English from Kanpur University in Kanpur, India, her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Indiana University, and her Ph.D. in English from the Indian Institute of Technology, also in Kanpur. She has worked at Butler University in Indianapolis since 1994 as a lecturer in the English department, and here she arranged talks by prominent South Asian writers. Avantika has designed and taught courses on the principles of writing, literature and film adaptations, multi-cultural literature, and globalization. Benjamin Sherrill comes to us most recently from the University of Alaska- Fairbanks where he taught a variety of writing classes, including an Academic Writing about the Natural Sciences course. Benjamin received his BA from Auburn University, and his MA in English from Kansas State University where he taught and focused on Expository Writing. Terry Terhaar comes to us from the Universtiy of California at Santa Cruz where she teaches various writing courses, including Environmenta Action through Writing. Terry received her BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz, her Master of Forestry and Environmental Studies from Yale University and her PhD from Yale University with her focus in Social Ecology. Jaya Venkatraman is an ABD in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has an MA in English Literature from the University of Hyderabad, and a BA from the University of Madras. Jamie Walker received her Ph.D in English from Howard University in Washington DC. She Has a MA in English from Howard university and a BA in Arts and Drama from San Francisco State University. Jamie most recently taught African American Studies at Howard University. |
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