Writing Program Faculty, 2002-2003

Writing Fellows--

Mina Brunyate M.S. in Professional Writing, Towson University; Instructor in Writing Program, Goucher, 1996-present; Instructor of Remedial Writing, Freshman Composition, and Introduction to Literature, Essex Community College, 1985-1987 and 1990-1999; Writer and Assistant Editor, WJHU Notes Newsletter 1991-1996.  English 104 and 105

Laura Orem  M.F.A. Writing and Literature, Bennington College; adjunct faculty in English, Harford CC; instructor (on-line) in creative writing, U. of Gavle, Sweden; poetry published in many chapbooks and journals.  English 104 and 105

Susan Garrett (Weiss) M.A. in Linguistics, University Pennsylvania; adjunct instructor in writing at McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland College) (1999-present), visiting Assistant Professor in Writing Program at Goucher (1999-present); research on pronunciation and dialect in Spanish, XTAG parsing project, and COMLEX; papers and articles on positional faithfulness and truncations in child speech, Spanish stress and syllable structure, and the history of Spanish negation (C12-17).  English 103, 104, 105, 201 and 219

Returning Half-Time Faculty (English 103, 104, 201, and 206)—

Jennifer Bess Ph.D.in English, Catholic University, M.A. English, American University, Instructor in Writing Program, Goucher 2001-present, Director of the Service Learning Program and Assistant Professor of English; 1996-present, Instructor in ESL and History of Western Culture, Strayer U. (1994-6); publications on Hakluyt, Tyndale, and Eastman; talks on Julia Alvarez, John Smith’s Historie,  and freshman composition pedagogy at NEMLA, Purdue.  English 103, 104, 105, 201.

Dennis Kaplan  M.A. Liberal Arts, Winthrop University, Instructor at Davidson College, Central Piedmont CC, and Queensborough CC.  English 103, 104, 105.

Elizabeth Leik  M.F.A. Creative Nonfiction, Goucher College, M.S. Education, Johns Hopkins University,  B.A., Kenyon College.  Also instructor at College of Norte Dame (MD), Coppin State College.  Published in Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Magazine.  English 104 and 105.

Ailish Meisner  M.F.A., Poetry, Bennington College, B.A.,  Religion/African-American Studies, Princeton University.   Instructor of Creative Writing Johns Hopkins Odyssey Program and at the Howard County Center for the Arts; Instructor of creative writing and composition, Anne Arundel CC, 00-01. Published poet.  English 104 and 105

Carol Pippen  Ph.D. in Writing, University of  Pennsylvania.  Assistant Professor of English at Goucher since 1991.  Director of ESOL Services and Lecturer in writing and English literature at Towson U.  Editor of JASNA News, the newsletter of the Jane Austen Society of North America and a board member of the organization.  She recently gave a series of lectures at the Smithsonian Institution on the life and art of Jane Austen.  English 104, 105, 201.

Barbara Roswell  Ph.D. in Writing, University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in English Education, New York University; Instructor in English at Goucher, 1983-8, Assistant Professor of English, 1988-present, editor, Reflections on Community Based Writing Instruction, Gendered Stories (forthcoming with Gail Goldlberg), articles and chapters, conference papers at CCCC, NEMLA, AERA.  English 104, 105 and 219

Pam Sheff  Ph.D. in English, Harvard University; Instructor at Harvard Writing Program (1971-5).  Goucher Writing Program (1978-82 and 1998-present).  Principal at Sheff & Lano Communications with clients in Fortune 500 corporations and higher education, including Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College.  English 206

Returning Part-Time Faculty (English 103, 104, and 105) —

Bernadette Parrish  M.F.A. in Writing, Johns Hopkins University, Instructor at Goucher and Villa Julie College since 1990.  Quality Assurance Manager in Educational Technology at ACT.  English 104 and 105

Amy Peterson M.F.A., Brooklyn College of City University of New York. Instructor, Brooklyn College. Published in Poets & Writers Magazine, Pierogi Press, Brooklyn Review, and Baltimore Magazine. Writing fellowships from the Sacatar Foundation, Ucross Foundation, Fundacion Valparaiso, and Julia and David White Artists’ Colony. Editor of reading, writing, and science curriculum materials.

S. Selina Jamil  Ph.D., English, Michigan State University.  Formerly Assistant Professor of English at Prairie View A&M University and Hillyer College, University of Hartford.  Jamesian Centers of Consciousness as Readers and Tellers of Stories  (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001.  Numerous articles and conference papers on the fiction of Tagore, Stowe, and Jewett.  English 104 and 105