I am Associate Director of Multimodal Communications Programming, working jointly in both the Program for Academic Success and Transformative Learning and the Center for Teaching and Learning at Colby College in Maine. My work focuses on fostering and improving effective academic and professional communication. My research ranges from pedagogical writing on the ways that fiction is beneficial in the teaching of science and technology to literary analysis of young adult literature. Previously a tenured associate professor of literature in the United States and a senior lecturer of communication in Sweden, I believe in the power of teaching and learning to transform students, professors, and society.

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Before living in Maine, I lived in Gothenburg, Sweden as well as in South Carolina, California, Texas, Kansas, and Connecticut. You can see my fellow traveler Watson in the picture on this page. Not pictured are my husband Ed, whose skills with avoiding being photographed -- and with making puns -- are unparalleled, or my dog Gromit, who is usually too busy chewing something to slow down and be photographed.

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