Department of Literature, Writing, and Journalism

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Name & Synopsis	Contact Info	Photo
Rebecca Lartigue Honors Program Director, Professor of English Interests Medieval Literature Early Modern Literature Chaucer Shakespeare	rlartigu@springfield.edu (413) 748-3189
Richard Andersen, PhD Professor of English Interests Creative writing (five novels and an illustrated children's book) Literary research (books on works by Abraham Rodriguez, Arthur Miller, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Coover, Toni Morrison, Walter Dean Meyers, William Goldman, and William Shakespeare Writing instruction (seven books) American Literature World Literature Writing pedagogy/andragogy	randerse@springfieldcollege.edu (413) 748-3622
Aimee Crawford Assistant Professor of Communications Interests Women’s Sports Women in Baseball Youth Sports Sports Parenting	acrawford3@springfield.edu (413) 748-3245
Donna Croteau Administrative Associate	dcroteau@springfield.edu (413) 748-3607
Martin Dobrow Professor of Communications Interests Civil Rights Journalistic Ethics Feature Writing Sports and Social Justice	mdobrow@springfield.edu (413) 748-3253
Justine Dymond Associate Professor of English Interests Multicultural Literature of the United States Motherhood Memoirs Transatlantic Modernism Creative Writing	jdymond@springfield.edu (413) 748-3902
Alice Knox Eaton Professor of English Interests Post-Colonial Literature Toni Morrison Literature and Gender Studies	aeaton@springfield.edu (413) 748-3669
Jill Giebutowski Assistant Professor of Writing, Writing Program Director Interests Writing Pedagogy/Andragogy Online Pedagogy First-Year Experience	jgiebutowski@springfield.edu (413) 748-3013
Dennis Gouws Professor of English Interests British Literature after 1789 The Victorian Manhood Question Postcolonial Literature	dgouws@springfield.edu (413) 748-3844
Jenny Krichevsky Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric Interests Literacy studies Language diversity Cultural rhetorics Writing Across the Curriculum STEM Writing in the Disciplines	ekrichevsky@springfield.edu
Jeremy Menard Visiting Assistant Professor of Multimedia Journalism	jmenard@springfield.edu (413) 748-4876
Fadia Nordtveit Assistant Professor of Communications	fnordtveit@springfield.edu
Paul Thifault Associate Professor of English Interests Early American Literature US Drama Native American Studies	ethifault@springfield.edu (413) 748-3260
Sherri VandenAkker Professor Interests Modern and Contemporary Poetry Rhetoric and Composition Documentary Film Writing Photography	svanden@springfieldcollege.edu (413) 748-4307
Anne Wheeler Associate Professor of Composition & Rhetoric, Chair of the Department of Literature, Writing, and Journalism Interests Composition Pedagogy Rhetorical Memory Visual Rhetoric	awheeler2@springfield.edu (413) 748-3606