Office: Carney Hall 226
BC Work Phone: 617-552-8876

Office: Carney Hall 413
BC Work Phone: 617-552-8876

Office: Carney Hall 345
BC Work Phone: 617-552-2014

Office: Carney Hall 345
BC Work Phone: 617-552- 0564

M.A., Boston College
Office: Carney 337
Teaches Part Time in the English Dept. Her interests include nonfiction, social issues and literature, and the modern short story.
http://www2.bc.edu/~defuscoa/

Office: Carney Hall 340
BC Work Phone: 617-552-3725
Office: Carney 347
BC Work: 617-552-8803
In addition to being on the part time faculty of the English Department, Fr. Farrell is also on the faculty of the College of Advancing Studies.
Office: Carney Hall 345
BC Work Phone: 617-552-2014
Kim Garcia lives and writes in Boston. Her poetry collection Madonna Magdalene will be published by Turning Point Books in Fall 2006. Her work has appeared in The Atlanta Review, Rosebud, Nimrod, Cimarron Review, Mississippi Review, Brightleaf, Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops, Negative Capability, and Lullwater Review, among others. She is the recipient of the 2004 Ursula LeGuin Prize, the 2002 Willard R. Espy Award, an AWP Intro Writing Award, a Hambidge Fellowship and an Oregon Individual Artist Grant. A graduate of Reed College, she has taught creative writing at Boston College for five years, and is completing her MFA in poetry at the University of Houston, where she is a Cambor Fellow.

Office: 50 College Rd.
BC Work Phone: 617-552-3727
Office: Carney Hall 341
BC Work Phone: 617-552-1034

Diane Hotten-Somers
Diane M. Hotten-Somers is the Associate Director of First-Year Writing at Boston College, as well as a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Boston University. Previously, she received a M.A. in Literature with a concentration in Irish Studies from Boston College. Her research concentrates on Irish diasporic literature and history, specifically analyzing how Irish playwrights and the nationalism inherent their writing has shaped both American theatre and America's understanding of Irish immigrants. In her ten years of college teaching, she has focused her composition and literature courses on the intersections of race, gender, nationalism, and writing. Additionally, Diane is very involved in the Cornerstone Advising and Intersections programs at Boston College.

Office: Carney 226
BC Work Phone: 617-552- 4683

Office: Carney Hall 341
BC Work Phone: 617-552-1034

Ph.D., Harvard University
Thomas F. Rattigan Chair in English Literature. A Specialist in British Enlightenment and Romantic literature. He is the author of The Logic of Passion: The Literary Criticism of William Hazlitt; The Whole Internal Universe: Imitation and the New Defense of Literature in British Criticism in British Criticism, 1660-1830; The Persistence of Tragedy: Episodes in the History of Drama; Wordsworth: A Poetic Life; Wordsworth and the Critics: The Development of a Critical Reputation. He also edited and contributed to Coleridge, Keats, and the Imagination: Romanticism and Adam's Dream (with J. Robert Barth, S.J.) and Seeing Into the Life of Things: Essays on Literature and Religion. Professor Mahoney is one of fifty Resident Members of the Johnsonians and has recently served on the Modern Language Association of America's Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching.
http://www.geocities.com/johnlmahoney

Office: Carney Hall 349
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0138

Office: Carney 332
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0566

Rita Owens
Office of the University Provost
Gasson Hall 024
BC Work Phone: 617-552-3260

Sophie Powell
Office: Carney Hall 330
BC Work Phone: 617-552-3725

Office: Carney Hall 413
BC Work Phone: 617-552-8876

Dustin Rutledge
Office: Carney Hall 347
BC Work Phone: 617-552-8803

Brian Sousa
Office: Carney Hall 242
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0560

Elaine Tarutis
M.A. in English, Boston College
C.A.G.S. in Curriculum and Instruction, Boston College
Elaine Tarutis teaches First-Year Writing and Literature Core courses. She also serves as an academic advisor to freshman students. She writes creative nonfiction and some of her work recently appeared in a 2006 book of essays.

Office: Carney Hall 246
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0535


