Adjunct Lecturers & Part Time Faculty

Treseanne Ainsworth

M.A. Boston College

Trese Ainsworth is the Assistant to the Chair of the English department and the Director of Undergraduate Advising. She is the contact person for many of the department's programs, including Study Abroad, English/LSOE majors and English internships. She teaches the Literature Core, the First Year Writing Seminar, and in the OTE program.

John Anderson

Ph.D., Boston College

Specializing in the poetry of the Romantic Period, he is especially interested in the period's epics and its women poets. Currently, he is researching the influence of British and American men and women writers (especially her contemporaries) on the poetry of Emily Dickinson. http://www2.bc.edu/~andersjb

Lynne Anderson

Office: Carney Hall 244
BC Work Phone: 617-552-8876

Suzanne Berne

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

Randolf Bustamante

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

Hilda Carey

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

Andrea Defusco

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/

Marla Derosa

Office: Carney Hall 340
BC Work Phone: 617-552-3725

Eileen Donovan-Kranz

BA Boston College
MA Northeastern University
MFA University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Office: Carney Hall 406
BC Work Phone: 617-552-3727

Interests include the writing and teaching of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction and the study of composition and rhetoric. She teaches the literature core and a variety of writing classes, including her long time favorite, First Writing Seminar.

Robert Farrell, S.J.

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.

Kim Garcia

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.

Dacia Gentilella

Office: 50 College Rd.
BC Work Phone: 617-552-3727

Martha Hincks

Office: Carney Hall 338
BC Work Phone: 617-552-3725

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. 

Tom Kaplan-Maxfield

Office: Carney Hall: 331
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0563

Laura Lindop

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

John L. Mahoney

Paul Messer

Office: Carney Hall 337
BC Work Phone: 617-552-8106

Dorothy Miller

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

George O'Har

Office: Carney 339
BC Work Phone: 617-552-2496

Teaches courses on literature and technology, utopia, creative writing, creative non-fiction, as well as Lit Core and Cornerstone.

Rita Owens

Biography

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

Susana Roberts

B.A., St. Michaels College - Journalism
M.A., BC - English

She has published poetry in American, Canadian, and Irish journals, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. She directs the Brookline Poetry Series.

Michael Rosovsky

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

Bonnie Rudner

Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

M.F.A, from the Bennington Writing Seminars

His fiction has appeared in The North American Review, The Boston Phoenix, Flyway Literary Review, and the anthology Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America. His journalism and book reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Pif.com, Infoplease.com, and the anthology Generation Q. In 1998, he was selected to be a PEN/New England Discovery writer. He has received fellowships and awards for his writing from the LEF Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Institute of Asian American Studies at Cal State University Los Angeles. He teaches the First-Year Writing Seminar.

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.

Erin Wecker

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