Lynne Anderson

Coordinator, Program for English Language Learners

Office: Carney Hall 338
Email: lynne.anderson.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-6463

Lynne Christy Anderson is Coordinator of the English as a Second Language Program. Her interests lie in the fields of second language acquisition and writing theory; she has published articles in TESOL’s Essential Teacher and Teaching for Our Times among other publications. Lynne is the author of Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens (University of California Press, 2010), which explores the symbolic role of food in the assimilation process. In 1998, she was the Bread Loaf Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in non-fiction. Lynne holds an M.A. in Applied Linguistics.

Randolf Bustamante

Office: Carney Hall 340
Email: randolf.bustamante.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-2789

Hilda Carey

Office: Carney Hall 330
Email: hilda.carey.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0564

Andrea Defusco

Office: Carney Hall 338
Email: andrea.defusco.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-6463

Teaches part-time in the English Department. Her interests include nonfiction, social issues and literature, and the modern short story.

Marla Derosa

Office: Carney Hall 340
Email: derosam@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-2789

Kimberly Egolf

Office: Carney Hall 235
Email: kimberly.egolf@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-8069

Robert Farrell, S.J.

Office: Carney Hall 347
Email: robert.farrell.1@bc.edu
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 332
Email: garciaki@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0566

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.
Email: dacia.gentilella.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-3727

Martha Hincks

Office: Carney Hall 341
Email: martha.hincks.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-1034

Diane Hotten-Somers

Office: Carney Hall 354
Email: diane.hotten.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0558

Diane M. Hotten-Somers received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University and her M.A. in Literature from Boston College. Her areas of interest are cross cultural ethnic studies, modern drama, and composition. She has published on Irish domestic servants' experiences in America and representations of the Irish and Americans in modern Irish and American drama. Additionally, she is very involved with the Cornerstone Advising Program.

Mariette Landry

Office: Carney Hall 235
Email: mariette.landry@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-8069

Laura Lindop

Office: Carney Hall 341
Email: laura.lindop.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-1034

John L. Mahoney

Thomas F. Rattigan Professor Emeritus

Office: Carney Hall 462
Email: john.mahoney.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-3720
Personal website

Dorothy Miller

Office: Carney Hall 349
Email: dorothy.miller.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0138

Susan Monsky

Office: Carney Hall 332
Email: susan.monsky.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0566

Rita Owens

Office of the University Provost
Email: rita.long.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-6576

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Dustin Rutledge

Office: Carney Hall 347
Email: dustin.rutledge.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-8803

Deborah Schwartz

Office: Carney Hall 242
Email: deborah.schwartz@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0560

Brian Sousa

Office: Carney Hall 242
Email: brian.m.sousa.1@bc.edu 
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0560

Elaine Tarutis

Office: Carney Hall 354
Email: elaine.tarutis.1@bc.edu
BC Office Phone: 617-552-2746

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
Emial: erin.costello.1@bc.edu
BC Work Phone: 617-552-0535