Adjunct Literature and Languages […]
Sara Hallisey
Academic Credentials
B.S., James Madison University
M.A., The University of Vermont
Ph.D., Tufts University
Biography
Dr. Hallisey has taught widely at various colleges and universities in New England, and has taught at Marymount since the Fall of 2018. She specializes in the high Victorian period, as well as colonial and post-colonial literature and theory. Her research revolves around the British women writers of the Raj period and their use of India as a cultural commodity. Currently, her research interests have involved the study of epigenetics and the idea of inherited trauma in literary discourse.
Other Information
Teaching Area
- Post/Colonial literature and theory
- Global Anglophone; African and South Asian Diasporic literatures
- 19th century and modern British literature
- American and Multiethnic American literature
- Women’s literature
- Composition
Research Interests
- British India
- Epigentics
- Popular romance
Publications
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Catherine Hillberry
Academic Credentials
RN, DNP
Biography
Dr. Hillberry received an associate degree from Marymount University and went on to get both a BSA and MSN from the University of Phoenix. In 2017 she completed a Doctorate in Nursing Practice at Marymount University. She is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and a graduate of the 2017 Cohort of NLN Leadership Development for Simulation Educators. Dr. Hillberry has developed the Nursing Simulation Program at Marymount University and participated in several research projects.
Dr. Hillberry is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and a graduate of the 2017 Cohort of the NLN Leadership Development for Simulation Educators..
Other Information
Presentations
2014- “Sustainability Panel Discussion”- Innovations-Marymount University
“Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Clinical Simulation in
Community/Public Health Nursing Education” –ACHNE
Poster- Crisis Management in the OR -INOVA Research Conference
Poster –Crisis Management in the OR -Partnerships, Practice & Policy George Washing University Conference
Teaching Area
Dr. Hillberry currently teaches Simulation, Nursing labs and Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Research Interests
Dr. Hillberry is interested in building on the current simulation research. Her focus is in researching the use of simulation in a higher education and clinical practice environment with a particular interest in Interprofessional Education.
Publications
“Crisis Management of Cardiac Arrest in the OR: Ventricular Tachycardia, Ventricular Fibrillation, Pulseless Electrical Activity, and Asystole” AORN Journal July 2016-Co- author.
Contributing Author:
Clinical Simulations for the Advanced Practice Nurse by Celeste Alfes-Springer Publishing Company 2020.
Innovation in Nursing Education by Celeste Alfes-Springer Publishing Company 2020. […]
Maritess Buslon
Administrative Secretary Malek School of Health Professions DEPT […]
Elena Shields
Administrative Assistant Malek School of Health Professions DEPT […]
Eric Norton
Academic Credentials
B.A., University of Southern Indiana
M.A., Boston University
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Biography
Eric Norton’s research and teaching interests span early and nineteenth century American literature and focus more specifically on race, gender and sexuality, politics, sustainability, and social reform. He has presented his work at numerous conferences, and his article, “”Temperance Friction,”” published in Studies in the Novel, seeks to recover the work of Sophia Robbins Little, a Rhode Island social reform writer and activist. Dr. Norton serves as faculty advisor for Marymount’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honors society, and helps to coordinate the minor in Sustainability.
Other Information
Teaching Area
- American literature
- African-American literature
- Gender and sexuality
- Literature and Sustainability
- Literature and Politics
Research Interests
- American literature to 1900
- African-American literature
- Gender and Sexuality
- Literature and Sustainability
- Literature and Politics
Publications
“”Temperance Friction,”” Studies in the Novel 49, no. 2 (2017): 170-88. […]
Jessica Tynes
Lecturer Literature and Languages […]
Elissa Ruffino
Academic Credentials
Master of Science, Linguistics, Georgetown University
Master of Arts, Education, The George Washington University
Bachelor of Arts, English and Education, Marquette University
Bio
Professor Elissa Ruffino serves as a lecturer in the College of Business and editorial coordinator for the School of Technology and Innovation at Marymount University. She also teaches communication courses to college juniors and seniors for the Lutheran College Washington Semester (LCWS) program, a consortium of 13 Lutheran colleges across the country. She is a visiting professor in marketing for John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, where she has taught for three consecutive summer one sessions.
For more than 23 years, she served as chief brand officer, director of communications and public relations for The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in Washington, DC and was awarded a three-year education grant (2017-19) by NIAF.
During summer 2017. Rome’s daily newspaper, La Stampa, published two of her articles after her teaching assignment at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy.
In June 2020 her first children’s book “”Dream Big Dream Small”” was published by Politics and Prose in Washington, DC. The following December “Sogna in Grande Sogna in Piccolo” was published in Italian.
She holds a Master of Science in Linguistics from Georgetown University; Master of Arts in Education from The George Washington University; Bachelor of Arts in English and Education from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received a certificate in English Literature at Worcester College at the University of Oxford in England.
Teaching Areas
- Communications
- Business Writing
- Brand Management
Research Interests
- Branding; Effective Communications
- The Art of Communication in Our Nation’s Capital Today
Publications
- Ruffino, E. (October 2020) Virtual one-hour seminar, “Explore Concepts Behind Brands and You,” for Lutheran College Washington Semester Program (LCWS). A professional development
- Ruffino, E. (December 2020) “Sogna in Grande Sogna in Piccolo,” Politics & Prose, Opus Publishing, Washington, DC. ISBN: 978-1-62429-308-5-51499
- Ruffino, E., (July 2020) “Dream Big Dream Small,” Politics & Prose, Opus Publishing, Washington, DC, ISBN: 978-1-62429-273-6-51799
- Ruffino, E. (2017) “Making Rome’s Trastevere Yours. Join the Fabric of the Neighborhood” La Stampa, (Rome, Italy) , August 15, 2107 http://www.lastampa.it/2017/08/15/esteri/lastampa-in-english/making-romes-trastevere-yours-ez86QlWjVPDN8QlLgCXTbO/pagina.html
- Ruffino, E. (2017) “Six Outfits for 6 Weeks in Rome!” La Stampa, (Rome, Italy), July 30, 2017 http://www.lastampa.it/2017/07/30/esteri/lastampa-in-english/six-outfits-for-weeks-in-rome-bella-carry-on-K1yc4UxciFGnoVNsmbG2EK/pagina.html
- Ruffino, E, (2016) “Historic Ties Binding Italy and the United States”, Ambassador Magazine, Washington, DC, Winter issue 2016
- Ruffino, E. (2016) Book Review: “The Only Street in Paris. Life on the Rue des Martyrs”, Ambassador Magazine, Winter issue 2016
- Ruffino, E. (1996) “Men at the Top: Profiles of Six Italian American Leaders”, Ambassador Magazine, Number 29/30
- Ruffino, E. (1994) “Ancient Graffiti” seminar for Smithsonian Institution Resident Associates, January 27, 1994
- Ruffino, E. (1994/1995) “In the Executive Suite: Profiles of six Italian American Women Leaders”, Ambassador Magazine, Winter 1994/1995, Number 24
- Ruffino, E. (1994) “A Renaissance Masterpiece”, Ambassador Magazine, Summer 1994, Number 21/22
- Ruffino, E. (1993) “Florentine Fashion Frenzy”, Ambassador Magazine, Summer 1993 “
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Karen Waters
Academic Credentials
B.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
M.A., The George Washington University
Biography
Other Information
Teaching Area
Research Interests
- Gender and literature in the 19th century
- Gender and empire in 19th-century British literature and culture with an emphasis on India
- Contemporary Indian women writers
Dr. Karen Waters served as a Marymount faculty member from 1986 to 2010, teaching courses in 19th-century literature, women writers, contemporary literary theory, gender studies, and composition. She is now a professor emerita of English and serves in an advisory capacity with the Department of Literature and Languages within the School of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of The Perfect Gentleman: Masculine Control in Men’s Fiction, 1860-1901, a book-length study of the concept of masculinity in Victorian literature, as well as articles on Victorian literature and culture and on women writers.
Dr. Waters directed the Freshman Writing Program; she also created and taught in the Gender and Society program, an interdisciplinary minor/Liberal Studies concentration, and she was instrumental in developing the Student Research Conference, an annual showcase of undergraduate and graduate student research across the University. Dr. Waters also served as an advisor in the Liberal Studies Program.
Active in professional associations, Dr. Waters is currently on the Senior Advisory Board of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. She also was awarded a Fulbright Grant to teach literature to graduate English students in New Delhi, India and currently serves as a Fulbright Alumni Ambassador.
Publications
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Jennifer Kirschbaum
Adjunct Faculty Literature and Languages […]
