Adjunct Faculty Literature and Languages […]
Jessica Monte
Adjunct Faculty Literature and Languages […]
Caren Colley – Trowbridge
Academic Credentials
BA Art History, Portland State University
BA French Literature, l’Université de Poitiers, France
MA French Language and Literatures, Portland State University
Biography
Caren Trowbridge is a professor of French with nearly 20 years of experience teaching at the university, corporate, and government levels. She has taught in both American and European schools and received the GWATFL (Greater Washington Association of Teachers of Foreign Language) award for the best presentation of classroom pedagogy (2009). Ms. Trowbridge has also collaborated on several academic translations, namely of the life and works of St. Vincent de Paul with the Société de St. Vincent de Paul in Paris (2007). Her academic interests include Emile Zola and social (in)justice of the late 19th-century, as well as works were written under the German occupation of France from 1941-1944.
Professor Colley-Trowbridge was awarded the 2020 School of Design, Arts, and Humanities prize for excellence in Non-Tenure Teaching
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Maria Rubio
Adjunct Literature and Languages […]
Fiona Vaughans
Academic Credentials
BSc, Computer Information Systems, Monroe College, NY
MSc, Computer Security Management, Strayer University, Washington, DC
PhD, Information Assurance and Security, ABD, Capella University, MN
Biography
Other Information
Teaching Area
Information Technology in the Global Age
Computer Security
Cybersecurity Policy, Ethics, Law and Compliance
Research Interests
Cyber security, particularly insider threats and their mitigation
International considerations in technology
Technical communications
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Teba Aljumaili
Adjunct Faculty IT, Data Science and Cybersecurity […]
Emily Fernandez
Senior Administrative Assistant/Office Manager Library and Learning Services […]
Hongqiang Yang
Academic Credentials
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, JiangSu University, P.R. China
M.S., Computer Science and Application, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
M.L.S., University of Maryland
Biography
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Teaching Area
- Information Literacy
Research Interests
Mason Yang’s research interests include 3D printing, data visualization, augmented reality, mobile computing, and effective pedagogy in library instructions. During the first 4 years of his academic career, Mason Yang presented his research findings of different subjects at 6 professional conferences and co-authored an article with his colleagues on using mobile devices in the college classrooms. One of the presentations, “Augmented Reality and Next-Gen Libraries”, at the 28th Annual Conference of Computers in Libraries was named as one of “10 Stellar Presentations from Computers in Libraries 2013.”
Mason Yang has been working as the Electronic Services Librarian at Marymount University since Feb 2010. Before joining Marymount University, he worked as a Reference Librarian for the Loudoun County Public Library. After he graduated with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mason Yang worked as Assistant Mechanical Engineer and later Mechanical Engineer in different manufacturing companies.
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Michelle Gaffey
Academic Credentials
B.S., Secondary Education, Duquesne University
B.A., English, Duquesne University
M.A., Literature, Duquesne University
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, Duquesne University
Ph.D. Candidate, Literature, Duquesne University
Biography
Michelle B. Gaffey began her professional career as a high school and middle school English teacher, though she has been teaching composition and literature at the college level for nearly two decades. Since 2015, she has enjoyed working with Marymount students in introductory and advanced writing classes.
Before joining Marymount’s faculty, she received several grants to support her development of service-learning projects (most notably, her “Community Listening Project”), an undergraduate critical reading course (Afrofuturist Coming-of-Age Stories), and an interdisciplinary action-learning course (Women Versus Sweatshops). She previously worked as a reading and writing specialist at an all-women’s college in Northeast D.C., and she also served as the assistant director of Duquesne University’s Writing Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
Michelle was a first-generation college student, originally from northern PA. Her working-class roots are at the heart of her scholarship, pedagogy, and activism. She currently lives in northern Virginia with her husband, two daughters, and two cats.
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Teaching Area
- Composition
Research Interests
- Working Class Studies
- Twentieth Century American Literature
- Documentary Poetry and Poetics
- Science Fiction
- Composition
Publications
Author. “Sweatshops and Resistance in the 20th and 21st Centuries.” Fragments from the Fire: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911. 30th Anniversary ed., Skye’s the Limit P, 2016, pp. 73-82.
Editor. Fragments from the Fire: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911, by Chris Llewellyn. 30th Anniversary ed., Skye’s the Limit P, 2016.
Author. Rev. of When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, by Cynthia Hogue and Rebecca Ross. The Collagist: Online Literature from Dzanc Books, 20, March 2011, n. pag.
Author. “‘a storm is blowing from Paradise’: Historical Change and Salvation in Lola Ridge’s ‘The Ghetto.’” Florida English, 7, 2009, pp. 51-67.
Editor. “Iraq Heats Up Again, April 2004,” by Helen Gerhardt. The New People [Pittsburgh, PA], March 2007, n. pag.
Spotlights
K. Patricia Cross Future Leader in Higher Education Award Recipient. Association of American Colleges and Universities: Spring 2011
Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching Recipient. Center for Teaching Excellence, Duquesne University: Spring 2010
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Bess Fox
Academic Credentials
B.A., Louisiana State University
M.A., University of Missouri
Ph.D. and additional study, University of Kentucky
Biography
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Teaching Area
- First-year and advanced writing
- American literature
- Composition and literary theory
- Women writers
- Literary nonfiction
Research Interests
- 20th-century American literature
- Composition and gender
- Autobiography
- Literary journalism
- Multimedia writing
Dr. Bess Fox joined Marymount in 2007. Her work in gendered writing encompasses both student writers and professional woman writers such as literary journalists Mary McCarthy and Susan Sontag. She specializes in literary life writing, studying the ways writers adhere to and challenge gendered models of authorship. She is currently working on a project tracing the effects of multimedia writing on concepts of authorship, particularly disembodied definitions of writing.
Along with Dr. Tonya Howe, Dr. Fox co-edits Magnificat, a Journal of Undergraduate Nonfiction. Magnificat is an annual publication of outstanding student work chosen and arranged by a student editorial board. Dr. Fox is also the faculty sponsor of Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society.
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