Liane Summerfield

Academic Credentials

B.S., Northeastern University
M.Ed., The George Washington University

Biography

Other Information

Teaching Area

  • Nutrition
  • Health Education

Research Interests

  • Obesity and weight management
  • Human nutrition
  • Inquiry-guided learning

Publications

She is the author of Nutrition, Exercise, and Behavior: An Integrated Approach to Weight Management, published by Cengage […]

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Janice Ellinwood

Academic Credentials

B.S., Skidmore College
M.F.A., The George Washington University
University of Massachusetts, Syracuse University

Biography

Other Information

Teaching Area

  • Fashion Illustration I and II
  • Senior Fashion Design Portfolio
  • Fashion Research and Communication
  • Senior Seminar in Fashion Merchandising

Research Interests

  • The artistic decision-making of fashion designers
  • Media campaigns in the fashion industry, such as Benetton, Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria’s Secret
  • The pedagogy of inspiring creativity in fashion design students

Janice G. Ellinwood has been a member of the Marymount faculty since 1980. She is an artist and fashion illustrator who has exhibited throughout the U.S. As a Fulbright Scholar, she taught fashion design at the National Academy of Art in Bulgaria in 2001-02.

Ellinwood has served as department chair of Fashion Design and Merchandising since 1987. As such, she has recommended the nationally recognized recipients for Marymount’s Designer of the Year Award and invited them to campus.  She has coached students who have won or placed in national and international fashion competitions, served as a media expert on the fashion industry, a reviewer of fashion textbooks, and contributed articles to both academic journals and textbooks. She is author of Fashion By Design (Fairchild Books).

Ellinwood is a member of the International Textile and Apparel Association, the Costume Society of America, the Colored Pencil Society of America and the Fulbright Association.

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Lillian Bisson

Academic Credentials

B.A., Elms College
M.A., University of Massachusetts
Ph.D., Florida State University
Other study: Folger Institute seminars on Dante and Machiavelli

Biography

Other Information

Teaching Area

Research Interests

  • Medieval women mystics
  • The portrayal of the teacher-student relationship in medieval texts

Dr. Lillian Bisson served as a Marymount faculty member from 1969 to 2010, and now is professor emerita of English. She serves in an advisory capacity with the Department of Literature and Languages in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Her primary field of interest is late medieval literature, particularly Chaucer and Dante studies. Others areas of interest are feminist studies, particularly relating to Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf, and interdisciplinary approaches to ancient and medieval culture.

Her book, Chaucer and the Late Medieval World, was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1998. Both the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded her grants for summer institutes to enrich the background of high school teachers in medieval studies.

She also served as a program officer for the National Endowment for the Humanities and as a long-term department chairperson and director of Marymount’s graduate program in Literature and Language. Her current research interests are medieval women mystics and the portrayal of the teacher-student relationship in medieval texts.

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