2017-18 New Faculty
Brigit Ferguson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A.,Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
Areas of expertise: architecture; medieval art of Europe and the Mediterranean; eighteenth-century art, especially French painting.
Jon Gaffney
Lecturer in Physics
B.S., Bethany College; M.S., University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Areas of expertise: physics education research
Rebecca Loescher
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
B.A., Kent State University; B.A., University of Toulouse; M.A., University of Bordeaux; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Areas of expertise: 20th and 21st century literatures in French; Caribbean literatures; autobiography; the philosophy of relationality; linguistics
Jack MartÃnez Arias
Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
B.A., Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Ph.D., Northwestern University
Areas of expertise: Latin American literatures, Andean literatures and cultures, 19th-century and contemporary narratives, literature and economics.
Suzanne Taylor
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature
B.A., McGill University; M.A., University of Alberta; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Anne Valente
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
B.A., Washington University in St. Louis; M.S., University of Illinois; M.F.A., Bowling Green State University; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Areas of expertise: creative writing, novels and short stories, creative non-fiction, and 20th century American literature
