Writing & Rhetoric
Esther F. Boucher-Yip
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 022
Phone: +1-508-831-6573
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
efboucher@wpi.edu
Esther F. Boucher-Yip
- Assistant Professor, Humanities & Arts
Kristin Boudreau
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 125
Phone: +1-508-831-5246
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
kboudreau@wpi.edu
Kristin Boudreau
- Associate Dean
- Professor & Department Head, Humanities & Arts
Professor Boudreau became Associate Dean of Humanities & Arts in 2012 and teaches HUA writing courses and the Great Problems Seminar’s "Feed the World.” She finds WPI invigorating because the value of the humanities and arts is built into the curriculum. Read more...
Jim Cocola
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 26
Phone: +1-508-831-5104
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
jcocola@wpi.edu
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Jim Cocola
- Assistant Professor, Humanities & Arts
Jim Cocola teaches courses in literary studies, along with those in American studies, creative writing, film studies, and media studies. Teaching at WPI allows him to be in thought with a unique set of creative, dynamic, and innovative students. Read more...
James Dempsey
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 332
Phone: +1-508-831-5513
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
jdempsey@wpi.edu
James Dempsey
- Instructor, Humanities & Arts
James Dempsey came to academia after 20 years in print journalism and has published fiction, verse, and academic papers. He regards the teaching of writing--academic, journalistic, and creative--as hugely important in the education of a WPI student. Read more...
Jennifer deWinter
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 15
Phone: +1-508-831-6679
jdewinter@wpi.edu
Jennifer deWinter
- Co-Director, Professional Writing
- Assistant Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor deWinter particularly respects WPI’s motto, "Theory and Practice." She believes projects provide a concrete application to abstract knowledge, but strong leaders ponder projects abstractly and connect ideas between disciplines and settings. Read more...
Michelle Ephraim
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 237
Phone: +1-508-831-6129
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
ephraim@wpi.edu
Michelle Ephraim
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
Michelle Ephraim is WPI’s Shakespeare scholar. She is the author of Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage as well as numerous articles on 16th- and 17th-century literature. Professor Ephraim also teaches creative and expository writing. Read more...
Brenton Faber
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 19
Phone: +1-508-831-4930
bdfaber@wpi.edu
Brenton Faber
- Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor Faber believes the human dynamics of organizations are perplexing and shifting aggregations of history, experience, and intention. His work attempts to approach, describe, and offer interventions for contemporary problems within human systems. Read more...
Lorraine D. Higgins
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, SL20
Phone: +1-508-831-5503
LDH@wpi.edu
Lorraine D. Higgins
- Associate Teaching Professor, Humanities & Arts
My field is rhetoric; I challenge students to see writing as a form of inquiry and problem solving. It is not simply window dressing for ideas they already have, but a way to create and test ideas and to engage in a dialogue with a community of readers. Read more...
Ryan Smith Madan
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 02
Phone: +1-508-831-6561
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
ryanmadan@wpi.edu
Ryan Smith Madan
- Visiting Instructor, Humanities & Arts
In Professor Ryan Madan’s research, he is interested in the philosophies of writing we inculcate in our students and in the ways those theories implicitly inform how writing instruction is positioned within school curricula. Read more...
Ruth Lynette Smith
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 108
Phone: +1-508-831-5214
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
rsmith@wpi.edu
Ruth Lynette Smith
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor Ruth Smith works in the Philosophy and Religion group in the Humanities and Arts Department at WPI and is also affiliated with Rhetoric and Writing programs. Interests in linguistics have shaped her attention to moral theories and practices as questions of grammar. Read more...
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