Faculty
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
Chrysanthe Demetry
Contact Information:
Gordon Library, 302
Phone: +1-508-831-5193
Fax: +1-508-831-5778
cdemetry@wpi.edu
Website
Chrysanthe Demetry
- Director, Morgan Teaching and Learning Center
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
As a professor, I have the opportunity not only to excite students about my field of materials science and engineering, but to help them develop holistically as critical thinkers and lifelong learners, innovators, and effective and ethical communicators. 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...
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...
Associated Faculty
Michael Elmes
Contact Information
Washburn Shops, 203
Phone: +1-508-831-5182
Fax: +1-508-831-5720
mbelmes@wpi.edu
Michael Elmes
- Professor
- Interim Academic Associate Dean, School of Business
I design systems and processes that invite students to experience the complex dynamics of organizations, the role of power and influence in how they evolve, and the challenge of communication across political and cultural barriers. Because students are primarily responsible for their own learning, I see my role as a designer of the classroom-as-organization, mentor, and facilitator. Learn more...
Angel A. Rivera
Contact Information
Salisbury Laboratories, 016
Phone: +1-508-831-5779
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
arivera@wpi.edu
Angel A. Rivera
- Associate Professor
Professor Rivera has been conducting research on 19th- and 20th-century Spanish Caribbean literature and theories related to the exploration of limits or borders (i.e., the edges or places where multiple cultures touch or come into contact). Learn more...
Scott P. Runstrom
Contact Information
Salisbury Laboratories, 106
Phone: +1-508-831-5436
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
runstrom@wpi.edu
Scott P. Runstrom
- Adjunct Instructor
When teaching, I particularly enjoy combining theory with my own “real-world” experience to give students a perspective on howprofessional writing differs from what they have done before. Seeing students embrace technical-writing principles and produce professional-quality documents by the end of a single term makes teaching at WPI extremely rewarding. Learn more...
