St. Lawrence Appoints New Faculty For 2019-2020 Academic Year
St. Lawrence University appointed 11 new tenure-track faculty, who will begin teaching in the Fall 2019 semester. The new teaching faculty bring with them areas of expertise that include biology, chemistry, theater design, environmental studies, data science and statistics, Canadian studies, global studies, sociology, government and economics. Three visiting assistant professors and two visiting instructors also were appointed.
Joe Wilkins was appointed this year’s Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing and comes from Linfield College in Oregon. He is the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, and three poetry collections, including When We Were Birds, winner of the 2017 Oregon Book Award in Poetry. His debut novel is titled Fall Back Down When I Die. He will teach creative writing courses and a course on the literature of contemporary rural America.
Classes begin at St. Lawrence University on Wednesday, Aug. 28.
Jacqueline Pinkowitz comes to St. Lawrence as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Film and Representation Studies, having recently completed her doctorate in media studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research centers on cultural and industrial histories of popular media in relation to identity and difference, focusing especially on race, region and gender. She will teach several introductory film studies courses as well as a course on blackness in American film and television.
Niu (Christine) Qingqing joins St. Lawrence as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Chinese instructor from Henan University of Economics and Law in Zhengzhou, China. She earned her master’s degree in English literature and linguistics from Henan University in 2014. Her research focus is English linguistics, and she will teach several advanced courses on Chinese.
Rebecca Terry joins St. Lawrence as an instructor in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics. Terry earned here master’s degree in 2016 and is completing her Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Utah. Her research interests are in applied mathematics, particularly in the areas of mathematical biology and the mathematics of planet earth. She will teach a variety of mathematics courses, including calculus, this fall.