Teaching Scholars for 2000-2001

Pam Lieske

Biography
Dr. Lieske is an Assistant Professor of English on the Trumbull Campus. At thepresent time, Dr. Lieske is teaching course in undergraduate English as well as a Women's Studies Colloquium, and Women's Literature.  Through her teaching, Dr. Lieske asks that her students strive to demonstrate general understanding of major developments in the academy, as they relate to women’s writing, and that students improve their critical thinking and writing skills by their participation in classroom and on-line discussions.  Students are also challenged to improve their public speaking and classroom leadership skills as they share the products of their formal research, writing, and reasoning skills through the production of a formal research papers.

Teaching Project 

Dr. Lieske intends for her students to demonstrate general understanding of the literary and social history of eighteenth and nineteenth century British and American women writers, as well as the major themes and genres employed by British and American women writers during this period.  Dr. Lieske wants to devise new ways of using student response papers or employing new pedagogical techniques that emphasize critical thinking and writing.  At the same time, she intends to integrate more technology into her teaching and to produce a web page that uses links to sites that can be used by her students.

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