Taimi Olsen

ISSOTL, ACA (Appalachian College Association), FAHE (Friends Association of Higher Education), MLA (Modern Language Association), and E. E. Cummings Society

Faculty development on teaching and learning and assessment, Greek Religion (participating in ACA-Mellon three-year grant for faculty development), research on E. E. Cummings and on George Herriman (20th century cartoonist), use of Sakai project pages for course review, assessment, and departmental business.

Dr. Taimi Olsen is a Professor of English at Tusculum College. She obtained her doctorate from UNC-CH and is the author of Transcending Space: Architectural Places in the Works of Henry David Thoreau, E. E. Cummings, and John Barth. She is also author of several articles on E. E. Cummings, has done presentations on African American cartoonist George Herriman, and regularly conducts faculty development workshops on teaching and learning at the annual Appalachian College Association Summit.

Brian A Bremen

American Literature Association, American Studies Association, Kenneth Burke Society, Modern Language Association, Modernist Studies Association, William Carlos Williams Society

I am currently working on a book that examines the ways in which popular music and populist politics intersect in the songs of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, as well as on one tentatively entitled, What Was Modernism (And Does It Still Matter)?

Brian A Bremen teaches English at The University of Texas at Austin.