Professional Information

Full name

Taimi Olsen

Job title

Associate Professor of English; Director of Competency Program

URL

http://www.tusculum.edu/faculty/home/tolsen.html

Role

faculty

Education

Ph.D from UNC-Chapel Hill

Professional Organizations

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

Current Projects

Directing assessment on my campus and regional project on assessment tools (ACA), 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 and assessment

Disciplinary Interests

American Modernism, Technology and Teaching, E. E. Cummings

Bio

Dr. Taimi Olsen is an Associate Professor of English at Tusculum College. She obtained her doctorate from UNC-CH and is the author of Transcending Space: Architectural Place in E. E. Cummings, Thoreau and John Barth. She is also author of several articles on E. E. Cummings as well as on teaching issues, and she conducts faculty development workshops yearly at the Appalachian College Association summit.

History

Member for

2 years 3 weeks