Interdisciplinary Humanities Online

Liv brings expertise as a musical theater lyricist/book writer, theater director, screenwriter, songwriter and singer, theatrical producer, and performer. She holds a BS in Theater and English from Skidmore College, as well as an MFA in Musical Theater Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Mary combines lectures, all-class discussions, and small group work in her classes to foster an academic environment that relies on student inquiry and engagement in the pursuit of academic excellence.

She teaches surveys of English literary history, courses in medieval studies and Shakespeare studies, and the History of the English Language. Her research spans both the Old and Middle English periods, Her most recent book is The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2015. This "patronage biography" narrates Judith’s life (c.1032-1094) through analysis of the books and art objects she commissioned and collected. Drawing upon history, art history, literature, and hagiography, this book demonstrates that Judith consciously and successfully deployed patronage as a cultural strategy in her political and marital maneuvers in the eleventh century European political theater.

Mary's current research, Public Medievalists, Racism and Suffrage: Anglo-Saxon and the 19th Century Women's College, is  part of growing interest in the study of nineteenth-­century medievalism and Anglo-­Saxonism, and closely examines the intersections of race, class, and gender in the teaching of Anglo-­Saxon in the American women’s colleges before World War I.

And what fictional character does Mary think most exemplifies her? Professor Minerva McGonagall, of course!

She holds a BA from Vassar College, an MAT from Boston University, and a PhD from Loyola University.

Dr. Evans's research has focused on the nineteenth and twentieth century European novel, literary theory, twentieth century women philosophers who wrote literature or wrote about literature, and French literature written during World War II.

She holds a BA and MA from Stanford University and a MA and PhD from Harvard University.

Donna is a nationally known media historian, author of five books and many articles and essays. She's spent more than 35 years in broadcasting and print journalism, and has often been called upon to comment on trends in media.

She has made guest appearances on PBS, NPR, the History Channel, and local stations like WCVB-TV (channel 5), WBUR, and WBZ Radio, and is often quoted in the Boston Globe and Boston Herald. While in radio, she discovered the rock group RUSH, who dedicated two albums to her, and she appears in a 2010 documentary about them.

She holds a BA, MA, and MEd from Northeastern University as well as a PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Dr. Lamothe is an African historian and documentary filmmaker, and the author of Slaves of Fortune: Sudanese Soldiers and the River War (James Currey Press, 2011). His areas of interest include Northeast African history, Sudanese history, military slavery, the Scramble for Africa, the British Empire, and Africa in film. His documentaries The Political Seuss and The Call of the Wild have been screened worldwide at film festivals and broadcast nationwide on PBS. He holds a BA from Tufts University, an MA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a PhD from Boston University.

Kimberly's research focuses on the development of transnational humanitarian activism and international humanitarian law in twentieth-century Europe.

Her first book project analyzes the International Red Cross movement’s revision of international humanitarian rights discourse after the First World War. Her second book project examines the effect of decolonization on the International Red Cross Movement from 1947 to 1977, decades during which this traditionally Eurocentric movement asserted its relevance to post-colonial regimes and anti-colonial liberation movements in a rapidly changing geo-political landscape. 

She holds a PhD in History from Yale University, an MA and MPhil in History from Yale University, and a BA in History from Pepperdine University.

As an associate professor of Spanish studies and literature at Lesley, Sonia brings expertise in Spanish culture and literature as well as theories of literature. She holds a BA and an MA from the University of the Basque Country in Spain as well as a PhD from the University of Birmingham in England.

Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Violence Against Women Initiative. 
Violence against Women: Representations, Interpretations, Explorations/Education  is a call for action to put a stop to violence against women.

Anne holds a doctorate in English Literature and an MA in Humanities from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she studied poetry with Robert Creeley, Irving Feldman, and John Logan. 

She's an alum of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, has studied at the Linklater Studio, and developed the Drama Minor and Drama track in Lesley's English major. A former member of the Small Press Alliance of Boston and editor of Oak Square Magazine, she also started Commonthought Magazine at Lesley.

Anne currently teaches courses in English Composition, Creative Writing, Literature, and Play Production: Shakespeare. In the past, she's worked with master's students and directed two doctoral dissertations. Her classrooms strive to be safe places of mutual respect and diligence.

Aaron holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh. As an associate professor at Lesley, his areas of expertise include creative writing, poetry, popular culture, and gender. As a teacher and a writer, he hones both crafts every day, and is committed to helping his writing and literature students enter into the public experience of what is often perceived as a solitary undertaking.

As a literature teacher, Robert is committed to the view that engaged reading makes us better critical thinkers and transforms our understanding of ourselves and the world in which we live. He believes that the primary value of literary study is not so much learning about literature, but learning through literature.

Robert has over 30 years of teaching experience at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Art and Design, where he served as Chair of the Liberal Arts Department for fifteen years. In addition to first year composition and literature courses, he teaches a variety of electives, including Short Fiction and Novella, the Family in Literature, Romanticism in the Arts: Literature, Painting, Music.

Outside of Lesley, he's served as Scholar in Residence in Boston University's Teachers Academy in South Carolina. He's written articles and given conference presentations at local and national conferences on topics in the humanities and education; his current research interests focus on the role and efficacy of liberal arts study in the undergraduate curriculum.

As a teacher of composition and literature, Robert is committed to the belief that engaged reading makes us better critical thinkers and transforms our understanding of ourselves and the world in which we live—that the primary value of literary study is not so much learning about literature, but learning through literature.

As a member of the Humanities Division, Marjorie has developed and taught a wide variety of courses in both history and literature, including Human Rights and the Constitution; the United States and the World, the United States Since World War II, The Holocaust in Modern Jewish History, The Civil War Era, and Contemporary American Literature.

She was an undergraduate history major at Barnard College and completed two masters’ degrees (History and Literature) at Harvard University. Her biggest reward in teaching is to cultivate in students an enthusiasm for the intellectual and artistic pursuits that have engaged her over the years.