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Faculty Biographies
Robert-Louis Abrahamson
Robert-Louis Abrahamson has been living in England since 1980. He attended Amherst College, The University of Edinburgh, and Rutgers University, receiving his PhD in English. He has been teaching a variety of literature, humanities, theatre, speech, and writing classes for UMUC since 1985. He co-authored A Good English Manual and The Business Writing Handbook, and has written articles and given talks on language, literature, and the imagination. He can be heard reading and discussing stories and poems on the radio program Evening under Lamplight and on his audio-blog Moments under Lamplight, both available as podcasts at http://momentsunderlamplight.com. In 2009, he was awarded the Drazek Award for Excellence in Teaching.
E-mail: rabraham@faculty.ed.umuc.edu
Monica Chojnacka
Monica Chojnacka received her PhD from Stanford University in European History and has published books and articles on Venice and Venetian history. Her areas of specialty are Renaissance Venice, social history, and women's history. She was a tenured associate professor of European History at the University of Georgia before moving to Venice in 2007. A well-published author, her most recent book is titled Venice, Food and Wine (2009). She now teaches for UMUC and gives guest lectures to university students in Venice and elsewhere in Italy.
E-mail: mchojnacka1@faculty.ed.umuc.edu
Pauline J. Fry
Pauline Fry received an MAT in literature from Kent State University, where she studied on an NDEA scholarship, a BA in English from the University of Oregon, and a MA at Kent State University. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris before joining UMUC, teaching in Holland, Turkey, Greece, Iran, and Italy. After teaching for a year for UMUC Asia, Fry began teaching literature, writing, speech, and bibliographical research in Naples, Italy, where she has taught since 1980. Ms. Fry lives in Rome.
E-mail: pfry@faculty.ed.umuc.com
Alison D. Goeller
Dr. Goeller holds a PhD in American Literature from Temple University, an MA in English from Villanova University, and a BA in English from West Chester University. Since 1985, she has taught courses in American and British literature, ethnic studies, and women's literature, as well as writing and speech for UMUC Europe in Germany, England, Holland, and Italy. In addition, she has been teaching UMUC Europe field study courses in Ireland and Scotland for over twenty years. Her publications include articles on ethnic detective fiction, Italian American women writers, travel literature, African American literature and dance, and literature of the South. She is currently working on her third novel.
E-mail: agoeller@faculty.ed.umuc.edu
Catherine Healey
Dr. Healey received a Baccalaureate from Lycee Francais de New York, an AB from Bryn Mawr College, and an MA and a PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Healey has taught history and geography, and her professional experience includes serving as director of studies and adjunct assistant professor at Southern Methodist University in Paris. Her writings have been published numerous times in French and English publications. Dr. Healey joined UMUC Europe in 2001.
Bruce Hull
Bruce Hull received a bachelor's degree and master's degree in history from University of California, Riverside. His principle areas of study are modern German and Russian history, and he also teaches courses in American history and film. He joined UMUC in 1981 and was the first UMUC Europe history instructor to teach a distance education course. Since 2008, he has been the chair of the UMUC worldwide faculty advisory committee. His familiarity with Berlin goes back to the Cold War era, when he regularly took the military troop train to teach American students in Berlin. Mr. Hull currently lives in Bamberg, Germany.
E-mail: bhull@faculty.ed.umuc.edu
Bruno Lerner
Dr. Lerner received his doctorate from the University of Vienna, Austria, where he studied ancient, medieval, and modern European history. He first joined UMUC Europe in 1970 and has taught courses in history, German language, and special courses on the history of Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and Trier. He lives near Heidelberg, Germany.
E-mail: blerner@faculty.ed.umuc.edu
Mary J. Mandola
Ms. Mandola received a BA in humanities and an MA in art history in 1971 from Michigan State University. She has taught a wide range of art history courses with the Institute for American University in Aix-en-Provence, France, and at Northern State College in South Dakota. Among her awards is a National Defense Language Fellowship for the study of Asian art and culture. Ms. Mandola teaches several field study courses as well as special courses on artists such as Van Gogh. She joined UMUC Europe in 1976.
E-mail: jeanmandola@usa.net
Barbara D. Nucci
Barbara Nucci holds degrees in classics, Italian, and education. For most of her adult life she has lived and worked in Italy where her passion has been the study and exploration of Italian language, literature, history, and culture. She teaches Italian language as well as Italian Life and Culture courses for UMUC and often lectures on contemporary Italian society for Trinity College's Elderhostel Program. Her translations of Italian short stories appear in New Italian Women, Italica Press, 1989, and in After the War published Spring 2004 by Italica Press, both edited by Martha King.
E-mail: bnucci@faculty.ed.umuc.edu
Linda K. O'Brien
Linda O'Brien was awarded the Licence in archeology and art history and symbolic anthropology from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Her dissertation focused on Aztec art and religion. She has also studied anthropology at Stanford University and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris. Prof. O'Brien was affiliated with the Museum of Ancient Art, Brussels, and has presented an exhibition on "The Treasures of China," plus a variety of exhibitions on Greek art at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. She now lives in Italy where she has been featured in several TV interviews on art in Italy. She joined UMUC Europe in 1982.
E-mail: lobrien@faculty.ed.umuc.edu.
Mary-Ann T. Sagnella
Mary-Ann Sagnella earned a PhD and an MA degree in Italian from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, and a BA in Italian studies from Connecticut College. The author of several articles for Italica and Mystics Quarterly magazine, Dr. Sagnella is an avid reader, writer, and researcher. She has been living in Naples, Italy, and teaching UMUC courses since 1993.
Toni E. Sepeda
Dr. Sepeda earned a BA and an MA in English from the University of West Florida. She received a PhD in English literature from the University of Reading, England. Her doctoral dissertation, Yeats and Women Artists, combined her interests in art and literature. Dr. Sepeda joined UMUC Europe in 1975.
E-mail: tosepeda@libero.it
Thomas C. Tulloss
Dr. Tulloss received a BA in English from Yale University and an MA and PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland. His dissertation was titled Et ego in Arcadia: The Fiction of John Peale Bishop. Dr. Tulloss has lectured on William Faulkner and Henry Adams at the University of Turku, Finland, and has lived in Ireland and Scotland. He has been published in The John Edwards Memorial Foundation Quarterly, Annals of Internal Medicine, Foundation Quarterly, Lynx, Roundhouse Review, and Calhoun Lit. He joined UMUC Europe in 1977 and has also taught with Western Maryland College.
E-mail: ttulloss@faculty.ed.umuc.edu
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