Contact

NAME	TITLE	CONTACT
Hudson Gould	Director of the Quantitative Reasoning Center	(845) 437-5789 qrc@vassar.edu
Matthew Schultz	Director of the Writing Center and Adjunct Associate Professor of English	(845) 437-7683 writingcenter@vassar.edu
Alexia Ferracuti	Director of Inclusive Pedagogy
Kelli Duncan	Faculty Director of Teaching Development	(845) 437-7313
Susan Hiner	Faculty Director of Research Development	(845) 437-5728

Kelli Duncan joined the Vassar faculty in the Department of Biology in 2011 and teaches regularly in both the Biology Department and the Neuroscience and Behavior program. She teaches introductory-level courses in both Biology and Neuroscience and Behavior and regularly offers advanced seminars in her specialty area, Hormones and Behavior. Additionally, Kelli has taught classes for the Exploring College and Exploring Transfer programs and for the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda. In addition to her classroom teaching, Kelli works with students in her research lab, where she studies how steroid hormones affect brain morphology and behavior in the wake of traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Kelli received a BSA in Biological Sciences from the University of Georgia, earned a Ph.D. in Biology-Neurobiology and Behavior from Georgia State University in 2008, and was a postdoctoral researcher in neuroendocrinology at Lehigh University from 2008 to 2011.

Alexia Ferracuti, Director of Inclusive Pedagogy, develops research-based workshops and resources as well as cohort programs that encourage faculty to explore a variety of equitable teaching practices, including Teaching Pairs, Faculty Learning Communities, and the Student Teacher Engaged Pedagogical Partnership (STEPP) program. She also offers one-on-one consultations as well as tailored pedagogy workshops in collaboration with departments, programs, and a variety of campus partners, including students. In addition, Alexia oversees the new Peer Academic Consultants (PAC) program for students, and serves as part of the Engaged Pluralism collaborative team. Alexia earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in the combined degree of Italian and Renaissance Studies, with a focus on comedy, gender play, and dissimulation as key aspects of imitation and performance in the early modern period. In addition to teaching at Vassar on topics related to Renaissance poetry and the arts, she has taught courses in Italian, Theatre Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale, Wesleyan, and as part of various Italian study abroad programs in Bologna, Siena, and Rome.

Susan Hiner is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies on the John Guy Vassar Chair, Director of Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, and Faculty Director of Research Development. She received her doctorate in French Literature from Columbia University after completing a B.A. in French and English at the University of Virginia. Susan’s research and teaching interests include women and material culture in nineteenth-century France, fashion studies, and the intersection of literature, visual culture, and social history. As Director of Research Development, Susan oversees internal funding for faculty research projects and organizes workshops to facilitate scholarship. She is happy to meet with faculty one-on-one to discuss research plans and opportunities.

Matthew Schultz is the Director of the Writing Center and Adjunct Associate Professor of English. He earned both his B.A. and M.A. in English Literature at John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in English Literature from Saint Louis University, where he specialized in Irish Studies, Literary Modernism, and Postcolonial Theory. As Writing Center Director, Dr. Schultz enjoys working with writers from across the curriculum on close reading and drafting strategies to revision techniques. Dr. Schultz is both a literary scholar and creative writer whose work engages questions of aesthetics and metaphysics. His recent projects focus specifically on oracular poetics and animist thought in {pre[post]} Modernist literature.