New and Familiar Faces

New Face

Job Description:

Coordinating communications and marketing efforts for Kent State Ashtabula

Worked at KSU since:

January 2013

Employment Prior to Kent State University:

Northern Illinois University

Likes Most About Kent State University:

Everyone at Kent State has been most welcoming and has offered some great advice about winter in Northeast Ohio! I also really like the lakeside location of the Ashtabula campus where I work.

Attraction to Kent State University as an Employer:

I really like that Kent State is a growing university in a time when so many other schools are cutting back. It speaks well of the university’s leadership, faculty and staff, students and the surrounding community.

Resides in:

Mantua, Ohio

Hometown:

Charleston, S.C.

Education:

M.A., Public Relations, University of Georgia; B.A.J., Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia

Hobbies:

Playing with my dogs, planning my vegetable garden, reading and discovering great places to eat in Northeast Ohio

Familiar Face

Job Description:

I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in 19th-century British literature and coordinate our writing program.

Worked at KSU since:

August 1993

Employment Prior to Kent State University:

Virginia Tech

Likes Most About Kent State University:

It is a good-size campus, easy to get to know people without it being too insular.

Attraction to Kent State University as an Employer:

It was close to my extended family, to be honest. But the English department was also building a writing program and that fit one of my career interests.

Resides in:

Kent, Ohio

Hometown:

Tallmadge, Ohio

Education:

Ph.D. in Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Hobbies:

Reading, exploring new restaurants with friends, movies, traveling, taking care of an aged parent and an under-employed daughter