The English Department at Davidson College welcomes adjunct
lecturer Denise Alvarez, visiting professor Andrea Gazzaniga and
visiting instructor Emily Setina
this semester.
Adjunct Lecturer Alvarez (office: Chambers 3255 ext. 2041)
teaches ENG 101 IS: College Writing for International Students
which is designed to develop English writing proficiency, with a
particular focus on academic writing skills related to
research-based writing. She has also worked with student
tutors and faculty at Davidson to help identify and address the
academic needs of the international student population.
She specializes in Teaching English as a Second Language. She
did her thesis research on second language writing, with a
focus on academic writing at the college level. She identified the difficulties international students
experienced with college-level academic writing and used this
information to address
how teachers can work-through these difficulties. Her
teaching interests include helping prepare current or aspiring
international college students for college-level work at
American institutions of higher education, and working in
writing center environments to provide individualized,
need-based instruction to students.
Visiting Professor Gazzaniga (office: Preyor 201A, ext. 2907) specializes in nineteenth-century British
Literature, with a particular emphasis on Victorian poetry.
She has taught at Cornell University and Hobart and William
Smith Colleges. Her research concerns the ways in which
the Victorian lyric reflects a shifting sense of public and
private constructions of identity. Her teaching and
scholarly interests include women writers, queer theory,
phenomenology, film, and genre studies. She has given
papers on the uses of enjambment in Victorian sonnet sequences,
Tennyson's poetics of space, Die Hard's revision
of the Western film, and Alfred Hitchcock. She is
currently writing a monograph of Michael Field.
Visiting Instructor Setina (office: Chambers 2289, ext. 2279) specializes in twentieth-century literature
and the relationship between literature and the visual arts.
Her dissertation research grew out of her Davidson senior thesis
and studies photography as a metaphor in and influence on
experimental modernist writing by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf,
Gertrude Stein, and Marianne Moore. After college, she
traveled as a Watson Fellow in Wales, Scotland, France, and
Ireland studying the place of contemporary poetry in minority,
Celtic language communities. She has taught writing
courses and courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British
and American literature and is happy to be teaching back at
Davidson.
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