What Our Faculty is Reading

Ever wonder what teachers read in their spare time? Here is a brief list of some of the books, magazines, and articles our faculty and staff have been reading.


Martha Burford
Communitas  by Edith Turner
A Song to Sing a Life to Live by Don Saliers and Emily Saliers
The Gift of Good Land  by Wendell Berry
The Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx
 
Lauren Jones
La Sombra del Viento (The Shadow of the Wind) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Bossypants by Tina Fey

 

Autumn Reinhardt Simpson

Socrates Cafe by Christopher Phillips
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot by Mary Walton
Good Without God by Greg Epstein
Doubt by Jennifer Michael Hecht

 

Janine Russo

The Lowell Offering, writings by New England Mill Women (1840.1845)
The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall
Record of a School by Amos Bronson Alcott
Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America's Youngest First Lady by Annette Dunlap
The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy

 


Julie Simpson

Memory, History, Forgetting by Paul Ricoeur
The Price of Inequality by Joseph E. Stiglitz
The Information Officer by Mark Mills
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said by Gauri Viswanathan
The Geographer’s Library by Jon Fasman (re-visit)
Time and Narrative, vol. 2 by Paul Ricoeur (re-visit)

 

Jenna Stickley
Beachcombers by Nancy Thayer

Doug Welch
Running Within by Jerry Lynch and Warren Scott
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Erasure by Percival Everett

Rachel White
Neuroeducation: Learning, Arts, and the Brain from the Dana Foundation
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin Wallace