Learning and Teaching Cooperative

Faculty & Tutors

Faculty Directors

Anne Maxham, Co-Director of the LT Coop, Coodinator of Writing at Antioch University Seattle, has been a core faculty member in the Center of Programs in Education since 2000. Her primary teaching responsibilities in Education are in writing, literature and literacy theory. Prior to coming to Antioch, she was Associate Director of Composition at Washington State University from 1990 to 2000. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Idaho and her research interests include adult learning and writing apprehension, writing communities and qualitative research methodology.

Bryan Tomasovich, Co-Director of the LT Coop, holds an M.A. from New York University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His areas of interest are composition and rhetoric, modern and postmodern American literature, poetry, playwriting and publishing. Before teaching at Antioch, he was an assistant professor of English and environmental studies at the University of Puget Sound. In addition to a book of poetry published in spring, 2005, Ouisconsin: The Dead in Our Clouds, his writing has appeared in journals such as ISLE, the Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, Jubilat, DIAGRAM and 5 Trope. In addition to teaching, he has worked in fields such as advertising and journalism.

Writing Faculty

Maria Pickering holds a B.A. in English with an Emphasis in Writing from the University of Washington. She obtained her teaching certificate from Central Washington University and then acquired a M.Ed. in Creative Arts and Education from Lesley University. Pickering taught for six years in both public and private schools at the elementary, middle and high school levels and was an ELL instructor at Highline Community College and Pierce College.

Corinne Adler holds degrees from Wesleyan University (B.A., Interdisciplinary), the University of Colorado (M.A., Creative Writing) and the University of Washington (Ph.D., English/Cultural Studies). She has been teaching for twenty years and, in addition to Antioch, is currently on the faculty's of Cornish College of the Arts and North Seattle Community College. Her courses emphasize connections between the personal and the social, art and social change, the local and the global, history and narrative and, of course, writing and critical thinking. Her work (poetry, fiction and non-fiction) has been published in US and Canadian journals. She is the author of one chapbook (The Toothed World) and a dissertation on Hollywood in the era of family values (Screening the Dream).

Susan Starbuck, faculty-at-large, earned her M.A.T. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. She is interested in contemporary fiction, intellectual and environmental history and the interface between oral and written stories. Before teaching at Antioch, she was director of the North Seattle Community College women's center. She also founded a nonprofit, The Women's Heritage Center to document local women's history. At Antioch she has coordinated secondary certification programs and taught for the BAC Program and the Writing Programs. Her book, Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment was published in 2002 by the University of Washington Press. She will complete her M.F.A. in fiction in June 2008 at Antioch University Los Angeles.

Susanne Sturm has an M.A. in Applied Behavioral Science from the Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS). She has been a consultant and educator in the field of psychology and community education for the past twenty-five years. Currently, she provides academic and creative writing assistance to undergraduate and graduate students with various learning and writing challenges, assisting students in improving their knowledge and skill in all standard writing conventions, researching and writing academic papers and increasing flow of ideas through creative writing. She has special interest in developing plans, objectives and strategies to help students with academic challenges decrease anxiety about all aspects of learning and writing in order to have successful educational experiences.

Tutors

Andrea Nash (Lily) has a B.A. in Visual and Theater Arts from the Evergreen State College. Nash has devoted much of her life to the studying and teaching of writing. She worked as a tutor at the Pratt Institute in New York for four years and has taught at the preschool level, at inner-city community centers and as an ESL/ELL teacher abroad as well. Nash loves to make art, theater and music. She loves to read student writing and to assist with clarification of vision and expression. Her very favorite tutoring and teaching activity is the recognition that she has made herself irrelevant through the empowerment of her students. Nash is a graduate student in the Environment and Community program within the Center for Creative Change.