Holly Hassel
Associate Professor of English, UW-Marathon County
Chair, UW Colleges Women’s Studies Program
518 S. 7th Avenue,
Wausau, WI 54403
holly.hassel@uwc.edu /
715.261.6265
Biography: Holly Hassel earned her Ph.D. in American Literature
from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2002. She teaches composition,
poetry, and women's studies courses and is actively involved in the scholarship
of teaching and learning, especially studying pedagogy in literature courses.
Other areas of scholarly interest include women in film (specifically fantasy
and science fiction), contemporary young adult literature, feminist pedagogy,
and work-family balance.
Joanne Giordano
Lecturer - English.
UW Marathon County
518 S. 7th Avenue,
Wausau, WI 54403
joanne.giordano@uwc.edu /
715-261-6270
Biography: Joanne Baird Giordano developed the learning resources
program at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County. She teaches first-year
and intermediate composition, reading courses, learning skills classes and
workshops, and a writing workshop course for multilingual students. She has
previously taught advanced composition, social science writing, intercultural
communication, literature, and advanced writing for multilingual students. Her
professional interests include scholarship of teaching and learning projects
focused on at-risk student populations, multilingual writers in the college
composition classroom, and creative nonfiction writing.
Christina McCaslin
Lecturer - English,
UW Marathon County
518 S. 7th Avenue,
Wausau, WI 54403
christina.mccaslin@uwc.edu /
715-261-6328
Biography: Christina McCaslin earned a degree in Literature from
Western Illinois University. While McCaslin is an associate lecturer at
University of Wisconsin Marathon County, she teaches composition: English 101
and 102. The UWMC Writing Center is also an area in which Christina teaches
students in a one-on-one setting. McCaslin believes in providing concise and
methodical writing instruction and detailed comments that will provide students
with guidelines on how to revise their writing and see it as a continuing
process. She also believes that carefully planned peer review activities empower
writers to be successful editors of their own writing which will lead to strong
independent writing.
Deb Timoney
Writing Specialist-TRIO,
UW Marathon County
518 S. 7th Avenue,
Wausau, WI 54403
Debbie.timoney@uwc.edu /
715-261-6209
Biography: Instructional English Specialist, TRIO Deb works for the TRIO
program which is a federally funded program that serves disadvantaged students.
Deb teaches LEA English classes which are supplemental in nature for English
098, 101 and 102 students. She
works closely with the English Department and fosters and environment to enrich
learning by dissecting information to meet the needs of at-risk learners. She
holds a Masters Degree and has been working in higher education for over a
decade.
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