Laurie Quinn has taught college courses in literature and writing at Boston College, UNH, and Granite State College respectively during the past twenty years. Dr. Quinn has been a faculty and staff member at GSC since 2004, and is presently Associate Dean for Faculty and Curriculum. Previously she worked in the public humanities as Senior Program Director at the New Hampshire Humanities Council and in various academic administrative roles. Laurie’s doctorate is in English literature from UNH, where she focused on British literature, women’s writing, and social class issues in literature; her M.A. and B.A. degrees are from Boston College. Although Laurie was herself a traditional-aged college student, she is in the first generation of her family to complete a bachelor’s degree, and her passion is teaching and learning in the nontraditional higher education setting that Granite State College exemplifies. Dr. Quinn’s pursuits include serving as a program scholar for the national Literature and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care reading-discussion program for medical professionals, and leading public book discussions from time to time at libraries in New Hampshire and Maine. She serves on the College Board’s English Literature examination committee. Laurie lives in Dover, NH with her husband and their young son.

For more information about this course, contact Dr. Quinn at: laurie.quinn@granite.edu