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Wendy Atwell-Vasey pictureWendy Atwell-Vasey, Associate Professor of Education

Office: Trinkle 214
Phone: 654-1349
E-Mail: watwell@umw.edu

  • Education - B.S., University of Rochester, M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland
  • Teaching Areas - English Education, Foundations of Education, Arts in Education, Secondary Education
  • Courses - Education 351, Education 420, Education 440
  • Department Duties - Outcomes Assessment
  • Hobbies - Music, Reading, Theatre

Areas of interest:

  • Culture and education
  • Curriculum theory
  • Teaching as art and through art
  • Feminist theory and education
  • Reader response
  • Uses of autobiography and education
  • Education and psychoanalysis

Nourishing Words CoverProfessor Atwell-Vasey is the Author of NOURISHING WORDS Bridging Private Reading and Public Teaching, 1998, SUNY Press