Professor Tim Mackin of Burlington, with a PhD in English from Johns Hopkins University, has been named Director of the Saint Michael's College Writing Program, the college announced March 5. Professor Mackin will oversee the Writing Center, which is staffed by a cadre of talented undergraduate writing tutors. He will also supervise the SMC writing proficiency requirement and assessment of the writing program. He will also teach courses in the English and humanities departments at the college.
“I plan to develop the writing program with increased focus on writing in specific content-based courses, which would be different for each academic discipline,” Professor Mackin said. “But first, I look forward to learning to run the writing program, which has been so well run before me by Professor Elizabeth Innes-Brown.”
Professor Mackin has taught courses at Saint Michael’s including Introduction to Literary Studies, the Art of Memory, and Modernist Poetry in the English department, and Modern Civilization and 20th Century in the humanities department. He was the Henry G. Fairbanks Visiting Humanities Scholar-in-Residence, 2009-2011, and Coordinator of Peer Tutoring, 2011-2012.
Professor Mackin’s dissertation is titled Modern Objects: Woolf, Pound, and the Public Mind of Modernism. He has published and given presentations on Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, E.M.Forster, Bertrand Russell and more.
Professor Mackin and his wife Dr. Crystal L’Hote, Saint Michael’s assistant professor of philosophy, reside in Burlington.