Augustana College’s campus is closed Monday, March 16, due to weather conditions. This includes all athletic and evening activities, PepsiCo Recreation Center and Thomas Tredway Library.
Dining services will remain open on a regular schedule.
I love reading. I have always loved reading. When I was in elementary school, I would check out the maximum number of books I was allowed to take home each week. I'd park myself on the couch and read one after another. Thus, no one was very surprised when I decided to teach literature and writing.
I started out teaching middle school, then I was a writing specialist for St. Paul Schools in Minnesota, and then I came to Augie. Now I teach classes in the English department and the education department at Augustana. I am passionate about teaching writing and literature classes because I love helping students learn how to think and write clearly.
In the education department, I teach secondary language arts methods and literacy courses, and I work with future teachers in my classes and out in the area schools. Together we learn about the art of teaching.
I love to travel also, so I have been to Vietnam twice with the Augustana Vietnam program and my husband, Dr. David Crowe (in the English Department), and I co-direct the Augustana Norway program.
I enjoy studying literacy and learning so I can improve my own teaching and help my future teachers be well prepared for their future classrooms.
I lead writing and curriculum workshops in the Quad Cities community and also serve on curriculum committees in the Davenport Community Schools. My husband and I co-lead a book club at St. Paul Lutheran Church. I am currently president of the CommUniversity Board, which is a community education program in the Quad Cities.
I also teach Creative Writing in Augustana's Summer Academy program, which is an on-campus program open to high school students each June.
Specializations: Writing in schools, Augie Reads program, Summer Academy Faculty
