Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities, BA

Faculty

• Decoteau, Nicole

  

  Director of First-Year Writing and ESOL, Visiting Assistant Professor
  Office: Spaulding 201, Henniker Campus
  Phone: 603.428.2439
  Email: ndecoteau@nec.edu

  Educational Background
  PhD in Composition and Applied Linguistics, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA (anticipated 2021)
  MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language, Saint Michael’s College
  BA in English, University of New Hampshire

  Research Interests

  • Attrition in the composition course
  • Hegemony of academic language
  • World Englishes and translanguaging
  • Narrative inquiry
  • New materialism theoretical framework

   

  Bio
  Nicole Decoteau came to NEC after teaching English abroad in South Korea and Morocco. In addition to her teaching duties, she was the primary author on a series of graded readers developed for middle school students and she developed curriculum for adult learners in business-related fields. She came to NEC in 2015 as an adjunct professor but soon fell in love with the community and jumped at the opportunity to develop the English as a Second or Other Language (ESOL) program and serve as the program’s director. In her PhD program, she was introduced to linguistic justice, the decolonization of academic English, translanguaging, and retention studies that she now uses in her position as Director of First-year Writing. She has been a speaker at regional TESOL affiliate conferences, the national Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Seoul National University of Technology, and the TESL Nova Scotia Atlantic Conference. In service to the profession, Nicole has aided the New Hampshire Department of Education in reviewing ESOL teacher certification programs, been a board member of the Northern New England TESOL affiliate, and reviewed manuscripts for an open-access composition journal. As of 2021, she is conducting narrative-inquiry research to investigate factors of attrition in the composition classroom for her dissertation. Outside of professional interests, Nicole enjoys travel and has visited each continent, with the exception of Antarctica. She spends most of her time outdoors with her three dogs.

• Homestead, William

  

  Associate Professor, Communication Studies
  Office: Spaulding 302, Henniker Campus
  Phone: 603.428.2336
  Email: whomestead@nec.edu

  Recent Press

  Books:

  • Not Till We Are Lost: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Climate Crisis: Thoreau, Education, and Spiritual Transformation (work in progress)
  • An Ecology of Communication: Response and Responsibility in an Age of Ecocrisis, Lexington Books, 2021
  • An Ecology of Communication: Response and Responsibility in an Age of Ecocrisis, 9781793618146 (rowman.com)
  • The Path of My Soul: Journey to the Center of Self, Acropolis Books, 1999

   

  Book Anthologies:
  “The Language that All Things Speak: Thoreau and the Voice of Nature” in Voice and Environmental Communication, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

  Journal Editor:
  Guest Editor, Special Edition on “Educating for Ecological Sustainability,” Ometeca, 2010

  Educational Background
  MA in Communication Studies, University of Montana
  MS in Environmental Studies, University of Montana
  MFA in Creative Writing, Goddard College
  BA in Communication Studies, Rutgers University

  Research Interests

  • Environmental communication
  • Intrapersonal communication/spirituality
  • Ecopsychology/ecophilosophy

   

  Bio
  William Homestead came to New England College in 2005 after stints at Purdue University and the University of Montana and teaches a wide range of courses, including Freedom of Speech, Advertising: History and Criticism, Principles of Public Relations, and The Voice of Nature. He also teaches journalism courses, and he is advisor for The New Englander, the student newspaper/website.

  Homestead has a long association with the Ometeca Institute, a nonprofit devoted to the integration of the sciences and the humanities. His work with Ometeca—along with his interdisciplinary degrees, study with a spiritual teacher, and hiking experiences—informs his teaching and writing. He is a member of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA), the National Communication Association (NCA), and The Thoreau Society.

  Homestead’s pedagogical approach encourages learning in three interrelated areas—the development of a critical, creative, and eco-social awareness—and he has been teaching college students for over 20 years. He loves sports, played tennis in high school and college, and follows New York sports teams (the Mets, Nets, and Giants); his sports knowledge comes in handy when teaching Sports Communication.

  He lives in Vermont and spends much time walking in the woods with his dog, Snoopy, who was named by his three children.

• Morgan, Andrew

  

  Professor of Creative Writing
  Office: Spaulding 301, Henniker Campus
  Phone: 603.428.2349
  Email amorgan@nec.edu

  Awards
  NEC Kilgore Faculty of the Year, 2019

  Educational Background
  MFA in Poetry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  BA in English/Writing, Plymouth State College

  Bio
  Andrew Morgan is a professor, writer, editor, and volunteer whose recent work can be found in magazines such as Conduit, Stride, Fairy Tale Review, Pleiades, Divine Magnet, Post Road, and New World Writing. He is the recipient of a Slovenian Writer’s Association Fellowship, which sponsored a month-long writing residency in the country’s capital city of Ljubljana and currently teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate Creative Writing programs at NEC. His first book, Month of Big Hands, was published by Natural History Press in 2013.

• Partridge, Bryan

  

  Professor, Writing
  Phone: 603.428.2388
  Email: bpartridge@nec.edu

  Educational Background
  PhD in Humanities from Union Institute and University
  MA in Creative Writing, Dartmouth College
  BA, The College of Wooster

  Research Interests

  • Nature writing
  • Travel writing
  • School climate
  • Choice theory

   

  Bio
  Bryan Partridge came to NEC in 2004 as the first professional mentor in NEC’s Mentoring program. After three years of developing the program, Bryan transitioned to an assistant professor in the Writing Department. Bryan has been a professor for 17 years and spent three academic years revamping and overseeing the Composition Program. He has also led students on Study Away trips to places like Cuba, India, Australia, the Galapagos Islands, Patagonia, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras.

  His professional career outside of academia includes doing extensive education consulting for the Center for School Climate and Learning—helping educators develop and implement data-driven action plans to improve school climate, prevent bullying and school violence, reduce dropouts, and re-engage disengaged learners. Bryan’s literary passions are travel and nature writing, but he also loves to write fiction and creative nonfiction.

  Outside of professional interests, he travels widely, spends weeks on New England’s lakes and hiking trails, writes, gardens, and enjoys living with his wife, Kt, and his family in Etna, New Hampshire.