English Faculty Member to Be Honored at Friday Luncheon
Dr. Marta Wilkinson will represent Wilmington College as its 2016 Teaching Excellence Award winner at the Celebration of Teaching luncheon sponsored by the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges & Universities (GCCCU) Friday (Nov. 4) at Xavier University’s Cintas Center.
(PICTURED) Dr. Marta Wilkinson teaches one of her literature classes earlier this semester.
Wilkinson, associate professor of English, joined the English faculty in 2006 after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, a Master of Arts from San Francisco State University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Her background and training are in comparative literature, which provides the context for her teaching of general education survey courses that span a wide breadth of world literature throughout history.
Wilkinson is a former coordinator of WC’s Writing in the Disciplines program for which she established a campus-wide system for writing assessment. Dr. David Dirlam discusses her model in his forthcoming book on college assessment systems published through Routledge Press. She also presented on various aspects of writing assessment at a conference sponsored by the GCCCU.
Her literary publications focus on the 19th century urban settings in works by such authors as Dostoevsky and Zola. She recently completed a full-length translation of a 19th century novella by Delphine de Giradin, which is forthcoming this winter.
Wilkinson is a past winner of the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education’s Teaching Excellence Award and, last spring, the Student Government Assn. selected her for its annual Outstanding Faculty Award.
Wilkinson will be honored along with award recipients from the GCCCU’s 16 other member institutions. GCCCU advocates for higher education and uses the collective strength of its institutional members to positively influence the value of higher learning in the greater Cincinnati region. It also promotes professional development and opportunities for collaborative learning to advance the effectiveness of all members.
Marta Wilkinson Selected as GCCCU ‘Celebration of Teaching’ Recipient
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