Contact the English Department
Stephen Poulin
Department Co-Chair
413-775-1233
Office: N326
poulins@gcc.mass.edu
Lillian Ruiz
Department Co-Chair
(413) 775-1236
Office: N315
ruiz@gcc.mass.edu
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Lacuna, on online magazine of creativity by GCC students
Joanne Hayes
Joanne Hayes has been in the English Department since 1986. She began her career at GCC teaching developmental reading and writing and ESOL Speaking & Listening. Joanne also teaches Composition, Literature and Film, Shakespeare, Women in Literature, Modern Poetry, and Latin American, Ethnic, British and Western Literature.
Her teaching in women’s studies includes an honors seminar in Women of the Medieval Era, a course in Women in American History, and several learning communities, such as Women in Transition, Women on the Verge, and Through the Looking-Glass.
Her undergraduate degree in English is from the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in American Literature between the Wars and minored in French Language and Literature and Art History. Her masters degree is from Johns Hopkins University, where she focused on women in classical antiquity and women in film.
As a poet, Joanne participates in poetry readings in Vermont, Massachusetts, Hawaii, South Carolina, Maryland, and New York, and has been published in a few journals. She lives in Vermont in a passive solar home, surrounded by 15 acres of woods, where she walks, skis and composes poems.
Dissolving snow
resolving the question
of crocuses
blooming under my open door
where you enter
to encounter
spring's first thaw.
- by Joanne Hayes
- Office: N316
- Phone: (413) 775-1230
- Email:hayes@gcc.mass.edu