Teaching assistant Darcey Lovell recently shined light upon the female detectives of the Victorian Era as she unveiled her doctoral research at the Center for Humanities’ final Brown Bag lecture series of the spring semester. Lovell’s lecture explored female detectives in Victorian detective fiction during the from the mid-1800s to around 1915, when detective fiction…

Assistant Teaching Professor Colleen McAlister intertwines her interests in archaeology and Spanish literature, allowing her to teach a variety of classes at the university over the past two years. McAlister grew up in Monroe, Connecticut and attended the University of Connecticut where she received a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and Spanish in 2013. From there,…