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September 20, 2010

ACHLS PROFESSOR ANDREA DEFUSCO-SULLIVAN TO BE FEATURED IN NEW SCHOLARLY WORK

SALEM, NH— Andrea DeFusco-Sullivan, an adjunct professor of writing at the new American College of History and Legal Studies, will be featured in the latest edition of the Instructor's Resource Manual for Best American Essays, College Edition.

The manual, which will be available later this fall, is intended to give professors of undergraduate writing classes the tools they need to teach the art of the essay to students from every discipline. In addition to writing for the publication, Professor DeFusco-Sullivan served as a content consultant.

Professor DeFusco-Sullivan, who graduated summa cum laude from Merrimack College with a B.A. in English, is also a summa cum laude graduate of Boston College's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where she was honored with the Teaching Excellence award. She has been teaching all levels of college English, from writing seminars to specialized literature courses, since 1991. She has published pedagogical articles in The Hemingway Review, and has published a literary biography of Robert Frost.

DeFusco-Sullivan, who is also currently on the faculty at Boston College, was the assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at BC from 1999-2008. She is working on a reader-response guide to Hamlet and is pursuing a master of fine arts degree at Goddard College.

She is bi-cultural and bilingual in Spanish and English, and for two decades has worked with a diverse student body. She is a native and resident of Methuen, Massachusetts.

DeFusco-Sullivan is currently teaching writing at the American College of History and Legal Studies, which welcomed its inaugural class of students in August. The innovative institution of higher learning offers the junior and senior years of undergraduate education. It will grant bachelor's degrees in U.S. history and legal studies.

The ACHLS offers a rigorous education at an affordable cost. Qualified students have the opportunity to gain early admission into the Massachusetts School of Law after completion of their junior year, which allows them to combine the senior year of college with the first year of law school.

Lynne Snierson
978-681-0800 x 179
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Massachusetts School of Law, Andover, Ma
American College of History & Legal Studies, Salem, NH