karens

My Profile

Given Name
Karen
Family Name
Swenson
Title
Associate Professor of English
Department/Program/Discipline
English Department
Organization
Virginia Tech
Country
USA
City
Blacksburg
Street Address

Shanks Hall

Phone Number
540-231-8350
State/Province
VA
Zip/Postal Code
24061
Website
www.vt.edu
Short Biography

As an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, I have been teaching online since 1996, both as the sole instructor of a course and with other instructors in collaborative enterprises. My academic expertise is in medieval literature and Shakespeare, with a PhD from Cornell University in 1987. My online teaching experience includes courses in Speculative Fiction, Detective Fiction, and the Survey of English Literature. I am currently engaged in research about using wikis as a collaborative means of teaching, and I am supporting that research by using wikis in my own classes in Scholar.

History

Member for
2 years 10 weeks