DEI Faculty Fellows 2023-24
2023-2024
Emily A. Garner, Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Women’s Basketball Coach
Emily Garner is an Assistant Professor and Head Women’s Basketball Coach in the Department of Athletics and Physical Education. As a coach and educator, her goal is to create and maintain a culture of excellence that maximizes the growth and potential of the whole student experience. This culture is founded on the values of trust, integrity, and consistent hard work. It is her hope that these values and culture will develop leadership and knowledge that extend beyond the court and classroom, and follow her students and players as they move throughout their lives. Emily is also an active member of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.
Timothy R. Landry, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies
Timothy R. Landry is an associate professor of anthropology and religious studies. His research and teaching focus on issues surrounding religion, ritual, witchcraft, magic, and the occult. He’s conducted ethnographic research in the Caribbean and West Africa during which he’s documented the ways in which religions of the Black Atlantic world have globalized and intersected with post-colonialism, racial inequity, and cultural appropriation. Along with his research, Prof. Landry is deeply committed to LGBTQ+ social justice and inclusion. He looks forward to using his skills as an anthropologist and his passion for LGBTQ+ activism to support Trinity College’s office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to help make Trinity College a more welcome, affirming, and constructive environment for everyone.
Irene Papoulis, Principal Lecturer in the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric
Irene Papoulis teaches essay writing in various forms and is currently the Director of Academic Advising and Faculty Development.
She is interested in how writers work in any genre, from the initial formation of ideas to the problems and delights of revision. Her academic interests include psychological approaches to the teaching of writing, creative nonfiction, writing in the public sphere, gender issues, and contemplative practices in the classroom. She is also a longtime Faculty Associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College, and the book review editor of the Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (JAEPL).
She appears as an occasional Friday radio panelist on the Colin McEnroe Show, broadcast on Connecticut’s Public Radio (WNPR)