A new dean of the Siena College School
of Liberal Arts in New York has been chosen.
Lara Baker
Whelan, who has been a part of the Berry College faculty since 1999,
will be the new dean with her appointment effective in June,
according to a news release. In her new position at Siena College,
Whelan will be responsible for all programs that are part of the
School of Liberal Arts, in which there are 175 faculty, both full-
and part-time, as well as 1,000 students.
Whelan is a tenured Berry College
professor for a number of subjects: English, rhetoric and writing.
She also is in charge of national and international scholarships as
the director of Berry's Honors Program, in which she also coordinates
various fellowships.
Throughout her career at Berry, Whelan
has taught subjects such as Victorian literature, British
romanticism, Irish literature and British modernism, in addition to
serving as the chair of her department.
Whelan's college education
began at Dartmouth College, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in
English, and continued at King's College, University of London where
she earned her Master of Arts. Whelan completed her Ph.D. at the
University of Delaware.
Her book, “Class, Culture and Suburban
Anxieties in the Victorian Era,” was published in 2009.
Siena
College is a small, private liberal-arts college, enrolling 3,000 and
following traditions from Catholic and Franciscan backgrounds. Berry College is located in Mount Berry, Georgia.
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