Marissa Carrere
Senior Lecturer of Legal Studies
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Location
Thompson 238
Marissa Carrere is a Senior Lecturer for the Department of Legal Studies, where she teaches Junior Year Writing. This course encourages students to use writing to cultivate their relationship to literacy, curiosity and intellectual autonomy, and to their ethical principles as legal thinkers.
Marissa also teaches courses that explore the intersection of law and the humanities, on topics including arts and expression, death and dying, friendship and loneliness, dystopian literature, and attention liberation. Each in their own way, these courses take us to the questions that percolate where law meets the more ineffable elements of the human experience.
Marissa has an MA and PhD in literature, holds a professional certificate in end-of-life care, is a member of the Coalition of Educators for Attention, and has served as an elected member of the Easthampton MA School Committee. Prior to joining the Legal Studies Department, she taught writing, humanities, and public policy in access and community-based education settings including University Without Walls and Bard Microcollege Holyoke.
Degree
MA and PhD in English from University of Massachusetts Amherst