Suzanne del Gizzo, Ph.D.
Dr. Suzanne del Gizzo is a Professor of English at Chestnut Hill College, Chair of CHC’s Center for Integrated Humanities, and editor of The Hemingway Review. At Chestnut Hill, she teaches a variety of courses in American literature, gender studies, film, and writing. She has published more than thirty articles in scholarly journals and has co-edited three books, Ernest Hemingway in Context (Cambridge UP, 2013) with Debra A. Moddelmog, Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden: 25 Years of Criticism (Kent State UP, 2012) with Frederic J. Svoboda, and most recently, The New Hemingway Studies with Kirk Curnutt for Cambridge University Press (2020).
Marie (Mia) Schilling Grogan, Ph.D.
Dr. [Mia Schilling] Grogan is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of Chestnut Hill College’s Interdisciplinary Honors Program. She teaches first-year writing courses and the Liberal Arts Discovery Seminar, as well as courses related to her primary field of research, medieval literature. She writes and presents about medieval hagiography and women’s spiritual writing. She is also a poet, regularly publishing her translations, poetry reviews, and poems.
Jamie Lynn Longo, Ph.D.
Dr. Jaime Longo is a composition scholar, an educational developer, a practitioner of transformative education both in and out of the classroom, and an accidental instructional design evangelist. She has a Ph.D. in English from Temple University, with a concentration in Composition and Rhetoric. Her work has focused on engaged pedagogy, justice education, writing across the curriculum, and providing accessible and equitable pedagogical support for all students. For over two decades as a tutor and writing instructor, she has taught college students how to read critically in order to build effective academic arguments.
Barbara Lonnquist, Ph.D.
Dr. Lonnquist is a Professor of English and Chair of the CHC English Department. She teaches a variety of courses in British and Irish Literature, film adaptations of literature, courses in gender and ethnicity, travel writing, as well as courses that bring ecology and animal studies to bear upon literary experience. She has taught the department’s upper-level Literary theory and Senior Seminar courses.
Dr. Lonnquist has presented and published on the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and John Henry Newman. Presently she is writing about the interconnection between humans and animals in two contemporary Irish Novels.
Keely E. McCarthy, Ph.D.
Keely McCarthy is an Associate Professor of English and coordinator of the Writing Program at Chestnut Hill College. Dr. McCarthy teaches courses in the first-year writing and liberal arts program. Her research, published in Early American Literature, and 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era and elsewhere, focus on Native American and English cultural encounters in colonial America.
Rita Michael Scully, SSJ, M.A.
Sister Rita Michael Scully, SSJ, an Associate Professor of English, is the senior member of the CHC English department. Sister has taught an array of courses from her specialization in medieval (Chaucer) to early modern British literature (Shakespeare) as well as other British and Irish poetry courses. Sister Rita also taught in Japan and created CHC's course in modern Japanese Literature. For twenty-five years, Sister Rita Sister led the department's "intersession" Study Abroad course in London. She has published work on Irish Poets William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney. She has also written about kinship in Shakespeare's plays.
Charlene Zengeya, Ph.D.
Dr. Charlene Zengeya is Director of Student Outreach and Student Success Advisor in the Center for Integrated Humanities. In her position, Dr. Zengeya uses a holistic advising approach to help students navigate classes, campus life, finances, career and other resources.
Dr. Zengeya has spent more than 15 years’ in various leadership roles in higher education where she has championed various student success initiatives. Throughout her career, she has successfully coached and mentored students by providing holistic solutions that promote student wellness, academic and career success. She also serves the CHC community as an NFEC Certified Financial Education Instructor.
Dr. Charlene Zengeya holds a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, a Master of Science Degree from North Carolina A&T State University and a Bachelor of Science degree from High Point University.
“I believe that graduating from College is one of the most transformational experiences and it is my goal to help every student achieve that goal.”
