Andrea Rossi-Reder
Associate Dean of Studies for Freshmen and Sophomores
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Associate Director, Roth Writing Center

• The Teaching of Writing
• Medieval Literature, including Old and Middle English literature
• Writing by and about Women in the Middle Ages
• Medieval Bestiaries

Rossi-Reder was appointed Interim Dean of Freshmen in June, 2005, Associate Dean of Freshmen in June, 2006, and assumed her current title of Associate Dean of Studies for Freshmen and Sophomores in 2007.

Among her responsibilities as an Associate Dean of Studies for Freshmen and Sophomores is overseeing Freshman Orientation.

Andrea Rossi is the former Associate Director of the Roth Writing Center and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English.

She teaches English 150 (Freshman Seminar in Literary Interpretation) and English 100 (Women, Madness, and Power). Before coming to Connecticut College, she taught at Baylor University.

Rossi's recent publications include: “Wonders of the Beast: Images of India in Classical and Medieval Literature.” in Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination. Ed. Timothy S. Jones and David A. Sprunger, Kalamazoo: The Medieval Institute, 2002, pp. 53-66; “Beasts and Baptism: A New Perspective on the Old English Physiologus.” Neophilologus 83 (1999), 461-77; “Male Movement and Female Fixity in the Franklin’s Tale and Il Filocolo.” In Masculinities in Chaucer. Ed. Peter G. Beidler, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1998, pp. 105-116.

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