Faculty & Staff Directory

JoSann Lien

Assistant Professor of English
English and Humanities Division

Office: Molstead Library 201B
Phone: (208) 929-4037
Email: josann.lien@nic.edu

Education

A.A., North Idaho College, English
B.A., University of Idaho, English
B.S.Ed., University of Idaho, Secondary Education
M.A., Idaho State University, English

Biography

Jo completed PhD coursework in literature at the University of Minnesota and holds a Master’s degree in English from Idaho State University, where she completed a thesis on cultural and racial identities in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. She has taught English at the college and high school levels for over twenty years, and she has been at NIC since 2010. Her academic interests include composition pedagogy, postcolonial theory, and American transnational studies. She is also an award-winning documentary photographer who exhibits regionally and nationally. She enjoys reading, camping, watching baseball, and traveling with her husband, two sons, and their people-pleasing Golden Retriever, Sally.

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