Faculty/Staff notes Faculty milestones and honors English teacher Patricia Lothrop was invited to speak on “Literature of India” at the Groton (Mass.) Public Library, on March 10, as part of its spring series on India. Lothrop designed, and has taught for the past 15 years, a 10th grade honors world literature course incorporating Ramayana and contemporary fiction from the sub-continent. She has taught a senior elective on fiction and film from India, and another on fiction and film from the Asian “big four” (India, China, Japan and Korea). In 2011 she spent two months on sabbatical in India, looking, listening, reading, walking, and riding trains, planes, tuk-tuks, bicycle rickshaws, jeeps, buses and the Delhi subway. Her reviews (mainly nonfiction/reference) appear regularly in Library Journal and School Library Journal. She holds an A.B. degree from Columbia/Barnard, and a Ph.D. from Yale University. Colin Mort has been appointed the new head of the English Department. He arrived at St. George’s in 2010 from Knoxville, Tenn., where he has been working on his Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee. While at the university, Mort was both a teaching associate and an instructor in the English Department. He also has experience at the secondary level, having taught fiction writing for the past three summers at the University of Tennessee’s Young Writers Institute, and having spent two summers teaching writing and literature classes at 4 Star Academic Camps. Mort also has been an instructor at the University of Virginia, where he earned an M.F.A. in creative writing. Mort holds a B.A. in English from Colgate University. He is the dorm head of Wheeler Dorm where lives with his wife, Sarah and son, Brooks. Mort is head coach of the boys varsity squash and assistant coach of the boys varsity lacrosse teams.
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Safietou Sagna has been appointed head of the French Department, taking over from longtime head Allison de Horsey, who moves into a new position as Faculty Liaison to Global Programs and Merck-Horton Initiatives. Sagna, a native of Senegal, received her bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College and her master’s degree from Safietou Sagna the University of Massachusetts. She joined the St. George’s faculty in 2007. Meanwhile, de Horsey moves into her new role after having been recognized as an innovator in developing new curriculum units based on the latest educational research. She has designed several curricular units in conjunction with the Merck-Horton Center, recognizing different learning styles among her students. A member of the faculty since 1994, she is also the founder of St. George’s Global Cultural Initiatives Program (GCIP), organizing summer cultural immersion trips and internship opportunities for students in Paris. The program recently expanded to Madrid and London. Allison earned her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University and her A.L.M. degree from Harvard. Catherine Rodero Scholhamer has been appointed head of the Spanish Department, taking over from longtime head Mafalda Nula, who will continue to teach Spanish classes. Catherine holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies with a specialization in Spanish language, literature and culture from Middlebury College. Catherine Rodero She spent her junior year Scholhamer studying in Middlebury’s language program in Madrid. Catherine arrived at St. George’s in 2006 after having served as a sabbatical replacement at Belmont Hill School, where she has taught middle and upper school Spanish, served as the sophomore class advisor, and assisted in coaching the middle school soccer and lacrosse teams.