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Christine Cucciarre
is director of composition in the Department of English, chair of the
University Faculty Senate’s General Education Committee and a member of several
other task forces and committees within UD and the College of Arts and
Sciences. In all her services duties, she looks for ways to make connections
involving students, faculty, initiatives and departments.
Cucciarre is an
active collaborator with the Center for Teaching and Learning and also provides
service at the state and local community levels. She has been a promotion
dossier reviewer for the departments of Sociology and Criminal Justice and of
Women and Gender Studies, a Fulbright faculty mentor, an interim vice president
of the American Association of University Professors Executive Council and a
steering committee member for the Continuing Track Faculty Caucus.
She has won praise
for her ability to take a bird’s-eye view of large systems and to facilitate
connections between their components.
“Here at UD, that
has meant cultivating relationships with other offices in order to produce
fruitful collaborations,” said Délice Williams, the English Department’s
associate director of composition. “This ability extends to her work outside
the University as well: In all of her service duties, she looks for ways to
make connections—between students and instructors, between junior and senior
faculty, between University initiatives, between departments and divisions.”
Cucciarre has said
she sees service as “essential for feeling connected to all of the University,”
including faculty, students and staff.
“As a teacher of
writing, working and having relationships with people, departments and units
across campus is the most effective way to do what is important to me:
spreading the message of the importance of writing in every class,” she said.