Associate Professor; Director of Writing Programs
English and Modern Languages
College of Arts and Sciencesbrichards@shimanli.net 860.768.4314 Auerbach Hall 204I
Education
MA, Georgia State University
BA, Agnes Scott College
Beth Richard's masters research explored rhetorical devices used to develop increasingly complex characterization in Daniel Defoe novels about women on the margins of society. Twenty years’ experience as a technical writer, working primarily with small to midsize engineering firms (polymer processing, respiratory monitoring and lung function technology, audio and video processing). At the University of Hartford, she collaborates with engineering professors in first-year writing and engineering courses and involved in partnership between the University of Hartford and Herat University in Afghanistan.