Elizabeth A. Trembley

Associate Professor of English

FOCUS and SOAR
Programs Director

I’ve taught at Hope College in a variety of capacities since 1988, full-time from 1988-1991, and again since 2000. I delight in teaching creative writing, world literature, and the introduction to literature courses because they tend to draw the broadest group of students. Students of many majors studying writing and literature together can percolate into some amazing concoctions of ideas, interpretations, and applications of material. I love to teach. I always learn something.

 

 

I got to teach in Vienna in the summer of 2002 (18 years after I went as a student!). Wow!

I’m a certified practitioner in the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument—a thinking styles assessment that helps students understand their thinking preferences and how these affect communication, learning, and motivation. I use the assessment with my First Year Seminar students, and often employ the theories in teaching my other courses.

I have done extensive work as a faculty developer.

It’s worth noting I’m also a certified master dog trainer. This is not unrelated.