Faculty Advisor Program

The MyLiteratureLab Faculty Advisor Program is a peer-to-peer mentoring program that partners experienced MyLiteratureLab users with new and potential users to further enhance their knowledge, skill and understanding of how to successfully integrate MyLiteratureLab in the classroom. Our Faculty Advisors (FAs) are committed to advancing the support for online learning and sharing their best practices with the MyLiteratureLab community.

Meet Our Faculty Advisors

To contact a Faculty Advisor, email us at facultyadvisors@pearson.com. Please include your name, school and a description of your situation and needs. We will use this information to partner you with a MyLiteratureLab Faculty Advisor who can most effectively answer your questions.

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  Michelle Jarvis

  Instructor
  Davidson County Community College, NC
  MyCompLab, MyLiteratureLab

  Michelle Jarvis is an English Instructor at Davidson County Community College in Lexington, NC where she teaches primarily freshman level writing courses: Expository Writing, Literature Based Research, Professional Research and Reporting, and Argument Based Research. She has been using MyCompLab with Expository Writing students since fall 2010 and MyLiteratureLab with Literature Based Writing students since spring 2011. Michelle has a B.A. in English with minors in Secondary Education and French from Catawba College in Salisbury, NC, and an M.A. in English from Wake Forest University. She comes from a varied background in business and education. The two avenues met when she spent five years in for-profit educational management at Sylvan Learning Center and Kaplan Test Prep. Her professional interests lie in the quality and consistency of outcomes-based education. She hopes to engage in dialogues to encourage communication about best practices, to facilitate the open and transparent exchange of ideas among college entities, and to advocate for actions that will have positive outcomes for our most valued assets, our students.

  Courses taught: Expository Writing: ENG 111 (MyCompLab); Literature-Based Research: ENG 113 (MyLiteratureLab)

  Course format: Traditional and Online

  Book in use: Troyka and Hesse, Quick Access; Roberts, Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Compact; Anderson, Write Now!

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  Maria Johnson

  Learning Support Redesign Specialist
  Georgia Piedmont Technical College (formerly DeKalb Technical College)
  MyWritingLab, MyCompLab, MyLiteratureLab, MyReadingLab, MyMathLab

  Maria Johnson has taught composition and literature for over 25 years. She enjoys teaching traditional and non-traditional students, and particularly likes the challenge of incorporating new technologies into the classroom. She is currently leading the learning support redesign initiative at the College, consulting, and writing about using Pearson platforms in this transition.

  Courses taught: Developmental Writing; Freshman Composition and Rhetoric; Literature

  Course format: Traditional, Hybrid, and Online

  Book in use: Student Book of College English (Skwire); Literature (Norton); Write Time, Write Place (Markus)

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  Amelia Lopez

  Assistant Professor
  Harold Washington College
  MyWritingLab, MyReadingLab, MySkillsLab

  Amelia Lopez is a Faculty Member of the English Department at Harold Washington College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. She has taught developmental reading and writing, Composition I, Composition II, and Literature courses. Amelia has used MyReadingLab, MyWritingLab, and MySkillsLab, and has found them to be essential in increasing student engagement, retention, and success rates.

  Courses taught: English 100, Reading 125, English 101, English 101/197, and English 102

  Course format: Traditional and Hybrid

  Book in use: Little, Brown Essential Handbook, Prose Reader, DK Handbook

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  Dr. Lauren Camille Mason

  Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies
  Armstrong Atlantic State University
  MyCompLab, MyLiteratureLab

  Dr. Lauren Camille Mason is an Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies at Armstrong Atlantic State University. Prior to this appointment, she held a dual appointment at AASU as Instructor of English and First-Year Experience. She completed her PhD in English at Michigan State University. Her dissertation, Postcards from the Edge-City: Mass-Media and Photographic Images in Literature and Film of the Black Diaspora, examines the use of visual culture in contemporary African, Caribbean, and African-American literature and film. She has held several distinguished fellowships, including the Arthur J. Mitchem Dissertation and Teaching Fellowship at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

  Lauren is interested in developing new ways to use technology in the humanities classroom, particularly for first-year English students and advanced English majors in special topics courses. She has successfully integrated practical classroom lessons with MyCompLab and MyLiteratureLab to enhance the English learning experience. Presently, she is experimenting with using other MyLabs in the humanities discipline to enhance/ complement literary assignments in her advanced-level African and African-Diaspora Literature courses.

  Courses taught: English 1101, English 1102, American Literature 2, African-American Literature, African Diaspora Literature, War Literature (upcoming)

  Course format: Traditional

  Book in use: Howells, Reading to Write; Bean; Ramage; Johnson, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing

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  Allison Parker

  Residential Faculty
  South Mountain Community College, AZ
  MyLiteratureLab, MyWritingLab

  Allison Parker is originally from Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and she completed her Ph.D. in English Literature with an emphasis in African American Literature from Arizona State University in May 2010. Her dissertation was entitled, "Mammy Versus Mulatta: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Act of Passing and the Influence of Controlling Images in Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life." She has been teaching since 2001, and she is currently employed as a Residential Faculty member in the English department of South Mountain Community where she teaches Developmental English, English Composition, Literature, Critical Reading, and Women's Studies.

  In addition to her work for SMCC, she teaches two different sections of African American Literature at Arizona State University (Pre and Post Harlem Renaissance). Most of her graduate work for my Master's degree focused on issues of power in the college classroom (her thesis was about the oppressive nature of the professor/pupil relationship), and her Ph.D. work, in addition to African American Literature, focused on feminist rhetoric, and more specifically, the feminist classroom.

  Courses taught: Language Skills: Speaking and Writing Standard English (ENG071), Basic Writing Skills (ENG081), Fundamentals of Writing (ENG091), First-Year Composition (ENG101)

  Course format: Traditional; Online

  Book in use: Henry, Writing for Life: Sentences & Paragraphs; Henry, Writing for Life: Paragraph & Essays; Flachmann, Mosaics: Reading & Writing Sentences; Pike, Literature: A World of Writing Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays

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  Dr. Natasha Whitton

  Instructor
  Southeastern Louisiana University
  MyCompLab

  My name is Natasha Whitton, but I generally go by Tasha. I have been an instructor at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond since 2000 teaching composition and literature. Prior to Southeastern, I taught in the CORE program at Fairleigh Dickinson University while finishing my Ph.D. and my interests are interdisciplinary. When I came to Southeastern, I had almost no experience teaching composition, but quickly learned via the trial and error of a 5-5 load. I love teaching writing because my syllabus changes every semester along with my students. I completed the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project Summer Institute in 2005 and have learned invaluable lessons from my involvement with the National Writing Project. I am a member of MLA, SCMLA, and NCTE.

  Courses taught: Composition and Literature

  Course format: Traditional, Online and Hybrid

  Book in use: Fowler, Little, Brown Handbook; Custom Reader/Rhetoric from Pearson

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