Introducing New Faculty and Staff! - Ben Fisher

Over the next few weeks, we will be introducing our new faculty and staff in Roeper news posts. They were nice enough to complete a questionnaire telling us something about themselves and our two Directors, Lower School, Megan Stott and Middle/Upper School Susannah Nichols added first person observations. Thank you all! 

 

 

I will be teaching Classical Literature and Expository Writing. Keep your eye out for a multimedia literature elective (or some mutation thereof) I hope to offer in the near future!

 

 

During college, I participated in the New England Literature Program, where I spent more than six weeks living technology-free with 39 other students and studying Transcendentalist and regional literature. The immersive learning I did there helped shape how I teach and think about literature and texts.

 

 

Iceland. I have a great interest in the Icelandic Sagas and visited Iceland briefly a few years ago. I would love to see and visit the sites where the stories happened and experience the culture that one of the oldest literary traditions in Europe shaped. The landscape (volcanoes, glaciers, hot springs, and lava fields) is also just incredibly beautiful and unique.

 

 

I love camping, archery, story-based video games, knitting, and improv.

 

 

I love looking at the ways stories are told differently through different media. Literary theory – thinking about how, why, and what happens when we tell stories – is my jam.

   

 

I graduated from Roeper and am excited to be returning to the community. I am energized by Roeper’s dedication to teaching for a better world and helping its students become self-realized and conscientious individuals and community members.