People

House Professor

Melanie Benson Taylor

Professor of English & Creative Writing | Professor of Native American Studies

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Hometown: Bourne (Cape Cod), MA

Education: B.A. in English (Smith College); M.A. and Ph.D. in English (Boston University)

Areas of Research Specialty: Modern and Contemporary U.S. Southern Literature | Indigenous Literatures | Economics and Representations of Identity

Hobbies/Interests: When I’m not spending time with my family - husband Alan Taylor, who teaches first-year Writing at Dartmouth, and sons Abel (11), Hayden (8), and Amos (2) - I enjoy reading and writing; cooking and baking; running and being active; meditation and mindfulness; being artsy and creating things.

What drives my work in Residential Education?: I was a first-generation college student who didn’t naturally know how to navigate higher education and thrived on the small community atmosphere fostered by the residential environment at Smith College. I feel privileged to help create these opportunities here in North Park House, and to work together with an amazing team of dedicated students and professionals to serve in ways not typically available to faculty in the traditional classroom setting.

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Anna Masters

Assistant Director of Residential Education

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Program Administrator

Kira Mantz