Teaching & Learning
Faculty Development and the Center for Teaching Excellence work collaboratively to support the professional and educational development of faculty and instructional staff at all career stages and appointment types.
Faculty Development administers programming and resources related to faculty life-cycles, mentoring, leadership development, work-life balance, and community-building. The Center for Teaching Excellence provides individual and group opportunities that promote effective, evidence-based instructional practices among all educators, including faculty, instructional staff, and graduate students.
Find out more about the resources and programming offered by Faculty Development
Find out more about the resources and programming offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence
Amy Lueck
Associate Provost for Faculty Development
- Location: Varsi 208
Biography
Associate Provost for Faculty Development since Fall 2024, Dr. Lueck is an Associate Professor of English. Her teaching builds on her research work by incorporating opportunities for exciting archival research on both historical and contemporary topics of interest to students, including women's education and Indigenous history. Her courses incorporate digital and multimodal reading and composing, inviting students to consider the ways media and modes intersect with attention to audience, context, and purpose, especially when composing for public audiences.
Lueck's most recent research and teaching focuses on spatial rhetorics, public memory, and the representation of gender, race, and class in public history and culture, from college campuses to museums to tourist attractions like the Winchester Mystery House. You can find more about her research and teaching at amylueck.com.
Caitlin Flynn
Faculty Development Program Manager
- Location: Varsi 219
Biography
Dr Caitlin Flynn joined Faculty Development in Spring 2025. As Program Manager, Caitlin works to support faculty across all disciplines and career stages by creating and coordinating events, programs, and resources aimed at enriching pedagogy, building community, and facilitating an environment of continuous learning. She is committed to helping faculty grow as teachers, researchers, and campus leaders through collaboration and innovation.
Caitlin has a PhD in medieval Scottish and English literature from University of St Andrews and has published widely on Older Scots poetry. Before joining SCU, she held a faculty role at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and an Alexander-von-Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany).