Lecturer

Andrea Leary is a Lecturer and the Internship Coordinator in the Department of Writing where she has been teaching for the last 25 years. A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, she earned her doctorate from the University of Delaware. In all of her classes, her goal is to guide her students toward excellence in writing while keeping the Jesuit mission of “men and women for and with others” in their thoughts.

Over the past 12 years, a main focus has included creating community partnerships and service-learning opportunities for her students. Her students have worked with and for The Arc, on behalf of our neighbors with disabilities, Baltimore Reads and Strong City Baltimore, with adult students working toward improved literacy, Tunbridge Charter School, with elementary and middle school students, and Maryland New Directions, with adults seeking job training and employment. Her students have had the opportunity to publish their work in newsletters, the “Baltimore Reads Gazette” and “Tunbridge to Reading,” and a book, Dare to Believe.

For the Loyola community, her students often write for New Hounds—a website packed with information for incoming first-years. You can find it at www.newhounds.org. Margaret Mead’s reminder guides her teaching: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Office

Maryland Hall 043Q
Loyola University Maryland
4501 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, Md. 21210

Phone: (410) 617-5159
Fax: (410) 617-2934 
aleary@loyola.edu