Dr. Springs is an Associate Professor of English, Philosophy, and Humanities who currently serves as Chairperson of the Humanities Department. She has over 20 years of experience in higher ed; this is her 11th year at Maritime College.
Dr. Springs' areas of expertise in Literature include: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century, Women Writers, Courtship and Domestic Novels, Satire and Comedy, Early American literature, Native American literature, Multicultural and Postcolonial literature.
Dr. Springs areas of expertise in Philosophy include: Enlightenment Philosophy, Ethics, Logic, Rhetoric, Social Contract Theory, and Aesthetics.
Dr. Springs' areas of expertise in Research and Communication include: Information Literacy, Composition and Rhetoric, and Digital Humanities.
Dr. Springs has three maritime themed projects in development: a philosophical treatise on the meanings of Maritime Monsters; a literary analysis of the tradition of the Robinsonade; and a cultural inquiry into the symbolism of Lighthouses.
- PhD, English Literature, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- MA. Philosophy, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
- MPhil, English Literature, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- MA, English Literature/Licenciatura de Cultura y Literatura Anglo-Norteamericana, Saint Louis University and the Universidad de Autónoma, Madrid
- BA, English Literature/Minor in Gender Studies, University of San Diego
Invited Speaking
Reading Robinson Crusoe
International Society Eighteenth Century Studies Conference 2019
"Men of Taste and Genius" Swift, Satire, and Social Identity Theory
17th Annual Dublin Symposium on Jonathan Swift 2018
Recent Conferences
In the Know: Novel Humor and Community
International Society Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference 2023
Phillis Wheatley Peters Roundtable I [moderator]
American Society Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference 2023
Travelling for Work: Eighteenth-Century Narratives of Geographic and Economic
Mobility [co-chair with Heather Zuber]
American Society Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference 2022
Digital Humanities Workshop
American Society Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference 2021
Dr. Springs teaches undergraduate courses such as English 101: Freshman Composition; Humanities 201: Early World History and Global Awareness; Humanities 202: Later World History and Global Awareness; Humanities 220: Global Gender Studies; English 230: American Authors; English 231: British Authors; Humanities 230: Introduction to Philosophical Thought; Humanities 234: Ethics by Design to/for Engineers and Technologists and MNST 8199 Maritime Monsters: What Lies Beneath? for the Humanities Department’s graduate program. She also team teaches GBUS 610: Maritime Cybersecurity with her colleagues from across the disciplines at Maritime.