Our Team

Trish McPherson

Trish McPherson is MacPhaidin Library's Information Literacy and Outreach Librarian. In that role she focuses on promoting best practices for incorporating information literacy instruction into the curriculum and establishing collaborative relationships with faculty to make that integration possible. She also serves as the library liaison to the Philosophy, Religious Studies, Foreign Languages, and History departments.
Librarianship is Trish's second career. After graduating from Northeastern University with a degree in journalism, she spent a decade working as a reporter at daily newspapers in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Coming to the realization that she enjoyed research more than newswriting, she enrolled in library school. Trish continued to work as a freelance writer for The Boston Globe, Cape Cod Magazine, and American Online while attending Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Trish worked in public and prepatory school libraries before joining Stonehill's staff in 2006. During her tenure at Stonehill, Trish has helped establish the Faculty Librarian Partnership program and has served as leader of the college’s Assessment in Action Team.

Trish’s particular areas of interest include collaborating with faculty on discipline-specific information literacy instruction and assisting first year students’ transition from the demands of high school to college-level research and scholarship.

Trish was recently appointed to serve on the Massachusetts Library System Academic Library Task force and the ACRL Instruction Section's Instructional Technologies committee.

B.S. - Northeastern University, Boston, MA

MLS - Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Boston, MA

MEd.  Instructional Technology -  Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA

Elizabeth Chase

Elizabeth Chase is Head of Collections, Assessment and User Engagement for the MacPhaidin Library. She oversees the development of the Library’s holdings, including print and electronic materials; manages the Library’s team of Reference and Subject Liaisons; and oversees the ongoing assessment of Library collections, programs, and services. Prior to coming to Stonehill in 2013, she was the Coordinator for Research Services at the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. As a graduate student working in MARBL she contributed to the arrangement and description of manuscript materials, including the drafts of Salman Rushdie’s fiction and nonfiction works and a collection of W.H. Auden BBC radio scripts. In MARBL’s research services, she expanded the instruction program and piloted a workshop for graduate students interested in gaining archival research skills and grant funding.

Elizabeth has experience building a vibrant teaching program and guiding students as they develop skills as researchers and scholars-in-training. At Emory, she emphasized the broad applicability of archival research in undergraduate instruction and developed courses focused on introducing first-year students to the archives; she also expanded the scope of MARBL’s work with upperclassmen and graduate students. Elizabeth contributed to MARBL’s strategic planning for its spaces and programming and successfully advocated for the Library’s acquisition of a new special collections management software.  While at Emory, Elizabeth taught first-year composition courses, including an archives based course entitled “Writers on Writing,” and an upper-level survey of the twentieth-century British novel.

Elizabeth’s Library Science research focuses teaching and pedagogy, while her research within the field of English Literature centers on the writings of Irish women and on issues of commemoration in Irish literature.

B.A., Williams College, English and Political Science

M.S.L.I.S., Syracuse University, Reference and Archives

Certificate in Women’s Studies, Emory University

M.A., Ph.D., Emory University, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature

Stacy Grooters

Stacy is the founding director of the Center for Teaching & Learning. She also holds faculty rank as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and teaches in the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program.

At the University of Washington, Stacy taught in the departments of English, American Ethnic Studies, and Women Studies. She also worked as an administrator in the Expository Writing Program and as a consultant in the Center for Instructional Development and Research.

Stacy's research interests look at the role of instructor and student identity in the classroom, as well as at how education is represented in literature and film

B.A., English and Psychology, Central College, Pella, Iowa

M.A., English, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

PhD, English, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Rudy deMattos

Rudy is an Assistant Professor in the Foreign Languages Department at Stonehill.

Acknowledgements

Our team would also like to give special thanks to Cheryl McGrath, Library Director; Laura Uerling, Director of Institutional Assessment; Maria Curtin, Dean of Faculty and Joseph Favazza, Provost.