Departments: Signum Academy

  • Wesley Schantz

    Wesley Schantz

    Experience tutoring at the writing center at Washington College and as the Graduate Writing Assistant at St John’s College, Annapolis. Currently teaching at The Community School in Spokane, WA.


  • Theresa L. Raimundo

    Terri Raimundo is a Spanish Conversation preceptor at Signum Academy. She received her B.S. in Elementary Education, as well as a B.A. in Biblical Studies from Columbia International University in South Carolina. Terri grew up in various Latin American countries with her parents who were missionaries. Terri has privately tutored as well as classroom taught […]


  • Sparrow is a euro-looking woman with hazel eyes and salt-and-pepper hair. She's smiling, looking directly at you, and sitting in front of a poster which is a graphic blues and greens depiction of the Julia Set, a numerical concept related to fractals. Her shawl is hand-knit in the shape of a maple leaf, and if you'd like a link to the pattern, I'd be happy to share that with you.

    Sparrow F. Alden

    Sparrow graduated from Bowdoin College in 1986 with a BA in English Literature and Psychology and from Signum University in 2015 with an MA in Language and Literature.  She is co-owner/builder of a straw bale cabin in the New Hampshire woods with her wife Grace; they are grateful for the technology which keeps them in touch […]


  • Rob Gosselin in his beloved great outdoors of Canada! He's grinning with real laugh lines around his eyes as though one or two of his many children are climbing up his legs while he's trying to take this selfie. The grasses are green behind him, the landscape includes a calm river and a dark far line of trees.

    Rob Gosselin

    Rob Gosselin received his B.Ed. and his B.S. from the University of Regina and his M.A. in Language and Literature from Signum University. He has over ten years of experience as a K-12 teacher in areas of science, art, history, psychology, and English language arts with specialization in the senior sciences. He hails from Saskatchewan, […]


  • Pilar Barrera

    Pilar loves languages and literature. She is interested in fairy tales, especially Andersen’s, Wilde’s, and Japanese traditional tales. She also enjoys Japanese children’s literature, Old English elegies, and Shakespeare. Pilar has a Certificate of Higher Education in English literature from the University of Oxford, an MA in Literary Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, and […]


  • Isaac S. Schendel

    Isaac S. Schendel is a Signum Academy Preceptor for Old English Translation Club and for German Conversation Club. Dr. Isaac received his PhD in Germanic Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2018.  He studied older Germanic Literature, Language, and Culture and is currently writing a book on Pennsylvania German Storytelling Traditions. He lives in […]


  • Courtney Petrucci

    Courtney Petrucci is a high school English teacher in Hartford, CT. She earned her BAS in Secondary Education and English from Salve Regina University, and received her MA in Language and Literature from Signum University in 2017 with a concentration in Imaginative Literature. When she’s not teaching or raising her family, she loves to read […]