Past Instructors

Here are the excellent past instructors we have featured over the years. We hope many of them will teach with us again in the future, and we’ll keep you posted when they decide to do so. We are so proud of the academic courses we have sponsored over the last ten years.

John Dennis Anderson
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John Dennis Anderson

John Dennis Anderson holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Communication Studies from Baylor University and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.A native of Texas, he moved to South Wellfleet in 2016 after retiring from teaching Communication and Performance Studies…

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Janis Bergman-Carton
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Janis Bergman-Carton

​Janis Bergman-Carton is a retired art history professor from Southern Methodist University where she taught modern European art and published books and articles about French urban modernity and cultural memory in Postwar Europe. Presently, she resides in Austin, Texas, dividing her time between a research-focused studio practice and teaching for Free Minds…

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Betsy Bray
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Betsy Bray

Betsy Bray is a self described Frank Lloyd Wright enthusiast. She is a member and a volunteer for the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, based in Chicago. In pursuit of that interest, she has volunteered for the Cape Modern House Trust. Betsy was a student at Yestermorrow in Waitsfield, Vermont, a building and design school, where she designed two homes and learned to build them…

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Barbara Brennessel
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Barbara Brennessel

Barbara Brennessel, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Biology at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She taught Biochemistry, Microbiology and other courses at Wheaton for 33 years. She currently lives on Cape Cod in Wellfleet. Her recent research is focused on the Diamondback Terrapin…

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Bill Burke
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Bill Burke

​A wash-ashore from Western Massachusetts, Bill Burke is a National Park Service employee who serves as the Historian for the National Seashore. He has worked there in a number of roles over the past 20 years. He assists researchers and educators…

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Dwight Estey
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Dwight Estey

Dwight Estey is currently the president of the Wellfleet Historical Society and Museum. Prior to being on the board of directors he could be found giving historical walking tours of Wellfleet or helping museum visitors with research. Mr. Estey graduated in 1974 from the University of Connecticut …

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Nathalie Ferrier
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Nathalie Ferrier

​Nathalie Ferrier is a sculptor who was born in France and arrived in the USA when she was 29. She has lived on the Cape for the past twenty years.She teaches French language and leads several conversational groups on the Cape. Besides French language, she and her students explore …

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Rhoda Flaxman
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Rhoda Flaxman

Rhoda Flaxman taught British and American Literature, first at the high school level, and then at Brown University(1987-2007), where she also directed Brown’s writing-across-the curriculum program and published on Victorian literature. She presently serves…

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Deborah Forman
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Deborah Forman

Deborah Forman is the author of four books, all published by Schiffer Publishing: Perspectives on the Provincetown Art Colony, a two-volume history (2011); Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: Images of Land and Sea (2013); Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: People & Places (2014); Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: On Abstraction (2015)…

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Ed Golden
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Ed Golden

Ed Golden, Professor Emeritus of performance, American and Irish theater at UMass/Amherst, has won many awards, most notably for outstanding teaching. He has directed more than one hundred professional and university productions, including The Playboy of the Western World in 1991, which won …

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Elissa Greenwald
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Elissa Greenwald

Elissa Greenwald was a member of the fourth class of undergraduate women at Yale, where she received her B.A. in 1976 and her Ph.D. in English Literature in 1981. She taught American Literature at Rutgers University for seven years and Advanced Placement English Literature…

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Megan Hinton
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Megan Hinton

Megan Hinton is a visual artist based in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Hinton assembles materials in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography to reassemble personal and public narratives. Megan recently received her MFA from Mills College in Interdisciplinary…

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Grace Hopkins
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Grace Hopkins

Grace Hopkins is a Wellfleet artist, parent, and educator. She is also the steward of the estates of artist Budd Hopkins and art historian April Kingsley: her parents. She earned a BFA in photography from the School of the Fine Arts at Tufts University and has guided the art world for two decades with positions in museums…

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Tracey Barry Hunt
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Tracey Barry Hunt

Tracey received her BA in Drama and History from Vassar College in 1994. She then spent a decade based in New York City working with Partisan Pictures as a documentary television writer, producer and director for National Geographic, PBS and the History Channel…

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Alice Iacuessa
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Alice Iacuessa

Alice Iacuessa spent thirty years as a social studies teacher, 21 years at the American School in London including 10 years as Social Studies Department Chair. Since her retirement she has been active in local …

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Fred Magee
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Fred Magee

Fred is a Wellfleet-based singer/songwriter/musician. In his former life, he spent nearly 30 years as an analyst covering a range of topics from the structure of modern organizations to the future ability of…

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Mary Maxwell
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Mary Maxwell

Mary Maxwell has been a winner of the Discovery/The Nation Award, the recipient of a fellowship from the Camargo Foundation, and a visiting artist/scholar at the American Academy in Rome. The author of five collections…

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Jennifer McCrickerd
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Jennifer McCrickerd

Jennifer McCrickerd was born in California and graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in Philosophy. While in graduate school pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy, she realized that what she…

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Jeanne McNett
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Jeanne McNett

Jeanne McNett’s interests include international business, higher education for women, environmental sustainability, reading and writing, and time on the water. Her training is in English literature (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst) and international business (MBA, Cass School of Business, University of London, UK). She was most recently a senior academic researcher …

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Ed Miller
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Ed Miller

Ed Miller grew up in Teaneck, N.J., where his parents delivered newspapers for a living and were members of the Communist Party. Ed has been a writer, editor, and publisher of newspapers, magazines, newsletters, …

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