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Faculty

The nine founding staff members include Richard S. Roupp, later president of the college, Robert Greenway, Peter Elbow, and Nicholas Howe. Notable faculty include Eliot Coleman, who taught Spanish, and Nancy L. Walker, a widely published and award-winning creative nonfictionist. After the closure of Franconia, Walker became Professor of English and Director of Composition at Missouri State University in Springfield. The influential poet Robert Grenier taught at the college in the early 70s. Other notable faculty included Mike Wallace and Peter Linebaugh in history, David Kettler in political science, and Michael Dorris in anthropology.

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