Staff and Contact Info

Eugene Thomas

Assistant Director of the Learning Zone

Phone: 717-361-3733

Eugene “Gene” Thomas joins us as the Assistant Director of the Learning Zone. Gene formerly was an Area Coordinator for Community Living here at Elizabethtown. Before coming to Elizabethtown, Gene taught middle school and high school Social Studies for the School District of Philadelphia. Gene holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Millersville University and a Master’s in Transformative Education and Social Change from West Chester University.

Rick Fellinger

Fellow in the Writing Wing

Phone: 717-361-3765

Email: fellingerr@etown.edu

Writing Fellow Richard Fellinger, director of the Writing Wing, is an award-winning writer and former journalist who has taught at Elizabethtown College since 2010. He won the 2011 Serena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award for his collection, They Hover Over Us, and the 2008 Flash Fiction Contest at Red Cedar Review. His short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appeared in many literary journals, including Potomac Review, Epiphany, Willow Review, Westview and PANK. He also won the 2018 Novel Excerpt Contest at Seven Hills Review for his forthcoming novel, Summer of '85. Visit his Web page www.richardfellinger.com and read some of his fiction at these links: http://www.pankmagazine.com/?p=351; http://atticusreview.org/her-first/; http://forgejournal.com/forge/2010/07/01/bottled/