Lauren Springer
Full Time Temporary Equitable Placement Coordinator
Department: Instructional Services
Contact:
Phone:
Email: lspringer@msjc.edu
Bio:
Lauren M. Mecucci Springer is a full professor of English at Mt. San Jacinto Community College in Southern California, an HSI, where she teaches composition and literature. She earned both her BA and MA at CSUSM - both in literature and writing studies. She completed her BA with an emphasis in literature, and her MA, particularly her thesis, focused on medieval women mystics. Her Ed.D. is grounded in leadership for higher education. Today, her research centers on feedback practices for writing classrooms, as well as across the curriculum; bringing STEM into first-year writing courses; and linguistic justice in writing classrooms. Currently, she is the faculty professional development and distance education coordinator.
Awards:
- Full-Time Faculty of the Year, MVC - 2022-2023
- Co-Recipient, The Mark Reynolds TETYC Best Article Award from the Two-Year College English Association 2022
Course Themes:
- Linguistic Justice and AI
- Ethics and Morality
- Humor and Satire
- STEAM and Diversity
Publications:
- Forthcoming Late 2025 with Utah State University Press: “Listening to Student Writers’ Questions: Linguistic Justice in Student-Led Feedback” (Chapter 9)
- Forthcoming Summer 2025 with Macmillan: Science and Technology: A Bedford Spotlight Reader, 2nd edition
- Getting Beyond “CRAAP”: Scientific Literacy in FYW and WAD
- "STEAMing Up Composition: Inquiry-Based Learning and the Non-Traditional Student (Chapter 5)
- Exploring Student Feedback Perceptions and Motivations: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
- Transforming the Feedback Paradigm: A Qualitative Study Examining a Student-Centered, Question-based Pedagogy in College Composition and Literature Courses
- Science and Technology: A Bedford Spotlight Reader, 1st Edition
- How to Represent God: A Textual and Cultural Analysis of Two Women Mystics