Biography
Dr. Lantinga is a teaching professor in the College of Professional Studies.
In 2022, she won the Excellence in Teaching Award, an award given to professors based on their students’ nominations. Dr. Amy Lantinga’s students in the Foundation Year program praise her both for holding them to the highest standard and for supporting them in their work. One student noted that Dr. Lantinga “is tough, flexible, caring. A teaching powerhouse and a model for other professors.” Another wrote “being in both her College Writing course and Professional Speaking course made me both a better writing and a more confident person. She was such a phenomenal professor and gave fantastic feedback to every one of her students’ papers and projects.” Dr. Lantinga previously won the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2012.
Dr. Lantinga’s pedagogy has included implementing service-learning with Little Brothers/Friends of the Elderly into English composition courses; she has embraced interdisciplinary approaches to assessments within writing courses; and she has studied the relationship between peer feedback and classroom community in her professional speaking courses, knowledge she uses to help her students become experts in providing feedback and support to one another.
Professional Experience
Prior to joining the College in 2009 as one of the first members of the Foundation Year faculty, Dr. Lantinga served in various roles at the secondary and postsecondary education levels. She taught English and journalism at the secondary level for seven years. Dr. Lantinga has also been a school leader as an assistant headmaster of teaching and learning at Boston Community Leadership Academy, a pilot school within Boston Public Schools. Within this role, she led the professional development plan, facilitated the Leadership Team, led the school through accreditation, and supported teachers through the evaluation process. As a program manager for WriteBoston, a non-profit out of the Mayor of Boston’s office, she developed writing workshops for middle and high school within the city of Boston and Harvard University and facilitated professional development to strengthen writing instruction for Boston Public School teachers. Prior to joining Northeastern, Dr. Lantinga worked with pre-service teachers at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Professional Activities & Accomplishments
In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Dr. Lantinga contributes to the College and the University in service and leadership. For the past two years she has facilitated mentoring for faculty through Northeastern’s ADVANCE office of faculty development. She has also been a Service-Learning Fellow with the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning through Research (CATLR), and an Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion grant recipient. She served as a Teaching Inquiry Fellow in 2020 and a Teaching and Learning Scholar in 2021 through CATLR. Both programs focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Within the College, Dr. Lantinga has served on the Faculty Fund Committee, the Faculty Development and Support Committee’s sub-committee on promotion, and has served twice on the Faculty Review and Promotion Committee, holding the role of Vice-Chair (twice) and Chair.
Dr. Lantinga’s area of scholarship sits within the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, with conference presentations at the SoTL Summit in 2022. Additionally, her contributions to the field of Disaster Culture within Popular Culture/American Culture have led to 4 book chapters: two on the Boston Marathon bombing, one of the treatment of pets during natural disasters, and her most recent comparing Covid-19 political and economic discourse in 2020 to the wave of shark attacks that plagued the Jersey shore in 1919.
Dr. Lantinga has also been accepted into the Key West Literary Seminar and Writers Workshop for 4 years. Selected through writing submissions in flash fiction, memoir, and personal essay, candidates in the workshops work intimately with renowned professional writers to develop writing, revising, and pedagogical strategies.
