Adjunct Instructor
E-mail: elaine.rocksted@arapahoe.edu
E-mail: erocksted@hotmail.com

I obtained my B.A. from Ohio University in History/Government and then took classes at UCD in English and Library Science. In 1996, I received my MA degree with honors from Regis University in Language and Communication with an emphasis in teaching English Comp in the computer classroom. I have taught English classes at Arapahoe Community College, Red Rocks Community College, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and CCCOnline.

I have enjoyed teaching at ACC for fifteen years when I began as a tutor in the Writing Center. Since then, I have taught Developmental English classes, Eng 121 classes, primarily in the computer classrooms, and I am now teaching Eng 121 and Eng 131 online classes. I assisted many years ago in establishing the English computer classroom at ACC, and I designed the online Tech Writing class. I have also taken online classes at both ACC and CCCOnline over the past few years.

Until April of 2003, I worked full time at the Denver Art Museum in the Membership Department writing membership materials, and prior to that, I was Communications Coordinator for a nonprofit organization that assisted people with disabilities. Fall semester of 2003, I was a full time English faculty member at Red Rocks Community College.

When I am not teaching or studying, I enjoy spending time with my family (husband, two married sons, and a daughter). My husband and I have lived in the mountains for over a year now (between Hartsel and Canon City), so we have experienced the many challenges of mountain living. I have also enjoyed traveling, especially in France, England and Ireland as well as here in the United States.