Dr. Leslie Werden teaches British literature, academic writing, mythology, film analysis, literary analysis, and public speaking. Her interests include sixteenth-century British Literature, Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, film adaptation, and drama. Recent research projects have focused on music in film as well as on inter-collegiality and connections between Humanities and other disciplines. Her goals are to encourage students to find strengths in their own critical thinking and writing and build upon those so they can become confident and marketable beyond college.