Rebecca J. Thompson, M.S.L.I.S., M.A., is an Instruction & Reference Librarian and the Coordinator of Instruction and Reference Services. She has an M.A. in English from Seton Hall University and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Drexel University. She was a Teaching Assistant and adjunct in the English Department of Seton Hall University prior to coming to King’s.
At King’s, her focus is on working with first-year classes, particularly HCE, College Seminar, and the first-year English classes. Her research interests in the library world include first-year instruction, gamification, outreach, and inter-departmental collaboration. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Library Association and will serve as the College & Research Division secretary beginning in 2025. In the literary world her research interests include children’s literature and the works of L.M. Montgomery with a focus on spatial theory, particularly in regards to the intersection between the internal and external, and she is the creator of the Green Gables Fables Archive website. Her faith is central to her life, and she is very involved in her local church, serving as worship leader as well as in multiple other capacities. Her hobbies include reading, bookstagram, song-writing, kayaking, and travel.
Education
B.A., English, Nyack College
M.A., English, Seton Hall University
M.S., Library and Information Science, Drexel University
Publications and Presentations
"'This was Her Own World': Claiming Power and Freedom through the Domestic Arts in Jane of Lantern Hill and Pat of Silver Bush," Conference presentation/L.M. Montgomery and the Politics of Home: The 16th Biennial Conference, June 2024.
"Anne of the 21st Century: Reimagining Montgomery's Classic in the Modern World," Conference presentation/L.M. Montgomery and Re-Vision: The 15th Biennial Conference, June 2022. Thompson, Rebecca J. "'That House Belongs to Me': The Appropriation of Patriarchal Space in L.M. Montgomery's Emily Trilogy." L.M. Montgomery and Gender, edited by E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021, pp. 152-173.
"'The Window Opens on a World of Wonder and Beauty': Windows as the Eyes of the Soul in L.M. Montgomery's Fiction," Virtual Forum presentation/L.M. Montgomery and Vision, December 2020.
"I'll Take Resident Assistants for $200, Alex," Conference poster, co-presenter Emily Sisk/Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference, October 2020.
"Picture This: Using Drawing Activities for Pre- and Post-Assessment," Conference poster/Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference, October 2019.
