A new Dean of English and Humanities has joined Lincoln Land Community College. Dr. Corrine Hinton joined LLCC on January 2nd. Dr. Hinton comes to LLCC after spending the last decade at Texas A&M-Texarkana as an assistant, then associate, professor of English, as well as department chair of arts, communication, media, and English for three of those years. 

Dr. Hinton has taught courses in rhetoric, writing studies, and humanities as well as graduate courses in research methods and the teaching of writing.  Her recent honors include university awards for Distinguished Faculty of the Year and Teaching Excellence in Undergraduate Mentorship, inductee into the Texas A&M System Chancellor’s Academy of Teacher Educators, and an Excellence in Teaching award from the National Society of Leadership and Success.  Dr. Hinton also is a notable scholar in the field of veterans studies and a veterans advocate, publishing and presenting research on the transitional experiences of student veterans into colleges and universities. 

Dr. Hinton is originally from Belleville.  She earned her Ph.D. in English with an emphasis in rhetoric and composition from St. Louis University.  She attended the U of M-St Louis for her master’s with a concentration on 20th century American literature, and a bachelor’s degree in English.