Ellen Goodman ’76 PhD

Ellen Goodman ’76 PhD, of Newton, Mass.; Mar. 4, after a long illness. She taught high school before moving to secondary education as part-time faculty at Northeastern University. She joined the faculty of the English and Western Civilization department at Providence College, where she became a tenured professor and developed a popular course on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. She retired from teaching in 2004.