General Education

Lorri Fishman, MS, RD

Lorri Fishman is the nutrition adjunct instructor at Lexington College. She earned a Master of Science degree in nutrition from the Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor's degree in biology from Indiana University, Bloomington. Ms. Fishman worked for 11 years with the American Dietetic Association in their nutrition information and education center. Her expertise is in nutrition education and she teaches a cooking class for young children with the Morton Grove park district.

Ms. Fishman is a member of the American Dietetic Association, Society for Nutrition Education and the Chicago Nutrition Association. She is currently on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Nutrition Association and is past-president. She resides in Morton Grove with her husband Andrew Segal and two boys, Joel and Aaron.

Jolanta Jaskolowska, PhD

Jolanta Jaskolowska earned her PhD in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and a master's in distributed systems from DePaul University in Chicago. Her area of specialization is Aristotle with an area of concentration in aesthetics and epistemology.

Dr. Jaskolowska is a member of the American Philosophical Association.

She teaches Philosophy of the Person, Ethics, Business Ethics and Introduction to Computer Applications classes at Lexington College.

Kathleen Keefe

Prof. Kathleen Keefe is the faculty director of General Education at Lexington College. She has taught at Lexington since 1990 and has received the "Outstanding Teacher Award" three times at Lexington College. She currently teaches English, Public Speaking, and Humanities.

Between 1990 and 2000 Prof. Keefe also taught English at Moraine Valley Community College and directed and taught the E.S.L. (English as a Second Language) program for San Miquel Parish in Chicago.

Prof. Keefe received her master's of education from Western Illinois University in 1967; during that year, she was also employed at Western as a graduate assistant.

Prof. Keefe then taught high school English at Kewanee Ill., was English department chairperson at Hillcrest High School, and taught English, Public Speaking, and Humanities at St. Vincent de Paul Seminary in Lemont, Ill.

From 1970 to 1981, Prof. Keefe was assistant youth minister at St. Michael Parish where she was their playwright and director. The dramatists produced three shows a year.

Prof. Keefe is currently involved with the St. Vincent de Paul Society at St. Michael Parish. Her professional affiliations are: member of the National Council of Teachers of English, member of the Field Museum, member of the Art Institute of Chicago, and subscriber to the Goodman Theatre.

Rev. Martin John Miller, STD

Rev. Miller is an adjunct professor of Theology in the Department of General Education area. He received his doctorate of sacred theology from the University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain (2000). He also holds a master's degree in political science from Marquette University (1989) and a bachelor's degree in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, Italy. Rev. Miller is a Catholic Priest for the Prelature of Opus Dei and serves as chaplain for the College.

Rev. Miller introduces Lexington students to the wonders of Sacred Scripture in the Good News of the Bible, with special focus on convergences between Bible teachings and hospitality (service, charity, compassion, sacrifice, works of mercy, etc.). His chief research areas are in the fields of Fundamental Theology and Ecclesiology, particularly the theology of the Second Vatican Council. He is also interested in the human act of service as a theological and philosophical study.

Rev. Miller is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the Society for Christian Ethics, and the American Maritain Association. He has given numerous presentations on Christian living at Chicago area churches, as well as at academic societies, such as the Integritas Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago and American Maritain Association national meetings. He has given presentations in other countries also, such as on bioethics in Valencia, Spain. His publications include his Doctoral Dissertation (partial), entitled "The Concept of Dogma in Vatican II," Navarre University Press (Pamplona, Spain, 2000). He is frequently consulted on theological and ethical issues, and asked to edit materials for publication on theological and philosophical topics.

Jeanine Teodorescu, PhD

Dr. Jeanine Teodorescu has been happy to teach at Lexington College since 2003. She appreciates the very collegial atmosphere, the close collaboration with the undergraduate students, and the opportunity to develop a new course, French Culture, Gastronomy, and Literature.

Educated in Romania, France, Austria, and the United States, Dr. Teodorescu obtained her PhD in French Literature from the University of Lincoln-Nebraska. She taught French language, literature, French for Business, and interdisciplinary courses at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is currently teaching at Loyola University and the Alliance Francaise, in addition to Lexington College.

Her main area of research is Eugene Ionesco, the Theatre of the Absurd, and 20th-century French theatre, as well as comparative literature and interdisciplinary studies. She has published articles on Eugene Ionesco, and is currently working on a manuscript on Eugene Ionesco. She has been a speaker and organized various sessions at numerous conferences in the United States, Canada, and Romania.

Dr. Teodorescu believes in Napoleon's famous words: Impossible n est pas francais (Impossible is not French), which she extends: and neither is it American.