Clare Rossini is the Director of the InterArts Program and a Visiting Assistant Professor of English. In 2007-2009, she will serve as Interim Director of the Creative Writing Program. Her scholarly interests include creative writing; English, American, and world poetry; nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature; the community cultural development movement; and community-based learning. She is currently working on a fourth book of poetry whose subjects include late-medieval science and global warming.

Rossini’s courses include "Art and Community," "Introduction to Poetry Writing," "Introduction to Creative Writing," "The Art of Confession," "O That Wild Pair: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson," and "Contemporary American Poetry." Through the InterArts Program, she has maintained an ongoing collaboration with the Montessori Magnet School in the Learning Corridor through which Trinity students make art with elementary school students.

Prior to joining Trinity College, Rossini served as an Assistant Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. She earned he MFA in Creative Writing at the Writers Workshop in Iowa City, Iowa, and her Ph.D. in American Literature at Columbia in New York City.