by Dr. Brent MacLaine, Professor Dept. of English Dr. Brent MacLaine is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at The University of Prince Edward Island with over twenty-five years of post-secondary teaching experience at universities in Canada, China, and Singapore. He has given talks and workshops both regionally and nationally on Team Based Learning and is the recipient of UPEI’s Teaching Excellence Award (1997), the UPEI Student Union Faculty of the Year Award (1998), the AAU Distinguished Teaching Award (2001), and the 3-M Teaching Fellowship ( 2002). A poet and scholar of twentieth-century literature, he has authored four volumes of poetry, including Shades of Green (Acorn 2008) which won both the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Prince Edward Island Book Award.