Wellesley College Athletics

Faculty Athletics Representative

Associate Professor of American Studies Genevieve Clutario serves as Wellesley's Faculty Athletics Representative and represents Wellesley and its faculty in the institution’s relationships with the NCAA and its conference(s). The Wellesley FAR is a tenured faculty member who is appointed by the Academic Council Agenda Committee, serving a three-year term with the option of one reappointment. The FAR’s functions are as follows:

1. Helps to ensure a quality student-athlete experience and promote student-athlete well-being.
2. Serves as an independent advocate for student-athletes.
3. Assists in the oversight of intercollegiate athletics at the campus and conference levels to assure that they are conducted in a manner designed to protect and enhance the physical, psychological, and educational well-being of student-athletes.
4. Oversees the nominations of student-athletes for NCAA grant, scholarship, and recognition programs.
5. Helps promote student-athlete success in the classroom, in athletics, and in the community by striking a balance among academic excellence, athletics competition, and social growth as they prepare for lifelong success.

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Thomas Hodge | Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Russian
Thomas Hodge is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Russian at Wellesley College. Hodge has devoted most of his research to the nexus of Russian literature and Russian music in the 1800s, and to the history of nineteenth-century Russian nature writing and hunting literature.

Hodge's publications include Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World, published in 2020 by Cornell University Press. An authorized Russian translation of the book was published in 2022 by Academic Studies Press / Bibliorossika.

Over the years, Hodge has taught more than a dozen different courses, though now he focuses on elementary Russian language and nineteenth-century Russian novels and poems. He teach these literature courses in both English and Russian. In 2000, with Professor Marianne Moore of the Biological Sciences Department, Hodge co-founded Lake Baikal: The Soul of Siberia, a course that sent a dozen Wellesley students to the great lake nine times over the span of two decades.

Hodge writes occasional program notes for the Salzburg Festival's concerts of Russian music, as well as liner notes for Deutsche Grammophon. He also collaborates with local musicians who feature Russian repertoire.