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"To
teach is to create a space in which the community of
truth is practiced."
-Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
About
Me
I have been a community
college teacher for over twenty-two years, beginning my
teaching career at KVCC directly after completing my master's
degree.
While continuing to teach, I enrolled in the
doctoral program in English at Michigan State University
and earned a Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric/Composition,
Literary Theory, and Popular Culture).
After four highly-forgettable high school years, I
attended Mt San Antonio College in Walnut, California. After Mt. SAC, I spent three years at UC Davis, where I
majored in English after taking an American literature
course with James Woodress.
Of course, one's formal
educational journey is never quite so neat, and along
the way I worked in an auto factory, a greenhouse, as a
furniture mover, bookstore clerk, and construction
worker.
Education:
Ph.D. (English) Michigan State University
M.A. (English) University of California at Riverside
B.A. (English) University of California at Davis
A.A. (Gen. Ed.) Mt. San Antonio College
Graduate Studies: College of William and Mary (American
Culture); University of Michigan (Community College
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Research Interests:
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Contemplative
Teaching and Learning
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Critical Pedagogy
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Literary
Theory/Criticism
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Teaching Writing
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Two-year
Colleges/Faculty
Current Research/Writing Projects:
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The Deskilling
of the community college writing teacher (in
progress);
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Education as
Job training and the
decline of the Liberal Arts in the
Community College (in progress)
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Contemplative teaching and learning in the community
college (in progress for New Directions for
Community Colleges)
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The Costs of
Youth Sports
(in progress)
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Current
fiction and poetry: "Vacuum" and "Neighbors"
(submitted for publication)
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