Q: What is your area of specialty?
A: Rhetoric and composition. I also have a background in creative writing (mainly poetry).
Q: What was the title of your master’s thesis or dissertation?
A: “Physical Training for the Body, and Philosophy for the Soul”: Reviewing the Literature of Embodied Rhetoric.
Q: What is your most recent publication?
A: My most recent publication is “Pictured with My Father,” a poem which appears in Rue Scribe.
Q: What is your favorite assignment to assign?
A: Either the profile essay or the fieldwork essay. These papers really allow students to apply our classroom theories to interesting aspects of their everyday lives.
Q: What was the last book you read?
A: Ficciones by Jorge Borges, which I revisited after reading it in Anna Oldfield’s magic realism class years ago. Spasibo, Anna!
Q: What are your favorite events on campus?
A: The theater productions, without question.
Q: Where is your favorite place to eat on campus?
A: Can we consider Irish cream Americanos food? Yes? Then Starbucks.
Q: What do you enjoy most about CCU?
A: The variety of backgrounds and worldviews of my students. I can honestly say I finish each semester having learned something new myself.
