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Meet the
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Carol Abate- Instructor in Humanities and English
Education: B.A. English, UC Berkeley; M.A. English, SJSU ; M.A. Liberal Arts, Stanford University
Academic areas of interest: women's studies, feminist theory, 20th century American poetry, interdisciplinary studies
Favorite authors/types of literature: Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, Mary Oliver, Adrienne Rich, Bórges, 20th century Latin American poets.
Publications: Reed Magazine (SJSU), Foothill Quarterly, Aurora, WPA (Word People Association)
Conference presentations: National Council of Honors Conference, Chicago (11/3-11/8/98)
Serves on Interdisciplinary Studies and Literature committees. Use of film, video, audio recordings, novels, current events, computer resources in class
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Gina Adams-Palmer - Associate faculty member
Bart Benson - Emeritus faculty member
Laura Bernell - Associate faculty member
Education: M.A. English, Santa Clara University
Academic Area of Interest: Jewish American Literature; Poetry; Technical Writing
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Mitali Biswas - Associate faculty member
Education: Ph.D American Literature, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Academic areas of interest: Women's studies, world lit, modern drama, critical thinking
Serves on English 1A Curriculum and Board Grading at San Jose City College
Member of Stanford Hospital's advisory council chaplaincy service. Use of film, video, audio recordings, novels, current events, computer resources in class. |
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Paulette Boudreaux - English Instructor
Coordinator of Success Program
Education: B.A. Journalism, Northeastern University, Boston; M.F.A. English and Creative Writing, Mills College |
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Leigh Burrill- English Instructor
Education: B.A. Philosophy and Women's Studies, UCLA; M.A. English Literature, SFSU
Academic Areas of Interest: Gender Studies, Women's
Studies, South Asian Women Writers, Literature and
Film, American Literature, Poetry, Developing Reading
and Writing Skills
Favorite Authors and/or Types of Literature: Jhumpa
Lahiri, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison,
John Updike, Kate Chopin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Sylvia
Plath, Anne Sexton, Monica Ali, Ernest Hemingway
Conference Presentations: "Reading Desire in Herman
Melville's 'Benito Cereno,'" UCSC, 2002; "The Politics
of Queer Identity in the Academy," SFSU, 2000
Publications in Journal of Women's History.
Use of film, video, audio recordings, novels, current events, computer resources in class. |
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Rebecca Cisneros -English Instructor
Coordinator of Puente Program
Chair of English 905 committee and Ethnic Studies program.
Education: B.A. English, St. Mary's College; M.A. English, University of Vermont
Academic areas of interest: Rhetoric and Composition, Chicano/a Literature
Favorite authors/types of literature: Ana Castillo, Gloria Anzaldua, Gloria Naylor, Zora Neale Hurston; women writers who write in various genres (e.g. essays, poetry, fiction etc.), often combining all forms especially when creating autoethnographies.
Serves on Pow Wow and Literature committees.
Member of NCTE
Conference presentations: "Foreigners Adopt 'Macho'" - Florida State University's 23rd Annual Race in Film and Literature; CCCC 2000.Use of film, video, and computer resources in class.
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Kathleen Colligan - Associate faculty member |
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Deborah Condon - Associate faculty member
Education: B.A. English and German, CSU Chico; M.S. Women's Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; M.A. Literature, UC Santa Cruz.
Academic areas of interest: Rhetoric; American, British, and European Literature; popular culture; women's studies.
Favorite types of literature: Women's literature, satire, the Fantastic
Publications: Study Guide to Dickens' Oliver Twist, Classics Illustrated
Use of film and video recordings in class. |
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Bill Davis - Associate faculty member
Education: B.A. English, University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A. English, Claremont Graduate University; PhD American Literature and Culture, Claremont Graduate University
Academic areas of interest: the American West, California Writers, American expansion, imperialsm, 1890's, American writers and the Pacific
Favorite authors/types of literature: Twain, London, Bierce, literature of the West, literature of Polynesia
Member of ALA, MLA, ASA, WHA (Western Historical Association), WLA (Western Literature Association)
Conference presentations: "Jack London's Polynesian 'Other' in 'The Heathen" and "Koolan the Leper" - Jack London Conference, Kauai, October 2002; "The Diseased Tropics: Jack London's Polynesian Landscapes" - ALA, Long Beach, May 2002. Use of film and computer resources in class. |
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Stephen
Dondershine - Associate faculty member |
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Lawren Farber - Associate faculty member
Education: BA, Case
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; MA, Kent
State University, Kent, Ohio
Academic areas of interest:
Media convergence; writing for technology and
life science business applications
Member of National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS);
Emmy-winning producer.
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Carolyn Fasano - Associate faculty member
Education: B.A. Sociology, SJSU; M.A. English Literature, SFSU; Elementary education teaching credential (K-8).
Academic areas of interest: philosophy, psychology, history, and English literature.
Favorite authors/types of literature: Nabakov, Borges, Patricia Highsmith, postmodern literature, psychological literature
Use of film and audio recordings in classes. |
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Janine Gerzanics - Journalism and English Instructor
Education:
B.A. Hons. Religious Studies/English, Lancaster University, England;
Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Westminster College, Oxford;
Royal Society of Arts Language Diploma, London; M.A. Journalism,
University of South Carolina; M.A. English/American Literature, Loyola
Marymount University; Ph.D. ABD English Literature, University of
Southern California.
Academic Interests: English Literature - Shakespeare, Manuscripts
& Incunabula, Medieval and Renaissance English Literature/Drama, World
War I War Poetry, Post Colonial Literature, World Literature, Travel
Literature, Journalism - News Writing and Arts Reviews.
Presentations: “Kyd’s ‘Spanish Tragedy’: The Significance of
Theater and Revenge.” “Representations Across the Racial Divide:
Reconstructing the Self and Others in Tayeb Salih’s ‘Season of Migration
to the North,’” “The Threat of the Other: Race, Gender and Maternity in
Jonson’s ‘The Masque of Blackness,’” “Experiencing the Other:
Representation of Blackness in Jonsons’s ‘The Masque of Blackness,’”
“From God of Love to Tender Heart Strings; Italian Renaissance Poetry
Moves to the English Court.” “Agape and Eros: Dante’s Beatrice and
Petrarch’s Laura.” “History and Decay in Faulkner’s ‘The Sound and The
Fury,’” “New Visions, New Voices: Narrative Technique in Salman
Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children,’” “A Carnivalesque Approach to ‘Le Jeu
de Saint Nicholas,’” “Immortality in the Bedroom: Donne’s Love Poetry.”
“The History of ‘Saint Erkenwald’ Scholarship and its Relevance to
Authorship Theory.” “Fluidity of Party Identification: Shifting
Affiliations and Perspectives in Thomas Otways ‘Venice Preserv’d,’”
Publications: Numerous Theater Reviews for Center Stage Magazine
and KXLU Radio Station in Los Angeles. Numerous Journalism and Public
Relations pieces
Review of ‘The Women of Ben Jonsons’ Poetry’: Female Representations in
the Non-dramatic Verse, by Barbara Smith. Sixteenth Century Journal,
1997. “Death in the Bedroom: John Donne’s Love Poetry.” Cemeteries
and Spaces of Death; Inquiries into Their Meaning. Ed. Darnetta Bell
& Kevin Bongiorni, Riverside: Xenos Books, 1996. “A Carnivalesque
Approach to Jean Bodel’s ‘Le Jeu de Saint Nicholas,’” Attic Salt,
1995.
Current Areas of Research: English Medieval Ars Morendi,
Elizabeth Inglis, a Sixteenth Century calligrapher at the English Court.
Serves: English Literature Committee, Global Education Center
Committee, Journalism Department Chair.
Memberships: English: MLA, RSA, NCTE, AAUP, PCAC, AAUW,
Journalism: PRSA, JACC, IABC
Interests: Helping at a local Shakespeare Summer camp for
children. Teaching at a local Sunday school. I love traveling, and while
I was born in England, I have had the opportunity to live in, or travel
to, many places. I adore most sports, and started out my career as a
Religious Studies and Physical Education teacher. I love a diverse range
of authors.
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Judith Girardi - Associate faculty member
Education: B.A. Biological Science, SFSU; M.A. English, SJSU;MLS, Library Science, SJSU;ABD, English Literature, Claremont Graduate University.
Academic areas of interest: Science and Literature; Victorian Literature: Literary Theory; Narrative Theory; Children's Literature; Poetry
Favorite authors and/or types of literature: 19th Century Women's Literature -- Bronte; Poetry of Lorinz Niedecker; Richard R. Gregory
Publications: Signed article "Lorinz Niedecker;" Facts on File:Guide to 20th Century American Poetry
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tina Golaw - English Instructor
Coordinator of Writing Lab
Education: B.A. English, Santa Clara University; M.A. American and British Literature, Kansas State University.
Academic areas of interest: Jewish American literature, Holocaust literature, Asian American literature, Women's issues in literature
Favorite authors and/or types of literature: Bernard Malamud, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Amy Tan, Dorothy Allison, Emily Bronte, and Frank McCourt
Conference presentations: Popular Culture/American Culture Conference: "Dime Novels: Nineteenth Century Allegories" (1995)
Member of Notre Dame HS, SJ Alumni board.
Serves on Minority Advocacy and literature committees.
Co-advisor of Alpha Gamma Sigma honors society
Co-director of "Best Essays" contest.
Use of audio recordings, film, novels, short stories, guest speakers, sample essays, PowerPoint presentations in classes. |
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Dulce
MARIa GraY - English Instructor
Publications: High Literacy and Ethnic Identity (Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 2001).
“Mapping the Use of Feature Films in Composition Classes” in Cinema-
(to)-Graphy: Film and Writing in Contemporary Composition Courses,
edited
by Ellen Bishop (Heinemann Books, 1999);
“One Night on Moses Mountain,” in A Woman’s World Again, edited by
Marybeth Bond (Traveler’s Tales, 2007).
“Using Silence to Promote Spiritual Growth in the Teaching of
Composition
and Literature” in Touched by the Spirit: Teaching Ideas for the New
Millennium, edited by Shelton-Colangelo and Duvall (Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, 2006).
Awards: Yale University’s Council on Middle East Studies in
Turkey 2007
http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/pier/
NEH in Central America 2006
http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html
Fulbright in Egypt 2005
http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpssap/index.html
Committee Membership: Academic Senate,Distance Learning, First
Year Learning Community, Global Education, Kuwait Project,Literature and
Composition
Women's Studies
Blogs:
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Lenore Harris - English Instructor
Education: B.A. Social Science, UC Berkeley; M.A. Writing, USF
Favorite authors: Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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Cindi Harrison - Associate faculty member
Education: M.A. English, New Mexico State University
Academic areas of interest: Composition, Modern literature, creative writing, queer literature
Favorite authors: Marilyn Hacker, Virginia Woolf, Kathleene West, H.D., Ezra Pound
Publications: poetry in Gertrude, Finch & Varnes' An Exhaltation of Form, etc. |
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Walt Johnson - Emeritus faculty member
Education: B.S. English, University of San Francisco; M.J., Journalism, UC Berkeley.
Academic area of interest: English
Favorite types of literature: American and English literature before 1950.
Member of Alpha Sigma Nu, National Jesuit Honor Society
Use of film in classes. |
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Vicky Kalivitis - English Instructor
Education: B.A. English, Fresno State University; M.A. English, San Jose State University; Study Abroad, Theatre and Literature, Fresno State Abroad - London, England; Certificate, hybrid and online instruction, CVC.
Academic areas of interest: Multicultural studies; Contemporary Literature; Employing technology to enhance the writing process.
Favorite authors: Paulo Coelho, James McBride, Julia Alvarez, Albert Camus, Adeline Mah, Ha Jin.
Use of computer resources, audio recordings, novels, current events, video i n class.
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Jess Lerma - English Instructor
Education: B.A. in English and Chicano Studies, U.C. Santa Barbara, M.A. in English Literature, C.S.U. Fresno
Academic Areas of Interest: Rhetoric and Composition, Service Learning, and Chicano Literature
Favorite Writers & Poets: Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Sandra Cisneros, John Dewey, Paolo Freire, and Li-Young Lee
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Bill Logsdon - Associate faculty member |
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Julie
Maia - Language
Arts division chair (as of Spring 2004)
Coordinator for New Horizons Program, Gender Equity Program.
Grants Liaison
Education: A.A. Language Arts, Laney College; B.A.(w/
honors), M.A. and C. Phil (PhD. ABD) English Literature, UC
Berkeley
Academic areas of interest: Renaissance literature, philosophy
and literature, multicultural studies, women's studies, feminist theory,
feminist pedagogy, literature and the arts, modernism and postmodernism,
interdisciplinary approaches to literature.
Publications: Aegean Voyage. New York:
Spinnaker Publications, 1982. A computer game introducing formal
logic through an adventure in the world of Greek myths; Duck
Soup. New York: CBS, 1982. An illustrated children's
book of activities for developing critical thinking skills; Whales.
Washington, DC: National Audubon Society, 1990. Activity-oriented
science curriculum introducing concepts in marine biology, oceanography,
and ecology.
Conference presentations: Pacific Southwest Women's Studies
Conference, CSU Fullerton: "Crossing Boundaries:
Interdisciplinary Studies" (April 1998); Symposium on Women and
Class, SJSU: "Why is Class a Feminist Issue?" (March
1998).
Serves on Student Equity Committee, Curriculum committee,
Matriculation Advisory committee, Career Programs Steering committee,
Welfare Reform Task Force.
Member of Modern Language Association, National Council of
Teachers of English, National Women's Studies Association, National
Organization for Women, American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty
International, Friends of the Saratoga Library, Friends of the Los Gatos
Library.
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Cathy
Mayerhofer - Associate faculty member
Trudi
Mullerworth
- Associate faculty member
Sharon
Nuss - Associate faculty member
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Eric
Pape
- English
instructor
Education: B.A.
English, CSU Northridge; M.F.A. Louisiana State University; Ph.D in
progress, Louisiana State University
Academic areas of interest: Cultural theory, postmodern
literature
Publications: Poetry in Exquisite Corpse, On the Bus, etc.
Use of video recordings in classes.
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Leslie
Saito
- English
instructor
Co-department chair (with
Susan Schulter as of Spring 2004)
Education: B.A. Communications, UC San Diego; M.A. English,
SDSU
Academic areas of interest: service learning programs, mass media
studies, multicultural studies
Favorite authors/types of literature: Toni Morrison, Langston
Hughes, Amy Tan, Maya Angelou, John Irving, Pat Conroy.
Serves on literature, ethnic studies, minority advocacy
committees and faculty and
staff diversity advisory committee. Served as a mentor with the Bay Area Diversity
Internship program.
Use of film, video, audio recordings, novels, current events, computer
resources in class.
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Susan
Schulter
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English instructor
Co-department chair (with Leslie Saito as of Spring 2004)
Education: B.A. Literature, UC Santa Cruz; M.F.A. English,
University of Massachusetts Amherst; Teacher
Consultant for San Jose Area Writing Project
Co-director of "Best
Essays" contest.
Serves on literature, student equity, and interdisciplinary
studies committees.
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Rachel
Scott
- Associate
faculty member
Education:
B.A. English, UC Berkeley; M.F.A.
University of Arizona
Academic Areas of Interest:
Creative Writing,
Rhetoric and Composition
Distinctions: Honorable
Mention for Fiction, 2002 Zora
Neale Hurston/Richard Wright
Foundation; Norcroft
Writing Residency; Hedgebrook
Writing Residency
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Doug TEmkin
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English instructor
Education:
B.A. English Language and Literature,
DePaul University; M.A. English Language and
Literature, New York University. Further study:
National
College of Education, Stanford University, UC
Berkeley.
Coordinator:
Spoken World Series and WoW! Writers on
Writing Series.
Managing Editor:
ACE (Association of College
Educators) Update newsletter.
Academic areas of interest:
the teaching of writing;
non-fiction literature; storytelling and oral
history.
Conference presentations:
Presenter and
teacher-trainer for National Writing Project
workshops, 1987-1991.
Favorite authors/types of literature: Non-fiction
writing, including personal essays, travel writing,
nature and science writing, storytelling, oral
history.
Mr.
Temkin will be a sabbatical leave August 2008 -
August 2009 and will not be on campus or available on
email during that time. For further information
contact the Language Arts Office Coordinator.
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Carmen
Torres
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English
instructor
Education: B.A. English, SJSU; M.A. English, UC
Berkeley
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Jennifer
Wagner
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English
instructor
Education:
B.A., English, UCLA (magna cum laude); B.A., World Arts & Cultures,
UCLA (cum laude); M.A., Teaching of Writing, Humboldt State University;
(Forthcoming)--M.A., Literature, Humboldt State University
Academic areas of interest: Interdisciplinary studies,
ethnic/cultural studies, socio-political issues (domestic & global),
identity construction, media studies, cohesion beyond differences, and
empowerment (individual & group).
Serves as English 905 chair and Hacky Sack Club faculty advisor.
Serves on on the Interdisciplinary Studies and the literature
committees.
Member of the California Curriculum Study Commission, NCTE,
CATE, and ACE. Understudy for organizing the Asilomar 53
conference (Sept. 2003).
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Karen
Wallace
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English
instructor
Education: B.A. English, Pacific Union College; M.A.
English, Loma Linda University; postgraduate work at Stanford University
and U.C. Santa Cruz;
M.Div., Emphasis in
Feminist Theology, Graduate Theological Union
Academic areas of interest: the writing of contemporary American
women of color, gender studies, creative writing, honors
interdisciplinary teaching.
Teaches Contemporary
American Multicultural Literature
and Bible as Literature courses.
Chairs English Department literature committee and serves as
associate English faculty liaison; coordinates Olympiad of the Arts
prose writing contest; co-advises Gay-Straight Alliance club; serves on
WVC Mental Health Student Advisory Committee as campus chaplain.
Favorite authors/types of literature:
The writing of contemporary American women of color, especially Toni
Morrison.
Publications: various short stories and poems
Conference presentations: Writing Lab conference, Honors
conference
Member of NOW, ACLU, NCTE, Integrity
Use of film, audio/video recordings, computer resources, and guest
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Margaret
WingrovE - Associate
faculty member
Education: B.A. San Jose State University; M.A. University
of San Francisco |
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