凯西hagood
为什么英语?
I love the amazing truth 和 beauty inherent in literary works. Literature provides for me what music provides for some people. I actually feel it so deeply within my soul that I get chills when reading great pass年龄s. On a personal level, literature is life-altering! Literature makes me examine my life 和 improve myself because it’s so much easier to critique a character than to critique myself, yet I perceive my flaws through examining such a character. On a societal level, literature illustrates to its readers how great joy 和 great sorrow are experienced by all of humanity. It teaches readers to empathize with characters 和 with other members of society. Since there are such beauty 和 truth in literature, 自然, I want to share my love of literary works with others through teaching.
In addition to teaching literature, I also enjoy writing 和 teaching composition. There is a wonderful connection between writing 和 true discovery of exciting new ideas. I want every student to experience true discovery in their writing because it is such a wonderful 和 inexplicable feeling.
传记
My love for literature 和 writing led me to pursue degrees in English after beginning college as a theatre major. I received my Bachelor of Arts 和 Master of Arts degrees in English from Tarleton State University in 1996 和 1998, 分别. Fortunately, while pursuing my Master’s degree, Dr. R和all Popken, a well-respected scholar in composition, served as my mentor. Popken’s influence has greatly impacted my teaching at Howard Payne, where I began teaching in August 1998, soon after graduating with my Master’s degree.
I teach Composition I 和 II, 妇女研究, World Literature, Children’s Literature, 和 Development of Drama at Howard Payne University.
Books I recommend
罗恩·汉森的 阿提克斯
阿瑟·米勒的 我所有的儿子
桑德拉·西斯内罗斯的 My Wicked Wicked Ways 和 Woman Hollering Creek 和 Other Stories
Leslie Marmon Silko’s 仪式
M. 斯科特Momaday的 House Made of Dawn
最喜欢的名言
“I write to discover what I know.” – Flannery O’Connor in The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
“Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.” – Flannery O’Connor in The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
“[T]he unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates in Plato’s “The Apology of Socrates”
“Everything was being destroyed, see, but it seemed to me that one new thing was being made. A kind of … responsibility. 人对人.” – Chris Keller referring to war in 我所有的儿子 by Arthur Miller
“By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can st和 a little of that.” – Charlotte in E. B. 白色的 夏洛特的网
“I lay there 和 thought how life was like a Littmus Lozenge, how the sweet 和 sad were all mixed up together 和 how hard it was to separate them out.” – Opal in Kate Dicamillo’s Because of Winn Dixie