Communicative Arts
Instructor Bios
Instructor Name:
Position Away from GHP:
Assistant Professor of English; University of Alabama at Birmingham
Education/Accomplishments/Awards/Affiliations
M.A. Northeastern University
Ph.D. University of Alabama
GHP Position:
Communicative Arts instructor
What will you teach this year at GHP?
The Dead Will Walk: Zombies, the Reanimated Dead, and the Living Undead
Coming of Age: Epiphany, Awakening, and Enlightenment
If You Really Want to Know: Intensive Study of The Catcher in the Rye
The Confessional Poets and the Culture of Confession
It's a Wise Child and a Glass Class
The Wound Speaks: Literature and Medicine
What activities/strategies are used to accomplish your instructional goals?
Honing of visual, textual and cultural literacy skills through analysis of discussion, and critical thinking. My main instructional goal is to facilitate self-empowered lifetime learning.
What will be your students' culminating activity?
Individual projects for each class.
How much do you like teaching GHP?
If you were a GHP major today, what would you want to be your major?
Comm. Arts major, Vis. Arts minor.
