Communicative Arts

Instructor Bios

Instructor Name:

    Harry Thomas

Position Away from GHP:

    P.H.D. Student, English Dept., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Education/Accomplishments/Awards/Affiliations

    B.A. Emory (English/Creative Writing)
    M.F.A. University of Alabama (Creative Writing)

GHP Position:

    Communicative Arts instructor

What will you teach this year at GHP?

    Southern Literature

What activities/strategies are used to accomplish your instructional goals?

    Great content + great students = class @ GHP

What will be your students' culminating activity?

    I run our Coffee Houses, where all GHP students are welcome to read their work.

How much do you like teaching GHP?

    The English language fails to be able to express how much I love teaching here. Seriously - I feel grateful to teach here, some of my students teach me things about stories I've read dozens of times.

If you were a GHP major today, what would you want to be your major?

    Comm. Arts! (duh)

What words or phrases do you use too much?

    "We'll call him that because that's his name."

Most annoying thing?

    *Harry, denying his yellow-ness, has chosen not to list any annoying things.*

Parting comments/thoughts for the GHP session?

    "Bold move Monica Kaufman, bold move."

Pets

    No thank you.

Books

    An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis
    Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman

Music

    Sleater-Kinney
    The Smiths
    The Magnetic Fields
    Liz Phair (pre-lobotomy)
    Aimee Mann
    etc.
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