Jack E
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I have been teaching courses in literature at the college/university level for over two decades, beginning as a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa, where I received my PhD. I have taught at a prestigious liberal arts college in Tennessee, two state institutions (Iowa and more recently at Arizona State University), and for seminar and summer arrangements at both Oxford and Cambridge as well as an all-female graduate school in Pakistan. I have worked for ACT in vetting prospective passages, questions and response options for future iterations of Reading Comprehension exams. At Arizona State, I achieved tenure, saw my monograph Memory, Nationalism and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia through publication by Palgrave Macmillan, and spearheaded the English department's efforts to devise a semester-long graduate course preparing enrollees to teach literature at the college level. My doctorate is in 20th- and 21st-Century British Literature, but my dissertation and much of my subsequent scholarship connects to the field of postcolonial studies, principally literary texts from South Asia.
I feel deeply honored and constantly enthused to be part of a student's encounters with literature through high school and beyond. I have received various awards for teaching excellence, and though my teaching career so far tilts toward examining narratives in context, I have unusual added experience in helping to "test the new tests" students face as prospective candidates for undergraduate and graduate-level institutions. I have an extensive history of sustained one-on-one engagement with students preparing dissertations, theses, semester-long projects and so forth, and am very comfortable with working with a single student over a longer period as they embark on other, similarly long-term journeys to their specific goals in English studies more broadly.
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Graduate Degree: University of Iowa - Doctor of Philosophy, General Literature
I love travel! I have lived in both England and Russia, and preparing my book on South Asia required significant time in India as well as Pakistan and Nepal. It likely goes without saying that I rarely leave home without a book "just in case" there's a few minutes ahead when I reach for it because it's usually my "fun reading" and I simply have to know what happens next. For me (and this is what I tell my students too), what kind of published matter you read, how worthy (or not) it is of being called "Literature with a capital L" is not nearly as important as reading, from an actual physical book in your hands, what you find enjoyable and what sparks your curiosity, what compels you to think and rethink well after you've closed its covers, what cracks open the world for you a little bit more.
- ACT English
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- British Literature
- CLEP Prep
- CLEP American Literature
- CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature
- CLEP English Literature
- College English
- College Level American Literature
- English
- High School Level American Literature
- Introduction to Fiction
- Literature
- Poetry
- Poetry
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- World Literature