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B.A., Tufts University; M.S., University of Chicago; Ed.D., Harvard University |
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Master of Arts in Teaching English - Winthrop College |
Prof. Barron has been teaching at CCSF since 2007
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B.A., San Francisco State University; M.A., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
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B.A., St. Louis University; M.F.A., Bowling Green State University |
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B.A., Goddard College; M.F.A., Mills College |
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B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., San Francisco State University |
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B.A., M.A., San Francisco State University |
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Chair, English Department B.A., California State University, Sacramento |
Professor Brown has been teaching at CCSF since 1997.
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M.A., English and American Literature: with a concentration in poetry, New York University |
Professor Candelaria has been teaching at CCSF since 2008.
In addition to teaching the fundamentals of composition, she strives to include, educate and inspire her students by selecting socially and culturally relevant material and underscoring the value of close reading and participation. She also applies Marxism, feminism, post-colonial and psychoanalytic criticism to her teaching of literature.
Professor Candelaria’s work has appeared in The Nation, New England Review, Gulf Coast, The Indiana Review, Afugabe: A Journal of Poetry, Seneca Review and other journals. In addition to winning the Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry, and the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, she has received fellowships from UC Berkeley, New York University, Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference (2005, 2006), Hall Farm Center for the Arts, The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the LEF Foundation. She currently lives in San Francisco, California and was recently awarded an individual grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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B.A., Williams College; M.A., University of California, Berkeley |
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M.A., English, Portland State University. |
Prof. Costarides has been teaching at CCSF since 2002.
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B.A., University of California, Berkeley |
Professor Cox has been teaching at CCSF since 2000.
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B.A. Allegheny College, Pennsylvania |
Professor Davis-Martin has been teaching at CCSF since 2005.
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B.A., M.A., San Francisco State University |
Mr. Delgado has been a member of the CCSF faculty since 1996.
His educational goal is to continue seeking innovative ways for students to reach their maximum potential.
In his leisure time, he enjoys studying film history (Avid Film Buff) and Virginia Woolf Studies.
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B.A., University of California, Berkeley (1990); M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison (1991, 1999). |
Professor S. Erin Denney has been a member of the CCSF faculty since 1997.
She is dedicated to broadening educational opportunities for those traditionally excluded from higher education. As a teacher, she is demanding and holds her students to a high standard, but she is also readily available outside of class to help her students to learn and succeed.
For eight years, Dr. Denney served as the Basic Skills Coordinator for the English department and was and remains heavily involved in research and innovative curriculum. She runs or serves on many of the committees which develop innovative curriculum such as that for English 91 and the accelerated/intensive English 9293. She has frequently served on her department's Curriculum Committee and various level committees. She has also served on the campus-wide Basic Skills Committee and on the Basic Skills Initiative. Previously, she was the English Department Assessment Coordinator and level coordinator for English 93, and she continues to remain heavily involved in assessment in her department.
In 2005, Dr. Denney attended the month-long Kellogg Institute for Developmental Educators in Boone, North Carolina. She is a member of the National Association of Developmental Educators and has given presentations at several national conventions. She also was one of the originators of the Basic Skills Resource Network for professional development for the state of California.
She also is remotely involved in the Nancy W. Denney Scholarship for Single Parents Committee at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, which provides scholarships and a residence for single parents attending that school.
Dr. Denney's hobby is lifelong learning. She reads just about everything she can get her hands on, from psychology, political science, and economics, to classical and contemporary literature, graphic novels, and science fiction. Not surprisingly, she is addicted to podcasts, in particular This American Life, Radiolab, Planet Money, Freakonomics Radio, KQED's Forum, NOVA science NOW, 99% Invisible,and Science Friday. She frequently watches TED Talks and the RSA.
Finally, travel, by car or plane, national or international, is her passion. When she has time and money, she loves to experience different cultures firsthand.
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B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley; |
I have been teaching at CCSF since 1996.
Stories instruct us, entertain us, tease us, lead us. Here is one of mine.
Out in the ocean, I'll scuba dive, but I prefer free diving, working with mask, snorkel, and fins to explore the underwater world. I dive as deeply as I can, but I also hug the shore, especially rocky shores. For example, down Monterey way, swimming amidst the offshore rocks, I seek out surge-channels, feeling and resisting the force of the water, wondering how it must be for an otter or fish to live in the midst of this liquid medium. When my resistance fails, when my kicking doesn't matter, and I'm shoved deep into the crevices and crannies of the rocks, I'm not unhappy; rough handling is part of the deal, and the wetsuit's padding helps against the sharp edges of barnacles and mussels, the spines of urchins. Sometimes, my resistance works and I hover, balanced amidst the vortex. Of course, then another wave breaks, and another. Thrown about or poised, I don't ignore my surroundings. I'll mimic the fish or the limpet, as needed, or with the scant grace at my command, embrace in succession the fluidity of the kelp, the stolidity of the mussels with their byssal thread anchors, and the reflexive exuberance of the otters and seals, true marine mammals.
Underwater tidepooling: I move against and through the surge funneled by the wall-like rocks, kicking firmly and angling downward beneath the fullness of the sea's flexing to avoid being shoved and thrown like mere flotsam. I dive below that surface, but the shallowness here keeps me in the surge, which I like, which is why I'm playing in among these rocks rather than out in deeper water. Submerging here intensifies that sense of being held in the water's palm, that sense of being otterlike, for a moment, being merman instead of mere Matt.
I recall channel-surging one rather mild day a few summers back, neither hot nor cold, cloudy but clearing; I prefer the rougher, more vigorous days, frankly, but I do see that one day as an almost perfect emblem. I was swimming along the shore near Coral Cove in Pacific Grove with camera, disposable, and curiosity, indispensable, happy as a clam, but far more mobile. What did Dictionary Johnson say? "Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."
That quotation captures one thought worth living by, and here's another, by Nancy Packer: "There's life on the page. You read it, and it's not your experience, but it expands your experience."
I haven't written directly about teaching, but you may have learned something about what I bring to the classroom.
--Matt Duckworth
P.S.: You can find the original version of the words above at my blog under the title "Channel-Surging." I invite you to check it out for yourself.
"Matt Duckworth Underwater"----- http://www.mattduckworthunderwater.blogspot.com
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B.S., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., San Francisco State University |
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B.A., University of Connecticut; M.A.,Ph.D., University of Iowa |
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B.A. English, University of Oregon, Eugene; M.A. English, San Francisco State University; M.A. Film, San Francisco State University. |
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B.A., University of Pittsburg; M.F.A., Mills College |
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B.A., M.A., San Francisco State University |
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B.A. English, 1995 California State University San Marcos |
Prof. Gravener has been teaching at CCSF since 2010, and he has been teaching in general since 2001.
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B.A. American Literature, University of California at Berkeley |
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B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., New York University |
Mr. Greger has been a member of the CCSF faculty since 1999.
He has published poetry in the Berkeley Fiction Review and written articles for journals such as "Literature and Psychology". He has given public lectures on Oscar Wilde and 19th Century Aestheticism.
Mr. Greger enjoys traveling, music (playing, performing and listening), reading and writing, and eating poptarts.
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B.A. Feminist Studies, Stanford University. M.F.A. Creative Writing and M.A. English, San Francisco State University. |
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B.A., M.A., San Francisco State University; M.A., University of California, Davis |
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Ph.D. Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University |
Professor Kelly has been teaching at CCSF since 2006.
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B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., San Francisco State University |
Ms. King has been a member of the CCSF faculty since 2001.
She believes in a student-centered curriculum that involves multiple approaches to learning, including lots of group work. Students should be taught at a level that challenges them to do their best work. She is interested in helping students appreciate reading for pleasure as well as for information.
Ms. King has participated in the CCSF English Curriculum Committee, Reading Committee (Coordinator), Catalog Committee and Basic Skills Committee.
She is a member of NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English), NCCRA, Treasurer (Northern California College Reading Association and CREA (College Reading & Learning Association).
In her leisure time, she enjoys hiking, swimming, drumming, reading and international travel.
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B.A., Buffalo State College; M.A., San Diego State University; Ph.D., University of Rhode Island |
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A.A., City College of San Francisco |
Professor Lang has been teaching at CCSF since 2005
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A.B., English, University of California, Berkeley |
Ms. Legaspi has been teaching at CCSF since 1996.
Professional Memberships:
ASCD
National Council of Teachers of English
National Association for Developmental Education
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B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Yale University |
Mr. Liss has been teaching at CCSF since 2006.
All students should contact me at jeffrey.liss@mail.ccsf.edu only.
Please find course materials on my homepage at
http://tinyurl.com/afnnnj2
If you are looking for information about the ONLINE/HYBRID HUMANITIES 7 course, please begin at
http://tinyurl.com/a3blhb4
Please read the information on that site carefully before contacting me.
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Prof. Mayers has been teaching at CCSF since 2005 |
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BA, University of Chicago |
Prof. Maze has been teaching at CCSF since 2004.
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B.A., St. Louis University; M.A., San Francisco State University |
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B.A., University of San Francisco; M.A., San Francisco State University |
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B.A., Mills College; M.A., State University of New York, Buffalo |
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B.A., California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo; M.A., San Francisco State University |
Ms. Crossin has been a member of the CCSF faculty since 2003.
She believes in helping students understand the writing process, so that essays are no longer words assembled into blocks separated by indents and punctuation, but thoughtful words arranged in a specific order, allowing the student-the writer-to express his/her vision.
Ms. Crossin is also a UC Application Coach at Chabot College.
In her leisure time, she enjoys reading, walking on the beach and cooking.
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B.A., San Francisco State University |
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B.A. in English from Williams College |
Professor Mills has been teaching at CCSF since 2005. She worked with students one on one in the Writing Success Project and the DSPS Strategies Lab for four years before that.
She writes book reviews of nature writing at http://onnaturewriting.blogspot.com.
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B.A., English, Pomona College (Claremont, CA) M.A., Composition, San Francisco State University |
Jodi Naas has been teaching at CCSF since 2003. She previouly taught at San Francisco State University and College of San Mateo.
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English Curriculum Committee
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B.A., M.A., San Francisco State University |
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Since summer 2007, Professor Nicolas taught both Basic Skills and General English courses at Berkeley City College and CCSF. You can also find her working as a one-on-one tutor at the CCSF Writing Lab. In addition, she volunteers as a Brown University admissions interviewer and help coordinate the community food-pantry at my church.
In Professor Nicolas' own words:
It was a dream of mine to return to CCSF as faculty since my undergraduate days serving on the CCSF Associated Student Council (I was vice president of communication). At that time, I worked to improve student services and to increase transfer rates from City to UC, State, and beyond. Those are still very important goals for me.
I was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in New York City. Though I dropped out of high school at seventeen, I later attended CCSF and then Brown University, finishing with a Bachelor’s degree in Education. My MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) is from Mills College. To me writing is life—a way to share our intellects and creativity with others.
I enjoy teaching and working with people of all ages and needs, including children, elderly people, and recent immigrants. My passion for teaching, writing, traveling, and languages has taken me to South Korea and Germany as an English as a Foreign Language instructor. My long-term goals are to continue teaching and to write professionally.
Professor Nicolas is currently working on a book-length work of fiction (Man of Ice: The Matthew Henson Story), several short stories, a screenplay, and a non-fiction guide to academia for returning adults.
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Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, Goddard College, 2006 |
Prof. O'Briant has been teaching and tutoring at CCSF since 2005. She has worked in DSPS, the Writing Success Project, and (currently) the English department. She teaches writing and literature.
She is the author of the novel Glitter Girl.
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B.A. in English Literature - University of New Hampshire, M.A. in English Literature - SFSU, Post-secondary Reading Certificate - SFSU, TESOL Certificate - Transworld Schools, Composition Certificate - SFSU (In progress), M.A. TESOL - SFSU (In progress) |
Prof. O'Connor has been teaching at CCSF since 2012
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BA English, UC Berkeley MA English, UC Davis |
Prof. Ryan has been teaching at CCSF since 2006
Locke 1928 (novel) forthcoming Fall 2007
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B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., Temple University |
Paolo Sapienza has been a member of the CCSF faculty since 1996.
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B.A., Cal Poly State University, SLO; M.A., San Francisco State University |
Prof. Sapienza has been teaching at CCSF since 2005.
Service-Learning Faculty since 2006.
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B.A., Whitman College; M.A., Claremont Graduate School |
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A.A., North Idaho College; B.A., M.A., San Francisco State University |
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B.A., Butler University |
Prof. Slates has been a member of the CCSF faculty since 2003.
Teaching Philosophy: I encourage students to discover their own voice and direct their own educational and career paths. I emphasize the importance of thinking critically about self, world, and others. In class, students have an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge before their peers, take risks, and practice leadership skills.
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Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. B.A. Philosophy, English Literature |
Prof. Smith has been teaching at CCSF since 2010
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B.A. English, University of North Carolina |
Professor Smith has been teaching at CCSF since 2008.
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B.A., University of California, Berkeley |
Professor Smith has been teaching at CCSF since 2005.
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B.A., English; B.A., Sociology (minor concentration: Women's Studies). Lake Forest College. |
Prof. Swoboda has been teaching at CCSF since 2004.
* Show up fully. There are no shortcuts.
* Respectfully speak your 100% truth, 100% of the time. Be willing to hear yes, no, or resistance--and be willing to negotiate a win-win.
* Integrity is...when your words and actions match, and they are in alignment with your values.
* I believe in teaching from a model of empowerment. I give all that I can to my classes, and ask that students do the same. We will both flounder and make mistakes. Instead of this being a downfall, it's an asset--when we are both conscious enough to decide to move forward from there. It is my hope that we are both empowered to move forward.
* Notice. Choose. Act. BE THE CHANGE.
San Francisco Writer's Group and Challenge Day (http://www.challengeday.org)
See the class website: http://www.coolteacherkate.com
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BA, Binghamton University |
Prof. Thompson has been teaching at CCSF since 2005.
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B.A. English -- Syracuse University |
Professor Vogel has been teaching at CCSF since 2005.
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B.A., Texas Christian University; M.A., George Washington University. Graduate course work at San Francisco State, UC Berkeley and Santa Cruz |
Prof. Wall has been teaching at CCSF since 1980.
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B.A., College of Mt. St. Vincent; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
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Masters of Arts in Composition with a Certificate in the Teaching of Reading for Post-Secondary Students from San Francisco State University, 2003 |
Prof. Willis has been teaching at CCSF since 2013
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B.A. English Literature, San Francisco State University |
Professor Wirth has been teaching at CCSF since Spring 2005.
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