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Past
Courses:
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Spring 1999:
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Eng 800, 165
& 110
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Spring 2003:
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English 100
Puente, 110, Engl/Read 846.
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Summer 1999:
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English 800
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Fall 2003:
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English
846
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Fall 1999:
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English 100
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Spring 2004:
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English
165
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Spring 2000:
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Eng 800, 165
& 110
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Fall 2004:
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Engl 165
Honors, Read 836
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Summer 2000:
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English 800
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Spring 2005:
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Engl
100 ASTEP, Engl 165
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Fall 2000:
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English 801
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Fall 2005:
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Engl
846 ASTEP, Engl 165 Honors
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Spring 2001:
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English 800
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Spring 2006:
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Engl
836, Engl 100 ASTEP
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Summer 2001:
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Reading 801
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Fall 2006:
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Engl
100 online, Engl 110
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Fall 2001:
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Engl 800
Puente, 100, Read 801
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Spring 2007:
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Engl
100 online, Engl 165
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Spring 2002:
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Engl 100
Puente, 100 Honors, Read 801
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Fall 2007:
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Engl
100, Eng 100 online
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Fall 2002:
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English 836
Puente, 100, Engl/Read 846
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Spring 2008:
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Engl
100 Online
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Research
and Citation
Education
B.A. English
Literature, University
of California at Santa Barbara, 1992
M.A. English
Literature, San
Diego State University,
1995
E.S.L. Teaching Certificate, San
Diego State University,
1995
Reading Certificate, San
Francisco State University,
2001
Biography
At San Diego State
University, I focused
my studies in ethnic American literature and wrote a graduate thesis titled
“Search for Place and Authentic Locations of Identity” based on the works
on the African-American writer, Gloria Naylor. I also studied the teaching of English as a
Second Language and received an ESL certificate from SDSU in addition to my
Masters in English Literature. I also completed a Reading Certificate
during Spring 2001 at San Francisco State
University.
I have taught and continue to teach a
range of writing classes from developmental writing and reading,
college-level composition, advanced writing courses in critical thinking,
and introduction to literature. Before becoming a full time instructor at Skyline College,
I taught part-time at several community colleges in and around the Bay Area
as well as at San Diego State
University. I have also
taught English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Madrid, Spain at the university level.
Currently in my writing classes at Skyline, I tend to design lessons around
issues relating to race, class, and gender.
Outside of school my main
interests are reading, running, and traveling. Having grown up in Southern California, I’ve been
attempting to branch out and see a bit more of the world. During the summer
of 1995, I went to England
and Scotland.
Afterwards, I moved to Madrid, Spain, lived there for one year, and then
moved to San Francisco.
The following summer of 1997, I traveled to Brazil. In the summer of 1998,
I spent six weeks traveling through southern Europe and visited Greece, Italy,
revisited old friends in Spain,
and also I went to Portugal.
In January of 1999 I went to Thailand;
in June of 1999, I went to Oaxaca, Mexico; and in June 2000, I went to Indonesia, Singapore,
and Malaysia.
I went to Australia
during the winter of 2000 (it was summer there). During winter break
2002-03, I went to Guatemala,
Belize and Honduras;
during the summer of 2003, I went to Puerta Vallarta, Mexico; and in June 2004, I
went to Japan
for a month. During July 2005, I
went to Costa Rica and Honduras and in January 2006, I went to Australia. For June 2006, I traveled around Europe
to Scotland, The
Netherlands, Belgium, France, and England. And in the summer of July 2007, I
traveled across the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico,
and in Nov 2008, I went to Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico. In March 2008, went to Dominican Republic
over spring break. This coming
winter I plan to go to Egypt.
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