I was a high school English and French teacher for about seven years. I’ve since left the classroom. People occasionally ask me, “What do you miss about teaching?” You might think it was the excitement of the first day of school. Or the resolution and freedom of the last day of school. Or maybe free …
Although I love challenges, new experiences frighten me. I wanted to run away from just about every new experience in graduate school that threatened to challenge me personally, to force me out of my comfort zone. Class assignments and discussions were typically no problem. However, there came a time when graduate classes ended, and the next …
When I was working on my dissertation, my university hosted its first Three-Minute Thesis competition. Created by the University of Queensland, the premise of the competition is simple: 1 dissertation explained in 3 minutes with 1 presentation slide. My research focused on how high school English teachers teach African American/Black literature, and I had to …
