Spring 2024

Section 4295 of ENGL5
Advanced Composition and Critical Thinking -- : Jan 17 - May 15 2024

Section 4858 of ENGL1A
College Composition -- : Jan 17 - May 15 2024

Section 4876 of ENGL770
Writing Center -- : Jan 17 - May 17 2024
English 770 is a drop-in writing lab. Students log into a timekeeper when they visit the lab; they do not enroll in this class and do not get schedule credit. Monday & Thursday 9:00am-4:00pm; Tuesday and Wednesday 9:00am-6:00pm; Friday 10:00am-1:00pm.

Section 6441 of ENGL770
Writing Center -- : Jan 17 - May 17 2024
The Writing Center is open: M 1:00-3:30pm; TWTh 11:00am-3:30pm.

Section 7254 of ENGL5
Advanced Composition and Critical Thinking -- : Jan 16 - May 16 2024

Fall 2023

Section 0110 of ENGL1A
College Composition -- : Aug 15 - Dec 07 2023
This section is part of the Avanzando STEM Learning Community and is linked to Math and Counseling courses. Students are automatically enrolled in English 1A, Math 25 - Precalculus Algebra, section #1045, and Counseling 80 - Understanding Transfer, section #0549. Students enrolled in these sections will have extra academic and counseling support from the Avanzandoinitiative to help them succeed in their STEM courses and prepare to transfer with a STEM major. Contract Lucero Jimenez at ljimenez@santarosa.edu for more information.

Section 0766 of ENGL1A
College Composition -- : Aug 14 - Dec 06 2023

Section 0818 of ENGL30.1
American Literature: Pre-Colonial Period to the Civil War -- : Aug 14 - Dec 06 2023

Section 0868 of ENGL770
Writing Center -- : Aug 14 - Dec 08 2023
The Writing Center offers personalized writing support to students at any point in the writing process, from picking a topic and developing a thesis to revising and editing for organization and clarity, and everything in between. In-person sessions are available at 1629 Emeritus, and online Zoom sessions are available at https://santarosa.mywconline.com/. See https://english.santarosa.edu/writing-center for more information.

Section 2445 of ENGL770
Writing Center -- : Aug 14 - Dec 07 2023
The Writing Center offers personalized writing support to students at any point in the writing process, from picking a topic and developing a thesis to revising and editing for organization and clarity, and everything in between. In-person sessions are available at the Mahoney Library Reading Room, and online Zoom sessions are available at https://santarosa.mywconline.com/. See https://english.santarosa.edu/writing-center for more information.

No office hours

PhD American Literature, University of North Texas, 2000. Dissertation -- Body Matters: Gary Snyder, the Self and Ecopoetics

BA English, Abilene Christian University, 1993.

Academic Experience

2010-present, SRJC English Department
2000-2010, Writing Program, University of California, Riverside (Lecturer)
2000-2002, Cal Poly, Pomona English Department (Adjunct)
2002-2008, Riverside Community College English Department (Adjunct)
1996-2000, University of North Texas English Department (Teaching Fellow)

"Anybody who wanders around the world saying, 'Hell yes, I'm from Texas,' deserves whatever happens to him.” ― Hunter S. Thompson
 

Professional Areas of Interest

Poetry, Metaphor, Tom Robbins, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Taoism, Humor, Nature Writing

"Think for yourself, schmuck!"
-Robert Anton Wilson

"(like everything else I have
somebody showed it to me and I found it by myself)"
-Lew Welch

"Language teaching in schools is a matter of corralling off a little of the language-behavior territory and cultivating a few favorite features--culturally defined elite forms that will help you apply for a job or give you social credibility at a party. One might even learn how to produce the byzantine artifact known as the professional paper. There are many excellent reasons to master these things, but the power, the _virtu_, remains on the side of the wild."
-Gary Snyder

"This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labour to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school, or church, or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body."
-Walt Whitman