Female, 33 years old
Camden, NJ
United States
Member since: Dec 4, 2007
About me
I have been teaching general education writing, literature, and communications courses since 2000. I currently teach full-time at Community College of Philadelphia and part-time at Rutgers University-Camden. I specialize in service learning, correctional education, and working with students in transition, especially those who are academically underprepared.
| interests | Composition pedagogy; critical pedagogy; experiential education and transformative learning; service learning; correctional education; adult education; urban and rural education; social justice. also love film (when i have time to watch it). traveling (when i have the money to do it). dancing (when i'm not the only person on the floor and after a few martinis). eating out (funky, unique places with interesting, gourmetish menus...and i love indian food). being outdoors (when i have a good can of deet). |
| favorite music | duffy, amy winehouse, M.I.A., the foals, saul williams, radiohead, block party, the editors, interpol, the national, smiths, cure, siouxsie and the banshees, bjork, sigur ros, yeah yeah yeahs, pj harvey, cowboy junkies, dresden dolls, mazzy star, autumn to ashes, boys sets fire, killswitch engage, tool, a perfect circle, portishead, tricky, massive attack, patty griffin, tori amos, ani difranco, sarah brightman, erykah badu, jill scott, etta james, gershwin, most any 80's alternative and new wave, some hip-hop (neo-soul and popular). |
| favorite tv shows | life is better without one unless you are watching IFC, national geographic, or boxing, or the 2008 election coverage. |
| favorite movies | dans ma peau, amores perros, yu tu mama tambien, the piano, the game, foxfire; anything by jodorowsky, svankmeyer, anger, barta, bunuel, bergman; most late 70's to mid 80's family horror; most documentaries. |
| favorite games | board games? love them. |
| favorite books | anything by elijah anderson and sudhir venkatesh (sociologists), poetry by stafford, bly, eliot, plath, bukowski.... nonfiction/theory by or on french libertines, poststructuralists, structuralists, medical anthropology and the history of medicine....anything on critical pedagogy or experiential education or transformative learning, especially angela davis, dewey, freire etc... fiction? hardly ever touch the stuff. |
| school | Community College of Philadelphia and Rutgers University-Camden |
| occupation | Writing, Literature, and Communications Professor |
