Welcome to English 102!

I’m excited to get to know all of you through our class and writing this term.

We’ll be using this blog — and google docs — to communicate when we’re not in class; to share ideas, links, gifs, thoughts, insights, inspiration. The blog will largely become whatever we make it: I’m eager to learn how you all are going to choose to build it out.

A bit about me: I’ve spent a bunch of years teaching high school students, and taught several writing classes at CUNY Queens College last year. I’m a massive nerd (comic books, sci-fi/fantasy, you name it) and I write YA fantasy fiction. I’m very passionate about the ways that race and dis/ability interact in the classroom, and that’s what my research mostly focuses on (the other thing you should know about me: I’m getting my PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center).

Fun facts? I love basketball, fall weather, and swimming in the ocean, but not in pools. Also, I wrote a 90-page thesis on The Hunger Games, so any Katniss Everdeen references you want to shoot my way will thrill me.

Katniss Everdeen stands with her bow in hand in her Mockingjay suit in front of a burning hospital, shouting "I have a message for President Snow." Gif from media.giphy.org
Katniss Everdeen stands with her bow in hand in her Mockingjay suit in front of a burning hospital, shouting “I have a message for President Snow.” Gif from media.giphy.org