Here’s where to get your fix, with links to last year’s professor “reviews”:
John Rodzvilla: Mad scientist of electronic publishing
Ben Brooks and Maria Flook: Fiction firecrackers
Doug Whynott, Megan Marshall and Richard Hoffman: Nonfiction behemoths.
Bill Donoghue, John Trimbur and Karen English: A cross-genre mix of moxie
John Skoyles, Lissa Warren and Lisa Diercks: poetry and publishing potpourri
Jeff Seglin [...]
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Got the end-of-the-professor-profile blues?
September 20th, 2009 No Comments
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Professor Profile: Doug Whynott
September 19th, 2009 No Comments
Here is Doug Whynott in twelve parts:
1) You know how you read those author biographies of writers who have done all sorts of bizarre jobs before breaking into writing? Doug Whynott is one of those writers. Bee inspector. Dolphin trainer. Piano tuner. And, oh yes, nonfiction professor.
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Professor Profile: Frederick Reiken
September 18th, 2009 No Comments
Based on my past and current class schedule here at Emerson, you would think I was doomed to take every single class Rick Reiken will ever teach. My first semester, I was dropped (unwillingly, at first) into two of his courses, a lit class and a novel workshop (novels, gag), and had no small amount [...]
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Professor Profile: Jessica Treadway
September 16th, 2009 1 Comment
If the Emerson WLP department were inclined to grant a Miss Congeniality award, Jessica Treadway would be a shoo-in. Always a cheerful face on the 12th floor, Jessica can be counted on for a friendly smile and encouraging word. (Not to suggest that the rest of the professors are reclusive ogres, per se, [...]
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Guest Post: Lisa Diercks, by Kristen Borg
September 9th, 2009 No Comments
“Design is all around us,” designer and Publishing Graduate Program Director Lisa Diercks says. “I think most people are surprised to discover how much design is in their everyday lives, period. Everything from cereal box typography to the coffee pot and kitchen table to the clothes they wear and T signage and beyond.”
I only discovered [...]
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This Week: Professor Profiles
September 9th, 2009 No Comments
Flook. Seglin. Whynott. Diercks. With names like stars from Hollywood’s silent era and personalities as mysterious as Stonehenge, Emerson professors may at first mystify and intimidate. But not for long, First-Years: our bloggers take this week to unveil the WLP faculty’s strengths, eccentricities and style through personal essays and interviews. [...]
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