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Kathlyne Adams completed two years of her undergraduate work at the University of Santa Clara; she holds a B.A. with honors in English and an M.A. in English with an emphasis on Nineteenth Century and Women’s Literature from CSU, Sacramento. She has a diverse background that not only includes working as an Elementary School Teacher and Lead Teacher in private school, but also working as an Administrative Assistant for a Director of Nursing in a Community Hospital. This has uniquely prepared her to assist students on a science or nursing track in her composition classes. Since coming to Delta in 1996, Kathlyne has worked in the Tutor Center/Writing Lab and taught both Composition and Women’s Literature Classes both on campus and online. She enjoys reading, writing, day-hiking, and music, including singing and playing guitar. Carol Benson earned a B.A. with Honors in English, from University of Kansas, and an M.A. in English from UC Berkeley. She has conducted post-graduate study at University of Tuebingen, Germany, University of the Pacific, and UC Santa Cruz. Her article on Maya Angelou, originally in Writer's Digest, was anthologized in a college literary text, Woman as Writer. She teaches English at Delta and Mass Communications/Media and English at Modesto Jr. College.
Robbie Bryan earned her B.A. in Anthropology and Elementary Education from CSU at Long Beach. Her M.A. in Education with an emphasis in reading curriculum and instruction and a minor in English was earned at Chapman College in Orange, California. Since 1971, Robbie has been an educator at every level from kindergarten through graduate school with an emphasis on secondary and college levels. In 1995, she completed credentials for learning handicapped, resource specialist and severely emotionally disturbed through a collaborative project between California Youth Authority and CSU at San Bernardino. She worked as a resource specialist for the last six years before she retired from CYA in September 2001. The last two years before her retirement, she also coordinated the college program including courses taught by Delta College instructors. In 1997, Robbie was honored with dual awards from CYA as Basic Skills Teacher of the Year and Educator of the Year. Robbie has been teaching literature, GED, and writing as an adjunct instructor for Delta College since September 2000.
Ed Doell has taught English and Speech at Delta College since 2001. In the Spring of 2002 Ed received the Delta College Alpha Gamma Sigma’s Teacher Appreciation award for 2002. Ed is a graduate of Foothill College with an A.A. Degree. He also attended and graduated from San Francisco State receiving both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees there. He has post-graduate study at the University of Arizona at Tucson in cross-cultural communication. He has additional studies in communication, photography, and mass-media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He’s very interested in Mediterranean and Central Asian culture and history and travels in those areas as often as possible. In the late 1990s he was a member of an earthquake relief NGO in Turkey after a series of devastating quakes occurred in northern Anatolia. Ed’s poetry has been published in collections that include the work of Robert Bly, Margaret Atwood, and Gary Snyder. Katherine Duffel received her B.A., M.A., and secondary teaching credential in English from UOP. She is a full-time English and journalism instructor at Bear Creek High School and serves as advisor to the student newspaper. The Voice has won numerous state and national awards and most recently placed third in the nation for Best of Show at the national Scholastic Press Association's fall convention in Washington, D.C. She is certified by the Journalism Education Association and also holds a Language Development Specialist credential.
Michael Duffett was educated at Cambridge University from which he graduated in 1964. Since then, he has been a teacher in Saudi Arabia, Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, Isfahan University, Iran, Associate Professor at a university in Japan from which he earned a Litt. D. He came to this country at the invitation of a federally-funded think-tank, the East-West Center in Honolulu. He stayed on in Hawaii as Assistant Professor at Chaminade University. He came to California in 1983 where he has been Editor of a newspaper (“The River News-Herald”), Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University, Professor at Fresno Pacific University and Instructor at Columbia College. He is extensively published in prose (“The Variety of Expression” and “The Growth of English Fiction”) in verse (his most well-known book is “Forever Avenue”) and in scholarly journals. He is currently Senior Tutor and Professor of Humanities at Humphreys College. He is married with seven children. Danny Dunne is a life long resident and graduate of area schools. After graduating from Tracy High School, he went to Delta College where he obtained his A.A. degree in the Administration of Justice. He attained his B.A. at the University of the Pacific majoring in Communications with a minor in Public Administration. He then completed his Master of Arts studies also at the University of the Pacific majoring in Literature and Psychology. As a member of Delta’s adjunct faculty, Mr. Dunne also instructs full time at the Heald College School of Business. He is also a member of the adjunct faculty at the Stockton campus of the University of Phoenix. Patricia Emerine earned a B.A. and an M.A. in English from UOP. For her M.A., she focused on multi-cultural literature, but she developed an interest in medieval literature and completed an equivalent number of units in the two fields. She teaches composition classes at Delta. Scott Evans has a B.A. in English from CSU Sonoma and an M.A. from UC Davis. Currently, he is the Director of Writing Assessment at the University of the Pacific. In addition to basic writing courses for freshmen, Mr. Evans teaches in the University's Mentor Seminar program, a cross-disciplinary course that exposes freshmen to the classics, philosophy, history, and anthropology, as well as debate and argument. Having worked as a writer and editor for a small publishing company in Sacramento before teaching, he also teaches Technical Writing courses. In addition, he has worked for the Educational Testing Service for the past eleven years, helping to evaluate and develop various standardized tests, including the Test of Written English for the TOEFL, the PRAXIS English Language and Literature test, the Graduate Management Admissions Test, and others. He has published dozens of poems, short stories, and articles in small literary magazines and newspapers, and he is currently working on a technical writing textbook and a novel series. Mr. Evans has taught composition and literature courses at Delta almost as long as he has taught at UOP, for more than ten years.
Jeanna Fox earned a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Literature and Composition from CSU Stanislaus. She focused on American Literature from 1865 to present. Jeanna writes creative non-fiction, poetry, and science fiction. She currently teaches composition and literature at Delta.
Norman Gates earned a B.A. from University of Pennsylvania. After an honorable discharge from the USAF Reserve in 1965, he completed a master's degree in 1968 from San Francisco State University. He has a techer's certification from Rowan University in New Jersey. Since 2000, Mr. Gates has been an adjunct instructor at Delta College.
Margaret Y. Hamilton was graduated from CSU Sacramento with a B.A. in History, emphasis in British and military history, in 1982, and an M.A. in English, emphasis creative writing, in 1989. She has taught English at San Joaquin Delta College since 1990. She is a member of the Mythopoetic Society, a literary organization for the study, discussion, and enjoyment of fantasy and mythic literature, particularly the works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. Margaret writes both fiction and poetry and has sold short stories to small circulation magazines.
Mark Harrison grew up in Calaveras County, a stretch of the rural foothills of northern California famous as the setting for Mark Twain's fish-tale about a jumping frog and infamous as the location of the lair where Leonard Lake and Charles Ng quietly executed their serial rape-torture killing. Despite (or because of) his roots, Mark has received a bachelor's in human biology from Stanford University, a master's in English from San Francisco State University, and a master of fine arts in creative writing from Syracuse University, where he won the university's top prize for poetry. Mark's poems appear in North American Review, Mudfish, Third Coast, Saranac Review, Alimentum, The Seattle Review, Manzanita, Carriage House Review, and Climate Controlled: An Electronic Anthology of Northern Literature, among others. He has worked on the research staff of a national primate center, as a chemist for a California winery and as a reporter for a daily newspaper in Alaska. He lives in Palo Alto, where he teaches at Foothill College and Cañada College. Norman Hom holds a B.A. in English from UC Davis and an M.A. in English from Brown University with an emphasis on 20th Century American Literature. He is also a member of Library Literacy Foundation of San Joaquin County, as well as the head of the Barnes and Noble Mystery Reading Group. In his spare time, Norman enjoys watching films and playing Scrabble.
Ernestine Kirk-Dona earned a B.A. with Honors in English and American Literature from the University of Denver and an M.A. from USF. She took additional graduate classes at UOP and UC Davis. She has been an adjunct faculty member in Communication Skills at Delta College since 1980, while teaching full-time at Stagg High School. She has participated in the Bay Area Writing Project and more recently in the California Literature Project at CSU Stanislaus. Mary Little has a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Teaching of Writing with an emphasis on Restoration Literature from CSU Stanislaus. An advocate for the Adjunct Faculty, she has served as a member of the San Joaquin Delta Academic Senate since 1993 and has worked on a task force to address part-time instructor issues at the NCTE Headquarters in Washington, D.C. She continues to take courses and attend seminars at such sites as CSU Stanislaus, UC Berkeley, and University of Heidelberg.
Born in India, Iqbal Mahmood emigrated to the United States in 1971. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from CSU Fresno, and an M.A. in English Literature from CSU Sacramento. He has an interest in postcolonial literature and his Master's thesis was entitled "Strategies of Negation: Postcolonial Themes and Conflicts in the English Language Literature of the East Indian Diaspora." He has taught writing at Butte College and Solano College, and is currently teaching at Sacramento City College and San Joaquin Delta College as an adjunct instructor. Meredith McCormack earned a B.A. and an M.A. in Speech from UOP. After teaching Speech, English, Drama, Geography, and Physical Education at the high school level, she came to Delta College twelve years ago to teach Speech and English. She has been involved with curriculum development and the Success Within Reach Program.
Kerry Moquett has been teaching English and communications classes since 1990. She works as a training manager for a large financial institution and is responsible for training and communications for a group of over 400 people. She has a Master's degree in English and is pursuing her doctorate degree in Educational Leadership. She was born and raised in Stockton and has lived in several states around the country. Her favorite activity is teaching. She is married and her children are grown. She also loves to read and to travel for pleasure. Dona Mostafa has an A.A. from Delta College, a B.A. in Journalism from CSU San Francisco, an M.A. from UOP, a California Teaching Credential, and English, LDS, and CLAD credentials. While at Delta and CSUSF, she worked actively on the college newspapers, counting many by-lines and feature stories to her credit. She has been a teacher of high risk, drop-out recovery youth since 1986, participating on many committees for school accreditation and excellence in education. She is an avid reader, film afficionada, and 10K race walker. A writer since childhood, she has numerous publications and continues to hone her craft in the genre she likes best, the murder mystery. William Oren has a B.A. and an M.A. in English from Arizona State University. He is the English Department co-chairperson at East Union High School in Manteca and has been the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) coordinator for seven years. He has taught reading classes as well as English 79 and English 1A at Delta College.
Robert Rennicks has a B.A. in English and Mathematics from Dartmouth College, and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. He has studied at the doctoral studies in Comparative Literature, also from UC Berkeley, in the literature of the European Renaissance. In addition to teaching the English composition courses at Delta, he teaches courses on the poetry of George Herbert at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley) and elsewhere in the Bay Area. He has designed an interactive website to help high school students read and enjoy the plays of William Shakespeare. His current interests also include intellectual history, moral philosophy, and social satire.
Rebel Rickansrud-Young has a B.A. in English and French from UOP, an M.A. in Comparative Literature: English, French, and Spanish, from Purdue University, and has completed all course work for a M.F.A. in Creative Writing: Poetry, at UC Davis. She has worked for the past ten years for San Joaquin County Child Development Council Head Start, where she teaches a variety of adult education and life skill classes including parenting, family literacy, stress management, first aid, and anger management. Kristen Rinaker holds degrees in English and English Education from the Universities of Michigan and Chicago and a JD from UC Berkeley. She taught high school and college level English in Illinois and Oregon, then Business Law at UOP, and Film & Society at National University before coming to Delta. She is a member of the California Bar; her practice focuses on contract design, negotiations, and drafting. She is also a consultant for Delta's Small Business Development Center. Ms. Rinaker volunteers as a mediator and member of the Board of Directors for the Mediation Center of San Joaquin County.
Mel Stagnaro earned a B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Santa Clara and an M.A. in English at CSU Sacramento. His graduate work focused on teaching composition in college and on classical rhetoric; for his master's thesis he researched the reading and writing connection in a composition course. Mel currently teaches composition at CSU Sacramento and at San Joaquin Delta College. Debra Stephenson received her BS Degree in Child Development from University of California at Davis. Immediately following graduation she persued her teaching credential at San Jose State. Later, she received her Masters Degree in English with a specialization in the Teaching of Writing from Stanislaus State. Most recently she has completed a supplementary credential in Spanish from University of the Pacific. Currently she teaches High School Spanish as well as English classes at Delta. She has taught ESL and English classes at San Joaquin Delta College since 1983. Web page
Marcy Weydemuller received a B.A. in history and sociology from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and an M.F.A in writing from Norwich University in Vermont. She has been teaching at San Joaquin Delta College since 2001, usually English 79 and English 1A. |
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