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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.
Mary Blackford is a graduate of UC Davis and CSU Sacramento in English. She has been an English teacher for over 30 years. Since 1998, “Ms. B” has taught writing, literature, film as literature, and public speaking for the University of Phoenix, and since 2006, she has taught. English composition and study skills at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. She has an extensive background in dramatic literature and writing. She has won both local and international awards for her plays and screenplays (notably: Wings in 2006) and Dog Soldiers M.C. (2007), her first screenplay adapted from the novel of the same name. Ms. B. also writes poetry and teaches creative writing workshops based on the Amherst Writers & Artists method. She is a certified AWA workshop leader.
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.
Elinor Fox earned a B.A. in English from UC Riverside and an M.A. in English from UC Berkeley and did additional graduate work in English at Berkeley beyond the M.A. She also has a J.D. from UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. Her work history includes teaching freshman composition in both the Subject A (now College Writing) and English Departments at UC Berkeley and working as an attorney in a large San Francisco civil litigation firm. She has been an adjunct instructor at Delta since 2005, and very much enjoys teaching a variety of composition courses from basic writing skills through critical composition.
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 teacher'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. 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.
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.
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.
Ms. Perales is an adjunct English professor at the community college level. She has been teaching college level English and college preparatory English since 2003. She holds a Master’s degree in English from California State University, Sacramento, and a Bachelor’s degree in English from San Francisco State University. Her undergraduate work focused on literature, linguistics, Spanish, and teaching English to speakers of other languages. She also took a course sequence in European history and politics at San Francisco State. Her graduate work focused on English and American literature, literary criticism and theory, and composition and rhetoric (rhetoric is the study of how people write). Some of her graduate level literature focus included a study of British Victorian era literature and early 20th century American literature. Her teaching experience has been fulfilling and well rounded. Ms. Perales was a full time faculty member for over three years for a private institution, before she switched to the public California Community College system. She now works as an adjunct professor at a few different community colleges in Northern California. She has taught basic writing, pre-college level writing, college writing, college research, humanities and literature, advanced composition, and business and professional writing. She has also worked in numerous campus writing labs. Recently, she began teaching composition courses online, which she says “is an exciting and fulfilling instructional experience.” Since 2007, she has been teaching for Delta College, typically in Tracy and Mountain House. She lives east of San Francisco, “on the cusp of the San Francisco Bay Area.” When she is not teaching, she enjoys reading and spending time with family and friends. The majority of her free time is spent with her niece and nephew, and her two calico cats.
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
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