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卡罗来纳埃斯皮诺萨
教练卡罗来纳埃斯皮诺萨来自墨西哥的莫雷利亚Michoacán,已经完成 她获得英语文学硕士学位,主修美国文学 California State University of Long Beach. 教授essor Espinoza holds a bachelor’s degree in Chicano and Latino Studies and 英语 Education also from CSULB. 她教过 at various schools, such as Fullerton, Cerritos and Campton 社区 College, and now serves as a full time 英语 instructor at Pasadena City College. 她是 她目前的工作目标是为第一代大学生打开大门 比如她在普恩特项目、普恩特俱乐部的指导角色, and teaching the first-year seminar, College 1. Her contributions extend to the Institutional 提供校园范围内持续改进项目的效率委员会 and degrees offered at PCC. Her teaching practice is rooted in research based on Critical Race Theory with an interest in social-action education. Currently she is studying ways to transform her classroom into a place that makes Whiteness visible in order 赋予学生权力.
达斯汀Hanvey
Originally from San Francisco, Dr. 达斯汀一个. Hanvey graduated from UCLA with a BA in 英语 in 1995, then UCR with a PhD in 2003. He teaches a range of classes at PCC从自由写作主题英语1A/ 1AH到漫画/图画小说主题 英语1C/ 1CH. His literature classes include British and American survey courses, 小说《太阳城集团官方网址导航》 & Fantasy Lit, and Utopian/ Dystopian Literature. 每年春天, 他和他的学生们前往华盛顿特区,作为“华盛顿梦”项目的一部分 第七年. His interests include his family of three kids, travel across the USA and world, music, 和文学/ writing.
Dr. 蒂姆Melnarik
Dr. 蒂姆Melnarik graduated from UC Riverside and then completed his Master’s degree at USC and his doctoral degree at Claremont Graduate University. 他的训练 主修中世纪英国文学(以及跨学科的中世纪研究). 他的课程侧重于迪斯尼、神话、超级英雄、怪物/恐怖等主题. Also, he is a fan of Halloween and backpacking.
胡安·门多萨
胡安·门多萨毕业于太阳城集团官方网址导航,获得副学士学位 and went on to earn his B.A. 和M.A. in 英语 from California State University, 洛杉矶. He has been teaching at PCC since 2015. His academic interests include 学习人文和科学话语社区的修辞学. 目前,胡安喜欢教学和研究圣经文学,通过 its ancient near eastern and ancient Greek and Roman literary contexts. 当教学 他运用批判性思维,借助各种文学作品探索柏拉图的爱欲主题 理论. 给n his wide range of interests in several discourse communities, Juan teaches his students how best to communicate and navigate various social spheres.
Juan is a husband to his incredibly gifted, entrepreneur wife, Nova, from whom he has learned about the rhetoric of business and financial literacy and a father to his daughters Sky Ella and Brielle Helene. Together, him and his wife invest in real estate and have an insatiable curiosity about the housing market. As a lifelong learner 胡安热衷于设定和实现目标,他经常相信“六个不可能” things before breakfast.”
吉塞尔产生
吉塞尔产生教授是写作支持中心的教员和讲师. 她在CSULB开始了她的教育之旅,在那里她发现了她对社会的兴趣 正义,交叉性,批判种族理论,和20世纪的美国民族 Literature, the latter eventually becoming her emphasis in graduate school. 作为一个WSC faculty member, 教授. Miralles helps develop and implement writing center programming and teaches workshops on various writing topics. 当教授. Miralles teaches a course, her course content centers on analyzing and understanding social justice issues. 教授. Miralles一直致力于通过实施为所有学生创造一个温馨和安全的空间 anti-racist educational principles.
创世纪蒙塔沃
创世纪蒙塔沃是Loyola Marymount大学的第一代大学毕业生 and San Francisco State University where she earned my B.A in 英语 and Spanish 和M.A in Creative Writing, respectively. As one of the Writing 支持 Center faculty at Pasadena City College, Montalvo aims re-create the writing center on campus to be a space where students not only seek tutoring, but also a space where they can find community and holistic support through a pedagogy de cariño. 蒙塔沃应用 她的创意写作课也秉持同样的理念,旨在突出黑人、土著、 有色人种作家. She specializes in Critical Race Theory and Latinx/Chicanx poetics 和文学.
Dr. 克里斯汀•E. 奥格登
Dr. Allison帕克
Dr. Allison帕克 is originally from Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and completed her Ph.D. in 英语 Literature with an emphasis in African 美国文学 and Feminist Rhetoric from Arizona State University in May 2010. In addition, she completed her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction in 2004 and her M.A. in 英语 Literature in 2003.
2018年8月,Dr. Parker moved to Southern California to begin work as a full-time Instructor at Pasadena City College. Before that, she was the African 美国文学 麻省海事学院人文系的专家,在那里她 做了两年的副教授,教授非裔美国文学和 性别研究. 当博士. Parker moved to Massachusetts, she left her position at Arizona 她在州立大学教授两门非裔美国文学课程 (Pre and Post Harlem Renaissance) since 2008. At this position, the students in her 2013年,非裔美国人文学班提名她为“亚利桑那州立大学最有趣的老师”.
In addition to her work at PCC, Dr. Parker has over seventeen years of community college teaching experience as a tenured, Residential 教师 member at Maricopa 社区 Colleges in Phoenix, AZ where she taught African 美国文学, Introduction 到文学,世界文学,英语作文,发展性英语,批评 阅读,女性 & Films, and Introduction to 性别研究.
幸运的斯普林菲尔德
PCC has been like a second home to me. I returned to school after having three children, 并于2005年获得理学副学士学位和文科副学士学位. Both I and my daughter are proud PCC alumni. While I was a PCC student, I worked in several departments, starting in Purchasing and Contracts. 后来,我在 Fiscal 服务 and the Office of Institutional Effectiveness. 自2019年10月以来, 我在英语系工作过,帮助老师、职员,当然还有学生.
Dr. Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki
Dr. Tahani-Bidmeshki is a 1.5 generation diasporic Iranian who teaches literature 重点是黑人和非裔美国人文学和文化研究以及伊朗/美国人 Literary and Cultural Studies. Her teaching and research interests include Frantz 法农,非洲悲观主义,文学理论,反殖民主义,精神分析,民族主义, the literatures of 革命ary movements, and resistance literature. 她的工作重点 on the intersections of race, antiBlackness, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic 在美国上课.S. and in transnational contexts. Presently, she is working on the 黑人流散思想在西南亚和北非的深远影响 focus on the theoretical connections between Frantz Fanon and Ali Shariati. 此外, 她把黑人男子气概和黑人父亲身份的悠久历史视为一种挑战 towards Lacan's theory of the Law of the Father. She also volunteers her time and expertise with various grassroots social justice organizations focusing on ending antiBlackness.
Dr. Dootsdeemalachanok Thongthiraj
PCC is my family legacy. In the mid-1950s, my parents immigrated from Thailand to the United States on student visas. They started with ESL classes at PCC, and in 20世纪60年代,我父亲转到CSULA,回到PCC获得放射学学位 Technology, and worked at Huntington Memorial Hospital. After graduating from Arcadia High School, my five sisters all went to PCC, and though I only took a few classes here while enrolled at UCLA, I always felt PCC was part of my success. 2002年,PCC 聘请我担任专职英语教师,专攻亚洲语 美国文学. Because of my students and mentors, I was honored with two PCC teaching awards, one of which was the Risser Award in 2012. Though I love teaching, 我发现我可以用新的方式为学院和学生服务,所以在2019年,我接受了 院长的职位.
Dr. 克里沃特
Dr. 克里沃特 earned her PhD in 英语 at UC Irvine back in the 20th Century and has taught at PCC for 22 years.
她把写作作为一种动态的表达方式和重要的批评实践来教授 thinking and creative vision (1C). Her teaching philosophy is rooted in a fierce commitment to student growth and social change. Because humanity has precipitated the collapse 气候变化现在是一场全球性的人道主义危机,甚至是教育危机 a college 英语 course—should help us all “wake up” to our reality. 我们可以进化 作为批判性思考者,愿意直言不讳,积极参与环境保护 革命.
她还专门教授美国文学(30A, 30B, 30C, 1954) diverse and inclusive cultural form. Whether we are reading about indigenous people and the conquest of the Americas, slavery and abolitionism, spirituality, new and 新兴的身份,或者被剥夺公民权的人和工人阶级的努力, American literary history speaks to our time. American literature helps us to understand the social struggles we experience as a nation--racism, inequality, injustice and 不平等——它激发了新的声音,激发了创新、实验和发言的动力 从真理到权力.