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Michelle Holschuh Simmons
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Instructor, Reading and Teaching Literature to Adolescents
Supervisor, Student Teachers
Office: N293 Lindquist Center
Phone: 335-6438
E-mail: michelle-h-simmons@uiowa.edu
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| Michelle Holschuh Simmons is a Ph.D. candidate in the Language, Literacy and Culture program. She holds a M.A.T. in English Education from Mankato State University and a M.A. in Library and Information Science from The University of Iowa. She has taught high school English for 4 years, including one year in Belize, Central America and three years in Omaha, Nebraska. Michelle has also taught Composition and Rhetoric on the college level and served as a librarian at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Presently, she is working on her dissertation, a study that explores the role of librarians in student learning. She enjoys life with her husband Bob (also a former high school English teacher and also writing his dissertation) and Uta, their yellow lab mix. |
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Sheila Benson
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Undergraduate Advisor
Instructor, Methods Reading
Office: Undergraduate Advising Center N239 Lindquist Center
Phone: 335-5316
E-mail: sheila-benson@uiowa.edu
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| Sheila Benson is working towards her Ph.D. in the Language, Literacy and Culture program. She received her teaching certificate in secondary English and French from Brigham Young University. Sheila taught high school English for four years in Idaho and Utah, where she also worked with the debate and drama programs. She also has experience teaching college-level Composition. Presently, Sheila is writing her dissertation, a study that focuses on integrating out-of-school literacy practices into the secondary English classroom. In her spare time, she enjoys participating in community theatre activities and being motherly to her favorite feisty cats. |
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Vicki Krajewski
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Supervisor, Student Teachers
Intern, Methods English
Office: N293 Lindquist Center
Phone: 335-6438
E-mail: victoria-krajewski@uiowa.edu
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| Vicki Krajewski is currently working toward her Ph.D. in the Language, Literary and Culture program. She completed a Master of Arts in Teaching at Iowa in 1999 and holds endorsements in secondary English, speech, communications and theatre. She taught 9 th through 12 th grade English at Keota Community High School in Keota, Iowa, where she also ran the speech and drama programs, after which she taught at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Courses she has developed and/or taught include World Humanities, A.P. English, Vocational Communications, Speech, Debate and sophomore English. Vicki has also taught composition and public speaking at the college level and earned a little extra cash here and there as a freelance writer. Her particular interests in the LLC program are writing instruction and assessment. She has a lovely husband, several cheeky cats and mysterious Amish neighbors. |
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Sarah Townsend
Instructor, Approaches to Teaching Writing
Office: N239A Lindquist Center
Phone: 621-9301
E-mail: sarah-h-townsend@uiowa.edu |
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Sarah Townsend is a writer, teacher of writing, and researcher in the
field of multimodal/multimedia textuality. A PhD candidate in Language,
Literacy and Culture at the University of Iowa, her coursework has
combined pedagogy and considerations of literacy with more concrete
study of book structures and electronic publication media. Sarah's
teaching focus is college writers, and here at Iowa teaches Approaches
to Teaching Writing for Curriculum & Instruction and has taught
Interpretation of Literature for Gen-Ed Lit. She holds an undergrad
degree in English from the University of Michigan and an MFA from the
Iowa Writers' Workshop. Sarah's published work includes poetry in
traditional print journals as well as the scholarly essay, "Writing the
Digital Body: A Textual Close Reading of The Minotaur Project"
(http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/minotaur/index.html),
appearing online in The Iowa Review Web. Sarah has also maintained a
web-based journal/blog/thing for nine years at
http://www.navelgazer.com/. |
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