"Yes, Clarissa thinks, it's time for the day to be over. We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhpas even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more."

--Michael Cunningham, The Hours

General Information

The Department of Rhetoric, Language and Culture in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Hartford

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Teaching and Research Interests

Composition Theory and Pedagogy

Autobiography and Creative Nonfiction

Film, New Media, and Visual Rhetorics

Contemporary Multicultural Literatures

Theories and Rhetorics of Gender and Sexuality

Medical Humanities

Background

PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003

MA in Comparative Studies from the Ohio State University in 1998

MA in Women's Studies from the Ohio State University in 1995

BA in English from the University of Houston with a minor in Women's Studies and membership in the University Honors College in 1993

Previous Employment as a Senior Lecturer in Ohio State's Writing Workshop and as a Writing Consultant, Writing-across-the-Curriculum Consultant, Outreach Consultant, and Outreach Team Coordinator in Ohio State's Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing

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Contact Info

Nels P. Highberg, Assistant Professor
Department of Rhetoric, Language, and Culture
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117

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