Fall 2025
Section 0110 of ENGLC1000
Academic Reading and Writing -- : Aug 19 - Dec 11 2025
This section is part of the Avanzando STEM Learning Community and is linked to Math and English courses. Students are automatically enrolled in Counseling 60, Section #2013, Math 25 - Precalculus Algebra, Section #2008, and English C1000 - College Composition, Section # 0110. Students enrolled in these sections will have extra academic and counseling support from the Avanzandoinitiative to help them succeed in their STEM courses and prepare to transfer with a STEM major. Contact Guillermo Garcia at ggarcia3@santarosa.edu.
Section 0781 of ENGLC1000
Academic Reading and Writing -- : Aug 19 - Dec 11 2025
Section 0818 of ENGL30.1
American Literature: Pre-Colonial Period to the Civil War -- : Aug 18 - Dec 10 2025
Section 0868 of ENGL770
Writing Center -- : Aug 18 - Dec 12 2025
The Writing Center offers personalized writing support to students at any point in the writing process, from picking a topic and developing a thesis to revising and editing for organization and clarity, and everything in between. In-person sessions are available at 1629 Emeritus, and online Zoom sessions are available at https://santarosa.mywconline.com/. See https://english.santarosa.edu/writing-center for more information.
Section 2445 of ENGL770
Writing Center -- : Aug 18 - Dec 11 2025
The Writing Center offers personalized writing support to students at any point in the writing process, from picking a topic and developing a thesis to revising and editing for organization and clarity, and everything in between. In-person sessions are available at the Mahoney Library Reading Room, and online Zoom sessions are available at https://santarosa.mywconline.com/. See https://english.santarosa.edu/writing-center for more information.
PhD American Literature, University of North Texas, 2000. Dissertation -- Body Matters: Gary Snyder, the Self and Ecopoetics
BA English, Abilene Christian University, 1993.
2010-present, SRJC English Department
2000-2010, Writing Program, University of California, Riverside (Lecturer)
2000-2002, Cal Poly, Pomona English Department (Adjunct)
2002-2008, Riverside Community College English Department (Adjunct)
1996-2000, University of North Texas English Department (Teaching Fellow)
"Anybody who wanders around the world saying, 'Hell yes, I'm from Texas,' deserves whatever happens to him.” ― Hunter S. Thompson
Poetry, Metaphor, Tom Robbins, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Taoism, Humor, Nature Writing
"Think for yourself, schmuck!"
-Robert Anton Wilson
"(like everything else I have
somebody showed it to me and I found it by myself)"
-Lew Welch
"Language teaching in schools is a matter of corralling off a little of the language-behavior territory and cultivating a few favorite features--culturally defined elite forms that will help you apply for a job or give you social credibility at a party. One might even learn how to produce the byzantine artifact known as the professional paper. There are many excellent reasons to master these things, but the power, the _virtu_, remains on the side of the wild."
-Gary Snyder
"This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labour to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school, or church, or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body."
-Walt Whitman