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Tom Burkdall, PhDAssociate Professor, ENWR Chair & CAE Director 2011-2012
Phone: 323-259-2667 - Office & Class Hours
Email: tlburk@oxy.edu
Office: CAE - Library Ground Floor, Room #31Thomas Burkdall, Ph. D., is an Associate Professor in English Writing and Director of Writing Programs at Occidental College. He also serves as a writing specialist in the college's Center for Teaching and Learning. For the past six summers, Professor Burkdall has taught in the Health Preparatory Program offered through USC's Keck School of Medicine. His scholarly interests include modernism in English literature, the relationship between film and literature, and popular culture. In 2000, he published an analysis of the cinematic aspects of the works of James Joyce entitled Joycean Frames: Film and the Fiction of James Joyce.
Deborah Martinson, PhD
Associate Professor, Director of Writing Programs
Phone: 323-259-2801 - Office & Class Hours
Email: dmartin@oxy.edu
Office: CAE --Library Ground Floor, Room #22Associate Professor of English Writing at Occidental College, Dr. Martinson's scholarly interest focuses on the theoretical intersections of auto/biography and literature. In Fall 2003, Ohio State University Press published her book In the Presence of Audience: Shaping of Self in Diaries and Fiction which explores the literary and autobiographical work of Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Violet Hunt and Doris Lessing. In 1999 she was researcher for the PBS biography: The Lives of Lillian Hellman, directed by Phillip Schopper. Professor Martinson's latest book; Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels released November 21, 2005. Currently working on biography called Virginia Durr: Southern Radical Come Hell or High Water.
Julie Prebel, PhD
Assistant Professor, Writing Specialist
Phone: 323-259-1307 - Office & Class Hours
Email: prebel@oxy.edu
Office: CAE --Library Ground Floor, Room #17-18
Julie Prebel has extensive experience teaching writing in various disciplines, as well as courses in her areas of scholarly expertise: nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literary and cultural studies and women's writing. She has presented her work widely at national conferences and published articles in peer-reviewed journals. Currently, she is working on a book titled Engineering Womanhood: Scientific Rhetoric and Literary Form, which examines the intersection of scientific discourse and constructions of gender identity.Paul Casey, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Phone: 323-259-2962 - Office & Class Hours
Email: pcasey@oxy.edu
Office: CAE --Library Ground Floor, Room #31Paul Casey, Ph. D., is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in English Writing. His teaching focuses on writing in the disciplines. Dr. Casey’s scholarly interests include rhetoric and critical theory. Recently, he published an article in Enculturation entitled, “The Political Shape of Kairos.” He is currently writing about Kenneth Burke’s contribution to the study of popular culture.
Publication
"The Political Shape of Kairos."
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Bob Sipchen, Sierra Magazine Editor
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Phone: 323-259-2545 - Office & Class Hours
Email: bob.sipchen@oxy.edu
Office: CAE --Library Ground Floor, Room #32Bob Sipchen was the editor of “Sunday Current,” the Los Angeles Times’ weekly opinion section. Among many writing and editing positions at the Times, he has served as senior editor at the Times Sunday Magazine and he created and launched the Times “Outdoor” section. As Associate Editor of the Editorial Pages he won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize and the Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial writing (with Alex Raksin). As a staff writer he shared in the Times 1992 Pulitzer Prize for its team coverage of the Los Angeles riots. In addition to his work at the Times, Sipchen freelances for such publications as Playboy, National Geographic Traveler and Men’s Journal. The New York Times Book Review called Sipchen’s Baby Insane and the Buddha (Doubleday, 1992, Bantam 1993) “first rate,” adding, “Mr. Sipchen’s supple, muscular prose gives the book the sweep and narrative pacing of a novel.” An adjunct professor at Occidental College since 1997, Sipchen teaches news writing in the fall and narrative non-fiction in the spring. SEE SIERRA MAGAZINE
Kathryn Tucker, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Phone: 323-259-1426 - Office & Class Hours
Email: ktucker@oxy.edu
Office: CAE --Library Ground Floor, Room #20Kathryn Tucker is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in English Writing and an OXY Alumnae.