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Name: Philip Garrison
Rank: Emeritus Professor of English, CWU.
- Courses recently taught:
- American literature (surveys, upper-division
and graduate courses); world literature surveys (especially
classical literature in translation); upper-division and
graduate courses in critical theory; Multicultural Education
(with Professor Jose Licano P.); Chicano Literature, Latin
American Novel. I've been a frequent participant in Central's
Latin American Studies seminar offered Spring Quarters.
- Education:
- University of Missouri
at Columbia from l960-63, receiving a B.A. with Honors in
English;
- University of Missouri at Columbia from 1963-64, M.A.
in English.
- University of Iowa, in Iowa City, in l964-65, 1 year's
worth of Ph.D. coursework .
- Academic specialization:
- My principal areas of graduate study
were nineteenth and twentieth century British and
American poetry,
- Creative writing.
- For the last thirty-five
years, my specialties have been those outlined above.
- Teaching experience:
- various assistantships
- Instructor, University of Texas at El
Paso, from l965-67
- 1967 - present: Professor of English
- Teaching in a foreign setting:
- I spent from September, l973, to March,
l976, teaching students (principally from Washington state)
in Central's program in Guadalajara. Part of my duties
involved leading two different kinds of student tour: field
trips of three or fours days duration, principally to the
Morelia area, although other such trips left me familiar,
as well, with Guanajuato and Cd. Obregon; more extensive
excursions, two or three weeks in length, which involved
traveling by chartered bus from Guadalajara through Mexico
City to Vera Cruz, down the east coast to Merida, and then
back through Oaxaca to Guadalajara. Since the latter amounted
to a tour of archaeological sites, I have a pretty detailed
understanding of Mexico's prehispanic past.
- I spent eight other terms at CMI in
Morelia, teaching students from the Pacific Northwest.
- I spent from
July through November of 1991 on Fulbright teaching ESL
and American literature/culture at the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma in Tegucigalpa,
Honduras.
- I spent Fall
2002 and Spring 2004 at the Universidad Latina de América
in Morelia, Michoacán,
Mexico, teaching the Migrant Studies Program.
- Foreign languages:
I speak, read and write Spanish fluently.
- Public
service:
- In August 1995 two friends and I founded
APOYO, the primary advocacy group for Kittitas County's mexicano population,
and since that time I've served as president. APOYO's
food and clothing bank currently serves 400 families
a month, mainly from a population that stretches east
from Ellensburg to Royal City.
- Publications:
- Augury, my collection of essays,
won the Associated Writing Programs award for creative
nonfiction in 1990, and appeared in June, 1991, from the
University of Georgia Press. In 1992 it was awarded a Washington
State Governor's Award for literary excellence. Seven of
the fifteen pieces it contains deal with specifically Mexican
subject matter. Waiting for the Earth to Turn Over,
my second essay collection, appeared in September, 1996,
from the University of Utah Press. My third essay collection, Because
I Don't Have Wings, appeared in Spring 2006.
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