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Katrina

By Caroline Maun

All these hundreds of years of denial
We think we are in an enlightened age
We think we are beyond the trial
We never even left this stage

So many people in a middle passage
Fanned out to all points on the map
Between us all this insistent wedge
Up to our chins in rivers of crap

Nature sent a storm to uncover
What we didn't want to ever see
We are forced now to rediscover
What it might mean if we ALL were free.

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Caroline Maun, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University

posted 12 November 2005

 

 
 
Dr. Caroline Maun

Assistant Professor / Interdisciplinary Studies / Wayne State University

5700 Cass Ave. / Detroit, MI 48202 / 313-577-6580

email: caroline.maun@wayne.edu

EDUCATION

·  Ph. D. in English, 1998. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. <http://www.utk.edu>

·  M.A. in English, 1992. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. <http://www.ncsu.edu>

·  B.A. in English with high honors, 1990.Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida.

EDUCATIONAL CERTIFICATION

·  PIER Certificate in African Studies, Yale University, 2001.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Assistant Professor of Literacy and Critical Thought, 8/04 to present. Teaching interdisciplinary courses in writing and oral communication.

Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland

·  Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, 7/99 to 5/04. http://jewel.morgan.edu/~english/english.htm> Teaching Freshman Composition sections face-to-face and online. Co-Coordinator of the Freshman English Program. Member of the Honors Program faculty (three-year appointment from 2002-2005).

·  Director, English Resource Writing Center, 11/98 to 5/04. http://jewel.morgan.edu/~english/english.htm> Supervising student employees, managing grant monies, faculty liaison with computer support services.

·  HUD-EDI Special Projects Grant Co-Recipient, with Dr. Wendell Jackson, 11/98 to 9/99 (period of grant). Funds in excess of $79,000 earmarked to improve the English Resource Writing Center at Morgan State University: designing lab, training tutors, instructional technologist, and curriculum design. Internal Morgan State University grant of $50,000 was also implemented for equipment.

·  Lecturer, 8/98 to 5/99. Teaching Freshman Studies English composition.

posted 13 June 2006

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