jonathan

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Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Professor of English
Location San Jose, California, United States
Introduction I'm a trainer of teachers, now in my 27th year in the English Education Program at San Jose State and my 36th year in the field. My favorite part of my job is co-directing the Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute, which I've done for the past 29 summers.
Interests Scottish Country Dancing, small wooden boat sailing, hiking, reading, listening to music
Favorite Movies Traffik, The Singing Detective, Brideshead Revisited (all long, serialized, made-for-public-tv movies)
Favorite Music Beethoven's 9th
Favorite Books Les Miserables, Our Mutual Friend, The Brothers Karamazov (in Pevear and Volokhonsky translation)

You've been entered in a shadow puppet contest. What's your best pose?

one arm akimbo, scratching head, looking puzzled