Rick Herder
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | graduate teaching assistant |
| Location | John's Creek, Georgia |
| Introduction | I am a teacher who decided to go back to school. I taught high school English, speech, and debate for a couple decades (the majority at Lely High School, Naples, FL) and last year picked up an MA in communication at the U of Miami (grad thesis on sociology of high school debate). I'm currently enrolled in the PhD program in public com at Georgia State in Atlanta. I'm Minnesota born and raised. Marsha and I have been married for 30+ years and we have three children - all married - and four beautiful grandchildren. |
| Interests | rhetoric, sociology, theology, social movements, agricultural labor unions, literature, forensics (speech and debate), media ecology (i.e., Jacques Ellul)...and of course, my family. |
| Favorite Movies | Mystic River, Vertigo, Crash, Citizen Kane, Grumpy Old Men, Prairie Home Companion, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Monster, A Beautiful Mind, American Beauty, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, ... |
| Favorite Music | This list is constantly changing: Dave Brubeck, Glenn Gould, Johnny Lang, Eldar Djangirov, Stephan Grappelli, Dave Matthews Band, Jars of Clay, Bela Fleck, Fairfield Four, Norah Jones, Ramsey Lewis, Jane Monheit, Bering Strait, Billy Preston, Christian McBride, The Beatles, Enter the Haggis, and B.B. King. |
| Favorite Books | (in no particular order) Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Moby Dick by Melville, The New Testament, The Odyssey, Barrabas by Par Lagerkvist, Staggerford by Jon Hassler, Lake Wobegone Days by Garrison Keillor, anything by Jacques Ellul or Neil Postman, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Freire, poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and TS Eliot... and many more. |