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Los Angeles Pierce College
ENGLISH
DEPARTMENT
 PERMANENT
FACULTY
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We have a diverse faculty that is available
by e-mail, mail, telephone, and in person during office hours.
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Donna
Accardo,
who came to Pierce in 1989 with a BA and an MA from University
of Nevado, Reno, has studied Shakespeare with internationally
known scholars as well as performed his works in the Los Angeles
area. She is now the chair of the department. Her email is
accarddl@piercecollege.edu
and her phone is (818)710-2879.
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Maria
Bates
received a Ph.D in English from UC Berkeley, where
she studied English Romanticism/post-colonial theory and discovered
that even high-brow academics do the limbo. Before her venture
to Berkeley, she earned a graduate degree in education from UCSB’s
Gervitz Graduate School and taught high school English for several
years in the Bay Area. She came to Pierce in Spring 2006 and is
currently acting as faculty advisor for Direction, the student
literary magazine. For questions, please email her at
batesmt@piercecollege.edu
or call her at 818.710.4174. |
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Karin
Burns,
who came to Pierce in 1991, received her BA and MA in English
from UCLA. She is a native of Brazil and is fluent in Portuguese
and Spanish. She has published on diverse topics, including
Henry James, critical thinking, narrative experiments in women's
fiction, as well as travel articles about her hometown in Brazil.
Her composition and literature courses offer close and timely
attention to all written work. Email her at
burnskg@piercecollege.edu
and find syllabi online.
Her phone is (818)710-4325. |
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Mary
Chavarria
came to Pierce
in 1984 and has a BA and an MA from CSUN and a PhD from USC.
Her email is chavarmm.@piercecollege.edu and her phone is (818)710-4222. |
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Cheryl
Cohen Goss
came
to Pierce in
2002 and teaches in the ESL program. She can be reached at
cohend@piercecollege.edu
or at 710-4261. Her office is 2801.
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Yvonne
Cooper
came to
Pierce as an adjunct in 2005, and she was hired full-time in
2007. She received her BA from Cornell University and her
MA from New York University, where she studied literature
and film. She has taught at Santa Monica College and
Pasadena City College in the Los Angeles area as well as in
the San Diego area: San Diego State, San Diego City College,
Southwestern College and Grossmont/Cuyamaca College.
We are very glad to have her here, as she brings great
enthusiasm for the job.
She can
be reached:
cooperym@piercecollege.edu.
Her office number is FO2506, and her office phone number is
818-710-4324.
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Monique
Dobbertin
graduated from the University of California,
Irvine with a B.A. in Humanities (with an emphasis in Film Studies
and English Literature). After working for several years in
the music and film industries she returned to school at Seattle
University where she received an M.Ed. (with a TESOL emphasis).
During the course of her graduate program, she also earned a
TESOL Certificate from the Seattle School of TESOL. Since 1997,
Ms. Dobbertin has taught EFL, ESL, and English in both private
and public schools, including Seattle Language Academy, South
Seattle Community College, Santa Monica College and Los Angeles
Pierce College. She began teaching full-time at Pierce College
in the Fall of 2000. Her phone is (818)710-2883. Her office is 2505.
For more information or to contact Ms Dobbertin, visit one of
her web pages at
http://TeacherWeb.com/
or email her at
monique.dobbertin@yahoo.com
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Richard
Follett,
who came
to Pierce in 1984 with a BA, an AM, and an AD from The University
of Michigan, has a varied background in private and public schools
in Michigan, Florid, and California. He is very active in school
and community affairs, having been President of the Academic Senate
and chair of the Pierce College Council, chair of the Curriculum
Committee and Co-Chair of the Planning Committee, advisor to the
Gay and Lesbian Association, and founding advisor to ACCESS (for
Learning Disabled Students). He has published on the topics of
feminism, gay/lesbian concerns, religious issues, and language
and literature. In 1998, he won the Hayward Award for Excellence
in Education from the California State Academic Senate. Since
September 2001, he has been a member of the baritone section of
the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles.
His web page is available here
or through the main directory. His
email is folletrj@piercecollege.edu and his phone is (818)710-4293.
His office
is 2907. |
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David
Gonzales
came
to Pierce in 2002. His email is
gonzaldp@piercecollege.edu and
his phone is (818)710-4349. |
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Marjorie
Hoskinson,
who came to Pierce in 1967
with a BA and an MA from UCLA, has created the mythology, science
fiction, children's literature and women's literature classes,
created a reader for English 21, and taught the literature
part of the Humanities Core Curriculum (Humanities 11, 12, 13,
14, a program that has been discontinued). She specializes
in returning essays quickly and using e-mail, flash disks and
other electronic media in instruction. She conducts an online
English 101 course. Her email address is hoskinml@piercecollege.edu
and her phone is (818)710-4102 in office 3105.
To see syllabi and course descriptions,
go to her web
page http://info.piercecollege.edu/departments/English/hosk2.htm |
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Jodi
Johnson,
a former
student at Pierce College with a BA and an MA in English/Creative
Writimg from CSUN and an MA in English Literature from UCLA, has
been a professor in the English Department since 1986. She
published a book of poetry, Feeding the Animals, in 1992
and won a fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences in 1993 for a screenplay, Mama & Me.
She worked for Walt Disney Pictures on the film Mulan (1998)
and has two screenplays currently in pre-production, one of which
is based on the life of the poet Lord Byron. At Pierce she
teaches composition and literature courses and is the faculty
advisor to the campus literary magazine, Direction.
Her phone is (818)710-2884. |
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Larry
Kirkorian
came
to Pierce in 1988 with a BA from Point Loma College and an MA
from UCLA. Krikorian teaches fiction, "war novels," in the
Spring. He rides road bikes and has a USCF license.
He studied British and American literature under Allen, Tennyson,
Kolb, and Colacurcio, among others. His phone is (818)710-4324.
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Craig
Kramer
returned to
full time teaching at Pierce in 2006. He has his BA from UCSB
and his AM is from the University of Michigan. He started teaching
here at Pierce in 1989, left in 1998, and returned as an adjunct
in 2000. We are glad to have him back. He teaches ESL, comp.(21
- 102), and lit. (Shakespeare, Fiction, Bible as Lit., Film as
Lit.) courses.
His enjoyment of the subject and of working with the students
is obvious. He can be reached at (818) 710-4173 or
kramercs@piercecollege.edu. |
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Kambon
Obayani
came
to Pierce in 1991 with a BA from Brown University and an MFA from
University of Iowa. His phone is (818)710-2893. |
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Michael E. Pitts
came to
Pierce this semester in place of Cheryl Goss his office is
FO2203 and he can be reached at 818 710-4261 or
pittsme@piercecollege.edu or mpitts50@yahoo.com. |
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Sandra Schneider,
with
a BA from UC Irvine, an MA from Claremont Graduate University
and ESL Certification from UC Santa Barbara, has taught at Louisiana
State University, University of San Francisco, Pepperdine University
and LA City College. In 1991, she joined the faculty at
Pierce college, where she teaches a wide range of ESL, composition
and literature classes. Her email is
schneisa@piercecollege.edu
and her phone is 710-4322. Her office is 2201.
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Charles
Sheldon
came
to Pierce in 1988 with a BA from UCSB and an M. Litt. from University
of Edinburgh, Scotland. His
email is sheldocc@piercecollege.edu and his phone is (818)710-2881. |
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