Crotty, Diane

Office: Radford 219

Phone: 920-424-2259

Email: crotty@uwosh.edu

Office Hours: MW 10:20-11:20, 3:30-4:30; before class TH and after 12:30 Friday & by appt

Personal Statement

English Education is my specific interest: How can we allow students to truly study the written word and grow as critical readers, writers, and thinkers? I also study young adult literature and good fantasy literature.

Recommended Reading: 

• The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
• The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
• The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins
• Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta

Degrees

• MA, Bemidji State University, Education--major in English (19th century women writers)
• BS, Bemidji State University, English/Secondary Education

Courses Taught: 

• 321 Advanced Composition for Elementary Education
• 226 Modern American Literature
• 224 Women in Literature
• 223 Young Adult Literature
• 188 WBIS: Insight into Fantasy