Username: jamie-wheeler
Gender: Female
Member since: February 15, 2006
Birthday: April 8, 1967
I am a: Teacher
Grades:
College - Sophomore
Subjects:
English / Literature / Writing
About Me
Literature Professor
Bio
I hold a M.A. and B.A. in literature, currently writing my Ph.D in American Literature, specifically John Steinbeck's female characters. I have been teaching both Freshman and Sophmore literature at the college level for about five years.
Interests
Reading and writing of course! I have been married for 20 years and I have two children, a daughter 10, Austen, who is autistic and a son, Collin 7, who is not. I love animals,touring the national parks, and am a avid runner.
Groups
- Hamlet,
- Literary Modernism (1890 to 1930),
- The Great Gatsby,
- The Crucible,
- 1984,
- Romeo and Juliet,
- Aeneid,
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band,
- Antony and Cleopatra,
- The Alexandria Quartet,
- Ajax,
- The Agony and the Ecstasy,
- The Alchemist,
- Angela's Ashes,
- A & P,
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,
- An American Tragedy,
- Among the Volcanoes,
- Annie John,
- Animal Farm
Favorites
Favorite Books
- 1984,
- A Jury of Her Peers,
- A Man for All Seasons,
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
- A Raisin in the Sun,
- A Rose for Emily,
- Aeneid,
- Animal Farm,
- Antigone,
- Babylon Revisited,
- Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street,
- Beowulf,
- Beowulf,
- Brave New World,
- Breakfast at Tiffany's,
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,
- Call It Courage,
- Cold Mountain,
- Dante's Inferno,
- Everyday Use,
- Hamlet,
- Hay Fever,
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,
- If,
- Iliad,
- In the Time of the Butterflies,
- Jane Eyre,
- Julius Caesar,
- Leaves of Grass,
- Macbeth,
- Monster,
- O Pioneers!,
- Of Mice and Men,
- Othello,
- Plato's Republic,
- Pride and Prejudice,
- Rebecca,
- Remember,
- Richard III,
- Romeo and Juliet,
- Shiloh,
- Sonny's Blues,
- Station,
- Sula,
- The Bronze Bow,
- The Canterbury Tales,
- The Cask of Amontillado,
- The Chambered Nautilus,
- The Chrysanthemums,
- The Crucible,
- The Devil and Tom Walker,
- The Grapes of Wrath,
- The Great Gatsby,
- The Guest,
- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,
- The Joy Luck Club,
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,
- The Magic Barrel,
- The Man to Send Rainclouds,
- The Masque of the Red Death,
- The Merchant of Venice,
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid,
- The Necklace,
- The Odyssey,
- The Oedipus Trilogy,
- The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen,
- The Rocking-Horse Winner,
- The Scarlet Letter,
- The Slave Dancer,
- The Tell-Tale Heart,
- The War of the Worlds,
- The World According to Garp,
- To Build a Fire,
- To Kill a Mockingbird,
- Walk Two Moons,
- Why I Live at the P.O.,
- Wuthering Heights
Favorite Quotes
"To-day I am full of thoughts and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have..." [More]
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard." [More]
John Steinbeck
"Time is the only critic without ambition." [More]
John Steinbeck

