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FacultyWriting Center Director Linda C. Mitchell, Ph.D teaches Grammar, Early European Literature, History of the English Language, Research and Methods, Survey of the Classics, and Composition at SJSU. She is an internationally recognized scholar in language, linguistics and the history of rhetoric. She holds an M.A. in Medieval Literature from UC Davis, an M.A. in Creative and Professional Writing from UNLV, and a Ph.D in English (Rhetoric, Linguistic, Literature) from USC. She is the author of Grammar Wars: Language as Cultural Battleground in 17th- and 18th-Century England (Ashgate 2001) and is currently writing A Cultural History of English Lexicography, 1600-1800: The Authoritative Word (Ashgate) and an annotated edition of Milton's Grammar for The Complete Works of John Milton (Oxford University Press). She is co-editor of Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present (University of South Carolina Press 2007) and co-editor of The Cultural History of Letter Writing (UC Press 2007). She has published articles in the Huntington Library Quarterly, International Journal of Lexicography, Handbook of World Englishes, and Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. Dr. Mitchell received the College of the Humanities and the Arts 2007 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. She is working on her 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Faculty-in-Residence
Jan Hagemann is in her 25th year as a lecturer at SJSU. She began teaching the upper-division writing workshop in the Administration of Justice Department in January 1982 to fill in for one semester, and she never left. She sits on the University Writing Requirements Committee (WRC), and she teaches the introductory courses in Justice Studies, JS10 and JS104, Corrections in America. She is the faculty advisor for Chi Pi Sigma, the professional law enforcement fraternity, and she serves as chair of the Justice Studies Department Scholarship Committee. She was a faculty-in-residence at the Center for Faculty Development and Support for new lecturers; she co-authored the New Lecturer Handbook. She has served as faculty advisor for the Black Masque Honor Society, as a member of SEICO, and as a mentor for student athletes and incoming students. She compiles and edits the Justice Studies newsletter JustNews. She serves on the Mt. Madonna YMCA Board of Managers, and she chairs numerous annual community support campaigns. |
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