Timothy Dansdill always loved teaching. Teaching reading, listening, speaking, writing, and thinking about…poetry, literature, film, music, cross-disciplinary non-fiction (journalism included), rhetoric, composition, stylistics, for forty years: he still loves teaching.
Dansdill's QU teaching history (20 years) can't account for his previous 20 years teaching--in and around Boston—encompassing inner city, suburbs, exurbs, prisons, half-way houses, a dozen colleges and universities. He sometimes still teaches the Personal Essay; Stylistics: Advanced Writing; the Nature Essay; History and Rhetoric of the Book into Screen…etc. He also teaches an always challenging, ultimately rewarding ton of first year composition/research courses.
Dansdill's pedigree: B.A in Philosophy and Poetry, M.A.s in Secondary English and the History of Composition, PhD on Histories of Rhetoric and Writing, Critical Theory, and on 19th Century American Writing. Master's thesis examined Modernist philosophical and ironic elements in Bishop's early poem, “The Imaginary Iceberg.” PhD dissertation examined the history, theory, ethics, and pedagogy of Anonymity. His scholarship has always drawn from the vagaries of his teaching.
Dansdill's record of “Service” to Department, CAS, to this University is vast and varied-- a total, beautiful blast, thus buried and invisible, always grounded in his Teaching, and not unlike his remaining Scholarship. He welcomes all contact on any matter that might make a difference to all Students' (not Bobcats) need for more inclusive, compassionate lives.
Dansdill's QU teaching history (20 years) can't account for his previous 20 years teaching--in and around Boston—encompassing inner city, suburbs, exurbs, prisons, half-way houses, a dozen colleges and universities. He sometimes still teaches the Personal Essay; Stylistics: Advanced Writing; the Nature Essay; History and Rhetoric of the Book into Screen…etc. He also teaches an always challenging, ultimately rewarding ton of first year composition/research courses.
Dansdill's pedigree: B.A in Philosophy and Poetry, M.A.s in Secondary English and the History of Composition, PhD on Histories of Rhetoric and Writing, Critical Theory, and on 19th Century American Writing. Master's thesis examined Modernist philosophical and ironic elements in Bishop's early poem, “The Imaginary Iceberg.” PhD dissertation examined the history, theory, ethics, and pedagogy of Anonymity. His scholarship has always drawn from the vagaries of his teaching.
Dansdill's record of “Service” to Department, CAS, to this University is vast and varied-- a total, beautiful blast, thus buried and invisible, always grounded in his Teaching, and not unlike his remaining Scholarship. He welcomes all contact on any matter that might make a difference to all Students' (not Bobcats) need for more inclusive, compassionate lives.
Education
- BA, Sarah Lawrence College NY
- MA, University of Massachusetts Boston
- PHD, University of New Hampshire
Organization
- English
Office Location
- College of Arts & Sciences 1 328
Mail Drop
- CL-AC1