Office: Keezell
412
Phone: 540-568-1642
Email:sorgewjm@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009 MWF 11:05-12:05 and 2:20-3:20
Courses: Fall 2009
GENG 235: Survey of English Literature I, MWF 12:20-1:15 and MWF 1:25-2:15
GENG 236: Survey of English Literature II, MWF9:05-9:55 and MWF 10:10-11:00
Course webpages:
http://sites.google.com/site/sorgewayjmu/
Bio:
Julie Sorge Way is an instructor of literature, writing, and speech who has taught at several institutions during and after her graduate work. She completed her B. A. summa cum laude in 2003 from MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas, majoring in English with a minor in world history. She continued her English studies at the University of Kansas, earning an M. A. with honors in May of 2006. Her thesis, titled "Grey Matters: Negative Capability from Keats to Eliot," traces the roots of dialectical symbiosis through the poetics of such unlikely bedfellows as John Keats and T. S. Eliot, and their respective concepts of negative capability and the via media. The rhetorical direction this thesis gave to her work, the search for "bothness" in texts, has continued to influence her further research. Since graduating, she has enjoyed teaching a variety of English and Communications courses at universities in Pennsylvania and Kansas, and is now employed at James Madison University and Bridgewater College, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Her research interests include Anglophone Modernism with an emphasis in Dialectics, as well as college writing, and a wide range of literature studies. She has been honored throughout her academic career with several writing and teaching awards, including the capstone 2006 Carlin Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, awarded annually to the top two out of over 1,000 GTAs at the University of Kansas.
She currently lives in Harrisonburg with her husband and partner, Dr. Henry Way, assistant professor of geography at JMU, and her two very distinctive cats, Ernest and Habib.
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