Arizona State University
Department of English
Box 870302
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
480.965.3168
Main Office Location:
G. Homer Durham Language and Literature Building - LL 542
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 In
her book The Peaceable Classroom, Mary Rose O'Reilley
poses the question, "Can we teach English in such a way that people
stop killing each other?" My primary interest in my life and my teaching
is in answering this question with a demonstrable "Yes." My classes seek
to help people discover within themselves the intertwined power of
literacy and peace. I have created two classes toward that end: "Writing
and Being" and "Native Images." My book Writing and Being: Taking
Back Our Lives Through the Power of Language and all my writing
is in search of what Linda Hogan refers to as "a language of that different
yield . . . . a yield that returns us to our own sacredness, to a self-love
and respect that will carry out to others."
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