Hello students. I know that some of you are having problems posting your posts to the blog. I’m doing this one to see if it works. I am using Google Chrome as my browser, and I am posting from the College’s server. If you see this, you should know that, at least right now, it is working. It is Monday, 4/8/2019 at 3:45.
Hello, World!
Welcome to our ENGL 1102 class blog site. We invite you to think about Spatial Justice with us this semester as we read and write about spaces in American Culture.
We are reading three books and one movie. Our books are: The House on Mango Street (by Sandra Cisneros), Don’t Call Us Dead (by Danez Smith), and Becoming (by Michele Obama). We haven’t chosen our movie yet. We are using these texts to explore the ways that physical spaces shape us, hold us in or out, and become markers of what we are able to achieve. It should be an interesting semester.
Remember that we are students who are using this semester to sharpen our communication skills, so sometimes our writing is still in process, an idea that Obama embraces in her book. We are becoming who we will be.
Dr. Perry
My name is Katherine Perry, and I am an Associate Professor of English at Perimeter College of Georgia State University. I hold a Ph.D. in English from Auburn University, and I have been teaching college for almost 19 years (that includes when I was in graduate school). I am the professor for two sections of ENGL 1102, English Composition II, this semester, and my students will be working on this blog to learn more about writing for the web, crafting small but powerful paragraphs, and learning to use images, links, and visual language to enhance their blog posts.
In addition to being an English professor, I am also a practicing poet. My book, Long Alabama Summer, was released in December of 2017, and you can find out about any upcoming poetry readings at my website: www.katherinedperry.com. I am also the founder and coordinator for GSU’s Prison Education Project . We take college-level classes into area state and federal prisons.
Finally, like everyone, I do many things, so introducing myself in three paragraphs feels like a tall order. I am a yogini, a mother, a spouse, a Girl Scout leader, a guitarist, a walker, a camper, a traveler, a daughter, a dog lover, a civil rights activist, a friend, a reader, a cook, and a citizen of the world (and American by birth). I am also a lot of other things. I hope that you will enjoy this semester’s work.
ENGL 1102 Spring 2019 2:30 class 
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