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Mills, Alice

Alice
Mills
Associate Professor, English
Phone: 
916.577.2258
Email: 
amills@jessup.edu
“People think I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.” - Matthew Arnold
Expertise: 

Creative Writing; Contemporary and Modern Poetry

Education: 

B.A., English, University of California – Irvine - 1992 
M.F.A., English with an emphasis in Creative Writing - University of California, Irvine - 1996

Courses Taught: 

ENGL092 Basic Writing 
ENGL101a English Composition I 
ENGL101b English Composition II 
ENGL280 Advanced Academic Writing 
ENGL286 Creative Writing 
ENGL386 Advanced Creative Writing 
COMM180 Speech 
LDRS152 Contemporary Discipleship for a Relationship with God

Publications: 

Verbeck, Alice. “Imitation; or Going Where at Least One Writer Has Gone Before.” The Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning February 2003.http://www.uky.edu/TLC/JournalNEW/JournalPage2b.htm

Verbeck, Alice. “I am not from here…” The Writer’s Project September 2004. Western Kentucky University National Writer’s Program, recorded for PBS.http://www.wku.edu/wp/IFWKanth03/IF0347.html.

Awards and Honors: 

Teacher of the Year Award, University of California, Irvine, 1995 for Creative Writing