Joseph Stitt
Joseph Stitt
Associate Lecturer of English
Office:
Humanities Center 111
Contact Information:
Box 549030
Birmingham-Southern College
900 Arkadelphia Rd
Birmingham, AL 35254
Office Phone: (205) 226-4859
Office Fax: 226-3089
E-mail: [email protected]
Brief Career Background:
Joseph Stitt has been teaching writing since 1995, with interludes working as an editor and writer for a humor web site (Hecklers Online) and as a consultant for an environmental startup (Greenthink.com).
Educational Background:
1993: B.A. (English & History) from the University of Alabama
1995: M.A. (English Literature) from the University of Alabama
Areas of Academic Interest:
- Creative writing
- rhetoric and composition
- informal logic
- prosody
- American literature
- European literature
- philosophy
Research Interests:
- Wallace Stevens
- Vladimir Nabokov
- John Keats
- Annie Dillard
- W. H. Auden
- Saul Bellow
- Platonism
- Thomas Aquinas
- Robert Nozick
- elections
- twentieth-century world history
- totalitarianism
- ornithology.
Courses Taught:
EH 102 Introduction to Writing (1)
Techniques of expository prose. Prerequisite: placement by English faculty. Fall, Spring.English 208 Intermediate Writing (1)
The development of intensive analytical skills, precise and extensive vocabulary, and consciousness of style. Prerequisite: EH 102 or placement by English faculty. Fall, Spring