Monday, May 11, 2009

Introducing: D'Anne Witkowski (a.k.a. your instructor)

In the spirit of your first assignment (you know, the one where you're supposed to tell the class about yourself and post one of your favorite online videos and tell us why you like it), I thought it only fair that I should jump in and go first. Not that first is better, but it is my hope that I might eliminate the potential anxiety of being the first person to post.

So: About me. I am a lecturer at the University of Michigan in both the English Department Writing Program and the Sweetland Writing Center. I have an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from UofM and I did my undergrad work at the University of Detroit Mercy.

My interests include reading, actual books as well as things I get from the Internets (Videogum is one of my favorite blogs), writing (poetry, creative non-fiction, etc.), pop culture, some TV (The Office, The Wire, Big Love, Supernanny, Grey's Anatomy, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), music (listening. I'm not a player. Of music. Or player in the other sense of the word), spending quality time with friends and family, politics, teaching, and animals (I have a dog, Henri, and a cat, Jasper). Two of my interests, poetry and monkeys, are represented on my blog Touched By A Monkey.

As for my favorite viral video, well, there are too many to choose from. So here is my favorite of the moment. You may remember it from class last week.

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