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