Dr. Amil Quayle- Professor, poet and river guide
Stephanie Serumgard
Issue date: 9/13/06 Section: News
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Where have you taught? University of Nebraska Lincoln, Utah State University, Eastern Idaho Technical College, Idaho State University
• Where did you receive your degrees? Associate's Degree from Ricks College; BS in Sociology, University of Utah; MA, University of Nebraska, PhD. In English, University of Nebraska.
• Originally, where do you hail from? I'm from St. Anthony, Idaho. I live in the same house I grew up in. I also love Southern Utah, I consider it my second home (Dr. Quayle has been a river guide in Southern Utah off and on for many years).
• Why did you come back to Idaho/ISU? I came back to teach and I missed the mountains.
• What is the best part of teaching English? The look on a student's face when they make a discovery - when the student gets excited. I also like interacting with young people - it keeps me young.
• What's the worst? Grading. Establishing a grade for a student's work.
• As a writer - prose or poetry (or both)? I started out writing fiction, but switched to poetry. Poetry is more immediate - I get an idea - I write it down.
• Guiltiest pleasure? Country music. There are some bad country songs. And country songs are full of misogyny, sexism and possessive love…my love of country music was my precursor to my love of poetry.
• What's playing on your CD/IPod/radio? I listen to classical, country, almost anything, but I don't like rap.
• What should your students know about you? I never met someone I couldn't learn something important from. You might not always learn something good, but you always learn something. I have found this to be true not only in teaching, but also in my work as a river guide. I have found success in maintaining this philosophy.
Last words: I'm not so sure a bad person can be a good teacher, or a good writer or a good river runner.
Correction from last weeks issue: Dr. Quayle will be the featured reader at Barnes and Noble open mic night on Wednesday, September 20 at 7:00 p.m.
• Where did you receive your degrees? Associate's Degree from Ricks College; BS in Sociology, University of Utah; MA, University of Nebraska, PhD. In English, University of Nebraska.
• Originally, where do you hail from? I'm from St. Anthony, Idaho. I live in the same house I grew up in. I also love Southern Utah, I consider it my second home (Dr. Quayle has been a river guide in Southern Utah off and on for many years).
• Why did you come back to Idaho/ISU? I came back to teach and I missed the mountains.
• What is the best part of teaching English? The look on a student's face when they make a discovery - when the student gets excited. I also like interacting with young people - it keeps me young.
• What's the worst? Grading. Establishing a grade for a student's work.
• As a writer - prose or poetry (or both)? I started out writing fiction, but switched to poetry. Poetry is more immediate - I get an idea - I write it down.
• Guiltiest pleasure? Country music. There are some bad country songs. And country songs are full of misogyny, sexism and possessive love…my love of country music was my precursor to my love of poetry.
• What's playing on your CD/IPod/radio? I listen to classical, country, almost anything, but I don't like rap.
• What should your students know about you? I never met someone I couldn't learn something important from. You might not always learn something good, but you always learn something. I have found this to be true not only in teaching, but also in my work as a river guide. I have found success in maintaining this philosophy.
Last words: I'm not so sure a bad person can be a good teacher, or a good writer or a good river runner.
Correction from last weeks issue: Dr. Quayle will be the featured reader at Barnes and Noble open mic night on Wednesday, September 20 at 7:00 p.m.
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