Writing Rural Life:
(Exploring how rural people write their lives. Write or be written.)
“Life is short, art is long, opportunity fleeting, experimenting dangerous, reasoning difficult.” Hippocrates
"Here is life,  an experiment to a great extent untried by me" (Thoreau, Walden).

_ Classes_

·  (1301) Comp. and Reading I: Space & Place

·  (1302) Comp. and Reading II: Space & Place           
·  (2332) Western Lit. I :
                Travel, Pilgrimage, and Journey

·  (2371) Non-Western Lit          

·  African-American Lit.

·  American Literatures

·  Ranching Literature

·  Life Writing Studies

·  American Realism & Naturalism

·  Regionalism (4630)

_Useful Links_

·  English Majors Page


___My Research___

·  Reading and Writing 
          Rural Life


·  Women Homesteaders

·  Women Farmers

·  Women Ranchers
 

·  Rural Womyn Zone

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." --Mark Twain--



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(Dr. D. Werden) dwerden@wtamu.edu West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas
(via Tifton GA, Bronx NY, Wilmington NC, Macomb Il, North Chili NY,  New Territories Hong Kong, Moose Jaw Sask., Alvinston Ont.)