Sharon Prince
Department Head and
Instructor of English
Wharton County Junior College
Fort Bend Technical Center
5333 FM 1640
Richmond, TX 77469
Ph: (281) 239-1574
Email: sharonp@wcjc.edu
URL:
http://facultyweb.wcjc.edu/sprince/
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Sharon
Housman Prince has been teaching for nearly 20 years.
She began teaching in Virginia as a graduate student at
Radford University.
For a few years, she lived and taught in West Virginia.
Prince moved to Texas in 1994 and has taught at several
area community colleges.
After teaching six years full-time at San Jacinto
College, Prince came to WCJC full time.
Her areas of teaching interest include metacognition, the
novel, and the family theme as represented in a variety of art
forms.
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Marsha
Anderson
Instructor of English
Wharton County Junior College
Fort Bend Technical Center
5333 FM 1640
Richmond, TX 77469
Ph: (281) 239-1590
Email: marshaa@wcjc.edu
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Marsha
Anderson has been a full-time English Instructor at Wharton
Jr. College for five years. She holds a B.S. in Professional
Writing and a M.A. in Literature from University of Houston.
She has been teaching for over 18 years. Some of Anderson's
writing projects include her first book How to Have a Good Day
Everyday, her women's magazine that she publishes entitled, Have
a Good Day Magazine and a play called Drama Queens. Ms.
Anderson is also a freelance photographer and she enjoys spending
time at coffee houses reading.
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Pam Armentrout
Instructor of English
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Hwy.
Wharton, TX 77488
Ph: (979) 532-6470
Email: parmentrout@wcjc.edu
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B.A.,
M.A., Texas A & M University
Pamela Armentrout began teaching full-time at Wharton County Junior College in 1993. Before moving to Wharton, she taught at McCullough High School, Burbank Middle School, and Texas A & M University. Her composition courses utilize computer-aided instruction and educational technology.
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Dr. Fred Bartsch
Instructor of English
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Hwy.
Wharton, TX 77488
Ph: (979) 532-6343
Email: fredb@wcjc.edu
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A.B., University
of Rochester
A.M.,
Ph.D., Indiana University
Dr. Bartsch received his baccalaureate degree with distinction in English from the University of Rochester, a private university in upstate New York, his master’s and doctoral degrees from Indiana University. He taught freshman English and literature at Indiana University and the Rochester Institute of Technology before joining the faculty of Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, where he also held an appointment as a member of the graduate faculty. Since 1983, Dr. Bartsch has served as a member of the Wharton County Junior College English faculty, ten of those years as department chair. He has published articles on Emily Dickinson and Robert Penn Warren.
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Frederick
(Rick) Bush
Instructor
of English
Wharton County Junior College
550 Julie Rivers Drive
Sugar Land, Texas 77478
Ph: (281) 243 -8523
Email: bushr@wcjc.edu
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Rick Bush has taught English and
German at the high school and college levels. He has
published one of his poems and a journal article on teaching.
Prior to coming to WCJC, Bush worked as a technical writer and a
translator of documents written in German. He is currently a
researcher for folk and music historian Robert "Mack"
McCormick's forthcoming book An Almost Savage Joy.
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Ava Humme
Temp Instructor of English
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Highway
Wharton, TX 77488
(979) 532-6435
avah@wcjc.edu |
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Ava King Humme received her B.A. in
Journalism from Texas A & M University and M. Ed. in Curriculum
and Instruction with an additional course work in English
Literature from the University of Houston-Victoria. Since 1991
she has taught for WCJC in various departments, including
Vocational Education, Adult Basic Education, Developmental
Studies, and English. Ms. Humme has also taught at the
University of Houston-Victoria and for Region IV of the Texas
Education Agency and volunteers as a Special Education reading
tutor for Fort Bend ISD. She has a strong non-educational work
background as a writer and editor for major energy companies
including NL Industries, Conoco, Vista Chemical Company, and
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Angela Kocurek
Instructor of English
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Hwy.
Wharton, TX 77488
Ph: (979) 532-6348
KocurekA@wcjc.edu |
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Angela Kocurek graduated with a B.A. and M.A. in English from
Sam Houston State University where she started her career
teaching freshman writing. She was later awarded a fellowship
from The University of Houston and began work towards a Ph.D. in
English literature. Her area of doctoral study and research is
British Romanticism, particularly nineteenth-century aesthetics
and philosophy and their influence on modern art and culture.
Angela has taught at WCJC since 2005.
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Mary Lang
Instructor of English
Wharton County Junior College
Fort Bend Technical Center
5333 FM 1640
Richmond, Texas 77469
Ph: (281) 239-1576
Email: maryl@wcjc.edu
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B.A. in English and Spanish from East
Texas State University, 1977; M.A. in English from Texas Tech
University, 1982
Professional contributions include
published critical analyses in literature as well as freelance
review, editing, and commentary.
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Karen Lescure
Instructor of English
Wharton County Junior College
550 Julie Rivers Drive
Sugar Land, Texas 77478
Ph: (281) 243-8530
Email: karenl@wcjc.edu
URL: http://facultyweb.wcjc.edu/KLescure/
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Karen Lescure graduated with her
Master’s degree in English in 1997 and teaches English for
Wharton County Junior College at the Sugar Land campus. She
has been full-time faculty member since the fall of 2004. In
addition to teaching English, Karen also enjoys writing in her
spare time and has published a narrative in the Houston
Chronicle's Texas Magazine.
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Jennifer Mooney
Instructor of English
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Highway
Wharton, TX 77488
(979) 532-6433
mooneyj@wcjc.edu
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Jennifer Mooney graduated from
Slippery Rock University in 2003 with an M.A. in English
literature, with an emphasis in Literary Criticism and British
Literature. She obtained her B.A. from Robert Morris University
in 2002, where she later returned to begin her teaching career
in 2004. In subsequent years, she has also taught at Point Park
University (Pittsburgh, PA) and Jefferson County Community
College (Steubenville, OH). She joined WCJC’s faculty full time
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Robin Nealy, Ph. D
Instructor of English
Wharton County Junior College
550 Julie Rivers Drive
Sugar Land, Texas 77478
Ph: (281) 243 -8539
Email: robinn@wcjc.edu
URL: http://facultyweb.wcjc.edu/rnealy/
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B.A., Prairie
View A&M
M.A., Texas A&M University
Ph.D,
Texas A&M University
In 1991, Dr. Nealy graduated from
Prairie View A&M University with a B.A. in English.
In the same year, she began working toward her M.A. in
English at Texas A&M University.
Upon completion of her M.A., she began work on her Ph.D. in
education at Texas A&M. In
August 1994, she became a full-time instructor in the Department
of English at Prairie View A&M University.
In the summer of 2000, Dr. Nealy finished the Prentice
Hall TASP Writing Guide, which she co-authored with Karen
Hackley, a Houston Community College instructor.
Dr. Nealy completed her service at Prairie View A&M
University in 2001 and began teaching English full-time at Wharton
County Junior College in 2002.
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Dr. Joyce
O'Shea
Instructor of English
Wharton County Junior College
Fort Bend Technical Center
5333 FM 1640
Richmond, TX 77469
Ph: (281) 239-1570
Email: joyceo@wcjc.edu
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Dr.
Joyce O'Shea received her BA cum laude at Catawba College in
North Carolina, majoring in English.
She then attended Appalachian State University, where she
obtained a master's degree in American literature.
Her master's thesis was titled "Wives Vs. Career
Women in Eleven Novels of Sinclair Lewis." Later she
received a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Kent State
University in Ohio, where the focus of her dissertation research
was students' evaluations of college teaching at the two-year
college.
Her teaching career over the years ranged from
Appalachian State University in North Carolina to Parsons
College in Iowa and to Greenville Technical College in South
Carolina, where she was Chairperson of the English Department.
She also taught at the University of Akron and became
Head of the English Department at Stark State College of
Technology in Ohio before coming to Wharton County Junior
College in January of 1999 as a part-time instructor.
The following year she was hired full-time in the English
Department.
Since joining the faculty at WCJC, Dr. O'Shea has served
as department head and as an instructor of many of the courses
offered in the English curriculum.
Points of interest in her on-going research in effective
teaching include successful use of discussion in the classroom
and the processes used by professional writers in composing both
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