My name is Richard Jewell. Please call me "Richard" or "Mr.
Jewell"--whichever you like. Click here to see a photo
of me or to view my resume.
I am a full-time "unlimited" (tenured) English
Department teacher at Inver Hills Community
College. I also run the
Student Success Day (SSD) program and am the lead co-advisor of the
college's chapter of
Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) International Honor Society.
I particularly enjoy
writing and the humanities, and I used to be a free-lance writer for national,
regional, and foreign magazines. (Click here to see a Christmas
story
of mine that was published.) My love of teaching and of
writing are the two main reasons I teach writing. I have taught a wide variety
of college and university writing, literature, and humanities courses since 1983
at the University of Minnesota, at St. Cloud State University, and in the
community college system. Some of the courses other than composition that
I have taught are literature, creative writing, business and professional writing, study skills, the humanities, philosophy, world religions,
and critical thinking. The teaching of writing is my main field and
first love, with humanities and literature close behind.
When
I am not teaching, I'm usually busy writing additional online class
materials, working on
my online textbooks, or preparing topics
and articles for publication or presentation. I also like movies a lot, both
literary and high drama, and I read quite a bit: the Star Tribune every morning,
a little each night of a novel (often detective suspense or stories of Africa), and academic
articles and essays in summer and during vacations. I also enjoy crime drama and science
fiction on television, such as Law & Order, CSI, Criminal
Minds, and Stargate.
My wife and I try to eat supper together and talk for awhile
each night, and we go out
to dinner about once a week, usually to an Asian restaurant in the Nicollet
Ave./Uptown/West Bank/East Bank areas near us in Minneapolis. We go to art
films and movies once or twice per month, and to
the Guthrie or other theaters (we especially love Shakespeare) perhaps two or three times per
year.
Remember: if you have any questions at any time during the course, please feel free to
email, call, or write. Check my email address
to contact me, or call me at home 9 a.m.-9 p.m. at (612) 870-7024.
