DeeAnn Day, MA

English Instructor

Director of Wesleyan Collegiate Institute

Liaison for Dual-enrollment Programs

Office:  PUMC #246

Office Phone:  817-531-4921

Office Fax:  817-531-6503

Email:  DDay@txwes.edu

Educational Background:

B.S. in P.E. (Major in Dance and Performing Arts, Minor in English),

Texas Tech University, 1981

M.A. in English, Tarleton State University, 1991

Ph.D. in American Literature, in progress, The University of Texas at Arlington; completion date expected 2010

Academic Interests:

Ms. Day enjoys teaching a variety of courses, including developmental writing, first-year composition, and world and American literatures.  When teaching composition, Ms. Day often shares her love of grammar, sentence combining, and sentence diagramming with her students, most of whom eventually come to see the value of such skills.  Her areas of research include rhetorical analysis of literary texts, ancient Greek and Roman texts and their modern corollaries, modern heroes, modern American poetry, and, most recently, film studies.  She is a member of the Conference of College Teachers of English and serves on the Ethics Committee at Wesleyan.  On the administrative side, Ms. Day directs the University’s dual-enrollment programs, agreements between various independent and private school districts, which allow high school students to earn college credit through Wesleyan courses. 

Personal Interests:

In her spare time, Ms. Day may often be found at the soccer field cheering for her daughter who is scoring goals or defending her team’s territory.  Ms. Day also enjoys dancing to classic rock and roll, walking for exercise, reading crime thrillers, spending time with family and friends, and working in the yard with her husband; together they conquer fire ants, wasps, weeds, and crab grass.