JAMES BRYANT-TRERISE

CONTACT
Office: Rook 226
Phone: (503) 657-6958 ext. 2334
Email: jamesb@clackamas.edu

Ask James what he thinks of poetry—especially religious poetry—and be prepared to hear an answer that's enthusiastic and probably longer than you wanted. He’ll take you from the ancient Hindu and Hebrew writings to 12th-century Muslim poets and medieval European mystics to the contemporary and unclassifiable. “But good writing anywhere—poetry, novels, student essays—makes my hair tingle. That is, what’s left of it,” he says. If you can’t find him on campus, try a Portland playground, where he’ll be trying to keep up with his children, or a trail in the Columbia Gorge, where he’ll be trying to keep up with falling water.

EDUCATION
M.A., Claremont Graduate School
B.A., University of California

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
ancient literature
religious literature
interdisciplinary experiences and pedagogy

COURSES TAUGHT
World Literature
British Literature
Mythology (Greek, Celtic, Norse, Middle Eastern)
Bible as Literature
all sections of the composition sequence