TRISTA
CORNELIUS
CONTACT
Office: Rook 237
Phone: (503) 657-6958 ext. 2686
Email: tristac@clackamas.edu
COURSE
LINKS
COURSES TAUGHT
WR121:
English Composition. Taught online and on campus fall, winter,
and spring. One day, a few years ago, I decided that my WR121 classes
should write and read around a theme, something that we'd all have in
common, something to connect us but also reveal the diversity of our
lives, experiences, and values.
After considering many themes, I decided "food" was the one
thing we would all, for sure, have in common. Love it, hate it, don't
think twice about it, no matter what your feelings, we all need food
and therefore have some relationship to it.
The overall question in WR121, as we practice writing different kinds
of academic essays, is "what is your relationship to food?"
This has resulted in an amazingly wide range of essay topics.
For a list of articles, movies, and other resources about food, click
here.
ENG210: Contemporary Native American Literature/Modern American Indian
Literature. “Contemporary” means works published
since 1969 when N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer for House Made of
Dawn. “Native American” or “American Indian”
literature in this class is limited to authors who define themselves
as such.
We read a novel or two, some poetry, some essays, and we watch a few
of films. This class sparks discussion about who we are as contemporary
Americans, how events of the past impact the present, who writes history
and what stories get retold, the power of the story and of telling one’s
own story, and much more.
WR240: Writing
Creative Nonfiction. Write about your life! In this class,
we read and write personal essays, defining "personal essay"
as broadly as possible, writing: memoir, opinion, nature, travel, food,
reflections. This class is also available for upper-division credit
at Marylhurst--you still take the class at CCC, pay the same price,
but switch credits to MU.
ENG106 Online. In this online class, we discuss a wide range of poems from across time
and cultures. The class emphasizes analysis and a “close read”
of the text. You derive your own interpretation and compare that to
what others’ have said about the works.
EDUCATION
M.A., English, Emphasis on Composition Theory and Writing, Portland
State University
Thesis title: Putting Theory Into Practice:
Two Case Studies of Beginning Writing Teachers and Their Transformative
Classroom Experience.
B.A., Literature
and Art majors, Creative Writing minor, Pacific University (magna cum
laude)
Creative Non-Fiction
Writing Workshop, University of Iowa
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