Beverly Matiko

Most days it's hard for me to imagine that there are other ways to fill one's days than teaching and learning. I relish the process of developing and exchanging ideas, of making meaning and art out of the written and spoken word, of immersing myself in the best words of writers and scholars from many times and places.

I completed my PhD at the University of Alberta in 1991. My dissertation deals with literary nonfiction writers Annie Dillard and Lewis Thomas. I did my first two degrees here at Andrews: a BA in English and Communication (1977) and an MA in English Literature (1978). Before returning to Andrews in 1992, I taught at Canadian University College (now Burman University) in Alberta, and Newbold College in England.

I currently teach primarily writing and performance classes in the English and Communication Departments at Andrews. I also teach in SAGES--the honors program. I have received two awards for my teaching here: The Honors Faculty of the Year, 2001-2002; and The Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997-1998. I have published on Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, on public performance of biblical literature, and the entry on Annie Dillard in The Encyclopedia of the Essay. Current research interests include Frederick Buechner, Anne Lamott, and Virginia Woolf.