Anne Doyle:  

I am a full professor in the English Department at Bridgewater State University, where I teach rhetoric, linguistics and writing. In recent years, I've become interested in writing assessment and in the effects of quantitative argument in persuasive writing, and I have, over the past decade, really embraced teaching linguistics at the college level. Most of my family have left Waterbury and settled in and around Albuquerque, NM, so I tend to think of home as Seattle--where I spent 10 years--or Bridgewater, where I have learned to like small town life. I never thought I'd wind up in a small town: after college, I taught in Waterbury for 2 years (the old Notre Dame Academy); then I moved back to Boston to teach in college, moved to Chicago for my doctorate, and for a decade I taught in Seattle at the University of Washington. I used to joke that my next move (after Seattle) would be to Japan, continuing my westward movement, but I missed New England. Who knew? I have discovered I love cruising! In the summer of 2010, I went on an Alaskan cruise to Glacier Bay. What an experience! The entire area was pristine--just as if humans had never walked the earth. (I loved it so much I am returning to do the cruise...Expand for more