小优传媒

Sydney Brown

SB

Sydney Brown

Professor of English/Project Success Coordinator


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Contact Info:

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Phone: 619-644-7523
Office: Bldg. 52, Room 564B
Office Hours: By appointment

 

 

Course(s):

 

ENGL 120  College Composition & Reading

English 020

ENGL 124  Advanced Composition: Critical Reason/Writing

 

About Me

When I was in graduate school, Sandra Alcosser (a brilliant poet and inundated teacher) proclaimed: 鈥淰ery few of you will become writers; some of you will become teachers, but most of you will become readers.鈥 At the time, I didn鈥檛 give much thought to her statement; however, after ten years of teaching full time, I believe she was giving her students, aspiring writers, a reality check.

 

It is difficult to find the balance required to write seriously and have what we call a 鈥渓ife,鈥 let alone teach. They are awesome callings one should not answer without much thought and careful attention to craft. One鈥檚 writing, like one鈥檚 teaching, can always be improved, and this is often overwhelming. At the same time, when I go long periods without doing either, the place I find myself is its own reality check.

 

So because of the challenge and my reality, I choose to be a writer, a teacher, and a reader. And I read. I read and reread my own writing, my students鈥 writing, and other people鈥檚 writing鈥揻or the sheer joy of it.

 

Right now I am reading The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway by Jennifer L. Knox and Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez. As always, my nightstand is full.

 

Are you happy, Sandra? I have become a reader

 

SO HOT OFF THE PRESS: Brian Turner to Headline 19th Annual Literary Arts Festival in Spring 2015

 

Sydney鈥檚 Select Publications:

 

鈥渢he wilder shores of love.鈥 The Fat City Review. Spring 2013.

 

鈥淭he Dinner Table.鈥 Muck and Muse. Spring 2011.

 

鈥淭ruth of the Blue Vein鈥 and 鈥淭he Boy with Two Moms.鈥 Mamas and Papas. Fall 2010.

 

鈥淢y Tulips鈥 Interment.鈥 A Year in Ink, Vol. II. San Diego Writers, Ink. Spring 2009.

 

鈥淭he Difference Between a Horror Film and a Scary Movie.鈥 Hunger and Thirst. City Works Press, 2008.

 

鈥淭he Grapevine.鈥 Red: A Journal of the Arts. Vol. 2, 2007.

 

鈥淢akeshift Memorials.鈥 Inside English: English Council of Two-Year Colleges. Winter 2005.

 

鈥淭he Role of the Immigrant in the Local Economy.鈥 Sunshine/Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana. City Works Press, 2005.

 

鈥淭he Place Where People Wait.鈥 Two Girls Review. Vol. 3, No. 1, 2001.

 

鈥淓ggflower, Land.鈥 HOW2: Contemporary Innovative Writing Practices by Women. Rutgers University Online Journal. Vol. 1, No. 4, 2000.

 

Recent Awards & Recognition

  • Finalist for Woman of the Year in the field of Education, Women of Leadership Program, San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce (2012).
  • Commitment to Service Award. 小优传媒 Foundation, 2010-2011.
  • Semifinalist. Persea Books Poetry Prize, 2010.
  • Finalist. Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, 2010.
  • Excellence in Teaching Award. 小优传媒, 2008.