Corinna Percy
Assistant Lecturer in English
Office: LA 207-C
Education
PhD, English and the Teaching of English (2019), Idaho State University
MA, English (2014), Idaho State University
MPS, Publishing (2009), George Washington University
BA, English (2007), Brigham Young University-Idaho
I earned my MA and PhD in English from Idaho State University. My dissertation examined the history and literature of the World War II era that depicts the lives of marginalized soldiers and discussed how these soldiers created their own forms of masculinity that adapted, resisted, or repackaged it differently from the privileged, white concept in America. My past teaching experiences include courses such as Rhetoric and Writing I and II, Ethnic American Literature, and Gender in Literature. My courses focus on critical reading and thinking, particularly addressing the intersections of history, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and the hierarchies of power associated with social constructs.
As an instructor, I aim to help students develop confidence in their own critical reading, thinking, and writing skills. In composition classes, I like to draw on students’ own experiences as sources for conversation, writing, and research and encourage them to see each step of the writing process as a dynamic way to develop their own ideas and express their individual strengths.
Publications
“‘I Hear You Just Fine’: Disability and Queer Identity in Yuki Fumino’s I Hear the Sunspot.” The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies. Vol. 1, 2020, pp. 35-75.
“A Hair Closer to Freedom: Retellings of Rapunzel as Self-Rescuer.” The ALAN Review, vol. 45, no. 3, Summer 2018, pp. 72-81.
“Reformers, Racism, and Patriarchy in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don.” The Explicator, vol. 75, no. 2, 2017, pp. 112-117.
Courses Taught
3308: Business Communications
1175: Introduction to Literature
1102: Writing and Rhetoric II
1101: Writing and Rhetoric I
1100: Academic Speaking and Writing for International Students