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Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol, Ph.D.
- 教授 , 英语
I was born and raised in 圣安东尼奥, and although I never expected to find myself living in my hometown as an adult, I'm so glad to be a part of 赌博娱乐平台网址大全, where I attended countless events and, believe it or not, I won my first debate tournament in 1992.
Since joining the faculty in 2005, I have studied the relationship between 英语 poetry and nineteenth-century culture, especially material culture. 我的第一本书, Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century: Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins, described the birth and development of what I term the luscious poem--a nineteenth-century lyric subgenre that represents, both formally and thematically, the marriage of luxury to enclosure. 目前, I’m completing a book that examines the influence of nineteenth-century ballet and balletic culture on the themes and forms of William Wordsworth, 拜伦勋爵, 珀西。雪莱, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I'm a formalist at heart; I most enjoy studying poetic forms and structures, and I particularly enjoy "unpacking" poems with students. We live in language, and to practice careful, critical reading-- whether the text in question is a poem, 一本小说, a newspaper article, or an advertisement--is, 我认为, to become a stronger thinker, a better citizen, and a generally wiser human being.