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Personal I
was born in 1954 in Lafayette, Indiana, where my father was studying for a Master's
degree in physics at Purdue; grew up in the
Los Angeles area, in Whittier (on Allegan
Street, 1955-1959, then on Santa Gertrudes, two blocks from the old Nixon
store, 1959-1965) and La Habra Heights
(on Citrus Drive, 1965-1968), and the Seattle area, in Maple
Valley (Ravensdale, 1968-1970, and Hobart,1970-1971), where I attended Tahoma
High School (1968-1971). I lived in Finland for 14 years, first as a Youth
for Understanding exchange student (1971-1972), then as a college student
at the University of Jyväskylä (1974-1975),
then as a lecturer in English, still at Jyväskylä (1975-1981), and finally,
after taking a Ph.D. in English at the University
of Washington (1983), as a professor of English (1983-1987) and translation
studies (1987-1989) at the University of Tampere.
(The two missing years in that chronology were my freshman year at Linfield
College in McMinnville, Oregon (1972-1973), and my sophomore year at the
Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington (1973-1974).) I
have three daughters, all born in Finland: Laura (b. 1979), Sara (b. 1981), and
Anna (b. 1986). In May, 2004, Laura took her M.A. in English at Indiana
University and moved back to Finland, where she teaches English in a high
school near Helsinki. Sara graduated from the University
of Illinois in May, 2003, with a dual major in Spanish and International Studies,
and plans to spend two years in the Peace
Corps. Anna is a freshman at Bradley University
in Peoria, Illinois. In
1989 I was hired to teach critical theory in the English
department at the University of Mississippi.
Except for the year and a half from January 1999 to summer 2000, that's been my
job ever since:
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