Dr. Gass' Home Page
Dr. Joanne Gass, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
California State University, Fullerton
Ph.D.: Comparative Literature, University of California Irvine
M. A.: Comparative Literature, CSU Fullerton
B. A.: Comparative Literature, CSU Fullerton
Areas of Specialization:
Contemporary Novel, esp. Latin American
Contemporary Theory
Other Areas of Interest: (not necessarily in that order)
World War I
James Joyce, Angela Carter and Virginia Woolf
Tennis
Travel
Office: University Hall 440
e-mail: JGASS@FULLERTON.EDU
Tel. Office: (278) 773-2713
FAX (CSUF English Dept.): (278) 449-5954
FAX (Home): (714) 895-5751
"All fascists, all nazis, are terrified of the imagination because that is the place of ultimate freedom."
Rikki Ducornet, Feb. 17, 2000, Bookworm KCRW
"There is indeed something dreamlike about absorption in a work of literature, never more so than in moments of the most intense contact. The contact does not mean that we securely possess the message that was sent to us: if we did, if we had possessed it cognitively as a piece of information, then we would finish once and for all with the work that absorbed us. Instead, we are tantalized by language that has, in Wittgenstein's phrase, taken a holiday, and we return again and again to the dream of contact." Stephen Greenblatt
My Grandfather, Charley Sowell, was a doughboy;
he fought in the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne. This moment is dedicated to him.
My Great-great grandmother, Ann Mary White Adams Finch, with her gun and her dogs.
Granny Finch was an amateur botanist who classified rock plants in the Southern Oregon Mountains. The Lewisia Finchii, a type of bitterroot, bears her name, as does a weeping spruce, found only in the Bolen Lake region of Southern Oregon, called Brewers Anna.
Christy Mathewson
(this picture came from the National Baseball Hall of Fame website: http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/mathewson_christy.htm)
My "Uncle Christy"--my grandmother, Florence Mathewson Sowell Wockner, told me that Christy Mathewson was my uncle. I do not know that this is strictly true, but my great grandfather, George Mathewson, came to Oregon from Pennsylvania--Christy was born in Factoryville, PA--, and I prefer to believe that I am a relative of Christy Mathewson. It's much better than being descended from kings or queens or even presidents.
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