Justin L. Blessinger, Ph.D.

Education

   Asst. Professor of English Contact me!  

 

Tabor College
 Hillsboro, KS

 B.A. English
 B.A. Theology
 B.A. English Ed.

Semi-Automatic Grader is released!

The full version ( Word 2003 or Word 2007 versions), which is now available for purchase, contains
• over ninety instant feedback buttons
• four auto-search / auto-flag tools
• eight powerful and customizable rubrics
• an array of little-known but powerful Word tools that speed and support writing assessment.

Courses I teach:

  • English 033 -- Basic Writing
  • LART 010    -- Study Skills / Reading
  • English 101 -- Composition I
  • English 201 -- Composition II
  • English 210 -- Introduction to Literature
  • English 222 -- British Lit II
  • English 268/363 Northern Plains Literature
  • English 401 -- Advanced Writing
 Important Links:
 Interests:
  • Travel (Ireland and Greece are two of my favorites!)
  • Poetry (Visit  this hypertext edition of The Waste Land)
  • Modernist Literature (and here's proof that Modernism CAN be approachable!)
  • Regional and Nature Writers (Read the opening lines of Annie Dillard's Pulitzer Prize winning book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)

GS100 Syllabus / GS100 GPA handout

Yeats' grave at St. Columba’s Church of Ireland Parish Church, Drumcliffe, County Sligo. August 2001.

Emporia State University
Emporia, KS

M.A. English




University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD

Ph.D. English, Creative Writing Emphasis
 

 No, I'm not trying to go goth. This is the grave of William Butler Yeats in County Sligo, Ireland.  Some of my ancestors left County Sligo to come to America.  The epitaph reads:

                 Cast a cold Eye
             On Life, on Death.
             Horseman pass by!

                   W.B. YEATS
              June 13th 1865
             January 28th 1939