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Mark Spielmacher

What are you currently reading?

Thought You Were Dead, by Terry Griggs

What are your favourite texts?

Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
The Lusty Man, by Terry Griggs
Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett

What are the top five texts that you find to be the most useful for teaching?

Impossible to answer

What would you be if you weren't an English professor?

A carpenter, a cabinet maker